Movies like Materialists

“Materialists (2025) is a 2020s Nordic-tinged romantic-drama that uses chiaroscuro and tight mise-en-scène to externalize internal ethical conflict. It stages a matchmaker's professional ambition against unresolved personal history through measured cross-cutting, muted palette, and diegetic intimacy to keep moral stakes in focus. The film therefore reframes contemporary romance as a technical and ethical inquiry rather than conventional sentiment.”