Movies like Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) is a 2010s American post-apocalyptic sci-fi-thriller that relocates the franchise into a sun-scorched survival arena. Its core conflict stages a fugitive ensemble against a monolithic research authority while the camera employs high-contrast lighting, handheld kinetics, and propulsive editing to register environmental hostility. The film argues that franchise-scale spectacle frames institutional control as the central ethical problem facing youth dystopias.”