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Movies that feel likeTerminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.

If you loved Terminator: Dark Fate, the closest films we have are Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), TRON: Legacy (2010) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015). All three share Terminator: Dark Fate's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Alita: Battle Angel (2019).

πŸ… 70% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Tim Millercerebralkineticepictensebleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Terminator (1984) Β· Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Β· Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) Β· Terminator Salvation (2009) Β· Terminator Genisys (2015)

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 Β· dir. Wes Ball
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.8science fiction Β· adventure Β· actionPrime Video

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Terminator: Dark Fate does

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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TRON: Legacy
2010 Β· dir. Joseph Kosinski
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.8adventure Β· action Β· science fictionDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: artificial intelligence

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· science fictionNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly traps, shifting loyalties, and the heavy cost of rebellion, determined to bring freedom to her people and end the Hunger Games once and for all.

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The Matrix Resurrections
2021 Β· dir. Lana Wachowski
πŸ… 63%β˜… 5.6science fiction Β· action Β· adventureRent or buy

Common ground: artificial intelligence

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

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The Book of Eli
2010 Β· dir. Allen Hughes
πŸ… 46%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Cerebral and kinetic in the same breath

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

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Alita: Battle Angel
2019 Β· dir. Robert Rodriguez
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.3action Β· science fiction Β· adventureHulu

Both land scale and bleakness at once

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

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RoboCop
2014 Β· dir. JosΓ© Padilha
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.1action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: cyborg

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015 Β· dir. Wes Ball
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· action Β· thriller

Tense science fiction, and it commits to that

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

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JUNG_E
2023 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
πŸ… 52%β˜… 5.5science fiction Β· action Β· adventureNetflix

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Terminator: Dark Fate does

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

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The 5th Wave
2016 Β· dir. J Blakeson
πŸ… 16%β˜… 5.2science fiction Β· adventure Β· actionNetflix

Both lean on momentum more than on adventure

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

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Surrogates
2009 Β· dir. Jonathan Mostow
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· action Β· thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

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Total Recall
2012 Β· dir. Len Wiseman
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.2action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

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