Films like The Man Who Loved Women.

The Man Who Loved Women (1977) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, 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.

A Good Marriage (1982) poster
1. A Good Marriage1982

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

The Apple Game (1977) poster
2. The Apple Game1977

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

A Wedding (1978) poster
3. A Wedding1978

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

Manhattan (1979) poster
4. Manhattan1979

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

The Aviator's Wife (1981) poster
5. The Aviator's Wife1981

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

Autumn Marathon (1979) poster
6. Autumn Marathon1979

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

She's Gotta Have It (1986) poster
7. She's Gotta Have It1986

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

Shampoo (1975) poster
8. Shampoo1975

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

Bed and Board (1970) poster
9. Bed and Board1970

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

There Lived a Singing Blackbird (1970) poster
10. There Lived a Singing Blackbird1970

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

Grown-Ups (1980) poster
11. Grown-Ups1980

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

Calamity (1981) poster
12. Calamity1981

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

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