Films like Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Red Faction: Origins (2011) poster
1. Red Faction: Origins2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Appleseed Alpha (2014) poster
2. Appleseed Alpha2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014) poster
3. Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heavenly Sword (2014) poster
4. Heavenly Sword2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Extinction (2018) poster
5. Extinction2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014) poster
6. The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Batman vs. Robin (2015) poster
7. Batman vs. Robin2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
8. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Halo: Nightfall (2014) poster
9. Halo: Nightfall2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion (2009) poster
10. The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012) poster
11. Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Space Battleship Yamato (2010) poster
12. Space Battleship Yamato2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome’s neighbours — where are yours?

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