Films like How Much Do You Love Me?.

How Much Do You Love Me? (2005) reads as Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) poster
1. Sleeping Dogs Lie2006

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

I Am a Sex Addict (2006) poster
2. I Am a Sex Addict2006

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

Hallam Foe (2007) poster
3. Hallam Foe2007

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

Yeast (2008) poster
4. Yeast2008

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

The Man Next Door (2009) poster
5. The Man Next Door2009

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

The Magic Gloves (2003) poster
6. The Magic Gloves2003

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

Salaam Cinema (1995) poster
7. Salaam Cinema1995

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

Joy of Madness (2003) poster
8. Joy of Madness2003

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

Henry Fool (1997) poster
9. Henry Fool1997

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

Silvia Prieto (1999) poster
10. Silvia Prieto1999

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

The GoodTimesKid (2005) poster
11. The GoodTimesKid2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

25 Watts (2001) poster
12. 25 Watts2001

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a deep human warmth.

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