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Movies that feel likeYou Only Live Twice (1967)

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

If you loved You Only Live Twice, the closest films we have are Runaway Train (1985), The Wolf's Call (2019) and Come Drink with Me (1966). All three share You Only Live Twice's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Plane (2023).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lewis Gilbertkinetictenseepic
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) · From Russia with Love (1963) · Goldfinger (1964) · Thunderball (1965) · On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) · Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than You Only Live Twice 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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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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

Kinetic adventure in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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

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

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

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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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 47%★ 6.2drama · action · historyPrime Video

Common ground in both: assassin and assassination

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

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

Epic action in both cases

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

Both know what they want from thriller

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

Adventure in the same key

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

Both working the same action territory

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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