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Films like Bliss.

Bliss (2021) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / romance, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012) poster
1. Painted Skin: The Resurrection2012

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Freaks (2019) poster
2. Freaks2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Death Billiards (2013) poster
3. Death Billiards2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Super Me (2021) poster
4. Super Me2021

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Frame (2014) poster
5. The Frame2014

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

Mr. K (2025) poster
6. Mr. K2025

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

xxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005) poster
7. xxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Jade Warrior (2006) poster
8. Jade Warrior2006

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

Technotise: Edit and I (2009) poster
9. Technotise: Edit and I2009

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Imaginaerum (2012) poster
10. Imaginaerum2012

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

Wendy (2020) poster
11. Wendy2020

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Patema Inverted (2013) poster
12. Patema Inverted2013

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Bliss’s neighbours — where are yours?

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