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Movies that feel likeThe Transformers: The Movie (1986)

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

If you loved The Transformers: The Movie, the closest films we have are Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), Flight of the Navigator (1986) and Ra.One (2011). All three share The Transformers: The Movie's cerebral and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

πŸ… 63% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nelson Shincerebralkineticepicwarm
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Koi... Mil Gaya
2003 Β· dir. Rakesh Roshan
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.2science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Both land ideas and momentum at once

A developmentally disabled boy's life changes after he encounters an extraterrestrial being.

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Flight of the Navigator
1986 Β· dir. Randal Kleiser
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.9family Β· science fiction Β· adventureDisney+

Epic where it counts, warm underneath

The difference: Lighter on momentum

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

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Ra.One
2011 Β· dir. Anubhav Sinha
πŸ… 62%β˜… 5adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: robot

The difference: Goes its own way on the warmth

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

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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Transformers
2007 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1adventure Β· science fiction Β· actionParamount+Starz

Common ground in both: transformation and based on toy

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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

Kinetic action in both cases

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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Coma
2020 Β· dir. Nikita Argunov
β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· adventure Β· actionPrime Video

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

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Dune
1984 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.2action Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Animation built on ideas, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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

Family with a pulse of scale, in both cases

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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Until the End of the World
1991 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.8drama Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Science fiction approached the same way

The difference: Played as drama first

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law β€” an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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Escape to Witch Mountain
1975 Β· dir. John Hough
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.3adventure Β· fantasy Β· science fictionDisney+

Warm adventure in both cases

The difference: Leans further into fantasy

Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

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The Time Machine
2002 Β· dir. Simon Wells
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6science fiction Β· adventure Β· action

Action built on momentum, twice over

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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