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Movies that feel likeMission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

If you loved Mission: Impossible - Fallout, the closest films we have are Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), The Assassin (2015) and Troy (2004). All three share Mission: Impossible - Fallout's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christopher McQuarriekineticepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mission: Impossible (1996) · Mission: Impossible II (2000) · Mission: Impossible III (2006) · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 71%★ 6.5adventure · actionDisney+

Globe-trotting set pieces built around a hero who won't quit

The difference: Nostalgic and wistful — an aging legend, not peak momentum

Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

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The Assassin
2015 · dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
🍅 80%★ 6.3action · adventure · historyPrime Video

An assassin's missions rendered with total control and precision

The difference: Slow, painterly wuxia — stillness where Fallout sprints

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.

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Troy
2004 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 53%★ 7.3action · adventureApple TV+Paramount+

Massed forces and proud heroes colliding with everything at stake

The difference: Bronze Age mythmaking — grand but ponderous next to Fallout

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

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Ong Bak 3
2010 · dir. Panna Rittikrai
🍅 63%★ 4.9action · adventure · historyPrime Video

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel.

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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 83%★ 7.6action · adventurePrime Video

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: 40 years apart, and the 1970s show

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.

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Gladiator II
2024 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 70%★ 6.4action · adventure · dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans further into drama

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

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Major Grom: Plague Doctor
2021 · dir. Oleg Trofim
★ 6.3action · adventureRent or buy

A lone, unorthodox hero racing a masked menace through a big city

The difference: Russian comic-book pulp — scrappier stunts on a local scale

In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.

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Hercules
2014 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 58%★ 6action · adventure

A seasoned team wading into battles against impossible odds

The difference: Sword-and-sandal spectacle — myth-building, not tradecraft

When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

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Chinese Zodiac
2012 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 25%★ 6action · adventure

Jackie Chan staging elaborate real stunts on a globe-hopping hunt

The difference: Broad and creaky late Chan — gags outnumber genuine thrills

Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.

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

Double-crosses and lethal tradecraft stacked reveal upon reveal

The difference: Besson's pulpy excess — style and twists over real stunt work

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 Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
🍅 19%★ 6.1action · adventure · dramaNetflix

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 29%★ 6adventure · drama · action

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

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