Movies like Skyfall (2012)
The best movies like Skyfall (2012) are Quantum of Solace (2008), Spectre (2015) and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). If Skyfall hooked you with its action and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCasino Royale (2006)7.6/10 from 12,197 votes
- NewestMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesQuantum of Solace (2008)James Bond
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpectre (2015)
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisxXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo Time to Die (2021)
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCasino Royale (2006)
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThunderball (1965)
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDr. No (1962)
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMission: Impossible II (2000)
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTiger 3 (2023)
Spy couple Tiger and Zoya face a ruthless enemy with a personal vendetta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisAssassin Club (2023)
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAtomic Blonde (2017)
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSalt (2010)
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. She goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible III (2006)
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe King's Man (2021)
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDie Another Day (2002)
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible (1996)
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bourne Identity (2002)
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLive and Let Die (1973)
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou Only Live Twice (1967)
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTomorrow Never Dies (1997)
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Why it matches: Same series: James Bond · both adventure & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Skyfall?
The closest matches to Skyfall are Quantum of Solace (2008), Spectre (2015) and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Skyfall?
People who watched Skyfall most often go on to Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Skyfall?
Casino Royale (2006), rated 7.6/10 by 12,197 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Skyfall?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Skyfall part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to James Bond, which includes Quantum of Solace (2008), Spectre (2015), No Time to Die (2021) and Casino Royale (2006).
Are there English movies like Skyfall?
Yes: Quantum of Solace (2008), Spectre (2015) and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).
How are movies similar to Skyfall chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Skyfall, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.