
Movies that feel likeThe Maze Runner (2014)
If you loved The Maze Runner, the closest films we have are Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), The Book of Eli (2010) and What Happened to Monday (2017). All three share The Maze Runner's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is District B13 (2004).
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If The Maze Runner hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) · Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

The same director's leap to another ruined world and its young hero
The difference: Apes talk, humans barely do — a slower, statelier epic

Crossing a hostile wasteland guarding a precious secret
The difference: Lone-wanderer western, faith-driven

Young people gaming a system built to erase them
The difference: Sibling-thriller premise, adult cast

The young as humanity's last hope through collapse
The difference: Masterful single-take despair, no maze

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia
The difference: Easier on the twists than The Maze Runner

One thread runs through both: escape

Survivors organizing against a system hunting them
The difference: Machine-war grit, adult resistance

A person waking up inside a corporation's experiment
The difference: Satire-adjacent action remake

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Memory wiped, identity weaponized, escape the only option
The difference: Corporate-thriller chrome, adult scale

Prisoners run through a lethal spectacle for others' benefit
The difference: Vehicular carnage, satire blunt

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath
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