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Films like Wild at Heart.

Wild at Heart (1990) reads as Sombre, steady, extreme romance / crime, surreal 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.

Bad Boy Bubby (1993) poster
1. Bad Boy Bubby1993

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999) poster
2. The Lord's Lantern in Budapest1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Time of the Gypsies (1988) poster
3. Time of the Gypsies1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pillow Book (1996) poster
4. The Pillow Book1996

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Love Exposure (2008) poster
5. Love Exposure2008

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Kingdom (1994) poster
6. The Kingdom1994

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Brain Damage (1988) poster
7. Brain Damage1988

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Brazil (1985) poster
8. Brazil1985

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Heavenly Creatures (1994) poster
9. Heavenly Creatures1994

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Drowning by Numbers (1988) poster
10. Drowning by Numbers1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Nowhere (Gregg Araki) (1997) poster
11. Nowhere (Gregg Araki)1997

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Red Squirrel (1993) poster
12. The Red Squirrel1993

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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