Movies like Nuclear 2009

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Nuclear (2009)
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Nuclear (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: When a nuclear bomb destroys Los Angeles ATF agent, Jack Carson, must infiltrate a group of terrorists to find a second nuke set to blow up New York City.
Style: exciting, serious, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
Plot: nuclear, heroes, fictional war, terrorist, undercover, destruction, terror, swat, city, fight, agent, nuclear war, death, fire, chase, bomb, demolished city, ransom, group, swat team, explosion, gun, explosive
Place: new york, los angeles

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Most similar movies to Nuclear

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about heroes, danger, rivalry, chases and races, escapades, undercover and deadly mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nuclear: Combustion (2004), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), Asker (2000), April Rain (2014), Latin Dragon (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Combustion (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Story: Millwood City engineer Scott Daniels, moved from Houston, investigates a series of mysterious fires. Scott's and Lourie Harper's only son Jesse, who hated the move or dad's youth home, fakes a fever and invites his new girlfriend ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, heroic mission, forces of nature, rescue, government agency, save the day, undercover, dishonesty, small town, mayor, disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 3.5
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Asker (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, hostage, save the day, rebelliousness, espionage, heroes, working undercover, secret agent, danger, escapades, leadership ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 2.9
 897
April Rain (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, undercover, danger, terrorism, government agency, murder, spy, heroes, group, female nudity, sex in bed
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Latin Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the grand tradition of the lone hero who mysteriously appears in a town desperate for help (think "Shane, "Billy Jack", "James Bond" and "Chinese Connection"), having survived a war and now serving the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, crime drama
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, danger, gang, vigilantism, gangster, escapades, murder, brutality, violence, revenge, righting the wronged ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
81%
Welcome to Sudden Death (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense
Plot: terrorism, fight, machismo, one against many, rescue mission, danger, showdown, hostage, undercover, daring rescue, one man army, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 2.4
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Radical Jack (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After quitting his job, a man decides to go after the one person responsible for ruining his life.
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lone wolves, heroes, vigilantism, undercover, vengeance, dishonesty, small town, radical, law enforcement, arms dealing, rivalry, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, soldier, military, heroic mission, martial arts, commando mission, danger, heroes, daring rescue, master warrior, betrayal, military base ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Falcon Rising (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, marine, chases and races, gangster, danger, master warrior, rivalry, urban ghetto, fight, rage, shooting, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 3.3
 737
Air Rage (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, fast ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, save the day, daring rescue, hostage, rivalry, danger, government agency, air disaster, hijacking, die hard, escape ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Hunted by Night (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An intriguing story of good, evil and the supernatural. The Story takes place in the Florida Everglades. Three men are hunting when an airplane drops bails of drugs on the ground where they are hunting.. The men must decide whether to be law-abiding ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tense
Plot: heroes, on the run, chase, drug, showdown, battles, gunfight, pursuit, shootout, foot pursuit, combat, master warrior ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: cavalry, soldier, terrorism, battles, weapon system, medical school, rivalry, heroes, escapades, chases and races, rescue, military ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Apocalypse Code (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The ...
Style: exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, good versus evil, spy, special agent, escapades, rivalry, danger, chases and races, heroine, female fighter, vengeance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: malaysia, italy, france, paris france, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 2.9
 1K
Hangmen (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, terrorism, tough heroes, psychopath, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, one man army, tough law enforcer, espionage, assassination attempt ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A princess is on a quest to unite the five greatest warriors to save her kingdom from a demon sorceress.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: sword and sorcery, sorceress, heroic mission, save the kingdom, curses spells and rituals, warrior, sorcery, barbarian, vampire, rivalry, supernatural, conquering ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Slade Collins and the Tree of Life (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Story: Slade Collins and The Tree Of Life is an adventure film that explores ancient Iroquois folklore. The story follows a relic hunter named Slade Collins who is employed by a museum caretaker to find Dr. Winters, a renowned anthropologist who has gone ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: treasure hunt, tough heroes, danger, rivalry, escapades, missing person, good versus evil, chases and races, parents and children, adventurer, fight, love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.1
 105K
Broken Arrow (1996)
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, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, mexican standoff, train, desert, danger, chases and races, escapades, fighter jet, female warrior, rivalry, aviation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Gates of the Sun (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, heroic mission, undercover, heroes, danger, hostage, secret organization, undercover agent, nightclub, master warrior, tough heroes, secret agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Running Scared (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
Style: suspenseful, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, military, chase, army, escape, swamp, manhunt, cold war, us military, stowaway, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, gang, rivalry, tough heroes, escapades, old west, desert, murder, chase, hunt down, modern west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Guilty as Charged (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.9
 1K
Sky Riders (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: terrorism, monastery, kidnapping, hang glider, machine gun, aviation, airplane, explosions, castle, hostage, hang gliding, missing person ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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13 Assassins (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Style: epic, jidai geki, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, medieval, ninja, fight, exploitation, swordplay, assassin, edo period, violent content, rivalry, assassination ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.4
 559
The Eliminator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, chase, one against many, island, rivalry, danger, escapades, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Executive Decision (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, airplane, hostage, rescue, hijacking, terrorist, hand to hand combat, bomb, surveillance, military, special forces, senator ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, survival, ship, ocean liner, rescue, natural disaster, cruise, race against time, plutonium, sinking ship, shipwreck, shootout ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ancient Warriors (2003)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, death, danger, vengeance, escapades, bio weapon, save the day, imaginary, master warrior, heroes, chase, cave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.6
 21K
Drop Zone (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, serious, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, parachuting, airplane hijack, terrorist, chase, skydiving, heroes, danger, parachute, hijacking, race against time, prison break ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 2.4
 698
3 Musketeers (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster
Plot: undercover, save the day, government agency, escapades, rivalry, danger, martial arts, female fighter, female fight, woman with a gun, shootout, cavalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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