Movies like Ladder 49

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Ladder 49 (2004)
 6.5
 59K
Ladder 49 (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.
Style: sincere, touching, sad, emotional, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: firefighter, disaster, friendship, rescue, death of protagonist, redemption, fire, firefighting, funeral, trapped, family relations, danger, tragic hero, death of husband, death of friend, building collapse, parents and children, race against time, survival, courage, firefight, heroes, sacrifice, main character dies, death ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa, california
Keyword: doctors

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Most similar movies to Ladder 49

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about disaster, danger, rescue, survival, fire, natural disaster and explosion mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ladder 49: Backdraft (1991), Only the Brave (2017), Ablaze (2001), The Towering Inferno (1974), World Trade Center (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Backdraft (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, investigation, arson, corruption, disaster, fire, pyromaniac, rescue, firefighting, danger, natural disaster, rookie ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 77K
Only the Brave (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style: exciting, motivational, dramatic, tense, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: natural disaster, firefighter, forest fire, heroism, tragedy, danger, friends, rescue, firefighting, male camaraderie, bravery, disaster ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013 ...
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 732
Ablaze (2001)
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, firefighting, hospital, fire, law enforcement, police investigation, danger, chaos, evacuation, disaster, firefight, pandemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Towering Inferno (1974)
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: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, firefighter, rescue, survival, natural disaster, race against time, trapped, fire, trapped in a building, architect ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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World Trade Center (2006)
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: realistic, factual, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, disaster, firefighter, 9/11, twin towers, survival, terrorist, war on terror, natural disaster, heroes, courage, al qaeda ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2006, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 18K
Earthquake (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, survival, catastrophe, danger, national guard, end of the world, love triangle, forces of nature, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 98K
The Guardian (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
Style: inspirational, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ocean, coast guard, lifeguard, rescue, military, survival, training, friendship, daring rescue, aviation, swimming, military training ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: alaska, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy happens to a firehouse in Austin, Owen, along with ...
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, medical drama ...
Plot: fire department, gay, firefighter, lgbt, redemption, disorder, lgbtq, rescue, medical, friendship, father son relationship, adaptation ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 7K
The Tower (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, skyscraper, firefighter, catastrophe, fire, survival, tower, rescue, trapped, christmas, danger, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 2K
No Escapes (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come ...
Style: intense, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, suspense
Plot: firefighting, natural disaster, fire, forest fire, friendship between men, bravery, rescue, mentor, machismo, race against time, friends, heroism ...
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100%
 5.9
 76K
Daylight (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 44K
9-1-1 (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: medicine, firefighter, emergency, 911, misadventure, saving a life, medical, life risking, daring rescue, search and rescue, fire brigade, ambulance ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 81K
Volcano (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time: year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
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: exciting, suspense, tense, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
10%
 3.7
 2K
Avalanche (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, avalanche, snow, rescue, natural disaster, ski, survival, catastrophe, ski resort, winter, danger, skating ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 71K
Into the Storm (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The town of Silverton is in one day destroyed by the unprecedented power of a series of tornadoes. The population is at the mercy of the unpredictable and deadly cyclones, while hunters warn that the worst is yet to come. Most people find shelter, ...
Style: stylized, talky, exciting, apocalyptic, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, tornado, escapades, survival, end of the world, catastrophe, high school, redemption, panic, weather, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 4.4
 2K
City on Fire (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: disaster, fire, firefighter, revenge, arson, natural disaster, rescue, trapped, city, firefight, canuxploitation, firefighting ...
Time: year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
 12K
Airport 1975 (1974)
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, psychotronic, suspense, psychological, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, disaster, airport, survival, aviation, catastrophe, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, airplane accident, death, police officer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: los angeles, salt lake city utah, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Finest Hours (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place: new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 31K
Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: natural disaster, father, hurricane katrina, newborn baby, hurricane, evacuation, hospital, race against time, childbirth, exhaustion, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
High-Rise Rescue (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An emotionally gripping family action drama about a mother who will do whatever it takes to save her family.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, rescue, firefighter, trapped, mother, fire, trap, problem, life is a bitch, family in danger, marriage crisis, relationship vs career ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, climate, apocalypse, hitman, assassination attempt, warning, battles, survival, heroes, media ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.9
 343
Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.7
 5K
13 Minutes (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, bad weather, tornado, aftermath, destruction, rescue, race against time, family relations, hiding place, small town, survival ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.7
 919
Out of Inferno (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.
Style: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: firefighter, disaster, escapades, danger, society, survival, saving a life, firefight, team, partner, climate, emergency ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.8
 4K
Firestorm (1998)
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: cliffhanger, anamorphic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, prison, firefighter, firefight, natural disaster, fire, hostage, survival, fugitives, forest fire, violence, firefighting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 24K
Fearless (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another ...
Style: emotional, uplifting, serious, spiritual, cerebral ...
Plot: guilt, survival, dealing with death, life & death, existentialism, loneliness, rescue, confession, loss of son, family relations, starting over, human nature ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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