Films like Brexit: The Uncivil War.

Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured history / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. 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.

How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012) poster
1. How to Make Money Selling Drugs2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

How to Rob a Bank (2024) poster
2. How to Rob a Bank2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Get Me Roger Stone (2017) poster
3. Get Me Roger Stone2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Don 2 (2011) poster
4. Don 22011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Casino Jack (2010) poster
5. Casino Jack2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Raees (2017) poster
6. Raees2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) poster
7. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Mankatha (2011) poster
8. Mankatha2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Best of Enemies (2015) poster
9. Best of Enemies2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Independent (2022) poster
10. The Independent2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Smoke & Mirrors (2016) poster
11. Smoke & Mirrors2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Black Bag (2025) poster
12. Black Bag2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

These are Brexit: The Uncivil War’s neighbours — where are yours?

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