Movies like The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games (2012)
788K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak, rough, clever, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, contests and competitions, young heroes, future dystopia, against the odds, killings, death, heroes, trap, life is a bitch, danger, rivalry, training, youth, moral dilemma, social decay, championship, society, allies, deadly, heroine, escapades, self sacrifice, fight back, attack ...
Time:
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Most similar movies to The Hunger Games
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, futuristic and suspenseful films with plots about dialogue, catastrophe, storytelling, chase, mentor, fight scenes and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Hunger Games: The Maze Runner (2014), Divergent (2014), Battle Royale (2000), Insurgent (2015), The Scorch Trials (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, female protagonist, future dystopia, young heroes, warrior, mentor, rebellion, championship, president, danger, resistance, contests and competitions ...
Time:
future, near future
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48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, exciting, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, female protagonist, rebellion, future dystopia, danger, society, social decay, adventure, revolution, youth, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style:
exciting, twists and turns, suspenseful, tense, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, memory loss, apocalypse, adventure, isolation, trapped, young heroes, danger, youth, imaginary, society, on the run ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
396K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
survival, fighting the system, danger, youth, rebellion, society, training, mentor, heroes, rebelliousness, save the day, chosen one ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, romantic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rebellion, chase, distopia, survival, fight, danger, revolution, chosen one, fight scenes, couples, society, love triangle ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Guardians of the Galaxy similar movies
158K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, exciting, futuristic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
contests and competitions, captivity, survival, survivor, death, island, teacher, desperation, future dystopia, game of death, trap, battle ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
200K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
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exciting, serious, surprise ending, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
future dystopia, teenage love, coming of age, heroes, fighting the system, rebellion, misfit, society, young heroes, power relations, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, futuristic, twists and turns ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adventure, survival, danger, confined, imaginary, virus, zombie, desert, disease, immunity, infection, on the run ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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180K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, danger, apocalypse, heroic mission, survival, spacecraft, adventure, parents and children, isolation, young heroes, real life father and son playing father and son, save the day ...
Time:
future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, twists and turns, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, danger, obsessive quest, adventure, survival, mysterious character, teenage life, alien invasion, end of the world, youth, genocide, tsunami ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
usa, tower bridge london, ohio, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Avatar
343K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, twists and turns, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
future dystopia, race against time, fighting the system, immortality, social differences, chase, love and romance, on the run, chases and races, society, time, poverty ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
124K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mind control, contests and competitions, computers and web, danger, cyberspace, computer genius, chases and races, lone wolves, wrongful imprisonment, prison, future dystopia, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
21st century, future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
105K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
evil alien, power of love, love and romance, true love, teenage love, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, romance, self sacrifice, invasion, mind control, alien invasion ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, touching, light ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural ability, danger, teenage love, friendship, youth, young heroes, supernatural, heroes, good versus evil, teenage life, space and aliens, supernatural romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
ohio, usa, africa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
186K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, clever, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, prison, ex convict, contests and competitions, violence, prison life, police brutality, chases and races, corruption, tough guy, survival, criminal\'s rights ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2020s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, chases and races, danger, tough heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, deadly, resistance, gadget, against the odds, death sentence, prison ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, twentieth century, 2010s ...
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
626K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, plague, zombie, future dystopia, loneliness, heroes, danger, isolation, experiment, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 21st century, year 2012, near future, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, ...
Style:
exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, car race, desert, confined, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, chases and races, ambition, heroes, deadly, danger, media ...
Time:
future
Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Movie in collections
104K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
society, rebelliousness, future dystopia, destiny, utopia, teaching the ways of the world, life is a bitch, danger, youth, chases and races, human nature, memory ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself ...
Style:
rough, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, chase, hitman, tournament, competition, confession, martial arts, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, violence spree, ambition, danger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
brazil, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Mad Max: Fury Road related movies
165K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, rescue, post apocalyptic, adventure, future dystopia, ocean or sea, water, ocean, danger, chaos, global warming ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
210K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
young heroes, space wars, intelligence, prodigy, basic training, save the world, chosen one, space and aliens, military base, evil alien, child prodigy, heroes ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
futuristic, rough, tense, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, chaos, lone wolves, christianity, warrior, future dystopia, brutality, danger, post apocalyptic, tough heroes, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2040s
Place:
usa, cross country, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Movie in collections
175K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style:
serious, offbeat, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, vengeance, chase, apocalypse, violence spree, chases and races, danger, deadly, society, motorcycle chase, nuclear holocaust, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Style:
emotional, captivating, light, romantic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, supernatural romance, forbidden love, supernatural, love and romance, small town, teenage life, love, supernatural ability, youth, witch, family secret ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Movies similar to X-Men: Days of Future Past
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, ...
Style:
rough, exciting, serious, futuristic, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, space and aliens, bounty hunter, on the run, survival, outer space, adventure, danger, heroic mission, distant planet, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
286K
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cloning, island, escape, technology gone awry, fugitives, lookalikes, future dystopia, genetics, paranoia, mercenary, fish out of water, on the run ...
Time:
future, 21st century, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
448K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
future dystopia, apocalypse, mysterious character, evil alien, vestiges of humanity, disorder, danger, space and aliens, resistance, post apocalypse, survival, alien encounter ...
Time:
future
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, pentagon, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
female warrior, desert, renegade, biker, imaginary, chases and races, crimes, space and aliens, adventure, escapades, gang, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
268K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl ...
Style:
futuristic, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space travel, spacecraft, future dystopia, space wars, good versus evil, space and aliens, friendship, adventure, martial arts, escapades, mechanic, chases and races ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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