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Movies that feel likePredator (1987)

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

If you loved Predator, the closest films we have are The Hunt for Red October (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) and The Abyss (1989). All three share Predator's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Superman (1978).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John McTiernancerebralkineticepictense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Predator 2 (1990) · Predators (2010) · The Predator (2018) · Prey (2022) · Predator: Badlands (2025)

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The Hunt for Red October
1990 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 88%★ 7.5action · thriller

McTiernan's control of pressure — a hunt where patience kills

The difference: Cold War chess in a submarine — talk replaces muscle

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 60%★ 7.6action · thrillerHulu

McTiernan action built on being outmatched and improvising

The difference: Urban buddy banter — the enemy is human and chatty

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

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The Abyss
1989 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 75%★ 7.5adventure · thriller · science fictionDisney+

An elite crew, an unknown intelligence and mounting pressure

The difference: Wonder over dread — Cameron aims for awe, not a kill count

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

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Superman
1978 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 87%★ 7.4science fiction · action · adventureMax

Big-screen myth-making with total blockbuster conviction

The difference: Earnest superheroics — no menace, no survival stakes

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

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Waterworld
1995 · dir. Kevin Reynolds
🍅 61%★ 6.3adventure · action · science fictionStarz

Cerebral where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Predator

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

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Jurassic Park III
2001 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 49%★ 6adventure · thriller · science fictionHuluStarz

A jungle where every rustle might be a predator

The difference: Theme-park thrills — the peril is loud, never patient

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

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Push
2009 · dir. Paul McGuigan
🍅 23%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventure

Hunted specialists using every trick against a stronger foe

The difference: Psychic-powers mythology — neon Hong Kong, no jungle sweat

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.

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Battleship
2012 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 33%★ 5.8thriller · action · adventureNetflix

Epic and tense in the same breath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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Jason Bourne
2016 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 55%★ 6.6action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Cerebral action in both cases

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

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Independence Day: Resurgence
2016 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 29%★ 5.2action · adventure · science fiction

Overwhelming alien firepower meeting human defiance

The difference: Planet-scale CGI mush — no jungle, no stalking dread

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

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Dune
1984 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 36%★ 6.2action · science fiction · adventure

Science fiction built on momentum, twice over

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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