Films like A Film with Me in It.

A Film with Me in It (2008) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive 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.

The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) poster
1. The Legend of Barney Thomson2015

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

The World is Ours (2012) poster
2. The World is Ours2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

6ixtynin9 (1999) poster
3. 6ixtynin91999

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

Class Action Park (2020) poster
4. Class Action Park2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Informant! (2009) poster
5. The Informant!2009

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

Pretty Persuasion (2005) poster
6. Pretty Persuasion2005

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

Too Fat Too Furious (2005) poster
7. Too Fat Too Furious2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Take Me (2017) poster
8. Take Me2017

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

To Die For (1995) poster
9. To Die For1995

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

Big Nothing (2006) poster
10. Big Nothing2006

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

Ugly Nasty People (2017) poster
11. Ugly Nasty People2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Choke (2008) poster
12. Choke2008

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

These are A Film with Me in It’s neighbours — where are yours?

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