IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Down by Law (1986)
Down by Law runs on deadpan absurdity, grainy 70s grit, and ensemble mosaic. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996
Barfly
1987
Cosmos
1996
Withnail & I
1987
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
California Split
1974
Mystery Train
1989
Slacker
1990
Factotum
2005
Adam & Paul
2004
Clerks
1994
Saint Jack
1979
Downtown '81
2001
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
Trees Lounge
1996
Chan Is Missing
1982
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
1994
Rat Fever
2012
Riff-Raff
1991
Beware of a Holy Whore
1971
Pulp
1972
Stroszek
1977
Caballos salvajes
1995