If you loved The Man Who Fell to Earth, try Bad Timing

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Bad Timing has roughly 3.7× fewer votes than The Man Who Fell to Earth — 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 Fell to Earth

1976 · dir. Nicolas Roeg

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Bad Timing

1980 · dir. Nicolas Roeg

What they share

Both films are directed by Nicolas Roeg, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Man Who Fell to Earth, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

slow burn

What Bad Timing is

Vienna. Winter dusk. A ringing telephone. A volatile affair between a younger woman and an older analyst spirals fast. Hospitalization follows, then police suspicion. Roeg's non-linear thriller withholds easy judgment.

If you loved The Man Who Fell to Earth, try Bad Timing

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Bad Timing

What they share

What Bad Timing is

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