Movies like Rollercoaster

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Rollercoaster (1977)
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Rollercoaster (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a hard time to the cops after they give him UV marked money. He then wants revenge and places a bomb in a roller coaster at the most important amusement park event of the year.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, talky, intense, rough, serious, realistic, exciting, fast ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: amusement park, disaster, terrorism, terrorist, murder, police investigation, natural disaster, conspiracy theory, psychopath, law enforcement, master criminal, survival, bomb, investigator, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, serial killer, violence, fbi agent, chase, airport, greed, death, destruction, sabotage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: virginia, los angeles, pittsburgh, richmond virginia, chicago, california, american

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Most similar movies to Rollercoaster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and rough films with plots about death, chase, catastrophe, dialogue, runaway, mentor and gun mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Rollercoaster: The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), Airport 1975 (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), Shoot to Kill (1988), Hard Rain (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
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 ...
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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, 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
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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: 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
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Shoot to Kill (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style: intense, serious, realistic, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, manhunt, hostage, chase, fbi, horse, kidnapping, conspiracy, police ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, seattle, san francisco, vancouver
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Hard Rain (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close ...
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, evacuation, rain, small town, heist, flood, money, chase, redemption, justice, armored car ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: indiana, new orleans, california
Similarity:
100%
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, train, terrorism, race against time, plague, survival, railway, train crash, quarantine, undercover, train wreck, disease ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, 1930s
Place: poland, europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland ...
Similarity:
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Nighthawks (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, hostage, chase, tough law enforcer, stewardess, terrorist, master criminal, danger, fighting crime, working undercover, violence ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa, north america, manhattan new york city ...
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Speed (1994)
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
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Blown Away (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, revenge, terrorist, psychopath, bomb squad, brutality, stalking, marriage proposal, anarchist, danger, investigation, race against time ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s, year 1992
Place: boston, ireland, usa, northern ireland, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
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Juggernaut (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bomber has planted 7 bombs on a transatlantic cruise ship. While a crack bomb squad team try to defuse the bombs the police attempt to track down the mad bomber.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: terrorism, shipwreck, ship, disaster, cruise, cruise ship, ransom, sea, ocean, espionage, brutality, passenger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, atlantic ocean, scotland yard, london, scotland
Similarity:
60%
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, kids, girls' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, ocean liner, race against time, underwater, sea disaster, cruise ship, sea, sinking ship, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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She Rides Shotgun (2025)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her ...
Style: detective, intense, f word, tragic
Plot: 11 year old girl, school, dog, shootout, daughter, father, prison gang, on the run, father daughter relationship, estranged daughter, father and daughter, young girl ...
Place: new mexico
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Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover, prison, murder, organized crime, revenge, investigation, redemption, vengeance, tough heroes, one last job, crime boss, ex convict ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Oxygen (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, detective ...
Plot: masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, lost in the woods, police detective, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, race against time, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, miami, usa, san francisco, new jersey
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In the Line of Fire (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, intense, exciting, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: secret service, assassination attempt, obsession, hitman, assassination of president, assassination plot, killer, election, conspiracy, assassin, gunfight, president ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., california, los angeles, usa, phoenix arizona ...
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The Cutter (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former cop turned Los Angeles P.I. takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning of mob to the present day Jewelry District.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, one man army, rescue, chase, missing person, martial arts, daring rescue, police investigation, tough heroes, escapades, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Place: germany, europe, los angeles, usa, vienna ...
Similarity:
48%
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 3K
Skyjacked (1972)
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:
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Airport '77 (1977)
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.
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, car chase, police, terrorist, investigation, murder, male pubic hair, vigilante, hitman, undercover, police investigation, vengeance ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, southern california, usa, california
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Madigan (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes ...
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, police, police detective, psychopath, fugitive, informant, anti hero, police procedural, hierarchy, police commissioner, extramarital affair, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, new york
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The Rookie (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: chase, police investigation, pitbull, buddy cop, reluctant partners, buddy, car, car chase, buddies, partner, danger, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, san francisco, california
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Blue Steel (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Nick of Time (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, clever, suspense ...
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White Sands (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: neo noir, suspense, harsh, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: new mexico, new jersey
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Airport (1970)
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
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Hero and the Terror (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has ...
Style: suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, suspense, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, murder, cannon, police investigation, brutality, violence, death, hospital, investigation, chase, ship, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
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Chaos (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
Style: exciting, surprise ending, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, police detective, bank robbery, police investigation, hostage, brutality, gangster, dirty cop, vengeance, conspiracy, corruption, buddy cop ...
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Rapid Fire (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Style: exciting, cult classic, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens
Plot: martial arts, gangster, police investigation, violent, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, murder ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
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The Devil's Own (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, political, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, murder, terrorist, assassin, friendship, police investigation, tragic event, vengeance, betrayal, revenge, devil ...
Time: 90s, year 1972, 70s, year 1992
Place: northern ireland, ireland, new york, bronx new york city, europe ...
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15 Minutes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, brutal, tense, intense ...
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Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, eastern europe
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