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Movies that feel likeThe Maze Runner (2014)

A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.

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).

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wes Ballkinetictwistycerebraltensebleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) · Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

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

The same director's leap to another ruined world and its young hero

The difference: Apes talk, humans barely do — a slower, statelier epic

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

Crossing a hostile wasteland guarding a precious secret

The difference: Lone-wanderer western, faith-driven

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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What Happened to Monday
2017 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 62%★ 6.8science fiction · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Young people gaming a system built to erase them

The difference: Sibling-thriller premise, adult cast

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

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

The young as humanity's last hope through collapse

The difference: Masterful single-take despair, no maze

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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District B13
2004 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 81%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fictionPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Easier on the twists than The Maze Runner

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 84%★ 7.8action · mystery · thrillerNetflix

One thread runs through both: escape

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Terminator Salvation
2009 · dir. McG
🍅 33%★ 6.5action · science fiction · thriller

Survivors organizing against a system hunting them

The difference: Machine-war grit, adult resistance

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

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

A person waking up inside a corporation's experiment

The difference: Satire-adjacent action remake

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Memory wiped, identity weaponized, escape the only option

The difference: Corporate-thriller chrome, adult scale

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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Death Race
2008 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 41%★ 6.4action · thriller · science fictionStarz

Prisoners run through a lethal spectacle for others' benefit

The difference: Vehicular carnage, satire blunt

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

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Gamer
2009 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 29%★ 5.7action · thriller · science fiction

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

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