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Movies that feel like Westworld (1973)

If you loved Westworld, the closest films we have are Fantastic Voyage (1966), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Rocketeer (1991). All three share Westworld's epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, YouTube TV and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Michael Crichtonepiccerebralgritty

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

Epic and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: None of the grit that defines Westworld

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

Both built around theme park

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

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

Adventure built on scale, twice over

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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A Clockwork Orange
1971 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 86%β˜… 8.2science fiction Β· crime

Science fiction with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans crime where Westworld does not

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

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

Both trade on ideas more than on being western

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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Dune
2021 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 83%β˜… 8science fiction Β· adventure

Future sits at the heart of each

The difference: A 2020s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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X-Men
2000 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.3adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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

Cut from the same adventure cloth

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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Star Wars
1977 Β· dir. George Lucas
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.6adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Android is the engine of both

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 90%β˜… 8.3science fiction Β· mystery Β· adventure

The same preoccupation in both: man vs machine

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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X2
2003 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.4adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Both are science fiction through and through

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

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