Movies like Dead Silence 1997
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Dead Silence (1997)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage but their teacher is Marlee Matlin!
Style:
psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twists and turns, surprise ending, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, on the run, bus, rescue, school, crimes, special agents, heroes, hostages, confined, hijacking, kidnapping, missing person, betrayal, crime, fugitives, mute or deaf, danger, one man army, chases and races, dishonesty, law enforcement, mind game, deadly, murderous pair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, canada, pennsylvania, new york state
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about crimes, danger, rivalry, chases and races, deadly, confined and heroes mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dead Silence: Counterstrike (2002), Tunnel (2002), Christmas Rush (2002), Detonator (2003), Absolute Deception (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, rescue, adventure, daring rescue, confined, deadly, danger, save the day, race against time, special agents, rivalry ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
259
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ex-SAS agent and a thief battle for their lives as air runs out in a maze of abandoned mine tunnels while they're searching for $200 million in stolen diamonds.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, adventure, bounty hunter, one man army, save the day, rivalry, crime gone awry, race against time, criminal heroes, escapades, gang, chases and races ...
Time:
contemporary
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94%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the season of giving, the department took his badge. Criminals took his wife. Now, one cop is taking matters into his own hands
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
race against time, save the day, law enforcement, master criminal, crimes, rivalry, danger, crime gone awry, disorder, deadly, partners, one man army ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
367
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, undercover, save the day, terrorism, vengeance, rivalry, race against time, deadly, danger, master criminal, law enforcement, crimes ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
murder, special agents, uncover truth, manhunt, investigation, undercover, journalism, deadly, danger, couple relations, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, australia, cuba, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
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317
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, realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, terrorism, martial arts, hijacking, chases and races, crimes, deadly, race against time, law enforcement, danger, save the day, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, rescue, kidnapping, track down, deadly, danger, law enforcement, assassination attempt, crimes, heroes, special agents, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, save the day, hostages, crimes, rescue, politics, danger, race against time, heroes, special agents ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, europe, balkan, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kgb, one man army, secret identity, danger, confined, crimes, special agents, deadly, tough heroes, heroes, murder, tough guy ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
canada, vancouver british columbia canada, vancouver, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, police detective, crimes, law enforcement, partners against crime, hopes, deadly, confined, danger, tough heroes, child in peril, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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171
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, race against time, hostages, secret agents, law enforcement, escapades, one man army, crimes, save the day, danger, good versus evil, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
364
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female martial artist, adventure, rescue, save the day, confined, one man army, danger, law enforcement, undercover, government agency, dishonesty, secret agents ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The President of the United States, in the midst of negative public opinion, is kidnapped while attending a charity function. However, this is all part of a plan to boost his ratings, the 'kidnappers' being a CIA black ops team. It seems ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, kidnapping, undercover, save the day, heroes, rescue, crimes, daring rescue, special agents, dishonesty, law enforcement, secret agents ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A luxury cruise liner is requisitioned by the Greek government in an attempt to give safe passage to national treasures worth millions of pounds. The liner is attacked by an art collector who finds out about the plan. During the hijack the liner ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroes, confined, heroic mission, treasure hunt, escapades, race against time, rivalry, chases and races, rescue, danger, obsessive quest, crimes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hijacking, hostage, save the day, hostages, danger, race against time, confined, mind game, crimes, law enforcement, crime, tunnel ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Movies similar to Hostage
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, hostage negotiator, one man army, hostages, fbi, crimes, small town, rescue, hostage situation, family problems, crime gone awry ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
858
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the run, crime, dishonesty, deadly, crimes, chase, criminal's revenge, police investigation, police corruption, on the road, kidnapping, master criminal ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, betrayal, crimes, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gangsters, deadly, gang ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, road movie, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
witnessing a crime, kidnapping, woman in danger, psychopath, gang, missing person, family in danger, hostages, deadly, crime, danger, rescue ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, heroes, terrorism, martial arts, danger, confined, escapades, tough heroes, hostage, vigilantism, americana, redemption ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hijacking, save the day, danger, chases and races, crimes, heroes, confined, escapades, hostage, airplane, tough heroes, terrorism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story:
A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her prisoner as the mysterious John Lawson, a rouge agent, now ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, bleak ...
Plot:
crimes, danger, injustice, deadly, law enforcement, chases and races, isolation, female criminal, fugitives, confined, special agents, policewoman ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, siege, preparatory school, heroic mission, rescue, friendship, high school, rebelliousness, teenage life, danger, hardcase students ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s, 80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, florida, virginia, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, false accusation, murder, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, crimes, legal investigation, injustice, who done it, police corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, special agents, terrorism, working undercover, race against time, state affairs, save the day, military, government agency, danger, frame up, russian ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york, russia, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, woman in danger, captivity, uninhibited rivalry, psychopath, rivalry, danger, deadly, chases and races, confined, crimes, rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
truck, car chase, chases and races, rescue, chase, danger, crimes, partners, race against time, on the run, one man army, ex convict ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, law enforcement, crimes, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, chases and races, deadly, police officer, tough heroes, police, chase ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, new york, usa, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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