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Films like Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs (2015) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded 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.

Murder on the Orient Express (2017) (2017) poster
1. Murder on the Orient Express2017

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

Death on the Nile (2022) (2022) poster
2. Death on the Nile2022

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

78/52 (2017) poster
3. 78/522017

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

Missing (2023) (2023) poster
4. Missing2023

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

High Flying Bird (2019) poster
5. High Flying Bird2019

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

360 (2012) poster
6. 3602012

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

The Good Liar (2019) poster
7. The Good Liar2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Duplicity (2009) (2009) poster
8. Duplicity2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Crossed Tracks (2007) poster
9. Crossed Tracks2007

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

Molly's Game (2017) poster
10. Molly's Game2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

The Student (2011) poster
11. The Student2011

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

The Great Alibi (2008) poster
12. The Great Alibi2008

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

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