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Films like Parallels.

Parallels (2015) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Virtuality (2009) poster
1. Virtuality2009

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Alone (2017) poster
2. Alone2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a clean studio craft.

I Still See You (2018) poster
3. I Still See You2018

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020) poster
4. Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stasis (2017) poster
5. Stasis2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

At First Light (2018) poster
6. At First Light2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Fallen (2006) poster
7. Fallen2006

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Proximity (2020) poster
8. Proximity2020

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022) poster
9. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Orbiter 9 (2017) poster
10. Orbiter 92017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a deep human warmth.

Ragnarok (2013) poster
11. Ragnarok2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lucid Dream (2017) poster
12. Lucid Dream2017

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Parallels’s neighbours — where are yours?

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