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Movies that feel like The World Is Not Enough (1999)

If you loved The World Is Not Enough, the closest films we have are Mission: Impossible (1996), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025). All three share The World Is Not Enough's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Aptedepickinetictense

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) · From Russia with Love (1963) · Goldfinger (1964) · Thunderball (1965) · You Only Live Twice (1967) · On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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Mission: Impossible
1996 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 66%7.2adventure · action · thriller

The same city underneath both: London

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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Mission: Impossible III
2006 · dir. J.J. Abrams
🍅 73%6.9adventure · action · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: mission

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 80%7.1action · thriller · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: submarine

The difference: Reviewed even better

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%7.4action · adventure · thriller

The same mix in both: scale, then momentum

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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Mission: Impossible II
2000 · dir. John Woo
6.1adventure · action · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on adventure

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%6.7action · adventure · thriller

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%6.3action · adventure · thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2020s show

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%6.2action · adventure · thriller

Tense adventure in both cases

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%6.7action · adventure · thriller

Action built on scale, twice over

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
6.9thriller · action · adventure

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 96%7.6action · adventure · thriller

One thread runs through both: mission

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

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The Expendables 3
2014 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 32%6.1action · adventure · thriller

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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