
Movies that feel likeThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
If you loved The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, the closest films we have are War of the Worlds (2005), Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and I Am Legend (2007). All three share The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Am Mother (2019).
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If The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Hunger Games (2012) · The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

Ordinary people running while institutions fail around them
The difference: A father's frantic escape — no politics, no cause to fight for

A woman hardened into a symbol of resistance she never wanted
The difference: Loud and kinetic — chases and metal instead of coiled dread

Broadcasting into the dark, hoping someone is still listening
The difference: Crushingly alone — no allies, no rebellion, just one man

A young woman deciding who to trust when every side claims her
The difference: A sealed-bunker chamber piece — no rebellion, three characters

Panem's machinery of control seen forming a generation earlier
The difference: Told from the Capitol side — no Katniss to rally behind

A reluctant figurehead pushed toward a prophecy others need
The difference: Slower and vaster — courtly scheming, no scrappy insurgency

Young people organizing against an institution that farmed them
The difference: Chase-driven and physical — running, where the source is strategising

A teenage girl carrying a resistance against overwhelming force
The difference: Franchise-starter mechanics — dour without the conviction

Common ground: dystopia
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The same preoccupation in both: life after the end
The difference: Goes its own way on the tension

A lone believer walking a wasteland the powerful want to own
The difference: Grizzled and violent — a faith parable instead of revolution

A young hero waking up to how power rewrites the truth
The difference: Ape-world spectacle — the allegory sits at a further remove
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