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Films like Vabank.

Vabank (1981) reads as Warm, breathless, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

The Brink's Job (1978) poster
1. The Brink's Job1978

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) poster
2. Goodbye Pork Pie1981

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Taxing Woman (1987) poster
3. A Taxing Woman1987

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Porky's (1981) poster
4. Porky's1981

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) poster
5. Manhattan Murder Mystery1993

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Family Plot (1976) poster
6. Family Plot1976

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Front Page (1974) poster
7. The Front Page1974

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fall Guy (1982) poster
8. Fall Guy1982

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) poster
9. Just Tell Me What You Want1980

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

French Fried Vacation (1978) poster
10. French Fried Vacation1978

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Get Shorty (1995) poster
11. Get Shorty1995

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragon Lord (1982) poster
12. Dragon Lord1982

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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