Movies like Die Hard

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Die Hard (1988)
 8.2
 940K
Die Hard (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Style: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed, breathtaking, suspenseful, clever, action adventure, christmas classics ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper, villain, machismo, hitman, one against many, courage, holiday, race against time, violence, good versus evil, murder, police officer, terrorist plot, cop ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place: los angeles, california, usa, united states of america
Keyword: gangsters, german, reboot, attack, retrospective, superior, take over, new yorker, challenge, buddy movie, eye candy

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Most similar movies to Die Hard

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, suspense and realistic films with plots about pistol, gunfight, shootout, murder, machine gun, violence and explosion mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Die Hard: Speed (1994), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), Under Siege (1992), London Has Fallen (2016), Air Force One (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Die Hard 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: gunfight, christmas, airplane, fight scenes, airport, one man army, police, hostage, terrorism, lone hero, chase, commando ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: washington d.c., washington state, virginia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, terrorism, police, heist, race against time, bomb, police officer, car chase, revenge, weapons, puzzle, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 389K
Speed (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: hostage, bomb, danger, terrorism, trapped, bus, terrorist, save the day, unlikely partners, chase, rescue, on the road ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national ...
Style: exciting, rough, political thriller, serious, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, daring rescue, u.s. president, politics, secret agent, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, north korea, north america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 95K
Under Siege (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned ...
Style: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, one man army, u.s. navy, ship, hostage, one against many, terrorist plot, violence, terrorist, sociopath, race against time ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: hawaii, pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, hacking, one man army, terrorism, hacker, computer hacker, tough cop, conspiracy, car chase, fbi, lone hero, surveillance ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, maryland, baltimore, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 209K
Air Force One (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tension, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hostage, airplane, secret service, president, terrorism, white house, terrorist, hijacking, conspiracy, head of state, u.s. president, heroism ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: russia, afghanistan, iraq, washington d.c., moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, humorous ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: secret service, agent, terrorist, fbi, secret service agent, president, lone hero, justice, white house, gunfight, false accusation, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., west virginia, virginia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 139K
Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 37K
Sudden Death (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship ...
Style: suspense, intense, exciting, cliffhanger, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, hockey, martial arts, one man army, die hard, fight scenes, explosions, terrorist, ice hockey, kidnapping, assassination ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 275K
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on ...
Style: suspense, exciting, humorous, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police, gunfight, reluctant partners, chase, buddy, car chase, female nudity, police investigation, police partner, police officer, cop, partners against crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, vietnam, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.4
 356K
The Rock (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, hostage, prison, alcatraz, twists and turns, military, mercenary, car chase, prison escape, gunfight, chemical weapon, swat team ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 4.0
 390
Hangfire (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot: vietnam veteran, prison break, hostage situation, hostage, heroes, danger, kidnapping, small town, evacuation, escape, profanity, state trooper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 133K
Skyscraper (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Style: tense, suspense, psychotronic, anamorphic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, kids
Plot: skyscraper, disaster, penthouse, heroism, terrorism, protective parent, fire, panic, courage, betrayal, hostage, lone hero ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china, asia, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
White House Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is ...
Style: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: secret service, terrorism, president, white house, save the day, conspiracy, treason, hostage, rescue, nuclear threat, head of state, siege ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., north america, pentagon, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, breathtaking, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: spy, espionage, mission, gunfight, cia, female spy, on the run, tough guy, chases and races, top secret, save the day, working undercover ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, budapest, iran, bay area, washington state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 118K
Eraser (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to ...
Style: suspense, exciting, action packed, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, rogue agent, conspiracy, betrayal, treason, witness, witness protection program, twists and turns, corporate crime, police investigation, justice, spy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, maryland, usa, california, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 317K
Con Air (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, action packed, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: airplane, prison, hijacking, master criminal, aviation, law enforcement, machismo, convict, colombian drug cartel, fugitives, die hard, confined ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, las vegas, usa, north america, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.1
 195K
6 Underground (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
Style: suspense, entertaining, action adventure, action thriller, exciting ...
Plot: chase, mission, female spy, anti heroine, female warrior, teamwork, fight, brutality, courage, deception, vigilante, machismo ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, year 2017
Place: italy, las vegas, florence, paris france, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, action comedy, funny, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: stripper, buddy, american football, football, reluctant partners, private detective, murder, corruption, buddy cop, strip club, conspiracy, ex law enforcer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.1
 105K
Broken Arrow (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, mexican standoff, train, desert, danger, chases and races, escapades, fighter jet, female warrior, rivalry, aviation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style: tense, melancholic, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: father son relationship, tough cop, two man army, bomb, car chase, cia agent, 007, terrorism, spy, violence, agent, american abroad ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 317K
The Accountant (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, tense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: autism, assassin, accountant, mathematics, lone hero, organized crime, twists and turns, justice, gunfight, vigilante, hitman, investigation ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 1989, year 2006 ...
Place: washington d.c., chicago, illinois, new hampshire, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to ...
Style: action thriller, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, die hard, evacuation, master criminal, race against time, danger, one man army, on the run, chase, car chase, heist, profanity ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 172K
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from ...
Style: entertaining, hilarious, action comedy, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy, buddy cop, police, car chase, gangster, fight scenes, partner, police investigation, vigilante, die hard, secret service, cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 192K
Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 323K
RED (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style: exciting, entertaining, action comedy, witty, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: spy, cia, hitman, secret service, chase, assassin, mission, gunfight, on the run, ex cia agent, female spy, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, iran, kansas city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 2K
The Defender (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, state affairs, daring rescue, danger, save the day, chases and races, law enforcement, conspiracy, undercover agent, shootout, spy ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 51K
Passenger 57 (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, hostage, airplane, hijacking, airport, terrorist, motorcycle, evil man, aviation, fbi, danger, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, louisiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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