Films like I Want to Go Home.

I Want to Go Home (1989) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / satire, 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.

The Mozart Brothers (1986) poster
1. The Mozart Brothers1986

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Zelig (1983) poster
2. Zelig1983

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

Mighty Aphrodite (1995) poster
3. Mighty Aphrodite1995

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

Le Franc (1994) poster
4. Le Franc1994

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Living in Oblivion (1995) poster
5. Living in Oblivion1995

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

The Actor (1993) poster
6. The Actor1993

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

Traffic (1998) poster
7. Traffic1998

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

A Perfect Couple (1979) poster
8. A Perfect Couple1979

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

Same Old Song (1997) poster
9. Same Old Song1997

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

The End of Old Times (1989) poster
10. The End of Old Times1989

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Alice (1990) poster
11. Alice1990

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

One Hundred and One Nights (1995) poster
12. One Hundred and One Nights1995

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

These are I Want to Go Home’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →