Movies Like Steel Dawn

If you liked Steel Dawn (1987), a action and adventure movie directed by Lance Hool, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also action and adventure
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels…
2
The Last Survivors (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also action and science fiction
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
3
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
4
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out…
5
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
7
Turbo Kid (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also action and science fiction
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
8
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and action
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled…
9
Cherry 2000 (1987)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his…
10
Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also action and science fiction
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
11
Terminator Salvation (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also action and science fiction
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as…
12
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and action
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
13
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also action and science fiction
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
14
The Book of Eli (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
15
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
16
Doomsday (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a…
17
Dredd (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also action and science fiction
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite…
18
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also action and science fiction
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided…
19
Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)
★ 5.8/10Also action and adventure
Burt Gummer and Travis Welker find themselves in a fight for survival after investigating deadly giant worm attacks in the Canadian arctic.
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Resident Evil (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and adventure
Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.