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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
This sun-drenched, elegant Patricia Highsmith adaptation shares Ripley’s intoxicating Mediterranean luxury, unstable impersonation, and coolly escalating moral dread, with a leaner and more fatalistic edge.
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Why this pick
Guadagnino turns an Italian island holiday into a sensual chamber thriller, using beauty, privilege, desire, and old resentments to create the same simmering unease beneath dazzling surfaces.
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Why this pick
Its exquisitely controlled interiors and shifting power game make social performance feel dangerous. Like Ripley, it finds menace in envy, class aspiration, and identities deliberately reshaped.
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Why this pick
A ravishing Riviera setting, wealthy guests, erotic jealousy, and deliberate pacing create a similarly sleek, suffocating thriller where every relaxed gesture carries a threat.
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Why this pick
Its lush design, period wealth, elaborate deception, and shifting allegiances offer a more baroque counterpart to Ripley: sensual, psychologically alert, and thrillingly invested in performance.
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01 / THE STORY
Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in 1950s New York City with his "talents": telling lies, forging signatures and impersonating people. While working at a party as a piano player, he is approached by wealthy shipbuilder Herbert Greenleaf, who mistakenly believes that Ripley attended Princeton University with his son, Dickie. Greenleaf recruits Ripley, for $1,000, to travel to Italy to persuade Dickie to return home. After the voyage while collecting his luggage, Ripley strikes up a friendship with an American socialite, Meredith Logue, and pretends to be Dickie.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tom Ripley
Dickie Greenleaf
Marge Sherwood
Meredith Logue
Peter Smith-Kingsley
Freddie Miles
Herbert Greenleaf
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