If You Liked The Terminator, Watch These Next
Finished The Terminator (1984) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Terminator, most of them are action, thriller, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(2003)
6.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the…
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2.Terminator Salvation(2009)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso 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 Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend…
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3.Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)
8.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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4.The Matrix Revolutions(2003)
6.8AdventureActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
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5.The 6th Day(2000)
6.0ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must…
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6.Blade Runner(1982)
7.9Science FictionDramaThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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7.Upgrade(2018)
7.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek…
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8.Monsters of Man(2020)
6.4Science FictionActionAlso 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 camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six…
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9.Chappie(2015)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one…
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10.Terminator: Dark Fate(2019)
6.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
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11.57 Seconds(2023)
6.2ThrillerScience FictionActionAlso thriller and science fiction
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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12.Wifelike(2022)
6.5Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She…
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13.Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die(2026)
7.1Science FictionActionComedyAlso science fiction and action
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
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14.Total Recall(2012)
6.0ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
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15.The Time Shifters(1999)
5.8Science FictionThrillerActionAlso science fiction and thriller
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
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17.The Book of Eli(2010)
6.8ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
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.
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18.The Machine(2013)
5.9Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground,…
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19.The Running Man(1987)
6.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by…
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20.Doomsday(2008)
5.9ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
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 major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country…
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