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Films like Hail, Driver!.

Hail, Driver! (2020) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / arthouse, 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.

The Story of My Wife (2021) poster
1. The Story of My Wife2021

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

No Hard Feelings (2020) (2020) poster
2. No Hard Feelings2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Master and Tatyana (2014) poster
3. The Master and Tatyana2014

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

The Misplaced World (2015) poster
4. The Misplaced World2015

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

Our Lady of the Nile (2019) poster
5. Our Lady of the Nile2019

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

Dovlatov (2018) poster
6. Dovlatov2018

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

I'm No Longer Here (2019) poster
7. I'm No Longer Here2019

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

Love Life (2022) poster
8. Love Life2022

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

The Eternal Feminine (2017) poster
9. The Eternal Feminine2017

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

Selamat Pagi, Malam (2014) poster
10. Selamat Pagi, Malam2014

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

Our Father (2020) poster
11. Our Father2020

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

The Whaler Boy (2020) poster
12. The Whaler Boy2020

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

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