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Films like Slipstream.

Slipstream (2007) reads as Sombre, measured, measured fantasy / drama, 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.

Enemy (2013) poster
1. Enemy2013

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

Mulholland Drive (2001) poster
2. Mulholland Drive2001

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

Takeshis' (2005) poster
3. Takeshis'2005

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

Brand Upon the Brain! (2007) poster
4. Brand Upon the Brain!2007

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

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) poster
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Coherence (2013) (2013) poster
6. Coherence2013

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Escape from Tomorrow (2013) poster
7. Escape from Tomorrow2013

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

Resolution (2013) poster
8. Resolution2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

I Am So Proud of You (2008) poster
9. I Am So Proud of You2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Everything Will Be OK (2006) poster
10. Everything Will Be OK2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Reality (2015) poster
11. Reality2015

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

Synecdoche,New York —re-pass2008
12. Synecdoche, New York — re-pass2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

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