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Films like Taxidermia.

Taxidermia (2006) reads as Sombre, steady, measured drama / 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.

Gozu (2003) (2003) poster
1. Gozu2003

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

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) poster
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans2009

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

Visitor Q (2001) (2001) poster
3. Visitor Q2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012) poster
4. Goltzius and the Pelican Company2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

High-Rise (Wheatley) (2015) poster
5. High-Rise (Wheatley)2015

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

Dogtooth (2009) poster
6. Dogtooth2009

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

Spring Breakers (2012) poster
7. Spring Breakers2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Double (2013) (2013) poster
8. The Double2013

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

Mad Detective (2007) poster
9. Mad Detective2007

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

Lux Æterna (2019) (2019) poster
10. Lux Æterna2019

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

Three Stories (1997) poster
11. Three Stories1997

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Palindromes (2004) (2004) poster
12. Palindromes2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a heightened unreality.

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