Films like Back to the Past.

Back to the Past (2025) reads as Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, 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.

Long Distance (2024) poster
1. Long Distance2024

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pixels (2015) poster
2. Pixels2015

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) poster
3. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die2026

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Once Upon a Deadpool (2018) poster
4. Once Upon a Deadpool2018

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Watch (2012) poster
5. The Watch2012

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Men in Black 3 (2012) poster
6. Men in Black 32012

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Monster Trucks (2016) poster
7. Monster Trucks2016

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cells at Work! (2024) poster
8. Cells at Work!2024

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Men in Black: International (2019) poster
9. Men in Black: International2019

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Suicide Squad (2021) poster
10. The Suicide Squad2021

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Iron Sky (2012) poster
11. Iron Sky2012

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghost Killer (2025) poster
12. Ghost Killer2025

Keeps the relentless forward drive and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Back to the Past’s neighbours — where are yours?

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