Films like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / drama, 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.

Flirting with Disaster (1996) poster
1. Flirting with Disaster1996

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Labyrinth of Passion (1982) poster
2. Labyrinth of Passion1982

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

History of the World, Part I (1981) poster
3. History of the World, Part I1981

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a warm emotional register.

Dumb and Dumber (1994) poster
4. Dumb and Dumber1994

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Raising Arizona (1987) poster
5. Raising Arizona1987

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

High Anxiety (1977) (1977) poster
6. High Anxiety1977

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Party 7 (2000) poster
7. Party 72000

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bullets Over Broadway (1994) poster
8. Bullets Over Broadway1994

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Sólo con Tu Pareja (1991) poster
9. Sólo con Tu Pareja1991

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Pushpaka Vimana (1987) poster
10. Pushpaka Vimana1987

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Blues Brothers (1980) poster
11. The Blues Brothers1980

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a warm emotional register.

Traffic (1998) poster
12. Traffic1998

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’s neighbours — where are yours?

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