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Films like Schoolgirls.

Schoolgirls (2020) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle drama / coming-of-age, grounded 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.

Leave No Trace (2018) poster
1. Leave No Trace2018

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

Only You (2019) poster
2. Only You2019

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

The Young Lovers (2022) poster
3. The Young Lovers2022

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

The Midwife (2017) poster
4. The Midwife2017

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

Out of Season (2024) poster
5. Out of Season2024

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

Tigertail (2020) poster
6. Tigertail2020

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

Seashore (2015) poster
7. Seashore2015

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

Hidden Away (2014) poster
8. Hidden Away2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Esteros (2016) poster
9. Esteros2016

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

Emma (2017) poster
10. Emma2017

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

The Blonde One (2019) poster
11. The Blonde One2019

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

Pure Hearts (2017) poster
12. Pure Hearts2017

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

These are Schoolgirls’s neighbours — where are yours?

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