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The Terrorists (1974)
 5.6
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The Terrorists (1974)
Original name: Ransom
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...
Style: surprise ending, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorist, hostage, terrorism, aviation, diplomacy, 007, judiciary, undercover agent, mountain, heroes, politics, captivity, chases and races, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, confined, one man army, bait, race against time, state affairs, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, oslo norway
Keyword: norway

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Most similar movies to The Terrorists

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about danger, hostage, terrorism, confined, rivalry, chases and races and heroes mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Terrorists: S.O.S. Concorde (1979), Crash Landing (2005), Strategic Command (1997), Final Approach (2007), Air Marshal (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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S.O.S. Concorde (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: airplane, air disaster, aviation, conspiracy, swimming, danger, daring rescue, airplane crash, gangster, hostage, terrorism, reporter ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, new york, london, england ...
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100%
 3.7
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Crash Landing (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a hostage situation arises on-board a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on-board. Major John Masters (Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorist and land the plane.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, airplane, terrorist, martial arts, hijacker, disaster, confined, heroic mission, danger, save the day, violence spree ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Strategic Command (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large ...
Style: mockbuster, independent film, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, aviation, disaster, aeroplane, hijacking, biological warfare, hostage, tough heroes, airplane, heroes, chases and races, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.8
 704
Final Approach (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, terrorism, rescue, daring rescue, master criminal, save the day, tough heroes, danger, heroes, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Air Marshal (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorism, danger, heroes, strong violent content, aviation, hijacker, terrorist, muslim, die hard, pilot ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, hostage, train, save the day, race against time, danger, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Crash Point Zero (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, tough heroes, save the day, confined, danger, survival, undercover, daring rescue, heroes, race against time, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.3
 710
Black November (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
Plot: kidnapping, terrorism, racism, political conspiracy, confined, state affairs, dishonesty, danger, heroes, conspiracy, african, inspiration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nigeria, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Hour of Valor (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, one man army, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place: washington d.c., france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.2
 402
Death Train (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, train, on the run, save the day, hostage, danger, undercover, gunfight, die hard, hijacking, railway, subway ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
12 Hours to Live (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, diabetic, woman in danger, police investigation, danger, chase, kidnapped, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, weapons, captive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 1K
Mogadischu (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: terrorism, terrorist attack, passenger, daring rescue, confined, danger, airplane, hysteria, raf, pilot, mossad, hijacking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: germany, africa, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.3
 609
Counterstrike (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.1
 437
Hijack (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, danger, heroes, confined, law enforcement, race against time, save the day, die hard, terrorist plot ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, taken hostage, hostage situation, hostage, ocean, danger, save the day, chases and races, one man army, race against time, leadership ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Sleeper Cell (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: terrorist, undercover agent, spy, undercover, fbi, heroes, race against time, danger, special agent, terrorist plot, pretense, chases and races ...
Place: los angeles, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 238
Fatal Vacation (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, soldier, military, kidnapping, hijacking, bus, rape, save the day, chase, tough law enforcer, escapades, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Hijacked: Flight 285 (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: jet plane, disaster, space, aviation, hostage negotiator, fbi agent, hijacking, terrorism, hostage, elderly couple, killer, air traffic control ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: rome italy, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Towards Darkness (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style: tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, crime gone awry, car chase, destiny, missing child, rivalry, race against time, chase, terrorism, danger, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 8K
Five Fingers (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, kidnapping, torture, chess, idealism, confined, danger, rivalry, missing person, twists and turns, threat ...
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Terminal Rush (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of terrorists, led by a Brit and a psycho (in a great performance by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) take control of the Hoover Dam and demand $25 million or they will kill civilians and dam workers they have taken hostage. But the terrorists ...
Style: cliffhanger, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, wrestling, die hard, martial arts, one man army, heroes, terrorism, violent content, frame up, hijacking, haunted by the past, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Infinite Justice (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, captivity, politics, terrorism, journalism, prison, confined, rebellion, danger, kidnapping, state affairs, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Hostage (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Turkey, Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, racism, hijacking, terrorism, immigrant, society, save the day, confined, danger, rivalry, one man army, against the odds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Airline Disaster (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the President learns that domestic terrorists have skyjacked the passenger jet her brother is flying, she must choose between family and the safety of the people in the cities below
Style: serious, captivating, suspense, tense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, disaster, terrorism, moral dilemma, save the day, head of state, danger, undercover, rivalry, aviation, chase, airplane ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.1
 3K
24 (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This thriller series focuses on an anti-terrorist unit agent named Jai Singh Rathod who has twenty-four hours to save the country from a major terrorist attack.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, daring rescue, save the day, investigation, state affairs, rivalry, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, spy, propaganda, die hard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 407
Birds of Prey (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: bank robbery, chase, hostage, kidnapping, armored car, heist, missing person, danger, buddies, heroes, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 70s
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 1K
Senseless (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, intelligent ...
Plot: confined, missing person, danger, captivity, isolation, terrorism, prison life, internet, unsettling, confined space, extreme, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
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Hennessy (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
Style: grindhouse, political, offbeat, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, revenge, anglo irish relations, explosions, terrorism, manhunt, repression, royal family, political intrigue, political unrest, political corruption, assassination ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, london, europe, england, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.8
 4K
Hijacked (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, save the day, danger, secret agent, hijacking, confined, rivalry, air disaster, police officer, murder, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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