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Movies that feel likeThe Rocketeer (1991)

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

If you loved The Rocketeer, the closest films we have are Fantastic Voyage (1966), Until the End of the World (1991) and Forbidden Planet (1956). All three share The Rocketeer's epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Abyss (1989).

πŸ… 73% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Joe Johnstonepiccerebral
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Fantastic Voyage
1966 Β· dir. Richard Fleischer
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8science fiction Β· adventure

Epic where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1960s show

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

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Until the End of the World
1991 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.8drama Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Rocketeer does

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law β€” an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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Forbidden Planet
1956 Β· dir. Fred M. Wilcox
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5science fiction Β· adventure

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

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Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 Β· dir. Joe Johnston
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.9action Β· adventure Β· science fictionDisney+

Joe Johnston working the same nerve twice

The difference: Leans harder into action than The Rocketeer does

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

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Ra.One
2011 Β· dir. Anubhav Sinha
πŸ… 62%β˜… 5adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Common ground: superhero

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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Jurassic Park
1993 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2adventure Β· science fictionStarz

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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The Time Machine
2002 Β· dir. Simon Wells
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6science fiction Β· adventure Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: steampunk

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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The Great Flood
2025 Β· dir. Kim Byung-woo
πŸ… 60%β˜… 5.4science fiction Β· adventure Β· dramaNetflix

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape β€” and the future of humanity β€” on the line.

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Coma
2020 Β· dir. Nikita Argunov
β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· adventure Β· actionPrime Video

Adventure in the same key

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

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Superman Returns
2006 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.1science fiction Β· action Β· adventureMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: superhero

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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The Abyss
1989 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.5adventure Β· thriller Β· science fictionDisney+

Both know what they want from science fiction

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

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Waterworld
1995 Β· dir. Kevin Reynolds
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.3adventure Β· action Β· science fictionStarz

The adventure is handled with the same confidence

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'β€”which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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