Films like The Delinquents.

The Delinquents (2023) reads as Neutral, measured, measured crime / comedy, 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.

Echo (2019) poster
1. Echo2019

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

Toni Erdmann (2016) poster
2. Toni Erdmann2016

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

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) poster
3. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy2021

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

Yourself and Yours (2016) poster
4. Yourself and Yours2016

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

November (Jim Jarmusch 2025) (2025) poster
5. November (Jim Jarmusch 2025)2025

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

Pictures of Ghosts (2023) poster
6. Pictures of Ghosts2023

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

Fallen Leaves (2023) poster
7. Fallen Leaves2023

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

The Shadowless Tower (2023) poster
8. The Shadowless Tower2023

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) poster
9. Right Now, Wrong Then2015

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

The Mole Agent (2020) poster
10. The Mole Agent2020

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

In Another Country (2012) poster
11. In Another Country2012

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

By the Stream (2024) poster
12. By the Stream2024

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

These are The Delinquents’s neighbours — where are yours?

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