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Films like Diego Maradona.

Diego Maradona (2019) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured documentary / sports, grounded 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.

Black Bag (2025) poster
1. Black Bag2025

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

Highest 2 Lowest (2025) poster
2. Highest 2 Lowest2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Shanghai (2012) poster
3. Shanghai2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Three Identical Strangers (2018) poster
4. Three Identical Strangers2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Three Identical Strangers (re-pass) (2018) poster
5. Three Identical Strangers (re-pass)2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Student (2011) poster
6. The Student2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Smoke & Mirrors (2016) poster
7. Smoke & Mirrors2016

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

Last Night of Amore (2023) poster
8. Last Night of Amore2023

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

Spectre (2015) (2015) poster
9. Spectre2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Raees (2017) poster
10. Raees2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Talvar (2015) poster
11. Talvar2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Maanagaram (2017) poster
12. Maanagaram2017

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

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