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Films like The Eccentrics.

The Eccentrics (1974) reads as Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, 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.

The Decameron (1971) poster
1. The Decameron1971

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

An Unusual Exhibition (1968) poster
2. An Unusual Exhibition1968

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

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) poster
3. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story1983

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

Being There (1979) poster
4. Being There1979

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

The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972) poster
5. The Man Who Quit Smoking1972

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

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

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

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

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

Capriccio all'italiana (1968) poster
8. Capriccio all'italiana1968

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Annie Hall (1977) poster
9. Annie Hall1977

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

The Mozart Brothers (1986) poster
10. The Mozart Brothers1986

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

Abel (1986) poster
11. Abel1986

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

That Same Munchausen (1979) poster
12. That Same Munchausen1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

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