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Movies that feel like Judge Dredd (1995)

If you loved Judge Dredd, the closest films we have are Dredd (2012), Upgrade (2018) and Ghost in the Shell (1995). All three share Judge Dredd's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.

🍅 22% Rotten Tomatoes5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Cannoncerebralkineticbleakrelentless
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Dredd
2012 · dir. Pete Travis
🍅 80%7.1action · science fiction

Both are working the same pair: corruption, judge

The difference: Reviewed even better

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

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Upgrade
2018 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 88%7.5action · thriller · science fiction

The same two preoccupations: dystopia, and cyberpunk

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Judge Dredd does

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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Ghost in the Shell
1995 · dir. Mamoru Oshii
🍅 95%7.9action · animation · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: None of the relentlessness Judge Dredd is built on

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1985 · dir. George Miller
🍅 80%6.2action · adventure · science fiction

Two things both keep coming back to: life after the end and villain

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Judge Dredd

Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%6.8action · science fiction

Common ground: life after the end

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Mortal Engines
2018 · dir. Christian Rivers
🍅 26%6.1adventure · science fiction

Both land ideas and bleakness at once

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

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Krrish
2006 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 88%6.5action · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: superhero

In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.

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Rollerball
1975 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 55%6.5science fiction · action

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%6.3science fiction · action · thriller

Cerebral action in both cases

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%5.4science fiction · action · thriller

One thread runs through both: cyberpunk

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Mad Max 2
1981 · dir. George Miller
🍅 93%7.6action · thriller · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: villain

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

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V for Vendetta
2006 · dir. James McTeigue
🍅 73%8.1action · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction built on relentlessness, twice over

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

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