Movies like Airwolf 1984
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Airwolf (1984)
5K
Original name: Airwolf: The Movie
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project director for the CIA, enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke and his closest friend Dominic Santini, to attempt to recover the Airwolf. The mission throws them into the midst of Middle Eastern violence and destruction, where they come face to face with danger, romance and intrigue in their battle to re-possess the deadliest aerial weapon ever used.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tv series pilot
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
helicopter, spy, battles, aviation, police, military, co pilot, flying, heroes, escapades, lone wolves, mad scientist, against the odds, super weapon, dog, dancing, tank, airplane, combat, revenge, ship, fight, police officer, army, escape ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, paris france, california, libya
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending and serious films with plots about explosion, gun, fistfight, danger, gunfight, violence and brawl mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Airwolf: Firefox (1982), Black Thunder (1998), Tactical Assault (1998), The Serpent (2020), Laser Mission (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
helicopter, spy, military, missing person, undercover, escapades, partners, pilot, super weapon, heroes, government agency, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, post world war two
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
28K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, intense, cerebral, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, fighter plane, behind enemy lines, espionage, chase, fighter jet, suspense, fighter pilot, military, submarine, aviation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, england, vietnam, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the top secret prototype of the Nova Stealth fighter has been stolen, the Pentagon launches big alarm; the plane shouldn't come into hostile hands...
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, airplane, save the day, undercover, rivalry, escapades, secret mission, invisibility, pilot, suspense, terrorism, race against time ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this high-flying action thriller, an expert Air Force flyer finds himself forced to use every trick he has ever learned to stop a murderous, insane former colleague and friend from exacting deadly revenge upon him.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fighter jet, gulf war, aviation, disaster, military, chase, soldier, airplane, battles, fighter pilot, pilot, air force ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iraq, middle east, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot:
spy, special agents, female spy, heroes, martial arts, violence, fight, death, chase, secret agents, murder, suspense ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, secret agents, spy, government, kgb, one man army, scientist, good versus evil, espionage, undercover, heroic mission, terrorism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south africa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, hong kong, china, vietnam, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo, the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
Style:
sexy, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, island, kidnapping, woman in danger, race against time, betrayal, woman hits a man, woman fights a man, female warrior, dominant woman, graphic violence, tough heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
caribbean, washington d.c., seattle, miami, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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101K
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, betrayal, mexican standoff, train, desert, race against time, escapades, fighter jet, rivalry, airplane, suspense, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, hong kong, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, heroic, epic, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, conspiracy, spy, heroes, heroism, mission, friendship, superhuman powers, chase, villain, martial arts, fight ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Films like Extraction
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, disaster, rescue, evacuation, soldier, race against time, atomic bomb, daring rescue, government agency, save the world, undercover, terrorism ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, antarctica, usa, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
134K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when ...
Style:
intense, homoerotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
manly, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
lone hero, one man army, desert, revenge, violence, gunfight, loner, war, heroes, military, rambo, torture ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, russia, pakistan, ussr, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, terrorist, terrorism, female fighter, cia, woman with a gun, female fight, prison escape, femme fatale, secret agents, undercover, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
Style:
exciting, intense, humorous, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, war, military, u.s. navy, soldier, race against time, battles, heroes, gunfight, save the day, heroic mission, tough heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
middle east, pentagon, usa, north america, beirut lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
good versus evil, president, military, superhero, vengeance, revenge, betrayal, martial arts, secret service, rescue, conspiracy, terrorism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon, pakistan, himalaya, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Films like The Expendables
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style:
harsh, intense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
revenge, chase, one man army, weapons, violent, rambo, vietnam war, prison, violence, heroes, soldier, military ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, arizona, asia, russia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, soldier, heroic mission, escapades, terminator, rescue, one man army, survival, deception, conspiracy, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 2020s ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
116K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Henry Brogen, an aging assassin tries to get out of the business but finds himself in the ultimate battle: fighting his own clone who is 25 years younger than him and at the peak of his abilities.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, intense, entertaining ...
Plot:
clones, cloning, hitman, secret agents, black ops, gunfight, chase, villain, assassin, parkour, fleeing, killings ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
budapest, usa, europe, belgium, colombia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, oil, exploitation, espionage, soldier, race against time, undercover, kgb, hijacking, cia agent, commando mission ...
Time:
80s
Place:
saudi arabia, germany, middle east, ussr, pittsburgh ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who ...
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
distopia, desert, cure, vaccine, imprisonment, virus, teenage hero, friendship, post apocalypse, battles, maze, fight ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style:
exciting, brutal, bloody, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
mercenary, commando, partners, heroes, cia, mission, weapons, fight, martial arts, spy, violent, terrorism ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
Style:
disturbing, enigmatic, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
redemption, assassin, suspense, gunfight, reincarnation, spy, haunted by the past, revenge, rescue, near death experience, mercilessness, conspiracy ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa, namibia, africa, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best ...
Style:
futuristic, tense, captivating, surprise ending, sinister ...
Plot:
martial arts, violence, murder, corruption, political corruption, assassination plot, chase, spy, suspense, revenge, coup d'etat, brutality ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against ...
Style:
epic, bloody, slasher, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
spy, espionage, terrorist, violence, tough guy, female spy, mission, secret agents, plutonium, fistfight, deception, race against time ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
kashmir, ireland, norway, london, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Natasha Romanoff, on the run from the government following her disobedience to the Sokovia Accords and for aiding Steve Rogers, finds herself on her own and is forced to deal with some of the red in her ledger.
Style:
anamorphic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
superhero, female protagonist, female assassin, heroes, female spy, superheroine, secret agents, female agent, strong female lead, spy, one woman army, heroine ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman ...
Style:
exciting, intense, stylized, epic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, batman, revenge, superman character, superhuman powers, rivalry, heroes, justice, alien, vigilante, good versus evil, save the world ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., kansas, tijuana mexico, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
James Bond and his American colleague Felix Leiter arrest the drug lord Sanchez who succeeds in escaping and takes revenge on Felix and his wife. Bond knows but just one thing: revenge.
Style:
exciting, sexy, controversial, entertaining, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, vengeance, spy, woman with a gun, 007, drug lord, revenge, shark, secret service agent, rape and revenge, cold war, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, florida, mexico, miami, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
562
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, secret agents, race against time, u.s. navy, heroes, government agency, good versus evil, one man army, save the day, daring rescue, special agents ...
Time:
year 1987, 2000s, 80s
Place:
europe, greece, washington d.c., austria, athens greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely ...
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pirate, military, battles, ship, undercover, soldier, military life, daring rescue, heroes, ocean, female spy, cia agent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, french riviera, san francisco, turkey, albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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