Timecrimes
2007Spain★ 76 pt match
What ties these together is guilt, paranoia, and feeling powerless. The feel is the same: tense, surreal, and escalating.
Coherence
2013USALanguage: EnglishDirected by James Ward Byrkit★ 7.2
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Themes and style
Tone
tensesurrealhauntingdark comedycold and detached
Pacing
slow burnescalating
Story
unravelinginvestigationsurvival
Emotion
paranoiafiguring out who you areloyalty under pressurefeeling powerlessguilt
Themes
family dutymen and women navigating expectationsfamily wounds passed down
Feel
cerebraldiscussion starterquietly hauntingrewatchable
Violence
mildWhere to watch
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Foreign films like Coherence
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Coherence. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Paprika
2006Japan★ 7.83.5 pt match
Both films sit with figuring out who you are, paranoia, and feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around men and women navigating expectations. Both move the same way too, surreal, dark comedy, and escalating.
The Arrival
1996Mexico★ 63.5 pt match
Like Coherence, this one is rooted in paranoia, figuring out who you are, and feeling powerless. Same energy: tense, cold and detached, escalating, and slow burn.