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Films like What We Wanted.

What We Wanted (2020) reads as Sombre, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

Are We Lost Forever (2020) poster
1. Are We Lost Forever2020

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

Fidelity (2019) poster
2. Fidelity2019

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

Red (2020) poster
3. Red2020

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

Curiosa (2019) poster
4. Curiosa2019

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

I Am Michael (2015) poster
5. I Am Michael2015

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

Gorbaciof (2010) poster
6. Gorbaciof2010

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

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) poster
7. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him2014

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

Kingdoms (2018) poster
8. Kingdoms2018

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

Concussion (2013) poster
9. Concussion2013

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

Effie Gray (2014) poster
10. Effie Gray2014

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

Newness (2017) poster
11. Newness2017

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

Life (2015) poster
12. Life2015

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

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