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Films like True Stories.

True Stories (1986) reads as Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / musical, inventive 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.

Tampopo(re-pass 2)1985
1. Tampopo (re-pass 2)1985

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

I Want to Go Home (1989) poster
2. I Want to Go Home1989

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

One Hundred and One Nights (1995) poster
3. One Hundred and One Nights1995

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) poster
4. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story1983

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) poster
5. But I’m a Cheerleader1999

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) poster
6. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert1994

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

Cry-Baby (1990) poster
7. Cry-Baby1990

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dear Diary (1993) poster
8. Dear Diary1993

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

Raising Arizona (1987) poster
9. Raising Arizona1987

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Le Franc (1994) poster
10. Le Franc1994

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Up, Down, Fragile (1995) poster
11. Up, Down, Fragile1995

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) poster
12. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing1987

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

These are True Stories’s neighbours — where are yours?

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