Rakka
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.
Our read · Rakka (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · horror entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
More info & search links
The shape of Rakka
What watching it is actually like.
“You want bleak Blomkamp sci-fi that drops you into occupied Earth fast.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if twenty-two minutes of unrelenting dystopia feels too fragmentary.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
All films like Rakka — ranked, with why →
Discussion
What does your Movie DNA look like?
Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.
Read my taste — 60 sec