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Films like Fire with Fire.

Fire with Fire (2012) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Icarus (2010) poster
1. Icarus2010

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

Carjacked (2011) poster
2. Carjacked2011

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

Blood Out (2011) poster
3. Blood Out2011

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

The Double (2011) poster
4. The Double2011

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

Heist (2015) poster
5. Heist2015

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

Line of Duty (2019) poster
6. Line of Duty2019

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

Edison (2005) poster
7. Edison2005

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

Heatstroke (2013) poster
8. Heatstroke2013

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

Wrong Side of Town (2010) poster
9. Wrong Side of Town2010

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

Sniper: Reloaded (2011) poster
10. Sniper: Reloaded2011

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

House of the Rising Sun (2011) poster
11. House of the Rising Sun2011

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

The Prince (2014) poster
12. The Prince2014

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

These are Fire with Fire’s neighbours — where are yours?

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