Movies like Deepwater Horizon
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
181K
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, emotional, realistic, factual, compassionate, touching, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire, ocean, destruction, panic, husband wife relationship, greed, explosions, evacuation, tragedy, water, captain, danger, employee employee relationship, oil industry ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, california, boston, united states of america
Keyword:
superior, american
Most similar movies to Deepwater Horizon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, survival, rescue, death, disaster, trapped and corpse mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Deepwater Horizon: The Finest Hours (2016), Only the Brave (2017), The 33 (2015), Patriots Day (2016), The Impossible (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style:
exciting, motivational, dramatic, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
natural disaster, firefighter, forest fire, heroism, tragedy, danger, friends, rescue, firefighting, male camaraderie, bravery, disaster ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013 ...
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
40K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style:
factual, touching, suspense, serious, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, disaster, rescue, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, human spirit, doctor, honest, radio, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
chile, peru, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
112K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
Style:
intense, suspense, emotional, tense, factual ...
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, police, tragedy, fbi, courage, surveillance, manhunt, violence, investigation, chase, brutality ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, boston, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
disaster, oil rig, catastrophe, north sea, submarine, ocean, oil industry, sea, natural disaster, rescue mission, trapped, trap ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
87K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, investigation, arson, corruption, disaster, fire, pyromaniac, rescue, firefighting, danger, natural disaster, rookie ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
207K
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 ...
Style:
breathtaking, serious, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
train, runaway train, disaster, train crash, chase, save the day, train engineer, train wreck, race against time, determination, survival, courage ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, storm at sea, storm, ocean, shipwreck, forces of nature, fish, sea, fishing ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, boston, nova scotia, atlantic ocean, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
110K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Movies similar to The Impossible
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 ...
Style:
intense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, desert, aviation, stranded, air disaster, adaptation, chase, rescue, introspection, danger, getting home, human nature ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
long beach california, beijing china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Style:
realistic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, ship, kidnapping, terrorism, survival, rescue, ocean, pirate, u.s. navy, ship captain, piracy, ransom ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, america, middle east, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, realistic, tense, factual ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
cia, war, terrorism, rescue mission, mercenary, swat team, military, navy seal, courage, gunfight, commando, combat ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 2016, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
libya, middle east, africa, pentagon, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
231K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, climbing, mountain, natural disaster, snow, mountaineer, stranded, forces of nature, man versus nature, beautiful scenery, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, volcano, survival, rescue, scientist, race against time, volcanic eruption, small town, mayor, apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Everest
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot:
survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
263K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
42K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the fact that mountain party Ã…kneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time:
80s, year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
76K
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
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
353K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
Style:
intense, exciting, suspense, action packed, political ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
sniper, conspiracy, fbi, one man army, on the run, corruption, assassination, revenge, cover up, manhunt, military, false accusation ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
montana, philadelphia, virginia, tennessee, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Lone Survivor
86K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terrorist, black ops, top secret, surveillance, cia, shootout, hand to hand combat, rogue agent, spy, computer cracker, machismo, political corruption ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
southeast asia, asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and ...
Style:
dramatic, suspense, tense, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, warship, u.s. navy, shark, sea, ocean, military, submarine, rescue, survival, world war, disobeying orders ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
san francisco, the philippines, washington d.c., pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the ...
Style:
realistic, factual, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, disaster, firefighter, 9/11, twin towers, survival, terrorist, war on terror, natural disaster, heroes, courage, al qaeda ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2006, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
305K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style:
rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, survival, soldier, war, terrorism, gunfight, courage, military life, selflessness, war on terror, squad, army ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
81K
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 ⇓
50%
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Movies similar to Shooter
64K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
57K
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 ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, bad weather, tornado, aftermath, destruction, rescue, race against time, family relations, hiding place, small town, survival ...
Time:
2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tianhuo Island is a beautiful paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the "Ring of Fire", the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. Young geologist Li Xiaomeng brings her team here to develop the first volcanic ...
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, resort, fire, father daughter relationship, island, volcanic eruption, catastrophe, female warrior, race against time, destruction, survival ...
Time:
2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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