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Films like Perfect Blue.

Perfect Blue (1997) reads as Heavy, steady, extreme animation / thriller, surreal 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.

Gemini (1999) poster
1. Gemini1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pi (1998) poster
2. Pi1998

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

Blue Velvet (1986) poster
3. Blue Velvet1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Real Fiction (2000) poster
4. Real Fiction2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dead Ringers (1988) poster
5. Dead Ringers1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Ringu (1998) (1998) poster
6. Ringu1998

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Santa Sangre (1989) poster
7. Santa Sangre1989

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

Strange Circus (2005) poster
8. Strange Circus2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Crash (1996) (1996) poster
9. Crash1996

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Arrebato (1979) poster
10. Arrebato1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Lost Highway (1997) poster
11. Lost Highway1997

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Black Swan —bonus2010
12. Black Swan — bonus2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Perfect Blue’s neighbours — where are yours?

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