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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Manodrome, it tracks a psychologically fragile protagonist pulled into an ideological group, using intimate unease and fractured perception rather than conventional thriller mechanics.
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Why this pick
Its volatile mentor–disciple bond, posturing masculinity and unnervingly physical performances echo Manodrome’s interest in male need, control and identity coming apart.
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Why this pick
A severe, close-observed character study of isolation and escalating mental distress, with the same suffocating commitment to an unstable central performance.
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Why this pick
Its chilly, alienated world and deliberately unnatural tension offer a similarly disquieting portrait of masculinity, repression and behaviour pushed beyond the familiar.
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Why this pick
This intense psychological thriller builds dread through a protagonist’s increasingly destabilized certainty, matching Manodrome’s claustrophobic mood and willingness to stay with discomfort.
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01 / THE STORY
Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder Ralphie is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ralphie
Dad Dan
Sal
Ahmet
Jason
Dad Leo
Garfield
Jerome
