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Films like The Saint.

The Saint (2016) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / lithuanian, 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.

Afternoon Delight (2013) poster
1. Afternoon Delight2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Belmonte (2018) poster
2. Belmonte2018

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

Riga (2017) poster
3. Riga2017

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

The Poet (2016) poster
4. The Poet2016

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

Born to Be Blue (2015) poster
5. Born to Be Blue2015

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

The Flood Won't Come (2020) poster
6. The Flood Won't Come2020

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

The Goob (2014) poster
7. The Goob2014

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

Tully (2018) poster
8. Tully2018

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

Las Niñas Bien (2018) poster
9. Las Niñas Bien2018

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

Orange Suit (2012) poster
10. Orange Suit2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) poster
11. A Good Lawyer's Wife2003

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

Southern District (2009) poster
12. Southern District2009

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

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