Films like Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me.

Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / crime, inventive 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.

HealtH (1980) poster
1. HealtH1980

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

FVVA: Femme, voiture, villa, argent (1972) poster
2. FVVA: Femme, voiture, villa, argent1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Hunting Flies (1969) poster
3. Hunting Flies1969

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Age of Assassins (1967) poster
4. The Age of Assassins1967

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The National Shotgun (1978) poster
5. The National Shotgun1978

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mama Turns 100 (1979) poster
6. Mama Turns 1001979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Xica da Silva (1976) poster
7. Xica da Silva1976

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

Fighting Elegy (1966) poster
8. Fighting Elegy1966

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

The End of a Priest (1969) poster
9. The End of a Priest1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

For Love and Gold (1966) poster
10. For Love and Gold1966

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

Home Movies (1980) poster
11. Home Movies1980

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

The Seduction of Mimi (1972) poster
12. The Seduction of Mimi1972

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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