Movies like Unstoppable

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Unstoppable (2010)
 6.8
 207K
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 chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
Style: breathtaking, serious, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, dramatic, captivating, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: train, runaway train, disaster, train crash, chase, save the day, train engineer, train wreck, race against time, determination, survival, courage, danger, passenger, chases and races, partner, characters in danger, unstoppable, railway, resourceful, black, heroism, near death experience, car accident, american history ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america, california, united states of america
Keyword: partners, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting and serious films with plots about danger, race against time, chases and races, death, murder, disaster and pistol mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Unstoppable: Speed (1994), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), Deepwater Horizon (2016), White House Down (2013), Cellular (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 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%
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 ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hostage, caper, heist, hijacking, terrorism, kidnapping, chase, passenger, brutality, police investigation, fbi ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
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White House Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is ...
Style: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: secret service, terrorism, president, white house, save the day, conspiracy, treason, hostage, rescue, nuclear threat, head of state, siege ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., north america, pentagon, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 105K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Domenic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, undercover cop, car, chase, car race, street racing, drag racing, chases and races, gang, heist, undercover, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 125K
The Commuter (2018)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, China, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
Style: exciting, surprise ending, tense, suspense, detective ...
Plot: train, conspiracy, train station, fight, blood, police, attempted murder, witness, deception, destruction, cop, train crash ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 1K
Red Line (2013)
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 ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, train, survival, tunnel, subway, escapades, danger, bomb, trapped, die hard, train crash, underground ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.5
 81K
Volcano (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time: year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 33K
Runaway Train (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style: road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: train, survival, runaway train, prison, prisoner, wilderness, snow, chases and races, violence, winter, fugitives, train crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Life on the Line (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crew of men who do the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: electrician, electricity, heroism, disaster, storm, workplace problem, life risking, workplace situations, worker, man versus nature, courage, danger ...
Time: year 1999, 2010s, 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
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, suspense, action adventure, action drama, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, terrorism, martial arts, terrorist, military, hostage, railway, die hard, disaster, 007, violent, one man army ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.6
 195K
Eagle Eye (2008)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: surveillance, artificial intelligence, chase, mysterious character, investigation, technology gone awry, life turned upside down, computers and web, fugitives, chases and races, imaginary, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2008, near future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., afghanistan, chicago, indianapolis indiana, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 320K
The Transporter (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, tough heroes, fight scenes, escapades, car, smuggling ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, europe, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Disaster on the Coastliner (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Seeking revenge, a railroad employee puts two passenger trains on a collision course in this made-for-TV disaster movie.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: runaway train, railway, train, train crash, subway, vigilante, stranger on a train, die hard, vigilante justice, police, race against time, collision ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Atomic Train (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 122 min.
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Story: A train headed for Denver carrying nuclear waste and toxic materials is en route for disaster when it becomes a runaway. Renegade investigator and train enthusiast John Seger jumps on board in a bid to save thousand of innocent lives...
Style: fast, serious, bleak, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, disaster, runaway train, train crash, natural disaster, railway, race against time, nuclear bomb, die hard, terrorism, subway, pandemic ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 405K
Fast Five (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de ...
Style: exciting, action packed, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car race, car, on the run, racing, organized crime, street racing, tough heroes, freedom, classic car ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil, iran, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 413K
Furious 7 (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan, Canada, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
Style: exciting, entertaining, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: chases and races, revenge, car chase, car, race, chase, car race, racing, danger, street racing, classic car, funeral ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, tokyo, dominican republic, los angeles, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national ...
Style: exciting, rough, political thriller, serious, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, daring rescue, u.s. president, politics, secret agent, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, north korea, north america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 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
Place: cape town south africa, africa, south africa, iran, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 326K
Deja Vu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, confusing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, date night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, terrorism, deja vu, time, police investigation, danger, changing the past or future, parallel universe, shooting ...
Time: year 2006, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues ...
Style: clever, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surveillance, chase, artificial intelligence, computers and web, computer system, technology gone awry, on the run, conspiracy, casino, plot twist, secret service, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, washington d.c., czech republic, prague, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 382K
Die Hard 2 (1990)
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: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: gunfight, christmas, airplane, fight scenes, airport, one man army, police, hostage, terrorism, lone hero, chase, commando ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: washington d.c., washington state, virginia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Finest Hours (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place: new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 78K
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 ⇓
50%
 7.7
 387K
Man on Fire (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save ...
Style: suspense, tense, brutal, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, kidnapping, vengeance, vigilante, cia, vigilantism, friendship, mercenary, lone hero, redemption, justice, child in peril ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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