Movies like Unstoppable
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Unstoppable (2010)
218K
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:
tense, exciting, breathtaking, serious, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, dramatic, captivating, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, runaway train, disaster, save the day, train crash, chase, train engineer, race against time, determination, freight train, courage, danger, passenger, train wreck, chases and races, partner, characters in danger, unstoppable, railway, black, heroism, near death experience, car accident, survival, american history ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america, california, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Unstoppable
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about danger, chase, death, catastrophe, dialogue, mentor and lone hero mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Unstoppable: Speed (1994), Deepwater Horizon (2016), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), White House Down (2013), The Fast and the Furious (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
94%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
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:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
train, hostage, subway, heist, runaway train, murder, gangster, terrorism, railway, cop, hostage situation, mayor ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, stylized, intense, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hostage, caper, heist, outsmarting, hijacking, terrorist, terrorism, passenger, chase, 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:
79%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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:
action thriller, breathtaking, action packed, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
secret service, terrorism, president, white house, save the day, treason, hostage, conspiracy, nuclear threat, head of state, child in peril, siege ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., paris france, pentagon, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
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, entertaining, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, family friendly, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
car, car chase, chase, street racing, car race, drag racing, chases and races, undercover cop, gang, robbery, undercover, working undercover ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, north america, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
81K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, race against time, tunnel, trapped, rescue, catastrophe, taxi driver, fire, self sacrifice, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
110K
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, sexy, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, cell phone, lone hero, violence, race against time, home invasion, kidnapped, telephone call, family in danger, psychopath, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, prison escape, survival, runaway train, escaped prisoner, escape, prison, violence, prisoner, wilderness, fugitives, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
100%
133K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, China, Canada, Spain
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:
surprise ending, tense, suspense, exciting, saga ...
Plot:
train, conspiracy, destruction, cop, deception, train station, police, witness, attempted murder, train crash, runaway train, die hard ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city
Similarity:
78%
437K
Genre: Action, 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:
entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
car, revenge, chase, chases and races, car chase, race, car race, danger, racing, street racing, amnesia, classic car ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
dominican republic, tokyo, los angeles, peru, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
hijacking, train, danger, confined, vengeance, chases and races, family relations, race against time, negotiation, group of strangers, mind game, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, terrorism, revenge, race against time, lone hero, heist, police, buddy cop, car chase, terrorist, police officer, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Similarity:
100%
269K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
prison, prison escape, revenge, outsmarting, escape plan, betrayal, resourceful, escape, prisoner, maximum security prison, prison break, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, usa, miami, new orleans, colorado ...
Similarity:
100%
430K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Japan
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, saga, action packed, fast, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, manly, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, chase, car, organized crime, car race, fast car, on the run, racing, street racing, tough heroes, violence ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, iran, latin america, monaco ...
Similarity:
100%
256K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Iceland, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, action thriller, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing
Plot:
spy, espionage, black ops, hitman, cia, chase, assassin, rogue agent, cia agent, secret service, one man army, assassination ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, berlin germany, washington d.c., reykjavik iceland, greece ...
Similarity:
100%
110K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, nuclear explosion, train, mexican standoff, fighter jet, female warrior, male male relationship, danger, escapades, chases and races, rivalry, aviation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
utah, usa, pentagon, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
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, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
Similarity:
100%
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461K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspense, brutal, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, corruption, hitman, assassin, one man army, gunfight, justice, lone hero, violence, loner, revenge ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, moscow russia, massachusetts, usa, russia
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
runaway train, railway, train, train crash, vigilante justice, die hard, vigilante, subway, stranger on a train, police, race against time, collision ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, serious, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, subway, tunnel, danger, escapades, bomb, trapped, train crash, die hard, underground, chases and races, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
71%
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, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
electrician, electricity, heroism, storm, workplace situations, workplace problem, worker, man versus nature, human spirit, bravery, friendship, danger ...
Time:
year 1999, 2010s, 90s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
100%
201K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, 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, serious, action thriller, intense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
chase, surveillance, artificial intelligence, mysterious character, investigation, technology gone awry, computers and web, intelligence, fugitives, law enforcement, hacking, hacker ...
Time:
year 2008, near future, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., afghanistan, chicago, indianapolis indiana, pentagon ...
Similarity:
80%
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274K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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:
intense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, tsunami, danger, earthquake, end of the world, daughter, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
Similarity:
60%
82K
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, thought provoking, intense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terrorism, cia, martial law, siege, fbi, conspiracy theory, lone hero, military, espionage, president, conspiracy, race against time ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, israel ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Robert McCall returns to deliver his special brand of vigilante justice -- but how far will he go when it's someone he loves?
Style:
action thriller, action adventure, suspense, retro, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
revenge, vigilante, cia, one against many, one man army, tough guy, martial arts, vigilantism, ex military, kidnapping, slutty attitude, woman fights a man ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston, istanbul turkey, turkey, europe, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few "boost happy" pals to accomplish a seemingly ...
Style:
intense, entertaining, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car theft, organized crime, betrayal, car thief, master criminal, machismo, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, entertaining, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, amnesia, espionage, hitman, revenge, on the run, chase, assassin, dark past, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
100%
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, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
Similarity:
67%
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:
rough, political thriller, serious, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, politics, daring rescue, u.s. president, commando mission, propaganda ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., north korea, usa, north america, pentagon
Similarity:
50%
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