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Films like The Father.

The Father (2019) reads as Neutral, steady, measured drama / 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.

Send Me to the Clouds (2019) poster
1. Send Me to the Clouds2019

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

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) poster
2. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019) poster
3. God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya2019

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

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) poster
4. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Another Round (2020) poster
5. Another Round2020

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

The Good Boss (2021) poster
6. The Good Boss2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Overnight (2015) poster
7. The Overnight2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Don Verdean (2015) (2015) poster
8. Don Verdean2015

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

Damsel (2018) poster
9. Damsel2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Gaza Mon Amour (2020) poster
10. Gaza Mon Amour2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Cyrus (2010) (2010) poster
11. Cyrus2010

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

Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017) poster
12. Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum2017

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

These are The Father’s neighbours — where are yours?

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