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Films like Small Crimes.

Small Crimes (2017) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, 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.

Chicuarotes (2019) poster
1. Chicuarotes2019

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

Promising Young Woman (2020) poster
2. Promising Young Woman2020

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

The Hollow Point (2016) poster
3. The Hollow Point2016

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

Suburbicon (2017) poster
4. Suburbicon2017

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

Vavien (2009) poster
5. Vavien2009

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

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) poster
6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Scare Campaign (2016) poster
7. Scare Campaign2016

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

The Ice Harvest (2005) poster
8. The Ice Harvest2005

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

Good Neighbours (2011) poster
9. Good Neighbours2011

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

Under the Tree (2017) poster
10. Under the Tree2017

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

The Dinner (2017) poster
11. The Dinner2017

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

Thursday's Widows (2009) poster
12. Thursday's Widows2009

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

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