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Films like Reality.

Reality (2015) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle comedy, surreal 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.

Takeshis' (2005) poster
1. Takeshis'2005

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

Something in the Dirt (2022) poster
2. Something in the Dirt2022

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

My Winnipeg (2008) poster
3. My Winnipeg2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Surviving Life (2010) poster
4. Surviving Life2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007) poster
5. Glory to the Filmmaker!2007

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Night Across the Street (2012) poster
6. Night Across the Street2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Slipstream (2007) poster
7. Slipstream2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Waking Life (2001) poster
8. Waking Life2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Being John Malkovich (1999) poster
9. Being John Malkovich1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dust (2005) poster
10. Dust2005

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Love Witch (2016) poster
11. The Love Witch2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Wrong (2012) poster
12. Wrong2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a heightened unreality.

These are Reality’s neighbours — where are yours?

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