Films like Pepi, Luci, Bom.

Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / spanish, 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.

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) poster
1. What Have I Done to Deserve This?1984

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

Kingpin (1996) (1996) poster
2. Kingpin1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Labyrinth of Passion (1982) poster
3. Labyrinth of Passion1982

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Gray's Anatomy (1996) poster
4. Gray's Anatomy1996

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) poster
5. Death of a Bureaucrat1966

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

Home Movies (1980) poster
6. Home Movies1980

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) poster
7. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!1989

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

High Anxiety (1977) (1977) poster
8. High Anxiety1977

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Marathon Family (1982) poster
9. The Marathon Family1982

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pushpaka Vimana (1987) poster
10. Pushpaka Vimana1987

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) poster
11. Buffalo Bill and the Indians1976

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Flirting with Disaster (1996) poster
12. Flirting with Disaster1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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