Movies and TV shows like Blue Thunder

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Blue Thunder (1984)
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Blue Thunder (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted AĆ©rospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, vintage
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: aviation, heroes, chases and races, escapades, danger, law enforcement, super weapon, superhero, fight, police officer, police, investigation, violence, criminal, gunfight, african american, policewoman, teamwork, aerial combat, hi-tech, rookie, police station, brawl, computer cracker, helicopter pilot ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california

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Most similar movies to Blue Thunder

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, suspenseful and detective films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, investigation, police, violence, police officer, undercover and criminal mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Blue Thunder: Knight Rider (1982), Airwolf (1984), Human Target (2010), L.A. Heat (1996), S.W.A.T. (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Knight Rider (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: talking car, artificial intelligence, car, fighting crime, car chase, chases and races, working undercover, heroic mission, superhero, robot, partner, undercover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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Airwolf (1984)
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: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: helicopter, pilot, military, missing person, partner, undercover, escapades, super weapon, government agency, heroes, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, post world war two
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Officer Frank Murphy, an experienced LAPD helicopter pilot, is given command of the advanced new "Blue Thunder" chopper. But he begins to wonder why the LAPD would need a helicopter so powerful and why it is such a secret.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, action adventure, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: helicopter, conspiracy, aviation, chase, car chase, military, helicopter pilot, murder, vietnam war, law enforcement, terrorism, voyeurism ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles, california, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Human Target (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Human Target is an American action drama television series that was broadcast by Fox in the United States. Based loosely on the Human Target comic book character created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino for DC Comics, it is the second series based ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, action packed, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodyguard, hidden identity, teamwork, mercenary, team, heroes, peril, expert, fistfight, characters in danger, coworker, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area
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100%
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L.A. Heat (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: L.A. Heat is an American action series starring Wolf Larson and Steven Williams as Los Angeles police detectives, in the tradition of films like Lethal Weapon. The series aired on TNT from March 15, 1999.
Style: detective, suspenseful, exciting, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, nypd, police, murder, police investigation, partner, chase, partners against crime, violent content, chases and races, honest law enforcer, ex athlete ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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35%
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S.W.A.T. (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. Like The ...
Style: realistic, stylized, rough, serious, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, swat, fighting crime, law enforcement, danger, police investigation, tough law enforcer, workplace, workplace situations, police officer, police protagonist, vietnam veteran ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, los angeles
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31%
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T.J. Hooker (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: T. J. Hooker is an American police drama television program starring William Shatner in the title role as a 15-year veteran police sergeant. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 13, 1982, on ABC and ran on the network until May ...
Style: detective, exciting, realistic, serious, witty ...
Plot: police, police officer, car chase, investigation, intelligence agency, die hard, pretty girl, woman with a gun, agent, rookie, police investigation, female warrior ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Fastlane (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003. On August 14, 2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series. After finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police detective, partner, drug dealing, undercover, hidden identity, police investigation, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, fighting crime, law enforcement, master criminal ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Gang Related (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side. Detective Ryan Lopez is a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force. What the world doesn't know is that long before Ryan became a cop, he pledged allegiance to a ...
Style: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, law enforcement, outlaw, police detective, boss, power struggle, fighting crime, criminal, undercover, armed forces, villain, swat team ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.4
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Dark Blue (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dark Blue was an action/drama television series which premiered on TNT on July 15, 2009, at 10 pm. It ended its run on September 15, 2010. The series is set in Los Angeles, California. It revolves around Carter Shaw, the leader of an undercover ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover agent, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, fighting crime, right and wrong, team, workplace, police procedural, investigation, police, arrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hunter (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, vietnam war, police, dirty harry, die hard, woman with a gun, supernatural, team, legal, police investigation, homicide detective, lapd ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Powers (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as ā€œPowers.ā€ Set amidst todayā€™s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, detective, scenic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero, imaginary, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, life is a bitch, youth, heroes, superpower, fighting crime, law enforcement, superhuman powers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for a fictional government office known as OSI. The series is based on the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg, which was the series's ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, retro, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: undercover, androids and robots, investigation, escapades, chases and races, surgery, danger, government agency, cyborgs, superhero, boss, super powers ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Nash Bridges (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. The show ran for six seasons on ...
