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Films like The Good Heart.

The Good Heart (2009) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, 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.

Summer in Berlin (2005) poster
1. Summer in Berlin2005

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

Live-In Maid (2004) poster
2. Live-In Maid2004

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

Cutie and the Boxer (2013) poster
3. Cutie and the Boxer2013

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

Wish I Was Here (2014) poster
4. Wish I Was Here2014

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

Sleeping Dogs (2009) poster
5. Sleeping Dogs2009

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

Wajib (2017) poster
6. Wajib2017

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

Terri (2011) poster
7. Terri2011

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

Weekend (2011) poster
8. Weekend2011

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

Goodbye Solo (2008) poster
9. Goodbye Solo2008

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

In the Pit (2006) poster
10. In the Pit2006

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

The Letter Room (2020) poster
11. The Letter Room2020

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

The Maid (2009) poster
12. The Maid2009

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

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