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Films like Krisha.

Krisha (2015) reads as Heavy, steady, extreme 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.

Shame (McQueen 2011) (2011) poster
1. Shame (McQueen 2011)2011

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

Heaven Knows What (2014) poster
2. Heaven Knows What2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

You Were NeverReally Here —repeat guard2017
3. You Were Never Really Here — repeat guard2017

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

Tony Manero (2008) poster
4. Tony Manero2008

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

Blue Ruin (2013) (2013) poster
5. Blue Ruin2013

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

Limbo (2021) (2021) poster
6. Limbo2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Heli (2013) poster
7. Heli2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bullhead (2011) poster
8. Bullhead2011

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

Snowtown (2011) poster
9. Snowtown2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tyrannosaur (2011) (2011) poster
10. Tyrannosaur2011

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

Night and Fog (Ann Hui) (2009) poster
11. Night and Fog (Ann Hui)2009

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

Speak No Evil (2022) (2022) poster
12. Speak No Evil2022

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

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