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Movies Like The Volunteer

If you liked The Volunteer (2016), a adventure and science fiction movie directed by Michael Willer, 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. 1Chaos Walking

    Chaos Walking (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    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.

  2. 2The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and science fiction

    As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly…

  3. 3Titan A.E.

    Titan A.E. (2000)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.

  4. 4Daybreakers

    Daybreakers (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of…

  5. 5Divergent

    Divergent (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and science fiction

    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…

  6. 6Frequencies

    Frequencies (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and science fiction

    The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.

  7. 7Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

  8. 8Mad Max: Fury Road

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    ★ 7.6/10Also adventure and science fiction

    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…

  9. 9Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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…

  10. 10Timescape

    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…

  11. 11Cherry 2000

    Cherry 2000 (1987)

    ★ 6/10Also adventure and science fiction

    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…

  12. 12Prince Charming

    Prince Charming (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and fantasy

    After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.

  13. 13Zardoz

    Zardoz (1974)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

  14. 14Oblivion

    Oblivion (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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…

  15. 15Return from Witch Mountain

    Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and fantasy

    Tony and Tia are other-worldly twins endowed with telekinesis. When their Uncle Bene drops them off in Los Angeles for an earthbound vacation, a display of their supernatural skill catches the eye of the nefarious Dr…

  16. 16Harmony

    Harmony (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and romance

    Born with an energetic power to absorb fear from others, a young woman must find love to balance the fears of her own and fight an ever growing storm of negative energy.

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    9 (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure and science fiction

    When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…

  18. 18Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

    Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also adventure and fantasy

    Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…

  19. 19The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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…

  20. 20Serenity

    Serenity (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…

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