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Movies like Ratnik (2020)

The best movies like Ratnik (2020) are Halo: Nightfall (2014), Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002) and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). If Ratnik hooked you with its action and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Halo: Nightfall (2014)

    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 biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. As they unravel a plot that draws them to an ancient, hellish artifact, they will be forced to fight for their survival, question everything and ultimately choose between their loyalty and their lives.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action

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

    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 city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

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  3. The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action

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  4. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    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 on the run who just might be able to restore order.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

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  5. The Creator (2023)

    Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action

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  6. Oblivion (2013)

    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 complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

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  7. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

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  8. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

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  9. Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)

    Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

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  10. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

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  11. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

    Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

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  12. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

    When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

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  13. Afterburn (2025)

    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 treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

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  14. Chaos Walking (2021)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

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  15. Timescape (1992)

    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 future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

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  16. Daylight's End (2016)

    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 and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

  17. Monsters of Man (2020)

    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 doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action

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  18. Code 8 Part II (2024)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action

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  19. Mortal Engines (2018)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

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  20. Doomsday (2008)

    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 to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction

  21. Bleeding Steel (2017)

    A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & action

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  22. JUNG_E (2023)

    On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & action

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  23. Virtuosity (1995)

    The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & science fiction

  24. Freejack (1992)

    Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & action

  25. ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (2026)

    When a massive alien flower known as "Darol" unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population of Japan, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & science fiction

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  26. Monsters (TBA)

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & science fiction

  27. Mad Max 2 (1981)

    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & science fiction

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  28. The 6th Day (2000)

    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 not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & science fiction

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  29. Gunhed (1989)

    High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world. But Kyron cannot be tamed, and after many lives are lost in the attempt, mankind decides to leave Kyron to its own devices.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & action

  30. The Omega Man (1971)

    Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & action

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Ratnik?

The closest matches to Ratnik are Halo: Nightfall (2014), Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002) and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Ratnik?

Start with Halo: Nightfall (2014), the closest match to Ratnik.

What is the highest-rated movie like Ratnik?

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), rated 7.6/10 by 24,925 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Ratnik?

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Ratnik?

Yes: Halo: Nightfall (2014), Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002) and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

How are movies similar to Ratnik chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ratnik, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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