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Movies that feel likeThe Transformers: The Movie (1986)

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

If you loved The Transformers: The Movie, the closest films we have are Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), Ra.One (2011) and Flight of the Navigator (1986). All three share The Transformers: The Movie's cerebral and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Fantastic Voyage (1966).

πŸ… 63% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nelson Shincerebralkineticepicwarm
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Koi... Mil Gaya
2003 Β· dir. Rakesh Roshan
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.2science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Both land ideas and momentum at once

A developmentally disabled boy's life changes after he encounters an extraterrestrial being.

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

The same preoccupation in both: robot

The difference: Less warm, more its own thing

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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Flight of the Navigator
1986 Β· dir. Randal Kleiser
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.9family Β· science fiction Β· adventureDisney+

Epic where it counts, warm underneath

The difference: Goes its own way on the momentum

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

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Transformers
2007 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1adventure Β· science fiction Β· actionParamount+Starz

Common ground in both: transformation and based on toy

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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Superman
1978 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· action Β· adventureMax

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

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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Dune
1984 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.2action Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Animation built on ideas, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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

Family with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Bumblebee
2018 Β· dir. Travis Knight
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.7action Β· adventure Β· science fictionParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: based on toy

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.

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The Rocketeer
1991 Β· dir. Joe Johnston
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· science fictionDisney+

Both lean on scale more than on science fiction

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.

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Fantastic Voyage
1966 Β· dir. Richard Fleischer
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8science fiction Β· adventure

Adventure in the same key

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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