Films like Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) reads as Sombre, steady, measured crime, surreal 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.

Mad Detective (2007) poster
1. Mad Detective2007

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

Taxidermia (2006) (2006) poster
2. Taxidermia2006

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

Spring Breakers (2012) poster
3. Spring Breakers2012

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

Elle (2016) (2016) poster
4. Elle2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Nightwatching (2007) poster
5. Nightwatching2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Palindromes (2004) (2004) poster
6. Palindromes2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Maps to the Stars (2014) poster
7. Maps to the Stars2014

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bronson (2008) poster
8. Bronson2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Raw (2016) (2016) poster
9. Raw2016

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

Three Stories (1997) poster
10. Three Stories1997

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Antiporno (2016) poster
11. Antiporno2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Idiots (1998) poster
12. The Idiots1998

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’s neighbours — where are yours?

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