Films like Putin.
Putin (2025) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / war, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
These are Putin’s neighbours — where are yours?
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