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Films like The Falcons.

The Falcons (1970) reads as Heavy, measured, measured hungarian / allegory, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

Blindfolded Eyes (1978) poster
1. Blindfolded Eyes1978

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

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965) poster
2. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear1965

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

Taxi Driver (1976) poster
3. Taxi Driver1976

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

The Goat Horn (1972) poster
4. The Goat Horn1972

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

The Ambush (1969) poster
5. The Ambush1969

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

A Dream of Passion (1978) poster
6. A Dream of Passion1978

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

Triumphal March (1976) poster
7. Triumphal March1976

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

Three (1965) poster
8. Three1965

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

The Holy Office (1974) poster
9. The Holy Office1974

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

The Fifth Seal (1976) poster
10. The Fifth Seal1976

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

Mr. Klein (1976) poster
11. Mr. Klein1976

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

The Shepherds of Disorder (1967) poster
12. The Shepherds of Disorder1967

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

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

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