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Films like Cleaner.

Cleaner (2007) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, inventive 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.

8MM (1999) poster
1. 8MM1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stay (2005) poster
2. Stay2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Red Eye (2005) poster
3. Red Eye2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Da Vinci Code (2006) poster
4. The Da Vinci Code2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Identity (2003) poster
5. Identity2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Gone (2012) poster
6. Gone2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Oldboy (2013) poster
7. Oldboy2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Joy Ride (2001) poster
8. Joy Ride2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bank Job (2008) poster
9. The Bank Job2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Trust (2010) poster
10. Trust2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Number 23 (2007) poster
11. The Number 232007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

End of Watch (2012) poster
12. End of Watch2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Cleaner’s neighbours — where are yours?

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