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Films like Skins.

Skins (2017) reads as Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, surreal 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.

Rocks in My Pockets (2014) poster
1. Rocks in My Pockets2014

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

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022) poster
2. Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter2022

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

Kaboom (2010) poster
3. Kaboom2010

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

Nightbitch (2024) poster
4. Nightbitch2024

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

Staying Vertical (2016) poster
5. Staying Vertical2016

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

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) poster
6. Eisenstein in Guanajuato2015

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

Endless Poetry (2016) poster
7. Endless Poetry2016

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Colossal (2016) (2016) poster
8. Colossal2016

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

My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) poster
9. My Love Affair with Marriage2022

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

WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006) poster
10. WWW: What a Wonderful World2006

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

Moonage Daydream (2022) poster
11. Moonage Daydream2022

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Holy Motors (2012) poster
12. Holy Motors2012

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

These are Skins’s neighbours — where are yours?

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