
Movies that feel likeMission: Impossible (1996)
If you loved Mission: Impossible, the closest films we have are GoldenEye (1995), The Rock (1996) and The Grey (2012). All three share Mission: Impossible's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pathaan (2023).
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If Mission: Impossible hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mission: Impossible II (2000) · Mission: Impossible III (2006) · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) · Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

A '90s spy landmark — betrayal by one of your own
The difference: Bigger and brasher — one-liners defuse the tension

An impossible break-in run with '90s blockbuster verve
The difference: Bay bombast — loud heroics where De Palma plays it cool

Both land scale and momentum at once

One thread runs through both: spy
The difference: 27 years apart, and the 2020s show

Both lean on tension more than on adventure

Epic action in both cases

Identities stacked on identities until nothing is certain
The difference: Besson excess — a timeline scrambled for its own sake

A secret service scrambling against a hidden hand of villains
The difference: Irreverent period romp — history as a playground

Thriller built on momentum, twice over
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Kinetic thriller in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mission: Impossible does
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