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Films like Hollywoodland.

Hollywoodland (2006) reads as Sombre, measured, gentle crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Separate Lies (2005) poster
1. Separate Lies2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wreckers (2011) poster
2. Wreckers2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Other Man (2008) poster
3. The Other Man2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Belle du Seigneur (2012) poster
4. Belle du Seigneur2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

August (2008) poster
5. August2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Iago (2009) poster
6. Iago2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Brideshead Revisited (2008) poster
7. Brideshead Revisited2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Headwinds (2011) poster
8. Headwinds2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Garden Party (2008) poster
9. Garden Party2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Come Undone (2010) poster
10. Come Undone2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Girl (2012) poster
11. The Girl2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Education of Charlie Banks (2007) poster
12. The Education of Charlie Banks2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Hollywoodland’s neighbours — where are yours?

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