Movies Like The Big Explosion

If you liked The Big Explosion (2020), a action and science fiction movie directed by Huang Yi, 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
Bureau 749 (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action and science fiction
A traumatized young man with physical abnormalities is forced to join a mysterious bureau to confront a disaster spreading across the earth caused by an unknown creature. He embarks on an adventure uncovering mysteries…
2
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.
3
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and action
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
4
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…
5
Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and action
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
6
Halo: Nightfall (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and action
Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific…
7
Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
8
The 355 (2022)
★ 6/10Also action
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
9
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also action
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
10
Abduction (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and action
A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…
11
Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
12
Oblivion (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also action and science fiction
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly…
13
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and 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…
14
Justice League (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also action and science fiction
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the…
15
Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
16
The Thousand Faces of Dunjia (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also action
The world is on the brink of catastrophe in a chaotic age where evil demons roam. In order to keep evil at bay, a mysterious organisation from the pugilist world emerges. A new constable and a young girl with a…
17
Hounds of War (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
18
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and action
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
19
A Legend (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also action
An archeologist noticed that the texture of the relics discovered during the excavation of a glacier closely resembled a jade pendant seen in one of his dreams. He and his team then embark on an expedition into the…
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also action and science fiction
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.