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Movies like Chinatown 1974
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Chinatown
Movies closest to Chinatown
L.A. Confidential 1997Also meticulous, classical in form and nostalgic
Casino 1995Also classical in form, meticulous and grave
The Good German 2006Also grave and nostalgic
Dangerous Liaisons 1988Also classical in form, meticulous and grave
The Cotton Club 1984Also nostalgic and grave
Dawn of the Dead 1978Also classical in form
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974Also classical in form, grave and bleak
Cold in July 2014Also grave and nostalgic
The Edge 2010Also classical in form
Le Corbeau 1943Also classical in form, grave and bleak
Sinners 2025Also grave
Flesh + Blood 1985Also classical in form, grave and bleak
The same feel, in other forms
Books
La sombra del viento 2001Also nostalgic
Fingersmith 2002Also grave
El Juego del Ángel 2008Also grave, meticulous and classical in form
Series
BLUE EYE SAMURAI 2023Also meticulous and grave
Babylon Berlin 2017Also meticulous, grave and classical in form
Black Sails 2014Also classical in form and grave
Albums
- As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again 2024Also grave
- Danzig II - Lucifuge 1990Also grave and bleak
- The Locust Years 2006Also grave and bleak
Games
Hrot 2023Also nostalgic, bleak and grave
Mina the Hollower 2026Also nostalgic and grave
BioShock 2007Also grave and bleak
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