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Films like Bad Genius.

Bad Genius (2017) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / crime, grounded 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.

Aynabaji (2016) poster
1. Aynabaji2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Vikram Vedha (2017) poster
2. Vikram Vedha2017

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

Maanagaram (2017) poster
3. Maanagaram2017

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

7 Boxes (2012) poster
4. 7 Boxes2012

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

Missing (2023) (2023) poster
5. Missing2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

C U Soon (2020) poster
6. C U Soon2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Haseen Dillruba (2021) poster
7. Haseen Dillruba2021

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

Maharaja (2024) poster
8. Maharaja2024

Keeps the heightened unreality and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A Perfect Getaway (2009) poster
9. A Perfect Getaway2009

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

Jaane Jaan (2023) poster
10. Jaane Jaan2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Project Gutenberg (2018) poster
11. Project Gutenberg2018

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

Headhunters (2011) (2011) poster
12. Headhunters2011

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

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