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Movies that feel like Sorcerer (1977)

If you loved Sorcerer, the closest films we have are North by Northwest (1959), Goldfinger (1964) and Mission: Impossible (1996). All three share Sorcerer's tense and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

πŸ… 84% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. William Friedkintenseepic

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North by Northwest
1959 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.3thriller Β· adventure

Tense where it counts, epic underneath

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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Goldfinger
1964 Β· dir. Guy Hamilton
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.7adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being thriller

The difference: Leans action where Sorcerer does not

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

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Mission: Impossible
1996 Β· dir. Brian De Palma
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

The same city underneath both: Paris

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.

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The Rock
1996 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.4action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Adventure built on scale, twice over

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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GoldenEye
1995 Β· dir. Martin Campbell
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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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Casino Royale
2006 Β· dir. Martin Campbell
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 2000s show

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bondβ€”on his maiden mission as a 00 Agentβ€”to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

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127 Hours
2010 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5adventure Β· drama Β· thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

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Skyfall
2012 Β· dir. Sam Mendes
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.8action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Adventure approached the same way

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.

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Mission: Impossible III
2006 Β· dir. J.J. Abrams
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both built around explosive

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011 Β· dir. Brad Bird
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· adventure

The same thriller instincts

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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Jaws
1975 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1horror Β· thriller Β· adventure

Both are adventure through and through

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

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The Day After Tomorrow
2004 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 46%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· thriller Β· adventure

Cut from the same thriller cloth

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

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