Films like Mr. Landsbergis.

Mr. Landsbergis (2021) reads as Sombre, measured, measured documentary / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) poster
1. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk2025

Keeps the heightened unreality and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Porcelain War (2024) poster
2. Porcelain War2024

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

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare (2026) poster
3. Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare2026

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

I Am Not Your Negro (2017) poster
4. I Am Not Your Negro2017

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

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) poster
5. Mr. Nobody Against Putin2025

Keeps the heightened unreality and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Selma (re-pass) (2014) poster
6. Selma (re-pass)2014

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

I Am Not Your Negro (2016) poster
7. I Am Not Your Negro2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024) poster
8. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État2024

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

Wife of a Spy (2020) poster
9. Wife of a Spy2020

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

Mangrove (Small Axe) (2020) poster
10. Mangrove (Small Axe)2020

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

Goldstone (2016) poster
11. Goldstone2016

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

Rabin, the Last Day (2015) poster
12. Rabin, the Last Day2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.

These are Mr. Landsbergis’s neighbours — where are yours?

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