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Films like The Runner.

The Runner (1984) reads as Neutral, measured, measured drama / children, inventive 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.

Documentarist (1988) poster
1. Documentarist1988

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

Ten Minutes Older (1978) poster
2. Ten Minutes Older1978

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

The Wedding Suit (1976) poster
3. The Wedding Suit1976

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

Flamenco (1995) poster
4. Flamenco1995

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

The Runner (1985) (1985) poster
5. The Runner1985

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

Wake Up (1967) poster
6. Wake Up1967

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

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) poster
7. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner1974

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

Talking Heads (1980) poster
8. Talking Heads1980

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a gentle temperature.

Hospital (1976) poster
9. Hospital1976

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

Railway Station (1980) poster
10. Railway Station1980

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a gentle temperature.

Wend Kuuni (1983) poster
11. Wend Kuuni1983

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

First Love (1974) poster
12. First Love1974

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

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