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Films like Sweet Hours.

Sweet Hours (1982) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / memory, inventive 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.

The Hourglass (1985) poster
1. The Hourglass1985

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

The Crow (1977) poster
2. The Crow1977

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

Stilts (1984) poster
3. Stilts1984

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Personal Life of Peter Long (1986) poster
4. The Personal Life of Peter Long1986

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Typhoon Club (1985) poster
5. Typhoon Club1985

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

Parade of Planets (1984) poster
6. Parade of Planets1984

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Search (1991) poster
7. The Search1991

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

The Jester (1987) poster
8. The Jester1987

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

Aval Appadithan (1978) poster
9. Aval Appadithan1978

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

The Exile (1980) poster
10. The Exile1980

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

Cousin Angelica (1974) poster
11. Cousin Angelica1974

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

Hamoun (1990) poster
12. Hamoun1990

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Sweet Hours’s neighbours — where are yours?

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