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Movies that feel likeMad Max: Fury Road (2015)

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

If you loved Mad Max: Fury Road, the closest films we have are Upgrade (2018), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and V for Vendetta (2006). All three share Mad Max: Fury Road's kinetic and relentless feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Mask of Zorro (1998).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Millerkineticrelentlessepicgrittybleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mad Max (1979) · Mad Max 2 (1981) · Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) · Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

The difference: Trades the scale of Mad Max: Fury Road for an angle of its own

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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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 85%★ 8.2action · crime

Kinetic and relentless in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Mad Max: Fury Road does

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

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

Common ground: dystopia

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Mad Max: Fury Road does

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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Iron Man 2
2010 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 72%★ 6.9adventure · action · science fictionHuluDisney+

Both lean on scale more than on action

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 70%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionNetflix

A woman leading broken survivors against a regime built on spectacle

The difference: YA war drama — slower, talkier, PG-13

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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The Mask of Zorro
1998 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 86%★ 6.8action · adventure

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

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Mortal Engines
2018 · dir. Christian Rivers
🍅 26%★ 6.1adventure · science fictionRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: life after the end

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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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 6.6action · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: life on the run

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

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Judge Dredd
1995 · dir. Danny Cannon
🍅 22%★ 5.6science fiction · actionPrime Video

One thread runs through both: life after the end

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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Four Brothers
2005 · dir. John Singleton
★ 6.8action · crimeParamount+

Science fiction with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

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Killer Elite
2011 · dir. Gary McKendry
🍅 26%★ 6.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: rescue

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

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12 Strong
2018 · dir. Nicolai Fuglsig
🍅 50%★ 6.5war · action · history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: intense

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

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