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Films like We the Animals.

We the Animals (2018) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, 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.

Solo, Solitude (2016) poster
1. Solo, Solitude2016

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

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015) poster
2. Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories2015

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

Pendular (2017) poster
3. Pendular2017

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

Don't Cry, Butterfly (2024) poster
4. Don't Cry, Butterfly2024

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

Corpo Celeste (2011) poster
5. Corpo Celeste2011

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

Araby (2017) poster
6. Araby2017

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

Concrete Clouds (2013) poster
7. Concrete Clouds2013

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

The Whaler Boy (2020) poster
8. The Whaler Boy2020

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

Neon Bull (2015) poster
9. Neon Bull2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hotel Império (2018) poster
10. Hotel Império2018

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

Laila in Haifa (2020) poster
11. Laila in Haifa2020

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

Atambua 39 Degrees Celsius (2012) poster
12. Atambua 39 Degrees Celsius2012

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

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