Movies like Speed
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Speed (1994)
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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 a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's still not the end.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, romantic, clever, road movie, breathtaking, ridiculous, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
hostage, suspense, bomb, bus, terrorism, unlikely partners, save the day, chase, rescue, terrorist, highway, police officer, twists and turns, swat team, trapped, vengeance, survival, car chase, bomb squad, law enforcement, collision, truck, kidnapping, car, master criminal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Speed
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, entertaining, exciting and serious films with plots about gun, revenge, chase, vengeance, mentor, dialogue and catastrophe mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Speed: Die Hard (1988), Con Air (1997), Air Force One (1997), Unstoppable (2010), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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894K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, clever, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, manly
Plot:
hostage, gunfight, heist, tough guy, terrorist, christmas, police officer, one man army, police, terrorism, robbery, villain ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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100%
305K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching ...
Style:
exciting, serious, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
airplane, prison, hijacking, master criminal, suspense, convict, aviation, prison escape, law enforcement, machismo, air disaster, confined ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada, north america, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
201K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, 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:
exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, hostage, secret service, terrorism, white house, hijacking, terrorist, conspiracy, head of state, president, usa president, suspense ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c., afghanistan, germany, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
201K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, runaway train, train crash, race against time, chase, disaster, save the day, suspense, train engineer, train wreck, determination, partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, north america, pittsburgh, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, intense, buddy movie, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, police officer, heist, terrorism, police, bomb, twists and turns, lone hero, race against time, car chase, revenge, suspense ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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John Wick related movies
133K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style:
serious, intense, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, climbing, rocky mountains, mountain climbing, mountain, rock climbing, rescue, hostage, villain, suspense, wilderness, survival ...
Time:
20th century, future, 80s, 90s
Place:
colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hacker, gunfight, terrorism, police officer, tough cop, geek, lone hero, technology, hacking, computer hacker, car chase, fbi ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, maryland, los angeles, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
650K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style:
exciting, stylized, neo noir, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
vengeance, hitman, revenge, vigilante, gangsters, gunfight, assassin, lone hero, one man army, killer, dog, tough guy ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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103K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, race against time, cell phone, home invasion, hostage, psychopath, police corruption, conspiracy, murder, twists and turns, lone hero, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
101K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, betrayal, mexican standoff, train, desert, race against time, escapades, fighter jet, rivalry, airplane, suspense, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, hong kong, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Taken related movies
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:
intense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, u.s. navy, terrorism, terrorist plot, suspense, one man army, lone hero, violence, mercenary, one against many, terrorist, hostage ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, 80s
Place:
new jersey, san francisco, hawaii, pentagon, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, sexy, buddy movie ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
swat team, police, law enforcement, partners, basic training, police brutality, sniper, tough law enforcer, hostage, squad, chase, violence ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, north america, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
368K
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:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, clever, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
gunfight, airplane, christmas, fight scenes, chase, airport, police, terrorism, lone hero, fight, suspense, one man army ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles, california, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hostage, rescue, suspense, surveillance, hijacking, bomb, twists and turns, terrorist, ransom, pilot ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
pentagon, washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
344K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 ...
Style:
tense, exciting, entertaining, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
terrorism, alcatraz, suspense, prison, twists and turns, military, gunfight, car chase, escape, hostage, swat team, disney ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Movies similar to Olympus Has Fallen
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hijacking, hostage, heist, suspense, terrorism, twists and turns, caper, race against time, kidnapping, chase, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, parachuting, hijacking, terrorist, suspense, chase, airplane hijack, heroes, race against time, track down, skydiving ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
268K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
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:
suspenseful, tense, clever, exciting, tricky ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, air disaster, twists and turns, suspense, special agents, save the day, hostage, terrorist, investigation, hijacking, mind game ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, usa, new york, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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, thought provoking, humorous, campy, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, terrorist, martial arts, terrorism, military, railway, suspense, violent, disaster, satellite, psychopath, train crash ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, pentagon, denver colorado, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric star as a young couple whose dream cruise turns to terror when a lunatic computer genius (Willem Dafoe) sets a new course for destruction.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, ridiculous ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
cruise, cruise ship, ocean liner, boat, ship, suspense, disaster, happy ending, heroes, one man army, race against time, bomb ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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San Andreas similar movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, chase, race against time, hostage, master criminal, save the day, police investigation, daring rescue, unlikely partners, confined, reluctant partners, investigation ...
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hostage, airport, hijacking, martial arts, suspense, motorcycle, tough guy, terrorist, fight, one man army ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, florida, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
170K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe ...
Style:
exciting, road movie, serious, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
car chase, car, martial arts, one man army, chase, tough guy, murder, fistfight, tough heroes, fight, driving, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, budapest, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, terrorist, terrorism, female fighter, cia, woman with a gun, female fight, prison escape, femme fatale, secret agents, undercover, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
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:
entertaining, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, corruption, conspiracy, fight, environmental, oil, revenge, brutality, justice, vigilante, heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: 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:
exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover cop, murder, suspense, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really twisted when Mason discovers the group isn't after wild animals ...
Style:
harsh, rough, suspenseful, exciting, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
manhunt, survival, human prey, suspense, most dangerous game, homeless, psychopath, chase, hunting, brutality, death, mountain ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
116K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style:
harsh, twist ending, tense, brutal, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, dirty cop, police, violence, gunfight, corruption, undercover cop, suspense, police investigation, gangsters, vigilantism, twists and turns ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, future dystopia, crime fighter, utopia, dystopic future, time travel, maverick cop, police, violence, good versus evil, surveillance ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, tense, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, mission, secret agents, double agent, gunfight, cia, suspense, terrorism, disguise, undercover, heist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
china, italy, shanghai, berlin germany, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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