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Films like Separate Lies.

Separate Lies (2005) reads as Sombre, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Hollywoodland (2006) poster
1. Hollywoodland2006

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

Breaking and Entering (2006) poster
2. Breaking and Entering2006

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

360 (2012) poster
3. 3602012

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

Headwinds (2011) poster
4. Headwinds2011

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Doubt (2008) poster
5. Doubt2008

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

Il figlio più piccolo (2010) poster
6. Il figlio più piccolo2010

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

Wish You Were Here (2012) poster
7. Wish You Were Here2012

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

Chromophobia (2006) poster
8. Chromophobia2006

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

Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005) poster
9. Quo Vadis, Baby?2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Right Distance (2007) poster
10. The Right Distance2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Holy Rollers (2010) poster
11. Holy Rollers2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010) poster
12. Jesse Stone: No Remorse2010

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

These are Separate Lies’s neighbours — where are yours?

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