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Films like The Monk.

The Monk (2011) reads as Heavy, measured, measured thriller / music, inventive 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.

The Moth Diaries (2011) poster
1. The Moth Diaries2011

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

Mr. Devil (2019) poster
2. Mr. Devil2019

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

The Unseeable (2006) poster
3. The Unseeable2006

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

The Lodgers (2017) poster
4. The Lodgers2017

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

The Little Stranger (2018) poster
5. The Little Stranger2018

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

The Wind (2018) poster
6. The Wind2018

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

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005) poster
7. The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha2005

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

Elizabeth Harvest (2018) poster
8. Elizabeth Harvest2018

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

The Boat (2019) poster
9. The Boat2019

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

The Woman in the Fifth (2011) poster
10. The Woman in the Fifth2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Extraordinary Tales (2015) poster
11. Extraordinary Tales2015

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

The Nest (2019) poster
12. The Nest2019

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

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

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