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Movies that feel likeThe Hunger Games (2012)

In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

If you loved The Hunger Games, the closest films we have are Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), Pacific Rim (2013) and TRON: Legacy (2010). All three share The Hunger Games' cerebral and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Children of Men (2006).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gary Rosscerebralepickinetictensebleak
7 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Hulu · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · dir. Tim Miller
🍅 70%★ 6.2science fiction · action · adventureParamount+

A hunted young woman and hardened female protectors against a machine-state

The difference: Relentless chase, no televised spectacle

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.

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Pacific Rim
2013 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%★ 6.9action · science fiction · adventure

Humanity's youth strapped into a war for survival

The difference: Hopeful monster-fighting, no oppressor to overthrow

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, Earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as Earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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TRON: Legacy
2010 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 51%★ 6.8adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

A deadly gamified world run by a ruler who controls the show

The difference: Neon spectacle and synths — dazzle over defiance

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 Book of Eli
2010 · dir. Allen Hughes
🍅 46%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

A lone fighter crossing hostile ground with something worth dying for

The difference: Slower faith-driven western — no Capitol, no spectacle

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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War of the Worlds
2005 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 76%★ 6.6adventure · thriller · science fictionMaxApple TV+

Survival under a merciless power, protecting family above all

The difference: Alien-invasion panic — spectacle without a system to defy

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

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Alita: Battle Angel
2019 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 61%★ 7.3action · science fiction · adventureHulu

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Easier on the tension than The Hunger Games

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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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015 · dir. Wes Ball
🍅 47%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thriller

Teens escaping one arena to find the whole world is another

The difference: Zombie-adjacent chase movie, less social satire

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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Divergent
2014 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 41%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fiction

A sorted-society dystopia where one girl refuses her category

The difference: The formula minus Katniss-level stakes

In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

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RoboCop
2014 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 50%★ 6.1action · science fiction · thriller

A person turned into a regime's symbol, fighting to stay themselves

The difference: Corporate-satire action — machinery, not survival games

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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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thriller

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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 · dir. Len Wiseman
🍅 30%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

Both land ideas and momentum at once

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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Children of Men
2006 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 92%★ 7.9science fiction · thriller · action

One reluctant hero shepherding fragile hope through a dying world

The difference: Adult, despairing and unglamorous — no games, just collapse

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

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