Films like Up to a Certain Point.

Up to a Certain Point (1983) reads as Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, 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.

Summer Thefts (1988) poster
1. Summer Thefts1988

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

Time Stands Still (1982) poster
2. Time Stands Still1982

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

Newsfront (1978) poster
3. Newsfront1978

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

Moral (1982) poster
4. Moral1982

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

Spoiled Children (1977) poster
5. Spoiled Children1977

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

The Square Yard (1983) poster
6. The Square Yard1983

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

Dreams of Hind and Camelia (1988) poster
7. Dreams of Hind and Camelia1988

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

The Ideal Landscape (1980) poster
8. The Ideal Landscape1980

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

A Few Interviews on Personal Matters (1978) poster
9. A Few Interviews on Personal Matters1978

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

Faces of Women (1985) poster
10. Faces of Women1985

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

Trikal (1985) poster
11. Trikal1985

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

sex, lies, and videotape (1989) poster
12. sex, lies, and videotape1989

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

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