Films like The Garden of Delights.

The Garden of Delights (1970) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / spanish, surreal 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.

Salto (1965) poster
1. Salto1965

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) poster
2. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed1968

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

Trans-Europ-Express (1966) poster
3. Trans-Europ-Express1966

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Barrier (1966) poster
4. Barrier1966

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

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) poster
5. That Obscure Object of Desire1977

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

The Mongols (1973) poster
6. The Mongols1973

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Yesterday Girl (1966) poster
7. Yesterday Girl1966

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Casanova (1976) (1976) poster
8. Casanova1976

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tout Va Bien (1972) poster
9. Tout Va Bien1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) poster
10. I Am Curious (Yellow)1967

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) poster
11. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Made in U.S.A (1966) poster
12. Made in U.S.A1966

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are The Garden of Delights’s neighbours — where are yours?

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