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Films like Samaritan.

Samaritan (2022) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / crime, 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.

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

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

Spectral (2016) poster
2. Spectral2016

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

Black Widow (2021) poster
3. Black Widow2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Bloodshot (2020) poster
4. Bloodshot2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

In Time (2011) poster
5. In Time2011

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

Project Power (2020) poster
6. Project Power2020

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

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) poster
7. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023

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

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Flu (2013) poster
9. The Flu2013

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

Breathe (2024) poster
10. Breathe2024

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

Left Behind (2014) poster
11. Left Behind2014

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

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

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

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