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Movies that feel likeAlita: Battle Angel (2019)

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

If you loved Alita: Battle Angel, the closest films we have are The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). All three share Alita: Battle Angel's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 61% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Rodriguezkineticcerebralepicbleak
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 70%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionNetflix

A young woman becoming a weapon against a stratified world

The difference: War-torn finale gloom — no wide-eyed discovery left

As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly traps, shifting loyalties, and the heavy cost of rebellion, determined to bring freedom to her people and end the Hunger Games once and for all.

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🍅 80%★ 6.8science fiction · adventure · actionPrime Video

A naive young warrior learning the world's brutal hierarchies

The difference: Patient ape-epic pacing — no cyberpunk rush

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024 · dir. George Miller
🍅 90%★ 7.5action · science fiction · adventureMax

The same mix in both: momentum, then ideas

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

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TRON: Legacy
2010 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 51%★ 6.8adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

A gleaming digital arena where identity is up for grabs

The difference: Cool surfaces over feeling — the plot idles

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

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Pacific Rim
2013 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%★ 6.9action · science fiction · adventure

Giant-scale tech brawls staged with real affection for anime

The difference: Monster-vs-robot bombast — humans are an afterthought

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, Earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as Earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · dir. Tim Miller
🍅 70%★ 6.2science fiction · action · adventureParamount+

An engineered protector fighting the purpose she was built for

The difference: Franchise fatigue — grim chrome without the wonder

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.

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Divergent
2014 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 41%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fiction

A girl discovering she's built different in a walled city

The difference: YA formula beats — far tamer action choreography

In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

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Ghost in the Shell
2017 · dir. Rupert Sanders
🍅 42%★ 6.3science fiction · drama · actionParamount+

A manga cyborg heroine hunting the truth of her own making

The difference: Colder and emptier — the visuals outclass the heart

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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The 5th Wave
2016 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 16%★ 5.2science fiction · adventure · actionNetflix

A teenage girl hardened into a fighter by a broken world

The difference: Cheaper YA production — it never earns its stakes

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

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JUNG_E
2023 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 52%★ 5.5science fiction · action · adventureNetflix

A combat AI built from a human past it can't reclaim

The difference: Netflix-scale production — one idea stretched thin

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

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The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · dir. Lana Wachowski
🍅 63%★ 5.6science fiction · action · adventureRent or buy

Cyberpunk action about waking up to what you really are

The difference: A self-referential retread — action past its prime

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015 · dir. Wes Ball
🍅 47%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thriller

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Alita: Battle Angel does

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

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