Films like We Are from the Future.

We Are from the Future (2008) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured war / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Immortals (2011) poster
1. Immortals2011

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

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) poster
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa2005

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

Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) poster
3. Fullmetal Alchemist2017

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

Daredevil (2003) poster
4. Daredevil2003

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

Insurgent (2015) (2015) poster
5. Insurgent2015

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

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
6. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (2013) poster
7. Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission2013

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

Gundala (2019) poster
8. Gundala2019

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

Minority Report (2002) poster
9. Minority Report2002

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

Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (2009) poster
10. Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity (2020) poster
11. The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity2020

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

August. Eighth (2012) poster
12. August. Eighth2012

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

These are We Are from the Future’s neighbours — where are yours?

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