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Films like Android.

Android (1982) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured android / low-budget, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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.

Strange Invaders (1983) poster
1. Strange Invaders1983

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

The Night Stalker (1972) poster
2. The Night Stalker1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) poster
3. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter1974

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Trancers (1984) poster
4. Trancers1984

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

Swamp Thing (1982) poster
5. Swamp Thing1982

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

Andromedia (1998) poster
6. Andromedia1998

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Mirror for a Hero (1987) poster
7. The Mirror for a Hero1987

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Living in Bondage (1992) poster
8. Living in Bondage1992

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Eighteen Jade Arhats (1978) poster
9. Eighteen Jade Arhats1978

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

Looker (1981) poster
10. Looker1981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Flight of Rainbirds (1981) poster
11. A Flight of Rainbirds1981

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

The School We Went To (1980) poster
12. The School We Went To1980

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Android’s neighbours — where are yours?

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