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Movies that feel likeV for Vendetta (2006)

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

If you loved V for Vendetta, the closest films we have are Upgrade (2018), Children of Men (2006) and Equilibrium (2002). All three share V for Vendetta's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is District B13 (2004).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James McTeiguekinetictensecerebralbleakrelentless
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Upgrade
2018 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 88%★ 7.5action · thriller · science fictionNetflix

One body turned into a weapon against a cold, controlled near-future

The difference: Nastier and pulpier — brutal genre thrills, no political argument

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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

A boot-heel Britain rendered so plausibly it plays like reportage

The difference: No masks or theatricality: desperate, handheld and grimly real

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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Equilibrium
2002 · dir. Kurt Wimmer
🍅 40%★ 7.3action · science fiction · thrillerParamount+

A regime enforcer waking up inside the machine he serves

The difference: Blunter and more B-movie, gunplay standing in for ideas

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

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

A walled-off underclass and a state happy to write it off

The difference: Lean parkour action — the ideas arrive between stunts

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

A quiet zealot carrying an idea that terrifies the powerful

The difference: Dust and scripture, post-collapse wandering rather than a city rising

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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eXistenZ
1999 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 77%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Trades the relentlessness of V for Vendetta for an angle of its own

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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Judge Dredd
1995 · dir. Danny Cannon
🍅 22%★ 5.6science fiction · actionPrime Video

Comic-book dystopia where the law itself is the weapon

The difference: Nineties camp spectacle — the fascist satire is mostly noise

In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.

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Riddick
2013 · dir. David Twohy
🍅 58%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

One implacable outsider outlasting everybody who wants him dead

The difference: Pure survival on a hostile rock, with no politics and no cause

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thriller

A controlled society whose comfort hides who is really in charge

The difference: A tidy 90-minute cop mystery — no revolution, no fire

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

State-run spectacle used to keep a caged population docile

The difference: Loud vehicular carnage with no interest in what it means

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

Boots-on-the-ground resistance grinding against an unfeeling war machine

The difference: All combat — the ideas have been stripped out of it

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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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009 · dir. Stephen Sommers
🍅 33%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerParamount+

Shadowy forces engineering terror to seize control of nations

The difference: Cartoon militarism — it salutes the hardware V would blow up

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

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