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Films like The Love Witch.

The Love Witch (2016) reads as Neutral, measured, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, 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.

In Fabric (2018) poster
1. In Fabric2018

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Holy Motors (2012) poster
2. Holy Motors2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Takeshis' (2005) poster
3. Takeshis'2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Surviving Life (2010) poster
4. Surviving Life2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Ornithologist (2016) poster
5. The Ornithologist2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Goodbye to Language (2014) poster
6. Goodbye to Language2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Annette (2021) poster
7. Annette2021

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Little Otik (2000) poster
8. Little Otik2000

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Mister Lonely (2008) poster
9. Mister Lonely2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a chilly detachment.

I Am So Proud of You (2008) poster
10. I Am So Proud of You2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) poster
11. Conspirators of Pleasure1996

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Dead Don't Die (2019) poster
12. The Dead Don't Die2019

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

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