
Movies that feel like Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
If you loved Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the closest films we have are The War of the Worlds (1953), Rollerball (1975) and Logan's Run (1976). All three share Escape from the Planet of the Apes' kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Planet of the Apes (1968) · Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia
The difference: Not nearly as awestruck

Kinetic where it counts, cerebral underneath

Both land bleakness and awe at once
The difference: Leans further into adventure

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The same two preoccupations: chimpanzee, and time travel
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Bleak action in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on awe more than on science fiction

Action built on momentum, twice over

Common ground: spacecraft

Both are built on the same subject: spacecraft
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