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Movies that feel likeJurassic Park (1993)

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.

If you loved Jurassic Park, the closest films we have are The Rocketeer (1991), Fantastic Voyage (1966) and Until the End of the World (1991). All three share Jurassic Park's epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Forbidden Planet (1956).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven Spielbergepiccerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) · Jurassic Park III (2001) · Jurassic World (2015) · Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) · Jurassic World Dominion (2022) · Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

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The Rocketeer
1991 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 73%★ 6.6adventure · science fictionDisney+

Matinee-style wonder — one impossible invention upends everything

The difference: Modest 30s pulp — a jetpack, not a park full of miracles

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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Fantastic Voyage
1966 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 91%★ 6.8science fiction · adventure

A scientific marvel turning survival gauntlet mid-mission

The difference: Vintage 1966 effects and pacing — the awe has aged into charm

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

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Until the End of the World
1991 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 89%★ 6.8drama · science fiction · adventure

Technology outrunning wisdom on a globe-spanning adventure

The difference: A meandering art-house odyssey — hours of drift, no dinosaurs

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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War of the Worlds
2005 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 76%★ 6.6adventure · thriller · science fictionMaxApple TV+

Spielberg turning wonder into run-for-your-life terror

The difference: Invasion dread, no park gates

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

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Forbidden Planet
1956 · dir. Fred M. Wilcox
🍅 96%★ 7.5science fiction · adventure

Epic and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

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The Abyss
1989 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 75%★ 7.5adventure · thriller · science fictionDisney+

A crew out of its depth meeting something beyond understanding

The difference: Underwater grind — long, waterlogged and very earnest

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 76%★ 7.2drama · science fiction · adventureParamount+Peacock

Spielberg again asking what happens when we play creator

The difference: A slow, sorrowful fairy tale — heartbreak instead of thrills

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

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X-Men
2000 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 82%★ 7.3adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Science creating beings the world isn't ready for

The difference: Mutant allegory, superhero form

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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Waterworld
1995 · dir. Kevin Reynolds
🍅 61%★ 6.3adventure · action · science fictionStarz

'90s big-swing spectacle building a whole world

The difference: Soggy post-apocalypse, wonder scarce

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'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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Superman
1978 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 87%★ 7.4science fiction · action · adventureMax

The blockbuster blueprint — sincerity, scale, and a soaring score

The difference: Comic-book optimism, no teeth

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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Transformers
2007 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 57%★ 7.1adventure · science fiction · actionParamount+Starz

Effects-driven awe aimed straight at the summer crowd

The difference: Metal-on-metal mayhem, Spielberg producing only

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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Dune
1984 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 36%★ 6.2action · science fiction · adventure

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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