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Movies that feel likeMaze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

If you loved Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the closest films we have are Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and Looper (2012). All three share Maze Runner: The Death Cure's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Maze Runner (2014) · Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

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🍅 80%★ 6.8science fiction · adventure · actionPrime Video

Wes Ball again staging survival quests across a ruined world

The difference: Slower and more contemplative — myth-building over jailbreaks

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · dir. Tim Miller
🍅 70%★ 6.2science fiction · action · adventureParamount+

A relentless chase where an unstoppable enemy never falls behind

The difference: Franchise nostalgia aimed at older fans, not YA rebellion

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.

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Looper
2012 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 93%★ 7.4action · thriller · science fictionStarz

Common ground: murder

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

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The Book of Eli
2010 · dir. Allen Hughes
🍅 46%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

A lone mission across a wasteland where everyone wants what you carry

The difference: Grim adult western pacing — solitary, not an ensemble of friends

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 84%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

The same mix in both: ideas, then momentum

The difference: Goes its own way on the tension

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 70%★ 6.6science fiction · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Young rebels weaponized against the regime that caged them

The difference: A setup chapter — propaganda war instead of action set pieces

After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the Capitol is gaining momentum. Struggling with the weight of becoming the symbol of resistance, she must navigate fragile alliances while trying to protect those she loves. As propaganda battles rage and Panem moves closer to full-scale war, Katniss is forced to confront the true cost of revolution.

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Self/less
2015 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 18%★ 6.5science fiction · action · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: terminal illness

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

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

A controlled society hiding rot beneath its engineered surface

The difference: A mid-budget cop mystery — investigation, not escape

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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🍅 64%★ 6.6science fiction · actionNetflix

A dystopia where survival games mask the machinery of control

The difference: A villain-origin slow burn — talk and politics over escapes

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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The 5th Wave
2016 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 16%★ 5.2science fiction · adventure · actionNetflix

Epic where it counts, bleak underneath

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

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Badland Hunters
2024 · dir. Heo Myeong-haeng
🍅 67%★ 6action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

A rescue mission into a ruin ruled by a mad doctor's experiments

The difference: Pulpier Korean action — fists-first, with little world-building

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

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

Headlong flight through collapsing civilization with no safe ground

The difference: A family's terror, not a team's mission — dread over momentum

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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