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Films like With Open Arms.

With Open Arms (2017) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, 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.

The Layover (2017) poster
1. The Layover2017

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

Lockdown all'italiana (2020) poster
2. Lockdown all'italiana2020

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

Unfinished Business (2015) poster
3. Unfinished Business2015

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

House Broken (2009) poster
4. House Broken2009

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

My Best Friend's Girl (2008) poster
5. My Best Friend's Girl2008

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

Drunk Parents (2019) poster
6. Drunk Parents2019

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

Tiramisu (2016) poster
7. Tiramisu2016

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

Mr. Woodcock (2007) poster
8. Mr. Woodcock2007

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

Meet the Malawas (2019) poster
9. Meet the Malawas2019

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

Las sirvientas calientes 4 (2020) poster
10. Las sirvientas calientes 42020

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

Fastlife (2014) poster
11. Fastlife2014

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

Pigs (2007) poster
12. Pigs2007

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

These are With Open Arms’s neighbours — where are yours?

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