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Films like The Model.

The Model (2016) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded 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.

You Can't Save Yourself Alone (2015) poster
1. You Can't Save Yourself Alone2015

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

After Love (2016) poster
2. After Love2016

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

The Benefactor (2015) poster
3. The Benefactor2015

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

A Teacher (2013) poster
4. A Teacher2013

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

Sex Doll (2016) poster
5. Sex Doll2016

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

Faultless (2016) poster
6. Faultless2016

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

The Girl (2012) poster
7. The Girl2012

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

Pleasure or Pain (2013) poster
8. Pleasure or Pain2013

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Drowning (2016) poster
9. The Drowning2016

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

Madame Bovary (2015) poster
10. Madame Bovary2015

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

Wreckers (2011) poster
11. Wreckers2011

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

Rocco (2016) poster
12. Rocco2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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