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Nuclear (2009)
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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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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about heroes, danger, chases and races, rivalry, escapades, deadly and undercover mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nuclear: Combustion (2004), Militia (2000), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), Latin Dragon (2004), Speed (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
undercover, terrorism, hostage, rebelliousness, heroes, espionage, save the day, working undercover, secret agent, leadership, assassination, state affairs ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, rivalry, undercover, heroic mission, chases and races, escapades, confined, danger, heroes, hijacking, bomb, underwater fight ...
Time:
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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, suspense, tense, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, gang, danger, vigilantism, gangster, escapades, murder, brutality, violence, revenge, righting the wronged ...
Place:
los angeles, south america
Similarity:
82%
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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:
81%
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, intense, exciting
Plot:
undercover, terrorism, fight, machismo, one against many, rescue mission, heroes, daring rescue, tough heroes, showdown, one man army, danger ...
Similarity:
80%
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:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, soldier, military, heroic mission, martial arts, danger, master warrior, heroes, daring rescue, betrayal, military base, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
74%
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, vengeance, chases and races, tough heroes, gangster, danger, master warrior, rivalry, urban ghetto, fight, shooting ...
Time:
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Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
65%
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779
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, one man army, tough heroes, daring rescue, save the day, danger, rivalry, government agency, hostage, air disaster, hijacking ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
63%
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, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
sword and sorcery, sorceress, heroic mission, save the kingdom, curses spells and rituals, warrior, sorcery, wizards and magicians, escapades, rivalry, danger, conquering ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
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, girls' night, teens
Plot:
spy, military, chase, escape, swamp, manhunt, cold war, us military, stowaway, espionage, soldier, danger ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa, cuba, california
Similarity:
55%
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:
captivating, exciting, futuristic, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, spy, good versus evil, escapades, danger, rivalry, one man army, chases and races, heroine, female fighter, vengeance, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malaysia, italy, france, paris france, ukraine
Similarity:
55%
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:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense
Plot:
heroes, on the run, chase, ambush, drug, showdown, battles, gunfight, pursuit, foot pursuit, shootout, combat ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
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, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action
Country: Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic mission, working undercover, undercover, heroes, danger, hostage, secret organization, nightclub, undercover agent, tough heroes, master warrior, secret agent ...
Time:
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Place:
algeria
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terrorism, chase, avalanche, snowboarding, skiing, danger, extreme sports, isolation, save the day, leadership, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
austria, antarctic, europe, former yugoslavia, san francisco
Similarity:
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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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
monastery, terrorism, hang glider, kidnapping, hang gliding, castle, hostage, machine gun, aviation, airplane, explosions, missing person ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
49%
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, covert operation, terrorism, psychopath, tough heroes, working undercover, one man army, boss and employee, chases and races, rivalry, government agency, race against time ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, one against many, chase, island, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
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:
tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, danger, secret agent, government agency, spy, murder, infiltration, domestic terrorism, investigation, national security, special forces ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
46%
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, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination, death, danger, vengeance, escapades, bio weapon, save the day, master warrior, heroes, imaginary, chase, cave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure
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, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, samurai sword, medieval, ninja, fight, exploitation, kung fu master, swordplay, assassin, edo period, violent content ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China from their southern Manchuria staging ground.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, samurai, fight, handicapped, supernatural, kung fu, save the day, gang, danger, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, heroes ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan, china
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the sweltering heat of the deep south, Slim Manning, a topless club owner, wants a better life for his teenage daughter, Tracy. There's only one problem. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her mother, Audrey, a topless dancer at ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, dark ...
Plot:
heroes, religious cult, good versus evil, occult, murder, christian, church, police, killing, smoking, water, torture ...
Similarity:
43%
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, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, hostage, hijacking, rescue, terrorist, airplane accident, special forces, hand to hand combat, ransom, bomb, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
Similarity:
43%
23K
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:
exciting, suspense, intense, serious, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parachuting, terrorism, skydiving, terrorist, chase, parachute, heroes, danger, hijacking, race against time, airplane hijack, aviation ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A battle-weary ex-Special Forces Operative buys a ranch in remote American West to flee from the world, and encounters a strange series of trespassers, including a beautiful elf princess and a Native American mystic and Orcs. When the Orcs invade ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
mythical creature, good versus evil, danger, heroes, deadly creature, escapades, imaginary, medieval, sword and sorcery, invasion, supernatural, death ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
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