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Films like The Falling.

The Falling (2014) reads as Sombre, measured, measured mystery / adolescence, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018) poster
1. The Man Who Surprised Everyone2018

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

A Land Imagined (2018) poster
2. A Land Imagined2018

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

Naples in Veils (2017) poster
3. Naples in Veils2017

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

The Collectress (2008) poster
4. The Collectress2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Ether (2018) poster
5. Ether2018

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

The Witch in the Window (2018) poster
6. The Witch in the Window2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Martin Eden (2019) poster
7. Martin Eden2019

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

Wild (2016) poster
8. Wild2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Faces in theCrowd — repeatguard2011
9. Faces in the Crowd — repeat guard2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lemming (2005) poster
10. Lemming2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Debi (2018) poster
11. Debi2018

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

The Village (2004) (2004) poster
12. The Village2004

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

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