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Films like Fighting.

Fighting (2009) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured action / crime, grounded 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.

Dawn Rider (2012) poster
1. Dawn Rider2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Annapolis (2006) poster
2. Annapolis2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Damage (2009) poster
3. Damage2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Clubbed (2008) poster
4. Clubbed2008

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tracker (2010) poster
5. Tracker2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Los Bandoleros (2009) poster
6. Los Bandoleros2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Linewatch (2008) poster
7. Linewatch2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Contract (2006) poster
8. The Contract2006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Mountain (2012) poster
9. The Mountain2012

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

Lost in the Sun (2015) poster
10. Lost in the Sun2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Trading Paint (2019) poster
11. Trading Paint2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Never Back Down: No Surrender (2016) poster
12. Never Back Down: No Surrender2016

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

These are Fighting’s neighbours — where are yours?

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