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Films like Amen.

Amen (2011) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama / experimental, 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.

Boy Eating the Bird's Food (2012) poster
1. Boy Eating the Bird's Food2012

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

Hard Labor (2011) poster
2. Hard Labor2011

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

Two Drifters (2005) poster
3. Two Drifters2005

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

O Fantasma (2000) poster
4. O Fantasma2000

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

The Transfiguration (2016) poster
5. The Transfiguration2016

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

Hotel (2004) poster
6. Hotel2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Vital (2004) poster
7. Vital2004

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

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

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

Toll Booth (2010) poster
9. Toll Booth2010

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

We Are What We Are (2013) poster
10. We Are What We Are2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Frost (Iceland) (2012) poster
11. Frost (Iceland)2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Falling (2014) poster
12. The Falling2014

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

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