If you loved The Man Who Cried, try The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes has roughly 7.8× fewer votes than The Man Who Cried — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Man Who Cried

2000 · dir. Sally Potter

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

2005 · dir. Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Music / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Man Who Cried, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is

The Brothers Quay do love a sinister fairytale. A mad doctor kidnaps an opera singer to turn her into a singing automaton. A piano tuner then arrives, perhaps too late, at the doctor's bizarre mountaintop estate. It is, if nothing else, a very specific vibe.

If you loved The Man Who Cried, try The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

The Man Who Cried

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What they share

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