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Films like Fifty Pills.

Fifty Pills (2006) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / crime, 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.

Why Stop Now? (2012) poster
1. Why Stop Now?2012

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

Paris Express (2010) poster
2. Paris Express2010

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

RTT (2009) poster
3. RTT2009

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

Funny Money (2006) poster
4. Funny Money2006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dorm Daze 2 (2006) poster
5. Dorm Daze 22006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

L'Entente cordiale (2006) poster
6. L'Entente cordiale2006

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

You Don't Choose Your Family (2011) poster
7. You Don't Choose Your Family2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Les Gorilles (2015) poster
8. Les Gorilles2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Marquis (2011) poster
9. The Marquis2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Whistler (2010) poster
10. The Whistler2010

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

I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014) poster
11. I Can Quit Whenever I Want2014

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

Vai Que Dá Certo (2013) poster
12. Vai Que Dá Certo2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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