Movies like The Host
The Host (2013) is a action movie directed by Andrew Niccol. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Hunger Games (2012)
★ 7.2 · 23,847 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
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2. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
★ 6.7 · 8,264 votes · Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
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3. Divergent (2014)
★ 6.9 · 13,798 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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 Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
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4. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
★ 7.6 · 15,620 votes · Action, Sci-Fi
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
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5. The Avengers (2012)
★ 8.1 · 40,033 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
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6. The Maze Runner (2014)
★ 7.2 · 18,559 votes · Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.
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7. Ready Player One (2018)
★ 7.6 · 17,477 votes · Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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8. War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6 · 9,626 votes · Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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9. Black Panther (2018)
★ 7.4 · 24,094 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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10. The Martian (2015)
★ 7.7 · 21,956 votes · Sci-Fi, Drama, Adventure
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
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11. Man of Steel (2013)
★ 6.7 · 16,699 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
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12. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
★ 7.9 · 30,471 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
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13. Black Adam (2022)
★ 6.8 · 7,316 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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14. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
★ 7.5 · 16,774 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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15. Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5 · 2,720 votes · Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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16. John Carter (2012)
★ 6.4 · 6,328 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
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17. Mortal Engines (2018)
★ 6.3 · 5,363 votes · Adventure, Sci-Fi
Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
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18. Planet of the Apes (1968)
★ 7.7 · 4,143 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
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