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Films like The Good Liar.

The Good Liar (2019) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / heist, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Raat Akeli Hai (2020) poster
1. Raat Akeli Hai2020

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

10 Days of a Good Man (2023) poster
2. 10 Days of a Good Man2023

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

The Rise (2012) poster
3. The Rise2012

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

Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (2019) poster
4. Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator2019

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

Recurrence (2022) poster
5. Recurrence2022

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

Conviction (2019) poster
6. Conviction2019

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

Disconnect (2013) poster
7. Disconnect2013

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

Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021) poster
8. Untold: Malice at the Palace2021

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

The Kid (2014) poster
9. The Kid2014

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

Howling (2012) poster
10. Howling2012

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

Gloria (2014) poster
11. Gloria2014

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

Intuition (2020) poster
12. Intuition2020

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

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