Films like Sex and Death 101.

Sex and Death 101 (2007) reads as Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) poster
1. A Fantastic Fear of Everything2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 (2009) poster
2. The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 22009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks (2008) poster
3. The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014) poster
4. Jacky in the Kingdom of Women2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dieter - Der Film (2006) poster
5. Dieter - Der Film2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Locked Out (2006) poster
6. Locked Out2006

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

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005) poster
7. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood2005

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

I Declare War (2012) poster
8. I Declare War2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Strangers with Candy (2006) poster
9. Strangers with Candy2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Invisible Woman (2009) poster
10. The Invisible Woman2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Italiano medio (2015) poster
11. Italiano medio2015

Keeps the chilly detachment and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Happytime Murders (2018) poster
12. The Happytime Murders2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Sex and Death 101’s neighbours — where are yours?

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