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Films like Delhi Belly.

Delhi Belly (2011) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Too Fat Too Furious (2005) poster
1. Too Fat Too Furious2005

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

You've Got Murder (2019) poster
2. You've Got Murder2019

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

Crazy Racer (2009) poster
3. Crazy Racer2009

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

Smokin' Aces (2006) poster
4. Smokin' Aces2006

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

Baywatch (2017) poster
5. Baywatch2017

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

CHiPs (2017) poster
6. CHiPs2017

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

Perrier's Bounty (2009) poster
7. Perrier's Bounty2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Ocean's Eight (2018) poster
8. Ocean's Eight2018

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

Taxi 3 (2003) poster
9. Taxi 32003

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

National Security (2003) poster
10. National Security2003

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

Pixie (2020) poster
11. Pixie2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Redirected (2014) poster
12. Redirected2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.

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