If you loved Before and After, try Desperate Measures
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Barbet Schroeder, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Before and After, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Desperate Measures is
Crumbling 1998 San Francisco sun on a hospital’s glass skin. Frank Connor guards a skull-tagged boy while Peter McCabe, manacled to a stainless gurney, studies the exit sign above. A Schroeder chamber-thriller chasing daylight through steel corridors.
Ask 
ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
Le Chat
Perplexity
for a deeper bridge
ChatGPTClaudeGrokLe ChatPerplexity