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Movies that feel likeThe Matrix Resurrections (2021)

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

If you loved The Matrix Resurrections, the closest films we have are Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and TRON: Legacy (2010). All three share The Matrix Resurrections' cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lana Wachowskicerebralkineticepicbleakdreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Matrix (1999) · The Matrix Reloaded (2003) · The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

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🍅 80%★ 6.8science fiction · adventure · actionPrime Video

A saga resurrected generations later, wrestling with its own legacy

The difference: Sincere jungle epic — no irony, no code, no self-reference

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

A legacy sequel dragging weary icons back into the machine war

The difference: Straight-ahead chase film with zero interest in meta games

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

Re-entering a digital world that moved on without its maker

The difference: Gorgeous but hollow — the ideas are set dressing for the visuals

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

An awakened warrior piecing identity together mid-fight

The difference: Earnest YA cyberpunk that never questions its own reality

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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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 70%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionNetflix

A chosen figure who'd rather not be anyone's savior

The difference: Grim YA war finale — no digital wonder, just grinding siege

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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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024 · dir. George Miller
🍅 90%★ 7.5action · science fiction · adventureMax

Both land ideas and momentum at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

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JUNG_E
2023 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 52%★ 5.5science fiction · action · adventureNetflix

A consciousness copied and exploited inside simulated combat

The difference: Somber Korean sci-fi — its heart is a mother's grief, not romance

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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Chaos Walking
2021 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 21%★ 5.7fantasy · science fiction · adventureRent or buy

A hero whose inner world leaks into the one around him

The difference: YA frontier adventure — far simpler ideas, far less style

Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

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The 5th Wave
2016 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 16%★ 5.2science fiction · adventure · actionNetflix

An enemy hiding inside familiar faces and ordinary life

The difference: Teen-dystopia boilerplate without a single new idea

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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Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018 · dir. Steven S. DeKnight
🍅 41%★ 5.6action · fantasy · science fictionMax

Big-canvas machine spectacle built for pure kinetic rush

The difference: All surface — a toy-box sequel with nothing on its mind

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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

The same two preoccupations: the future, and dystopia

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than The Matrix Resurrections

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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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%★ 5.4science fiction · action · thrillerParamount+

Common ground: cyberpunk

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than The Matrix Resurrections does

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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