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2014 · Movie · PG-13 · your starting pointIf The Maze Runner is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Maze Runner, ranked
1. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The direct sequel escalates the survival stakes by replacing the maze's confined mystery with open-world dangers, while maintaining the same core cast navigating betrayal, environmental threats, and revelations about their captors.
2. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Thomas confronts the architects of his imprisonment in this sequel that escalates the maze's stakes into a full-scale assault on the organization controlling the experiments, maintaining the series' blend of survival horror and dystopian revelation.
3. Cube (1997)
A group of captives must navigate an ever-shifting labyrinth of lethal puzzles while deciphering the logic of their imprisonment, relying on collaboration and deduction to survive an unknowable captor's design.
4. The Long Walk (2025)
Both feature trapped teenagers forced through brutal, inescapable trials designed by unseen authorities, using the physical ordeal as a crucible to expose how quickly social bonds fracture under survival pressure.
5. The Running Man (1987)
Trapped protagonists must survive orchestrated trials designed by unseen architects who control every variable, forcing them to question whether escape is the true objective or an elaborate illusion.
6. Mazes and Monsters (1982)
The claustrophobic setting and escalating psychological tension mirror the maze's inescapable pressure as characters question reality while trapped in an environment designed to test their sanity.
7. Logan's Run (1976)
Logan's Run shares the claustrophobic dystopian setting and the protagonist's journey from enforced conformity to dangerous rebellion against a system built on concealed truths.
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