Films like We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) reads as Sombre, steady, measured documentary / drama, grounded 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.

Adults in the Room (2019) poster
1. Adults in the Room2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Clearstream Affair (2015) poster
2. The Clearstream Affair2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012) poster
3. Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Fifth Estate (2013) poster
4. The Fifth Estate2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Closed Circuit (2013) poster
5. Closed Circuit2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Too Big to Fail (2011) poster
6. Too Big to Fail2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Zero Days (2016) poster
7. Zero Days2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Capital (2012) poster
8. Capital2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Dirty Wars (2013) poster
9. Dirty Wars2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Undercover (2022) poster
10. Undercover2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The World According to Monsanto (2008) poster
11. The World According to Monsanto2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Betting on Zero (2016) poster
12. Betting on Zero2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’s neighbours — where are yours?

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