Films like The Brink's Job.

The Brink's Job (1978) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded 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.

Vabank (1981) poster
1. Vabank1981

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) poster
2. Goodbye Pork Pie1981

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fall Guy (1982) poster
3. Fall Guy1982

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Afonya (1975) poster
4. Afonya1975

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Men (1972) poster
5. Men1972

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Girl with a Pistol (1968) poster
6. The Girl with a Pistol1968

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bad News Bears (1976) poster
7. The Bad News Bears1976

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Funny Girl (1968) poster
8. Funny Girl1968

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) poster
9. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice1969

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Hot Rock (1972) poster
10. The Hot Rock1972

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Porky's (1981) poster
11. Porky's1981

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Opera Prima (1980) poster
12. Opera Prima1980

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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