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Drop Zone (1994)
23K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete Nessip (Snipes) lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Jessie Crossmann (Butler) so he can track them down.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, serious, detective, anamorphic, action thriller, action adventure, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parachuting, terrorism, skydiving, terrorist, chase, parachute, heroes, danger, hijacking, race against time, airplane hijack, aviation, fugitives, tough heroes, martial arts, violence, computer cracker, death of brother, heroism, dea, marshal, u.s. marshal, black, stewardess, faked death ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and fast films with plots about heroes, shootout, gunfight, rivalry, terrorism, undercover and martial arts mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Drop Zone: The Detonator (2006), Ballistica (2009), Death Train (2003), Executive Target (1997), Militia (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one against many, terrorism, danger, undercover, heroic mission, battles, escapades, rivalry, showdown, covert operation, spy ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, one man army, tough heroes, save the day, on the run, hostage, undercover, danger, train, one against many, gunfight, die hard ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
His wife held hostage, a stunt driver is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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858
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, terrorism, hostage, rebelliousness, heroes, espionage, save the day, working undercover, secret agent, leadership, assassination, state affairs ...
Time:
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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:
suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, airplane, hijacking, airport, terrorist, escape, fbi, airplane hijack, aviation, courage, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
louisiana, florida, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO, Michael Jennings, is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vigilante, corruption, corporate greed, oil company, conspiracy, oil rig, one against many, oil, one man army, tough heroes, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terrorism, chase, avalanche, snowboarding, skiing, danger, extreme sports, isolation, save the day, leadership, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
austria, antarctic, europe, former yugoslavia, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
Style:
parody, suspense, exciting, intense, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
parachuting, desert, skydiving, undercover, kgb agent, shootout, faking one's own death, presumed dead, sports car, gold, parachute, chase ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
moscow russia, arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sentimental, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parachuting, terrorism, secret agent, danger, drug dealing, master criminal, ambition, undercover, partners against crime, tough law enforcer, espionage, skydiving ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, florida, miami
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation, a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi-million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
rivalry, gangster, hip hop, injustice, martial arts, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life, law enforcement, arms deal, arms dealer, hip hop culture, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.
Style:
intense, suspense, perverse, saga, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, terrorist, martial arts, terrorism, violent, military, hostage, railway, die hard, disaster, 007, one man army ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, pentagon, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
102K
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:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, terrorism, u.s. navy, violence, terrorist, ship, terrorist plot, hostage, one man army, sociopath, mercenary, warship ...
Time:
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Place:
hawaii, pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, pentagon, san francisco ...
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Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, fast, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, nuclear threat, one man army, chase, secret agent, tough heroes, daring rescue, law enforcement, state affairs, save the day, danger, government agency ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., chicago, pentagon
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, espionage, political conspiracy, mafia, martial arts, murder, frame up, translator, secret agent, gunfight, car chase, heroes ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to ...
Style:
anamorphic, cliffhanger, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, prison, firefighter, fire, natural disaster, hostage, forest fire, survival, fire brigade, fugitives, violence, terrorist ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
wyoming
Similarity:
100%
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, strong violent content, terrorism, terrorist, one man army, danger, heroes, aviation, muslim, hijacker, flight attendant ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U.S.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, race against time, heroes, law enforcement, confined, undercover, good versus evil, one man army, secret agent, nuclear bomb, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, texas, usa, chicago, illinois ...
Similarity:
100%
779
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, fast ...
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, one man army, tough heroes, daring rescue, save the day, danger, rivalry, government agency, hostage, air disaster, hijacking ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons ...
Style:
independent film, tv series pilot
Plot:
female spy, terrorism, female secret agent, female agent, undercover, model, spy, woman with a gun, virus, femme fatale, terrorist plot, karate ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
manhunt, on the run, cia, agent, conspiracy, escaped prisoner, escape, frame up, traitor, swamp, airplane accident, car chase ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, unstoppable, antidote, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, working undercover, danger, dishonesty, manhunt, master criminal, undercover ...
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
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686
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, secret agent, undercover, law enforcement, confined, race against time, danger, save the day ...
Place:
washington d.c., france
Similarity:
34%
15K
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, suspense, detective, erotic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police protection, hostage, conspiracy, female lawyer, chase, gunfight, sex scene, car chase, lawyer, female killer, female assassin, lust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug dealing, femme fatale, woman with a gun, tough heroes, prostitute, undercover, vengeance, chase, gang, chases and races, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high-tech operatives who have supplanted them in the post-Cold War intelligence game.
Plot:
spy, covert operation, heroes, pistol, blood, machine gun, violence, hostile takeover, fistfight, tough guy, terrorism, martial arts ...
Similarity:
100%
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, survival, confined, danger, undercover, heroes, daring rescue, race against time, one man army ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, alaska
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, black american, military, soldier, heroes, rescue, sniper, frame up, heroic mission, daring rescue, political conspiracy, danger ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style:
realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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