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Films like Stratos.

Stratos (2014) reads as Heavy, steady, extreme crime / noir, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

Love Me Not (2017) poster
1. Love Me Not2017

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

Knifer (2010) poster
2. Knifer2010

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

Bastards (2013) poster
3. Bastards2013

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

Wasted Youth (2011) poster
4. Wasted Youth2011

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

Soul Kicking (2006) poster
5. Soul Kicking2006

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

Creepy (2016) poster
6. Creepy2016

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

The Notebook (2013) poster
7. The Notebook2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Park (2016) poster
8. Park2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Fake (2013) poster
9. The Fake2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Looming Storm (2017) poster
10. The Looming Storm2017

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

The King of Pigs (2011) poster
11. The King of Pigs2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Goodnight Mommy (2014) poster
12. Goodnight Mommy2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Stratos’s neighbours — where are yours?

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