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Films like The 400 Blows.

The 400 Blows (1959) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded 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.

Shadows (1959) poster
1. Shadows1959

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

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) poster
2. Cléo from 5 to 71962

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

La Strada (1954) poster
3. La Strada1954

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Naked Childhood (1968) poster
4. Naked Childhood1968

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

Summer with Monika (1953) poster
5. Summer with Monika1953

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Gion Festival Music (1953) poster
6. Gion Festival Music1953

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

Man Is Not a Bird (1965) poster
7. Man Is Not a Bird1965

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

Wings (1966) poster
8. Wings1966

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

The Woman in the Rumor (1954) poster
9. The Woman in the Rumor1954

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

Floating Weeds (1959) (1959) poster
10. Floating Weeds1959

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Before the Revolution (1964) poster
11. Before the Revolution1964

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kapurush (1965) poster
12. Kapurush1965

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

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