Movies like Turbulence
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Turbulence (1997)
13K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, intense, tense, serious, suspense, christmas horror, scary, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
airplane, christmas, stewardess, hijacking, airplane accident, murder, disaster, aviation, serial killer, danger, pilot, die hard, shootout, police officer, aircraft, xmas, obsession, brutality, airport, survival, fbi, fbi agent, fear, holiday horror, strangulation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Most similar movies to Turbulence
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about danger, airplane, chases and races, disaster, hostage, race against time and heroes mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Turbulence: Non-Stop (2014), Sonic Impact (1999), Executive Decision (1996), Drop Zone (1994), Paintball (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
286K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
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, twist ending, action thriller, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, airplane, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, danger, resourceful, terrorist, mind game, aviation, save the day ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, iceland, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Style:
serious, suspense, independent film, fast, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, rescue, tough heroes, aviation, disaster, one man army, daring rescue, heroes, danger, save the day, forces of nature, airport ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A dangerous criminal hijacks a plane with his fellow prisoners and threatens to crash it into a populated area. The agent who captured him sets out to stop him.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
hijacking, airplane hijack, die hard, airplane, hostage, law enforcement, daring rescue, confined, danger, special agent, abduction, federal bureau of investigation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
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:
suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, hostage, hijacking, rescue, terrorist, airplane accident, special forces, hand to hand combat, ransom, bomb, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Music, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Rock superstar Slade Craven has decided to hang up his rock & roll shoes and has planned something very special for his final show -- instead of a typical concert in some sports arena, he'll play a set aboard a 747 jumbo jet, flying from ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, terrorist, aviation, one man army, rescue, danger, daring rescue, escapades, law enforcement, heroic mission, concert ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
colorado, kansas, usa, canada, los angeles
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100%
23K
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, suspense, intense, serious, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parachuting, terrorism, skydiving, terrorist, chase, parachute, heroes, danger, hijacking, race against time, airplane hijack, aviation ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eight strangers engaged in an intense game of experts-only paintball find their friendly game taking a terrifying turn when one member of the team begins playing by a different set of rules. It started as a remote raw battle of wits and wiles set ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
masked man, contests and competitions, danger, game of death, female fighter, escapades, wilderness, manhunt, sniper, hunter, female fight, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A night in Los Angeles becomes a psychological war for survival when an Uber driver, James, and his passenger, Jessica, pick up Bruno, who is charismatic but manipulative.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
night, passenger, taxi, hostage, danger, couples, hostage situation, psychopath, society, struggle for survival, driver, actor ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
243
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Matteo Juarez is a retired detective hired by a local businessman to follow his wife Jennifer. She has a split personality and seems to be putting herself in danger without knowing it.
Style:
independent film, ambiguous ending, neo noir
Plot:
true love, doomed romance, woman seduces a man, multiple personality disorder, taken hostage, criminal conspiracy, doppelganger, deception, psychological trauma, shooting, interracial relations, femme fatale ...
Similarity:
100%
165K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting ...
Style:
psychological thriller, intense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hitman, kidnapping, hostage, woman in danger, villain, airport, fear, strong female lead, stewardess, conspiracy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
miami, dallas texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, airplane, hijacking, airport, terrorist, escape, fbi, airplane hijack, aviation, courage, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
louisiana, florida, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Style:
sexy, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, save the day, danger, secret agent, hijacking, confined, rivalry, air disaster, murder, police officer, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, flight attendant, heroes, heroic mission, confined, danger, pilot, die hard, airplane, space, aviation, airport ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hijacking, airplane, strong violent content, terrorism, terrorist, one man army, danger, heroes, aviation, muslim, hijacker, flight attendant ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
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:
29%
405K
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:
exciting, clever, suspense, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
gunfight, airplane, christmas, fight scenes, airport, police, hostage, one man army, airplane accident, chase, lone hero, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, washington state, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A flight attendant has to deal with a supernatural event when passengers on her plane start to die one at a time.
Style:
suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, suspense, action thriller
Plot:
aviation, crew, death, airplane accident, survival, paranormal phenomena, ghost, father daughter relationship, stewardess, survivor, selfishness, pilot ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, suspense, detective, erotic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police protection, hostage, conspiracy, female lawyer, chase, gunfight, sex scene, car chase, lawyer, female killer, female assassin, lust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex cop, murder, psychopath, investigation, femme fatale, rivalry, police detective, police, revenge, police officer, serial killer, xmas ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
1.0M
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, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
50%
949
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, disaster, danger, aviation, rivalry, chases and races, escapades, law enforcement, undercover, airport, insubordination ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
488
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:
terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, confined, save the day, danger, race against time, heroes, law enforcement, die hard, terrorist plot, terrorist group ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
27%
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.
Similarity:
26%
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420K
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
Similarity:
26%
24K
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
Place:
chicago, rome italy, minnesota, detroit, milwaukee wisconsin ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, daring rescue, rescue, save the day, heroes, danger, tough heroes, master criminal, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
unfaithful, killer, male male relationship, terminator, murder, hitman, police investigation, mysterious character, danger, crumbling marriage, on the run, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, cuba, seattle, washington d.c.
Similarity:
25%
20K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, yakuza, tough girl, female warrior, strong female lead, sex slave, vigilante, woman kills a man, gangster, female protagonist, german shepherd, gang rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stalking, survival, on the run, isolation, rivalry, confined, danger, master criminal, frame up, terror, panic, automobile ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Croatia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm the deadly device. Ten tons of steel and one ounce of hot plutonium are now riding roughshod ...
Style:
suspense, fast, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, railway, hijacking, 007, fugitives, spy, subway, covert operation, gulf war, die hard, scientist, mercenary ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
iraq, russia, europe, soviet union, iran ...
Similarity:
25%
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