Are you still hungry for more movies after The Hunger Games series? Well, you’re in luck! The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is now playing in theaters, and it’s not the only one that will satisfy your appetite for action and adventure. Check out some other movies below that are sure to appeal to Hunger Games fans!
Divergent (2014)
Easily the most closely related, Divergent carries an eerily similar tone and theme that any Hunger Games fan is likely to gravitate towards. Also based on a book series around the same era, Divergent follows a young girl who is marked as a problem when they discover she does not fit into any 5 virtue factions of their ‘perfect’ dystopian society. From the beginning of this film, it’s easy to tell how similar this saga is in comparison to Hunger Games, with the evidence quickly piling up as the plot continues.
Battle Royale (2000)
A noticeably bloodier addition to this list, Battle Royale is a Japanese action film that takes the base premise and runs with it. In a dystopian future Japan, a classroom of 9th graders are taken captive by the government and forced to fight to the death based on a law enacted after a revolution years prior. Promoted as one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite movies of the last 2 decades, even with a few honorable references in Kill Bill: Vol. 1, the level of violence and carnage is guaranteed to be much higher.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Following the trend of battling teenagers and blooming romance, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is one of two movies that combines the aforementioned themes with Greek mythology. A struggling teenager named Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) discovers he is a descendant of a Greek God, kick-starting his new adventure and pitting him in the center of a long-time battle of the gods and their offspring. While the movies did not stay as true to the books as The Hunger Games did, the entertainment in this movie is still a familiar likeness to what is so great about the Hunger Games.