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Movies that feel like Fantastic Voyage (1966)

If you loved Fantastic Voyage, the closest films we have are The Rocketeer (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and Westworld (1973). All three share Fantastic Voyage's cerebral and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, Hulu and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Richard Fleischercerebralepic

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The Rocketeer
1991 Β· dir. Joe Johnston
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· science fiction

Cerebral where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

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Jurassic Park
1993 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2adventure Β· science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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Westworld
1973 Β· dir. Michael Crichton
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· science fiction Β· western

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Leans western where Fantastic Voyage does not

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

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Dune
2021 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 83%β˜… 8science fiction Β· adventure

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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Superman
1978 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Both trade on scale more than on being adventure

The difference: Plays it as action more than Fantastic Voyage does

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

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Dune: Part Two
2024 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.4science fiction Β· adventure

Cut from the same science fiction cloth

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: scientist

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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Waterworld
1995 Β· dir. Kevin Reynolds
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.3adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Adventure approached the same way

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'β€”which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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X-Men
2000 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.3adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

The same science fiction instincts

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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The Wolverine
2013 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.7action Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Both are adventure through and through

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

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The Day After Tomorrow
2004 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 46%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· thriller Β· adventure

Science fiction approached the same way

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

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Transformers
2007 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1adventure Β· science fiction Β· action

Cut from the same adventure cloth

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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