Movies Like The Fifth Element (Top Picks At A Glance)
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If you’ve watched Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, then you know it’s one of the most creative and imaginative movies ever made. There are plenty more movies like this out there, but not all of them are worth your time (just like with any movie).
So we’ve gone ahead and composed a list that will weed out the movies like The Fifth Element that will keep you on the edge of your seat without disappointing. Just keep scrolling to see what incredible movies we have in store for you!
1. Total Recall
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Total Recall Movie Description
Living in 2084, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), has had the dream of going to visit the colonized Mars, as he has grown bored of his life working in construction. Unable to afford it, he instead visits a company known as Rekall, who implant false memories into people so he can experience the martian planet without actually visiting it.
However, when something in the procedure goes wrong, he comes to realize that his whole life is a false memory, and the people who implanted it now want him dead.
2. Minority Report
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Minority Report Movie Description
In 2054 police now use psychic technology to arrest people before they have even committed a crime.
John Anderton (Tom Cruise) leads the Precrime unit and is one day accused of a future murder of a man he’s never met, forcing him to go on the run.
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Movie Description
Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) work as special operative trying to maintain a semblance of order throughout human territories in the galaxy.
When a dark force has threatened the city known as Alpha, the largest Muti-species space colony, the two of them must find and neutralize the threat before chaos is unleashed and an all out war between multiple alien species begins.
4. Ender's Game
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Ender’s Game Movie Description
Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley)Â was able to fend off the first attack on Earth led by the aliens known as Formics. After the attack Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) leads a military program in order to find the next Mazer.
Out of all the trainees, Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) begins to show that he is gifted and begins to master all the assignments thrown his way. Realizing his potential, Mazer himself takes ender under his wings to prepare him for before the next attack.
5. Equilibrium
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Equilibrium Movie Description
By using a drug known as Prozium, a futuristic society has managed to suppress emotion and eliminate all war. Books, art, and music are all illegal as well as feeling which is punishable by death.
Working as a high ranking government agent who hunts down those resit the rules, Clerick John Preston (Christian Bale) finds himself in a peculiar situation when he misses a dose of the Prozium. Though he has been trained his whole life to avoid emotion and enforce the rules of the new regime he finds himself to be the only one who can overthrow it.
6. Alita: Battle Angel
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Alita: Battle Angel Movie Description
Found in a scrapyard in the Iron City, an unconscious cyborg known as Alita (Rosa Salazar) is taken to a clinic by a cyber-doctor known as Ido (Christoph Waltz) for repairs.
When Alita regains consciousness she has no memory of who or what she is. As she continues to learn how to navigate this new world she finds herself in, Ido tries his best to keep her from learning about her mysterious past.
7. Oblivion
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Oblivion Movie Description
After a war between humans and aliens, Earth is now left an empty and desolate planet. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) works as a security repair man on the now empty planet.
With only two weeks left before the end of his mission and he can rejoin other survivors in a faraway colony, he runs into a major setback when he rescues a gorgeous stranger from a crashed ship. After he saves the woman, events leading to Jack being the one to save humanity begin to unfold.
The movies up top are our picks for the absolute best movies that will give you the best possible experience if you’re looking for the movies like The Fifth Element. But, we’re guessing that you can probably watch through 7 movies in no time!
Don’t worry, we’ve got you! We’ll also be listing all the movies which contended with the films above but were just barely beat out! So if you’ve already watched through our top picks, then these should be next on your watchlist.
15 More Epic Movies Like The Fifth Element
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005)
- Men In Black (1997)
- Back To The Future (1985)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Jupiter Ascending (2015)
- Gattaca (1997)
- RoboCop (1987)
- Serenity (2005)
- Lost In Space (1998)
- Stargate (1994)
- Dune (2021)
- Aeon Flux (2005)
- Lockout (2012)
- Independence Day (1996)
- Alien (1979)
