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Movies that feel likeThe Darkest Minds (2018)

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.

If you loved The Darkest Minds, the closest films we have are The Woman King (2022), The Road (2009) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015). All three share The Darkest Minds' epic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004).

πŸ… 15% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelsonkineticepiccontemplativebleak
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The Woman King
2022 Β· dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.9action Β· drama Β· historyHulu

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

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The Road
2009 Β· dir. John Hillcoat
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· dramaPrime Video

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than The Darkest Minds does

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· science fictionHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Darkest Minds for an angle of its own

As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly traps, shifting loyalties, and the heavy cost of rebellion, determined to bring freedom to her people and end the Hunger Games once and for all.

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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 Β· dir. Kang Je-kyu
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8action Β· adventure Β· drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then bleakness

The difference: Sits closer to history than The Darkest Minds does

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

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Badland Hunters
2024 Β· dir. Heo Myeong-haeng
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6action Β· adventure Β· thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

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Red Cliff
2008 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.3history Β· war Β· actionPrime Video

Epic adventure in both cases

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.

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12 Strong
2018 Β· dir. Nicolai Fuglsig
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.6war Β· action Β· history

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

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The 5th Wave
2016 Β· dir. J Blakeson
πŸ… 16%β˜… 5.2science fiction Β· adventure Β· actionNetflix

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

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.

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Midway
2019 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.7war Β· history Β· drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

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JUNG_E
2023 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
πŸ… 52%β˜… 5.5science fiction Β· action Β· adventureNetflix

A 2020s answer to the same itch

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

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King Arthur
2004 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.3adventure Β· war Β· historyPrime Video

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

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The Host
2013 Β· dir. Andrew Niccol
πŸ… 10%β˜… 5.8action Β· adventure Β· science fiction

Bleak adventure in both cases

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 humans.

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