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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
It shares Amirpour’s cool, stylized nocturnal otherness: a female monster moving through a seductive urban subculture, with deadpan menace, offbeat romance, and boldly artificial pop-gothic imagery.
02
Why this pick
Its vampire story is similarly intimate and melancholy rather than conventionally scary, pairing stark visual control with an unlikely bond between lonely young people and a quietly threatening outsider.
03
Why this pick
For the same black-and-white, genre-mutating cult-film charge, it offers tactile monochrome imagery, deadpan strangeness, sparse menace, and a hallucinatory world that feels both old and defiantly modern.
04
Why this pick
A languid, music-soaked vampire romance with dry humor and nocturnal cool, it treats immortals as stylish marginal figures and favors mood, chemistry, and city-at-night texture over shocks.
05
Why this pick
Its tender, sharply stylized monster tale combines class-conscious city life, fairy-tale darkness, and female-centered emotion. Like Amirpour’s film, it makes genre feel romantic, strange, and politically alert.
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01 / THE STORY
A young, hardworking Iranian man named Arash lives with and takes care of his heroin-addicted father, Hossein. They are harassed by a cruel, drug-dealer pimp named Saeed, who seizes the young man's prized car in exchange for money the father owes him. In a crime of opportunity, Arash steals a pair of diamond earrings from the wealthy young woman he works for, Shaydah.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The Girl
Hossein 'The Junkie'
Atti
Shaydah 'The Princess'
The Boss 'Commercial'
Skeleton Partygirl
DJ Porno
Saeed 'The Pimp'
