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Only Lovers Left Alive
Why this pick
Shares Byzantium’s melancholy immortal perspective, intimate two-person bond and nocturnal, decaying beauty, but trades gothic peril for languid romantic reflection.
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MOVIE2012 1h 58m USA
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Why this pick
Its lonely female vampire moves through a dreamlike, morally bruised nightscape; the spare storytelling and black-and-white mood echo Byzantium’s tender menace.
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Let the Right One In
Why this pick
Pairs vampire mythology with an unusually fragile, protective relationship and wintry social realism, matching Byzantium’s empathy for outsiders and restrained violence.
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Thirst
Why this pick
For Byzantium’s blend of desire, guilt and bloody supernatural fatalism: an emotionally volatile vampire story rendered with tactile elegance and darkly human humour.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gemma Arterton
Clara Webb
Saoirse Ronan
Eleanor Webb
Sam Riley
Darvell
Jonny Lee Miller
Ruthven
Caleb Landry Jones
Frank
Daniel Mays
Noel
Kate Ashfield
Gabi
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Morag