Movies like Standoff 1998
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Standoff (1998)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The FBI and Texas police make ready to storm the headquarters of a heavily armed sect of religious fanatics. But the operation goes horribly wrong and a couple of agents seek protection at an abandoned farm. But they are not the only ones there.
Style:
exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
siege, terrorism, conspiracy, disaster, home invasion, farm, cult, fanatic, survival, escapades, society, government agency, religions or cults, special agents, escape, fbi, confined, raid, flashback, danger, deadly, special agent, adventure
Time:
90s
Place:
texas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and realistic films with plots about deadly, danger, confined, chases and races, rivalry, escapades and murder mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Standoff: The Cursed (2000), Red Line (2013), Nowhere to Land (2000), Countdown (1996), White Wall (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
escaped mental patient, hostage, unlikely criminals, confined, daring rescue, escapades, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation, down on your luck, gunfight ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Terrified commuters are on the ride of their lives when terrorists send a subway train speeding out of control during rush hour. With the saboteur among them, a group of citizens are now trapped underground and in a race against time if they hope to ...
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exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
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train, survival, terrorism, terrorist, tunnel, race against time, confined, escapades, bomb, trapped, nature, underground ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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83%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, save the day, special agents, law enforcement, heroes, air disaster, race against time, disaster, ex husband ex wife relationship, aviation, airplane, airport ...
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Place:
usa, australia, california, new south wales, oceania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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286
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, obsession, terrorism, reluctant partners, police investigation, manhunt, special agents, track down, race against time, partners, crime gone awry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of ...
Style:
serious, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chaos, life is a bitch, society, survival, rivalry, future dystopia, escapades, heroes, secret, post apocalypse, virus, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting
Plot:
trapped in space, terrorism, space, survival, spacecraft, rescue, escapades, space and aliens, disaster, murder, evil corporation, natural disaster ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of childhood friends return to their former hometown to revisit the horrors that happened there 15 years ago.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychological thriller
Plot:
riddles and clues, religions or cults, clergy, supernatural, society, high school, small town, murder, preacher, abduction, kidnapping, ocean ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, daring rescue, missing person, race against time, survival, crime gone awry, rivalry, confined, escapades, ransom, abduction ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call find themselves kidnapped by a religious sect whose great obsession is to stop the end of the world by committing suicide and killing people.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary
Plot:
rescue, mind game, psychopath, religions or cults, race against time, confined, rivalry, on the run, mentally unstable, supernatural, leadership, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders ...
Style:
slasher, serious, realistic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, bad mother, investigation, escape, murder, confined, law enforcement, lethal injection, prison, family life, execution ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seven strangers find themselves unwitting participants in a U.S. government evacuation program gone horribly wrong.
Style:
mysterious, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
airplane, confined, twists and turns, group of strangers, post apocalypse, trapped, survival, apocalypse, suspense, mind game, nature, trapped in a room ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
457
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, race against time, psychopath, confined, gang, rivalry, daring rescue, parents and children, serial killer, murderous pair, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, survival, ghost, confined, escapades, curses spells and rituals, media, tv show, terror, nature, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
423
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A bank robber and his hostage spend the night in a hotel where they are visited by a man who sends the story on an unexpected path full of twists and turns.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
An office worker is trapped inside the building where a killer is on the loose.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
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43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
gang, murder, bus, psychopath, survival, vengeance, rivalry, chase, escapades, biker, suspense, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, race against time, rescue, save the day, politics, heroes, secret agents, government agency, law enforcement, special agents ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Style:
serious, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
vengeance, confined, rivalry, hostage, suspense, husband wife relationship, murder, fight, secret, abduction, kidnapping, supernatural power ...
Time:
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Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, mind bending, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Ben investigates the mysterious death of his sister, he is unaware that he is opening up a web of political intrigue. Ed Murphy, the White House Chief of Staff, becomes embroiled in a struggle to save the President from a humiliating scandal.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
637
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, society, rivalry, vengeance, state affairs, life is a bitch, terrorism, religions or cults ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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