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Films like Breathe.

Breathe (2024) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, 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.

Mercy (2026) poster
1. Mercy2026

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

What Happened to Monday (2017) poster
2. What Happened to Monday2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Code 8 (2019) poster
3. Code 82019

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Samaritan (2022) poster
4. Samaritan2022

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Self/less (2015) poster
5. Self/less2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Flu (2013) poster
6. The Flu2013

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Black Widow (2021) poster
7. Black Widow2021

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bloodshot (2020) poster
8. Bloodshot2020

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Running Man (2025) poster
9. The Running Man2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

In Time (2011) poster
10. In Time2011

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Taklee Genesis (2024) poster
11. Taklee Genesis2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Assassin's Creed (2016) poster
12. Assassin's Creed2016

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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