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:
cult classic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, tv series pilot
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
helicopter, spy, battles, aviation, police, co pilot, military, flying, heroes, chases and races, escapades, danger, lone wolves, mad scientist, against the odds, super weapon, dog, dancing, tank, airplane, combat, revenge, ship, fight, police officer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, libya, paris france, california
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Most similar movies to Airwolf
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and surprise ending films with plots about explosion, violence, gunfight, shootout, danger, pistol and machine gun mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Airwolf: Firefox (1982), Black Thunder (1998), Tactical Assault (1998), Eliminators (1986), CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
14K
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:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
helicopter, pilot, military, missing person, vietnam war, escapades, undercover, partner, super weapon, dishonesty, government agency, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, post world war two
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
31K
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:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, fighter plane, behind enemy lines, fighter pilot, chase, espionage, aerial combat, fighter jet, aviation, military, scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, england, vietnam ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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:
exciting, rough, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, military, airplane, save the day, danger, rivalry, escapades, secret mission, invisibility, pilot, terrorist, forced sex ...
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:
independent film, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fighter jet, gulf war, air force, aviation, disaster, airplane, battles, military, chase, soldier, pilot, tough heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iraq, middle east, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Style:
futuristic, grindhouse, psychotronic, action thriller, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, mad scientist, robot, apocalypse, terminator, ninja, neanderthal, boat, master warrior, androids, save the world, airplane crash ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s, prehistory, prehistoric times
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up ...
Style:
saga, exciting, epic, anamorphic, tense ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
archaeologist, treasure hunt, indiana jones, time travel, relic hunter, college professor, treasure, treasure hunter, world war two, supernatural, knife fight, artifact ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1939, 20th century, year 1951, 1940s ...
Place:
greece, alps, new york, athens greece, germany ...
Similarity:
67%
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:
independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kickboxer, female assassin, female warrior, terrorism, terrorist, spy, female fighter, cia, woman fights a man, female agent, chase, one woman army ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
27%
149K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, manly
Plot:
one man army, desert, lone hero, cold war, violence, rambo, revenge, heroes, tank, loner, gunfight, shootout ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan, middle east, soviet union, asia ...
Similarity:
26%
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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, suspense, fast, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, martial arts, destiny, danger, rescue, race against time, soldier, atomic bomb, government agency, daring rescue, save the world, secret agent ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, antarctica, los angeles, usa, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert ...
Style:
retro, detective, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, motorcycle, secret headquarters, heroes, law enforcement, mysterious character, imaginary, escapades, undercover, danger, chases and races, fighting crime ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, chase, politics, desert, gunfight, assassination, lone hero, justice, gratuitous violence, soldier, mission of murder, state affairs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, russia
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
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:
suspense, saga, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, 007, chase, female spy, world war three, top secret, hot and sexy, espionage, secret agent, secret service, female martial artist ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, hong kong, vietnam, china, england ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
conspiracy, violence, corrupt businessman, rivalry, military, manipulation, murder, mercilessness, evil businessman, arms dealer, attempted murder, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
24%
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, cliffhanger, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woman fights a man, female warrior, dominant woman, hostage, woman hits a man, female agent, one woman army, terrorist, wrestler, wrestling, kidnapping, island ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
caribbean, washington d.c., seattle, miami, france
Similarity:
24%
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, epic, saga, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, conspiracy, assassin, vigilante, heroism, super soldier, anti heroine, female agent, friendship, mission, chase ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., new jersey, usa, north america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and ...
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse, f word
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, bondage, kidnapped wife, bare chested male, dwarf, exploitation, male female relationship, village, biological warfare ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
24%
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:
saga, exciting, controversial, cult classic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, 007, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, drug lord, secret agent, shark, secret service, revenge, rape and revenge, secret service agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, latin america, south america, florida, mexico ...
Similarity:
24%
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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, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, special forces, violence, commando, u.s. navy, soldier, military, car chase, terrorist, rescue, shootout, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, beirut lebanon, lebanon, north america, pentagon ...
Similarity:
24%
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, feel good, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, secret agent, government, one man army, scientist, kgb, good versus evil, espionage, undercover, heroic mission, terrorism, daring rescue ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
south africa, russia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Netherlands
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:
action packed, harsh, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
one man army, revenge, prison, rambo, vietnam war, chase, violent, behind enemy lines, torture, soldier, guerilla warfare, propaganda ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, arizona, thailand, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
24%
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:
retro, cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, cia agent, mountain, commando mission, oil, espionage, exploitation, war on terror, cavalry, undercover, race against time ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
saudi arabia, east germany, germany, middle east, london ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, predictable ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
good versus evil, gi joe, martial arts, president, superhero, terrorism, vengeance, military, bodyguard, revenge, betrayal, maximum security prison ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., seattle, pakistan, pentagon, london ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, laboratory, terrorism, terrorist plot, military, investigation, rescue, evacuation, gunfight, deception, soldier, bomb ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iran, big ben london, london, rome italy, ukraine
Similarity:
23%
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:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, time loop, time machine, terminator, soldier, danger, imaginary, heroic mission, escapades, rescue, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, year 1993, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, seattle
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Merrill Ross (Michael Dudikoff) is thought to be a C.I.A. agent gone bad and teaming with some other alphabet named agency to take over the oil rich country of Qumir, he finds he's in the middle of a very explosive situation. Not knowing ...
Style:
suspense, perverse, grindhouse, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
female warrior, cannon, mossad, woman kills a man, computer cracker, geopolitics, shootout, woman in jeopardy, fugitive, bare chested male, crooked businessman, special forces ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes ...
Style:
grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
military, terrorism, hostage, martial arts, special forces, terrorist, commando, violence, cannon, war on terror, rescue mission, patriotism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, beirut lebanon, athens greece, iran ...
Similarity:
23%
59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.
Style:
exciting, captivating, thrilling, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mission, military, female protagonist, battles, soldier, fight, spacecraft, robot, combat, intergalactic, escape ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, space western
Similarity:
23%
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, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
martial arts, female warrior, coup d'etat, aikido, violence, assassination plot, revenge, murder, corruption, political corruption, spy, chase ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
23%
11K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, perverse, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
alien invasion, desert, murder, female warrior, alien abduction, terminator, survival, resistance, cyborgs, robot, amnesia, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
23%
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