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Films like Code 8 Part II.

Code 8 Part II (2024) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.

Chappie (2015) poster
1. Chappie2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Space/Time (2025) poster
2. Space/Time2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Levels (2024) poster
3. Levels2024

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

M3GAN 2.0 (2025) poster
4. M3GAN 2.02025

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

57 Seconds (2023) poster
5. 57 Seconds2023

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Prey (2022) poster
6. Prey2022

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Outside the Wire (2021) poster
7. Outside the Wire2021

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Predator (2018) poster
8. The Predator2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Warriors of Future (2022) poster
9. Warriors of Future2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Code 8 (2019) poster
10. Code 82019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lockout (2012) poster
11. Lockout2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Elysium (2013) poster
12. Elysium2013

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Code 8 Part II’s neighbours — where are yours?

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