Movies like Steel Sharks

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Steel Sharks (1997)
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Steel Sharks (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Submarine crews wage a silent war beneath the waves in this undersea thriller.
Style: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, die hard, ocean, heroes, military, hostage, battles, terrorism, rescue, profanity, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, danger, confined, daring rescue, underwater, violent content, terrorist, violence, shooting, group, shark, graphic violence, stabbed in the back ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: ocean or sea

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Most similar movies to Steel Sharks

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about danger, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, terrorism, deadly and escapades mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Steel Sharks: Dead Men Can't Dance (1997), The Human Shield (1991), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), Bulletproof (1987), Marines (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their ...
Style: independent film, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: violent content, danger, military, escapades, heroic mission, undercover, chases and races, heroes, daring rescue, female nudity, shootout, sergeant ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Human Shield (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, danger, terrorism, heroes, military, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, brother brother relationship, rescue mission, revenge ...
Time: 90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place: iraq, middle east, iran, jordan, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: cavalry, soldier, terrorism, battles, weapon system, medical school, rivalry, heroes, escapades, chases and races, rescue, military ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 4.9
 1K
Bulletproof (1987)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, kidnapping, terrorist plot, danger, daring rescue, heroes, one man army, love interest, terrorist, rescue, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 3.6
 405
Marines (2003)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, marine, military life, rivalry, danger, military, conflict, soldier, violent content, battles, heroic mission, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.3
 2K
Blast (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, nemesis, die hard, janitor, heroes, swimming pool, swimmer, psychopath, danger, chases and races, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.8
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Interceptor (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A U.S. Air Force officer tries to stop a murderous group of terrorists whom are trying to steal two top secret F-117A Stealth Fighters from the cargo hold of a gigantic C-5 Galaxy Transport flying at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, aviation, die hard, terrorism, heroes, profanity, violent content, officers and cadets, danger, rivalry, save the day, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Sector 4: Extraction (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action - When an elite band of private mercenaries known as Black Knight gets caught behind enemy lines in a Middle East combat zone, their only hope for survival lies with the team leader, who has escaped but vows to return. - Salman Bokhari, ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, danger, captivity, rivalry, profanity, escapades, tough heroes, heroes, war, wartime, violent content, one man army ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Warriors (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: top secret, terrorism, awol, soldier, battles, on the run, rivalry, chase, heroes, prostitute, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.0
 329
Raging Inferno (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fire breaks out in the Berlin Fernsehturm (Radio Tower) trapping several people in the restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former member, rush to the rescue as chaos erupts among the trapped.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fire, danger, survival, race against time, daring rescue, evacuation, heroes, confined, restaurant, disaster, elevator, firefighter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.3
 737
Air Rage (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, fast ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, save the day, daring rescue, hostage, rivalry, danger, government agency, air disaster, hijacking, die hard, escape ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 2.5
 292
Urgency (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, rescue, confined, ultimatum, abduction, uncover truth, rivalry, kidnapping, sexual content, chases and races, profanity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.1
 279
Border Lost (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, illegal immigration, partner, danger, escapades, government agency, heroes, desert, daring rescue, immigrant, immigration, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.3
 556
Depth Charge (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jason Gedrick and Eric Roberts lead the cast of this thriller about a submarine captain who attempts to hold Washington, D.C. hostage for a billion dollars, and the heroic doctor who struggles to thwart the plan before the situation escalates.
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: submarine, confined, hostage, save the world, danger, terrorism, good versus evil, state affairs, save the day, nuclear threat, blackmail, extortion ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Escape Under Pressure (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A luxury cruise liner is requisitioned by the Greek government in an attempt to give safe passage to national treasures worth millions of pounds. The liner is attacked by an art collector who finds out about the plan. During the hijack the liner ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: confined, treasure hunt, rescue, chases and races, race against time, rivalry, heroes, one man army, escapades, obsessive quest, danger, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A ship captained by the father (Dale Dye) of the leader (Michael McGrady) of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist, hostage, admiral, terrorism, submarine, boat, cavalry, die hard, cruise ship, captain, tough heroes, leadership ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Peacekeeper (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, fast, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, nuclear threat, chase, secret agent, law enforcement, government agency, state affairs, daring rescue, save the day, danger, heroic mission, hostage ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c., chicago, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
 4.1
 437
Hijack (1998)
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: train, terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, danger, heroes, confined, law enforcement, race against time, save the day, die hard, terrorist plot ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 3.7
 428
Desert Thunder (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Terrorists threaten to launch a missile armed with deadly disease at Europe. A special unit is put together to stop them.
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: world war, terrorism, military, bar fight, profanity, escapades, danger, heroes, heroic mission, aerial combats, violent content, bio weapon ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
American Tigers (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Terrorists from all countries are to be reunited in order to join forces against their governments. The USA army notice it. A group of assassins, waiting in jail to be executed by firing squad get the chance to be exonerated if they participate in ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, intergender wrestling, violence, mixed martial arts, partner, tough heroes, heroes, rivalry, military, escapades, partners against crime, terrorism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The 5th Execution (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, serious ...
Plot: danger, plague, soldier, daring rescue, island, battles, speculation, chases and races, race against time, heroes, rivalry, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Counter Measures (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: US Navy medical officer Jake Fuller is assigned to a goodwill visit aboard a Russian submarine. But he and his companion, Lt. Swain, end up alone among terrorists, who have taken over the submarine and threaten to fire its nuclear weapons.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, terrorism, die hard, disaster, boat, ambassador, u.s. navy, sex scene, terrorist, terrorist plot, violent content, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Crash Dive (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, boat, die hard, tough heroes, water, disaster, hijacking, terrorism, military life, heroic mission, heroes, save the day ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Ancient Warriors (2003)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, death, danger, vengeance, escapades, bio weapon, save the day, imaginary, master warrior, heroes, chase, cave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 2.8
 282
The Vanquisher (2009)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, hitman, secret agent, save the day, escapades, danger, law enforcement, undercover, heroes, women, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 3.7
 1K
Deadwater (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a WWII-era battleship, reactivated and deployed in the Persian Gulf for black-op interrogations, falls radio silent, an elite Marine task force, along with an NCIS investigator and two scientists, are sent to investigate. When the Marines ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: military, danger, survival, world war two, undercover, ship, ghost, escapades, battles, rescue, battleship, eye ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Demolition University (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College students on a field trip encounter terrorists planning to poison the city's water supply.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, college, poison, die hard, monster, hostage, veteran, confined, athlete's life, heroes, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.9
 593
First Shot (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cliffhanger ...
Plot: terrorism, gunfight, undercover, save the day, special agent, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, renegade, woman with a gun, die hard, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Demolition High (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a group of terrorists (led by Luther) take over a high school making the students in it their hostages, it is up to several of the students (led by Lenny) to help prevent disaster while the authorities (Slater and General Wainwright) do their ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: hostage, high school, die hard, monster, school, teenager, student, one woman army, soldier, rivalry, heroes, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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