Movies like The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
 6.4
 207K
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, intense, rough, realistic, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hostage, caper, heist, hijacking, terrorism, kidnapping, chase, passenger, survival, fbi, brutality, police investigation, ransom, robbery, underground, master criminal, mind game, confined, save the day, wrong place wrong time, kidnapped, chases and races, danger, financial driven terrorism ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, reboot, take over, change

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Most similar movies to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, realistic and serious films with plots about murder, death, shot to death, chases and races, gun, pistol and police officer mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: Cellular (2004), The Negotiator (1998), Speed (1994), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Unstoppable (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cellular (2004)
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, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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100%
 7.3
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The Negotiator (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, police, corruption, police corruption, false accusation, conspiracy, negotiation, frame up, swat, uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 389K
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: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: hostage, bomb, danger, terrorism, trapped, bus, terrorist, save the day, unlikely partners, chase, rescue, on the road ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Unstoppable (2010)
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: breathtaking, serious, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: train, runaway train, disaster, train crash, chase, save the day, train engineer, train wreck, race against time, determination, survival, courage ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america
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73%
 6.5
 196K
Swordfish (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: heist, computer hacker, hacker, hostage, bank robbery, spy, terrorism, computer, surveillance, father daughter relationship, hot and sexy, ex convict ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, monte carlo, usa, malibu california, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
From Paris with Love (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig, working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with ...
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, spy, terrorism, chase, heroic mission, embassy, danger, one man army, shootout, twists and turns, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, grim, tense, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: heist, subway, train, murder, runaway train, hostage, gangster, terrorism, railway, cop, mayor, criminal ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Phone Booth (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, psychopath, sniper, trapped, mind game, murder, dishonesty, hopes, sin, characters in danger, plot twist, claustrophobia ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Last Passenger (2013)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hijacking, danger, confined, chases and races, vengeance, family relations, race against time, negotiation, group of strangers, mind game, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
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The Siege (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.
Style: suspense, political, intense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, cia, martial law, lone hero, siege, fbi, conspiracy theory, military, spy, espionage, civil rights, president ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 66K
Basic (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, twisted, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, military, army investigation, life philosophy, corruption, secrets, murder mystery, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, plot twist, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic city, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 224K
2 Guns (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover, heist, organized crime, cia, money, working undercover, corruption, foe turned friend, conspiracy, robbery, mafia, investigation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Ronin (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, car chase, mafia, cia, mercenary, car, undercover, caper, chase, shootout, ira, secret agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Death Train (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, train, on the run, save the day, hostage, danger, undercover, gunfight, die hard, hijacking, railway, subway ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 158K
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: heist, robbery, twists and turns, thief, caper, swat team, mind game, conspiracy, investigation, nypd, perfect crime, betrayal ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Safe House (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, secret service, secret agent, on the run, gunfight, cia agent, betrayal, conspiracy, mercenary, corruption, rogue agent ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Entrapment (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Style: suspense, sexy, exciting, clever, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: heist, burglar, robbery, perfect crime, art thief, caper, art theft, older man younger woman relationship, blackmail, career criminal, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, y2k
Place: usa, malaysia, manhattan new york city, china, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ransom (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, reward, child in peril, police corruption, millionaire, child abduction, rescue, ransom, kidnapped, danger, forced into action ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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Hostage (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, home invasion, hostage negotiator, twists and turns, organized crime, one man army, police investigation, fbi, swat team, kidnapped, rescue ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 387K
The Italian Job (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, ...
Style: suspense, clever, exciting, action packed, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: heist, caper, robbery, car chase, vengeance, mentor, bank robbery, chase, perfect crime, gold, revenge, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, philadelphia, los angeles, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Face/Off (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, stylized, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, revenge, prison, fbi, transformation, violence, master criminal, hidden identity, switching bodies, murder, undercover, death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 51K
Passenger 57 (1992)
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, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, hostage, airplane, hijacking, airport, terrorist, motorcycle, evil man, aviation, fbi, danger, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, louisiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.2
 940K
Die Hard (1988)
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, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 37K
Sudden Death (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship ...
Style: suspense, intense, exciting, cliffhanger, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, hockey, martial arts, one man army, die hard, fight scenes, explosions, terrorist, ice hockey, kidnapping, assassination ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 10K
Narrow Margin (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hitman, witness protection, mafia, testimony, police investigation, chase, district attorney, organized crime, gangster, uncover truth, train travel ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, canada, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 37K
Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 6K
The Nest (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial ...
Style: tense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, siege, gangster, police investigation, hostage, master criminal, race against time, vengeance, partner, rivalry, crime gone awry, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 276K
Non-Stop (2014)
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: suspense, clever, detective, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: airplane, twists and turns, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, danger, terrorist, save the day, hijacking, investigation, mind game, heroes ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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