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Movies that feel likeThunderball (1965)

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

If you loved Thunderball, the closest films we have are Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025), The Wolf's Call (2019) and Runaway Train (1985). All three share Thunderball's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Come Drink with Me (1966).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Terence Youngepickinetictense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) · From Russia with Love (1963) · Goldfinger (1964) · You Only Live Twice (1967) · On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) · Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 80%★ 7.1action · thriller · adventurePrime VideoParamount+

Both are working the same pair: spy, nuclear missile

The difference: 60 years apart, and the 2020s show

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Common ground: nuclear missile

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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Runaway Train
1985 · dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
🍅 84%★ 7.2action · thriller · drama

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Thunderball does

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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Come Drink with Me
1966 · dir. King Hu
🍅 100%★ 6.9action · adventure

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Easier on the tension than Thunderball

Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that their leader be released from prison in return for the captured son. After a brief encounter with the gang at a local restaurant, Golden Sparrow is joined by an inebriated wanderer Drunken Cat who aids her in her mission.

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Plane
2023 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 79%★ 6.5action · adventure · thrillerRent or buy

Tense action in both cases

After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Adventure with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Both lean on scale more than on action

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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Kraven the Hunter
2024 · dir. J.C. Chandor
🍅 15%★ 5.5action · adventure · thrillerDisney+

Tense adventure in both cases

Kraven Kravinoff's complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

Both are built on the same subject: spy

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Both play action straight

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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