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Films like Extract.

Extract (2009) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / heist, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Good Hair (2009) poster
1. Good Hair2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Art School Confidential (2006) poster
2. Art School Confidential2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

School for Scoundrels (2006) poster
3. School for Scoundrels2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Russian Dolls (2005) poster
4. Russian Dolls2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a deep human warmth.

Let Yourself Go (2017) poster
5. Let Yourself Go2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a deep human warmth.

A Madea Family Funeral (2019) poster
6. A Madea Family Funeral2019

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a deep human warmth.

Middle of Nowhere (2008) poster
7. Middle of Nowhere2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a clean studio craft.

The Invention of Lying (2009) poster
8. The Invention of Lying2009

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Agathe Cléry (2008) poster
9. Agathe Cléry2008

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Happy Ending (2023) poster
10. Happy Ending2023

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Lovey-Dovey (2007) poster
11. Lovey-Dovey2007

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Paris-Manhattan (2012) poster
12. Paris-Manhattan2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a warm emotional register.

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