Style: detective, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, partner, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, parents and children, workplace, single parent, rivalry, family problems, investigation, best friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television. It starred Karl ...
Style: detective, realistic, retro, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police detective, cop, vietnam war, fighting crime, car chase, investigation, police officer, team, punishment, american football, police inspector ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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25%
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Pacific Blue (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with ...
Style: exciting, sexy, captivating, feel good, detective ...
Plot: workplace romance, police investigation, chase, chases and races, hotshot hero, love and romance, fighting crime, workplace situations, investigation, bicycle, woman with a gun, police ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california, santa monica california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Equalizer (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The Equalizer is an American television series that ran for four seasons, initially on CBS, between 1985 and 1989. It stars Edward Woodward as a middle aged retired intelligence officer with a mysterious past who helps people in trouble. The show ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, anti hero, injustice, vengeance, tough heroes, rivalry, machismo, one man army, spy, superhero, conspiracy, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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25%
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Miami Vice (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
Style: detective, serious, exciting, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police, undercover, partner, partners against crime, drug dealing, rivalry, undercover cop, two man army, machismo, cop, team ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Chicago P.D. (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: police, law enforcement, cop, crime investigation, policewoman, victim, police detective, sergeant, shooting, murder, partner, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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24%
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Police Woman (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Sergeant ā€œPepper"ā€ Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Style: detective, retro, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: police, cop, investigation, police officer, female police officer, lapd, car chase, women, woman with a gun, undercover, undercover agent, rally ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
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24%
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True Justice (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Elijah Kane leads a hardcore undercover team of Seattle based cops who take on the local criminal element with a high-octane style of enforcement.
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, martial arts, working undercover, police investigation, tough heroes, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, fighting crime, gang, heroes, undercover cop, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Black Scorpion (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Black Scorpion is an action-crime TV series that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2001 and in Canada on Space in 2002. The series is based on two Roger Corman movies, Black Scorpion, and the sequel Black Scorpion II: Aftershock. The show focuses on a ...
Style: stylized, rough, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: superheroine, superhero, secret identity, female protagonist, fighting crime, vigilantism, good versus evil, superhuman powers, vigilante, police detective, undercover, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mannix (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He ...
Style: detective, retro, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: private detective, cop, investigation, undercover, intelligence agency, private investigator, detective agency, uncover truth, law enforcement, kidnapping, who done it, car chase ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Chase (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Chase is an American police procedural drama television series created by Jennifer Johnson for the NBC network. The series follows a U.S. Marshals fugitive-apprehension team, based out of Houston, Texas. Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnson serve as ...
Style: realistic, detective, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: policewoman, u.s. marshal, escaped prisoner, fugitives, wanted, chase, police investigation, special agent, law enforcement, rivalry, police, police procedural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Luke Cage (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, supernatural power, black superhero, african american, superpower, superhuman powers, good versus evil, danger, fighting crime, save the day, imaginary, multiverse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, harlem
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23%
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Shades of Blue (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, detective ...
Plot: police detective, police, working undercover, fbi, police corruption, law enforcement, police investigation, nypd, moral dilemma, dishonesty, undercover, legal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.6
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Harry O (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Harry O, sometimes spelled Harry-O, is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe. Harry O followed the broadcast of two pilot ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, vintage
Plot: police, private detective, cop, private investigator, police department, disability, misfit, law enforcement, investigation, urban, beach
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Chicago Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, tough law enforcer, corruption, politician, female police officer, police, law enforcement, fighting crime, political corruption, chief of police, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
L.A. Takedown (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Michael Mann's (HEAT, MIAMI VICE) gutsy telefilm tells the tale of two skilled professionals--one a cop, the other a criminal--who aren't as different as they think.Vincent Hanna (Scott Plank) is an intense cop on the trail of ruthless ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, tense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, bank robbery, criminal, cybersecurity, shootout, police, robbery, police shootout, violent content, police detective, crime gone awry, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, retro ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: spy, superheroine, androids and robots, superhero, superhuman powers, escapades, danger, investigation, undercover, government agency, chases and races, government facility ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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