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Films like Ghosts.

Ghosts (2005) reads as Sombre, measured, gentle drama / german, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, 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.

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) poster
1. Map of the Sounds of Tokyo2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rome Rather Than You (2006) poster
2. Rome Rather Than You2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Milk of Sorrow (2009) poster
3. The Milk of Sorrow2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Marseille (2004) poster
4. Marseille2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Inland (2008) poster
5. Inland2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Autumn Ball (2007) poster
6. Autumn Ball2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Duchess of Langeais (2007) poster
7. The Duchess of Langeais2007

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Wandering Shadows (2004) poster
8. Wandering Shadows2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

The Headless Horseman (2011) poster
9. The Headless Horseman2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Unknown Pleasures (2002) poster
10. Unknown Pleasures2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tony Takitani (2004) poster
11. Tony Takitani2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Concrete Clouds (2013) poster
12. Concrete Clouds2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Ghosts’s neighbours — where are yours?

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