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Movies that feel likeMission: Impossible (1996)

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian De Palmaepickinetictense
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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)

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GoldenEye
1995 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 81%★ 7.2adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

A '90s spy landmark — betrayal by one of your own

The difference: Bigger and brasher — one-liners defuse the tension

When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

An impossible break-in run with '90s blockbuster verve

The difference: Bay bombast — loud heroics where De Palma plays it cool

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Both land scale and momentum at once

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: spy

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 2020s show

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on adventure

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Epic action in both cases

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Identities stacked on identities until nothing is certain

The difference: Besson excess — a timeline scrambled for its own sake

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

A secret service scrambling against a hidden hand of villains

The difference: Irreverent period romp — history as a playground

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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The Expendables 3
2014 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · adventure · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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The Perfect Storm
2000 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
★ 6.5drama · adventure · action

Kinetic thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mission: Impossible does

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

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