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Flight 93 (2006)
10K
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, road movie, disturbing, intense, crying ...
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, passenger, 9/11, hijacking, terrorist, aviation, war on terror, danger, daring rescue, confined, race against time, government agency, save the day, heroic mission, islamic terrorism, airplane crash, aircraft, last stand, muslim, patriot, airplane accident, national security, cataclysm, north american history ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
north america, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, united states of america, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and realistic films with plots about danger, race against time, rescue, heroes, disaster, catastrophe and explosion mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Flight 93: World Trade Center (2006), United 93 (2006), The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), Airport '77 (1977), Diplomatic Siege (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the ...
Style:
sad, factual, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, disaster, firefighter, twin towers, 9/11, terrorist, war on terror, natural disaster, medieval, rescue, al qaeda, heroes ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, north america, middle east, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Style:
controversial, political, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, terrorist, war on terror, survival, al qaeda, aviation, medieval, death, airplane accident ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, boston, usa, pennsylvania ...
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44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!
Style:
psychological, cult classic, fast, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, aviation, airport, airplane, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, airplane accident, missile ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 80s
Place:
europe, france, alps, washington d.c., paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, rescue, airplane, airport, underwater, airplane accident, aviation, frogman, bermuda triangle, hijacking, airplane hijack, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, 80s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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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:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, save the day, politics, rescue, danger, race against time, government agency, state affairs, one man army, heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest, balkan
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100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Style:
serious, suspense, independent film, fast, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, rescue, tough heroes, aviation, disaster, one man army, daring rescue, heroes, danger, save the day, forces of nature, airport ...
Time:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style:
breathtaking, suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
natural disaster, catastrophe, disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, apocalypse, survival, mayor, small town, mountain, coffee, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
washington state
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21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, hostage, hijacking, rescue, terrorist, airplane accident, special forces, hand to hand combat, ransom, bomb, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
airport, disaster, airplane, aviation, bomb, airplane accident, passenger, natural disaster, survival, danger, panic, stewardess ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
chicago, rome italy, minnesota, detroit, milwaukee wisconsin ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
airplane, airport, catastrophe, aviation, disaster, airplane accident, survival, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, death, mountain ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, washington d.c., salt lake city utah, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
405K
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:
exciting, clever, suspense, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
gunfight, airplane, christmas, fight scenes, airport, police, hostage, one man army, airplane accident, chase, lone hero, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, washington state, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
20%
132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
Similarity:
20%
250K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
223K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: 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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, aviation, military, conflict, war on terror, struggle, hostage, airport, dictatorship, revolutionary, revolution, conservative ...
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists’ intentions are, just that they are armed ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, hostage, military, islamic terrorism, confined, terrorism, hijacking, danger, law enforcement, negotiation, special forces, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
algeria, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
204K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, rough, social ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
rescue mission, terrorist, counter terrorism, politics, airplane hijack, terrorism, dictator, hijacker, hijacking, telephone call, airplane, hostage ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
israel, uganda, jerusalem, frankfurt germany, athens greece
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Style:
suspense, psychological, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, disaster, terrorist, air disaster, aviation, terrorism, vietnam war, hijacking, airplane accident, survival, sergeant, crash ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, russia, moscow russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
19%
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:
rough, political thriller, serious, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, politics, daring rescue, u.s. president, commando mission, propaganda ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., north korea, usa, north america, pentagon
Similarity:
19%
286K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, action thriller, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, airplane, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, danger, resourceful, terrorist, mind game, aviation, save the day ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, iceland, london
Similarity:
19%
121K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
Style:
tense, intense, factual, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, police, fbi, terrorist, tragedy, surveillance, courage, brutality, manhunt, police investigation, chase, investigation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, usa, california
Similarity:
19%
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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:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore, India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks in 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist, jihad, hotel, courage, religious fanatic, islamic terrorism, hostage, shooting, survival, cruelty ...
Time:
year 2019, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
india, mumbai india, australia, bombay india, pakistan ...
Similarity:
19%
212K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, godzilla, giant monster, creature, experiment gone awry, giant, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lost world, military, disaster, human versus monster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, tahiti, manhattan new york city, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
18%
420K
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:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, fast, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
hostage, bomb, twists and turns, danger, bus, terrorist, terrorism, police officer, trapped, unlikely partners, save the day, bomb squad ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 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, suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, daring rescue, rescue, save the day, heroes, danger, tough heroes, master criminal, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
18%
488
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:
terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, confined, save the day, danger, race against time, heroes, law enforcement, die hard, terrorist plot, terrorist group ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, rescue, natural disaster, race against time, survival, firefighter, evacuation, trapped in a building, trapped, fire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california
Similarity:
18%
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