Films like Bugonia (Lanthimos 2025).

Bugonia (Lanthimos 2025) (2025) reads as Heavy, steady, measured comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

The Lobster (2015) poster
1. The Lobster2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Annette (2021) poster
2. Annette2021

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Dream Scenario (2023) poster
3. Dream Scenario2023

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

In Fabric (2018) poster
4. In Fabric2018

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015) poster
5. Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One2015

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012) poster
6. Goltzius and the Pelican Company2012

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

High-Rise (Wheatley) (2015) poster
7. High-Rise (Wheatley)2015

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

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) poster
8. Eisenstein in Guanajuato2015

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Slack Bay (2016) poster
9. Slack Bay2016

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Everything Will Be OK (2006) poster
10. Everything Will Be OK2006

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

Kinds of Kindness (2024) poster
11. Kinds of Kindness2024

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Beau Is Afraid (2023) poster
12. Beau Is Afraid2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a chilly detachment.

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