Films like How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town.

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (2015) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. 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.

Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018) poster
1. Put Grandma in the Freezer2018

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Killing Blues (2023) poster
2. Killing Blues2023

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pop Redemption (2013) poster
3. Pop Redemption2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Magicians (2007) poster
4. Magicians2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Paulette (2012) poster
5. Paulette2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) poster
6. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Butter (2012) poster
7. Butter2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006) poster
8. Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kiki: Love to Love (2016) poster
9. Kiki: Love to Love2016

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009) poster
10. Eating Out: All You Can Eat2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

High School (2010) poster
11. High School2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Joy of Fatherhood (2014) poster
12. Joy of Fatherhood2014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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