Movies like The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.
Style: suspense
Plot: hijacking, airplane, aviation, mutation, hostage, kidnapping, airplane hijack, deadly virus, spy, hostage situation, domineering mother, caper, beauty pageant, humiliation, beauty queen, flying, airliner, overbearing mother, hostages

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Most similar movies to The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and disturbing films with plots about airplane, kidnapping, hostage, aviation, hijacking, abduction and flying mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Night They Took Miss Beautiful: Freefall: Flight 174 (1995), Judgement in Berlin (1988), Miracle Landing (1990), Emergency Declaration (2021), 100 Days in the Jungle (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot: airplane, aviation, disaster, air disaster, real life, danger, flight attendant, hostage, chases and races, confined, race against time, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, canada, montreal
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95%
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: rome italy, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
Plot: aviation, aeroplane, disaster, christmas, airplane accident, family relations, flying, airplane, air disaster
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Judgement in Berlin (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, touching, sincere ...
Plot: terrorism, justice, politics, hijacking, legal action, legal, courtroom drama, fighting the system, confined, save the day, danger, culture clash ...
Time: 70s
Place: germany, europe, east berlin, berlin germany, west berlin west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school under siege from a deranged killer bent on murdering the students.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, christian film
Plot: school shooting, hostage situation, threat, shooter, murderer, threat to kill, mental disorder, psycho killer, faith, gunfight, child hostage, hostage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Miracle Landing (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
Plot: disaster, aviation, airplane, aeroplane, apocalypse, crash landing, airplane accident, crew, airplane crash, panic, pilot, plane crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Emergency Declaration (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 141 min.
Story: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: airplane hijack, disaster, airplane, terrorism, flying, crash landing, aviation, hijacking, passenger, investigation, terror, airport ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: jungle, amazon jungle, amazon rainforest, hostage, captive, kidnapped, survival, amazon, kidnapping, abduction, partisan, conflict ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mossad, world war two, holocaust, nazi, judaism, kidnapping, nazi war criminal, post war, self control, disorder, righting the wronged, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: israel, latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Starfighters (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young Air Force lieutenant falls in love with fighter planes while his father, a Congressman and war hero, yearns for him to fly heavy bombers.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: aviation, air force, u.s. air force, military, helicopter, fighter plane, target practice, jet plane, love, pilot, u.s. military, flying ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, ...
Plot: pilot, aviation, youth, parent child relationship, father and son, travel, world war one veteran, trick, small town, beer, father son relationship, airplane
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, suspense
Plot: sex slavery, sex slave, kidnapped girl, child abduction, kidnapped child, abduction, slavery, kidnapping, slave girl, human trafficking, life
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
All the Little Things We Kill (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, psychological
Plot: hostage, school, fighting the system, hostage situation, blackmail, school teacher, teacher, teacher student relationship, blackmailer, child hostage, teachers and students, weapons ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Empty Cradle (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is ...
Style: suspense, mystical
Plot: dilemma, love, wife, true crime, parents, midwife, faked pregnancy, parent child relationship, kidnapping, child kidnapping, pregnancy, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
This Is a Hijack (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.
Style: independent film
Plot: air disaster, aviation, abduction, police, ransom, boss, kidnapping, employer employee relationship, wealth, gambler, gambling, hijacking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
Style: psychotronic, black and white, splatter, spooky, horror comedy ...
Plot: airplane, demon, aviation, religion, stewardess, flying, druid, supernatural, air disaster, folk horror, aeroplane, disaster ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Stolen from the Heart (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense
Plot: kidnapping, woman in danger, police, drug dealer, police investigation, husband wife relationship, ex prostitute, widow, heart condition, baby, faked pregnancy, ultimatum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Anniversary Nightmare (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. But with no witnesses, she's immediately labeled the prime suspect. Without any help from the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, accused of murder, kidnapped man, crime solving, protagonist as suspect, suspicion, kidnapping, murder investigation, secret, private investigation, abduction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Four Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Unhinged gangster Capone (Paul Bibb) walks into a bar with accomplice Tung (Peter Peralta,) with the plan of stealing the contents of the safe. The situation gets complicated when they have to wait four hours to get the code to the safe. For Capone ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: heist, chase, society, rivalry, robbery, hacking, youth, escapades, violence, hostage situation, heist gone wrong, burglar ...
Time: year 2011
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Air Marshal (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorism, danger, heroes, strong violent content, aviation, hijacker, terrorist, muslim, die hard, pilot ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Web Cam Girls (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Alex Hiles' hot mess cousin Carolyn vanishes, Alex suspects the worst...Carolyn has been "camming" lately, and Alex suspects she broke the rules and met one of her clients...No one believes her and it's now up to Alex to ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense
Plot: slutty woman, slutty attitude, abduction, sexual harassment, kidnapping, sexual predator, customer, mysterious disappearance, disappearance, uncover truth, nude model, cousin cousin relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Coveted Web Series (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Style: suspense
Plot: black love, cheating
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, under the surface, parents and children, danger, uncover truth, family relations, life turned upside down, disorder, secret, african american, women of color, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Terrorists (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that ...
Style: surprise ending, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorist, hostage, terrorism, diplomacy, aviation, 007, judiciary, undercover agent, violent content, tough heroes ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: scandinavia, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Turbulence (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sarah Plummer is an FBI Agent whose family is taken hostage while she is on a flight to Washington, DC. "Turbulence" occurs when a mysterious stranger, Michelle, is seated beside her and Sarah is forced to make a decision that could cost ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, action thriller
Plot: hostage, fbi agent, family in danger, female agent, special agent, spouse in danger, woman in danger, female protagonist, hostage situation, child hostage, agent, airplane ...
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30%
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7500 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When terrorists try to seize control of a Berlin-Paris flight, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot struggles to save the lives of the passengers and crew while forging a surprising connection with one of the hijackers.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tension, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, flying, pilot, violence, empathy, murder, airplane trip, save the day, air disaster, heroes, capture, terrorist group ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia, berlin germany
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29%
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Amber Alert (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: child hostage, hostage situation, ransom demand, problem, life is a bitch, life insurance, illness, hostage, ransom, money, money problems, insurance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several ...
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, abduction, italian history, hijacker, sea, terrorist
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Missing Pieces (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A heartbroken man kidnaps two strangers in hopes they will fall in love.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: redemption, teenage love, love and romance, obsession, youth, confined, mentally unstable, wilderness, captivity, breakup, teen romance, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, rape of a minor, sex slave, sexual assault, bunker, sexual predator, pedophile, teenage girl, pedophilia, police, impersonating a police officer, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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