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Movies that feel likeStar Wars (1977)

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

If you loved Star Wars, the closest films we have are Superman (1978), X-Men (2000) and Waterworld (1995). All three share Star Wars' epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Lucasepickineticcerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) · Return of the Jedi (1983) · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) · Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) · Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) · Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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

Late-'70s sincerity, an orphan hero, and a soaring score

The difference: Earthbound and gentle — courtship where Lucas gives you a war

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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X-Men
2000 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 82%★ 7.3adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2000s show

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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

Cerebral adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Transformers
2007 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 57%★ 7.1adventure · science fiction · actionParamount+Starz

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · dir. Anthony Russo
🍅 85%★ 8.4adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Space-spanning conflict where a dark lord holds every advantage

The difference: A saga's midpoint built on twenty films of setup

As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.

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Ender's Game
2013 · dir. Gavin Hood
🍅 63%★ 6.6science fiction · action · adventure

A gifted kid trained young for a war he didn't choose

The difference: Cold and clinical — the joy of flying is missing

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

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

A desert planet, an empire and a chosen youth wrapped in prophecy

The difference: Dense, strange and famously choppy — opera without the fun

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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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 57%★ 6.6adventure · action · science fictionHuluStarz

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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The Time Machine
2002 · dir. Simon Wells
🍅 28%★ 6science fiction · adventure · action

Adventure built on ideas, twice over

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 89%★ 8.1science fiction · action · adventureRent or buy

Epic action in both cases

Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.

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The Incredible Hulk
2008 · dir. Louis Leterrier
🍅 68%★ 6.6science fiction · action · adventureHuluDisney+

Science fiction with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

Both lean on ideas more than on adventure

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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