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Films like Tomboy.

Tomboy (2011) reads as Neutral, measured, measured 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.

Starlet (2012) (2012) poster
1. Starlet2012

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

Medicine for Melancholy (2008) (2008) poster
2. Medicine for Melancholy2008

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

Border Café (2005) poster
3. Border Café2005

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

The Summer of Sangaile (Lithuania) (2015) poster
4. The Summer of Sangaile (Lithuania)2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Rider —repeat guard2017
5. The Rider — repeat guard2017

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

The Class (2008) (2008) poster
6. The Class2008

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

Being 17 (2016) poster
7. Being 172016

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

White Sun (2016) poster
8. White Sun2016

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

Mud (2012) (2012) poster
9. Mud2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pain and Glory (2019) poster
10. Pain and Glory2019

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

Sugar (2008) (2008) poster
11. Sugar2008

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

The Mirror Never Lies (2011) poster
12. The Mirror Never Lies2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Tomboy’s neighbours — where are yours?

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