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Films like The Humans.

The Humans (2021) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Armand (2024) poster
1. Armand2024

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

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2019) poster
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle2019

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

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) poster
3. The Banshees of Inisherin2022

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

The End of the World (2019) poster
4. The End of the World2019

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eileen (2023) poster
5. Eileen2023

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

Workforce (2019) poster
6. Workforce2019

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

Memories of My Body (2018) poster
7. Memories of My Body2018

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

September Says (2024) poster
8. September Says2024

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Saltburn (2023) poster
9. Saltburn2023

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

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

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

The Riddle of Jaan Niemand (2018) poster
11. The Riddle of Jaan Niemand2018

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

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

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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