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Films like The Baker.

The Baker (2007) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, 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.

Ode to the Goddess of Mercy (2004) poster
1. Ode to the Goddess of Mercy2004

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) poster
2. Mrs Henderson Presents2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Number One (2008) poster
3. Number One2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tamara Drewe (2010) poster
4. Tamara Drewe2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007) poster
5. Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Irony of Fate. The Continuation (2007) poster
6. The Irony of Fate. The Continuation2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005) poster
7. Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tanu Weds Manu (2011) poster
8. Tanu Weds Manu2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Everybody's Famous! (2000) poster
9. Everybody's Famous!2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Paulette (2012) poster
10. Paulette2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Happy, Texas (1999) poster
11. Happy, Texas1999

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

EDtv (1999) poster
12. EDtv1999

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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