Movies like Skybound

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Skybound (2017)
 4.1
 6K
Skybound (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Five friends on a small airplane mysteriously lose their radio connection on a trip from New York to LA. As they continue their flight, they're forced to assume that a major disaster happened on the ground. They discover a stowaway, Erik, who urges them not to land at any cost. Before they run out of fuel, they must find out the truth.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action thriller, disaster movie
Plot: disaster, survival, airplane, trapped, save the day, abduction, conspiracy, deception, isolation, escapades, danger, confined, machismo, race against time, truth, stowaway, catastrophe, travel, nature, trip, deadly, one location, adventure, crimes

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Most similar movies to Skybound

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, confined, escapades, chases and races, survival, disaster and race against time mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Skybound: Superfire (2002), Air Collision (2012), Turbulence (1997), The Millionaire Tour (2012), Throttle (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.4
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Superfire (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forest fire, disaster, forces of nature, survival, save the day, hidden identity, heroes, disorder, danger, apocalypse, firefighter, natural disaster ...
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Air Collision (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, save the day, survival, danger, aviation, disorder, escapades, confined, disaster, aeroplane, army, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: disaster, heroes, heroic mission, flight attendant, confined, danger, airplane, pilot, die hard, airport, space, aviation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.0
 13K
Turbulence (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, intense, suspense, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: airplane, christmas, stewardess, hijacking, aviation, murder, disaster, psychopath, serial killer, danger, airplane accident, pilot ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Millionaire Tour (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Impressive debut feature from writer director Inon Shampanier. A man needs to convince his kidknappers that they have got the wrong person before they deliver him to his death.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, twisted
Plot: danger, disorder, twists and turns, cons and scams, rivalry, mistaken identity, threat, survival, trap, trapped, confined, hijacking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.0
 1K
Throttle (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, psychopath, confined, rivalry, isolation, on the run, frame up, master criminal, stalking, danger, automobile, die hard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.8
 704
Final Approach (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, terrorism, rescue, daring rescue, master criminal, save the day, tough heroes, danger, heroes, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.3
 1K
Accident (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of teenagers suffer a terrible accident during a joy ride and get trapped at the bottom of a ravine.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, survival, psychopath, danger, youth, wrong place wrong time, confined, wild ride, teenager, deadly, off the road
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 5.0
 329
Raging Inferno (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fire breaks out in the Berlin Fernsehturm (Radio Tower) trapping several people in the restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former member, rush to the rescue as chaos erupts among the trapped.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fire, danger, survival, race against time, daring rescue, evacuation, heroes, confined, restaurant, disaster, elevator, firefighter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Escape from Alaska (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, environmental, natural disaster, apocalypse, climate, mountain, rescue, danger, fighting the system, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Strategic Command (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large ...
Style: mockbuster, independent film, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, aviation, disaster, aeroplane, hijacking, biological warfare, hostage, tough heroes, airplane, heroes, chases and races, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, crime gone awry, survival, on the run, chase, disorder, danger, escapades, chases and races, isolation, drug dealing, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 17K
Breaking In (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After ...
Style: suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: home invasion, protective parent, black people, mother, hostage, security system, black, women, strong female lead, kidnapping, danger, heist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 4K
Freezer (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Robert Saunters, a mechanic is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked up inside the restaurant's freezer. Knowing nothing of why he's there, he realizes he has been mistaken as someone else.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, freezer, danger, twists and turns, kidnapping, panic, mind game, assassin, kidnapped, confined, hostage, undercover cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.2
 400
Heaven's Fire (1999)
Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Terrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be there with his wife and children in a tour group. Having to fight the terrorists and fires that ...
Style: fast, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, natural disaster, die hard, fire, tower, secret agent, heist, hijacking, save the day, rivalry, heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.3
 834
Submerged (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, heroic mission, race against time, daring rescue, heroes, rivalry, gang, confined, save the day, escapades, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, airplane, save the day, danger, survival, heroes, spouse in danger, forces of nature, air disaster, military, volcano, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.9
 445
Tornado (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The hottest summer in years: Meteorologist Jan returns from Oklahoma, where he has studied twisters up close, after faring a traumatic catastrophe during his dangerous research. Back in Berlin, he comes to face with his past and his ex-girlfriend ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: tornado, disaster, forces of nature, save the day, obsessive quest, danger, heroes, escapades, chases and races, fear, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, oklahoma, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 3.5
 555
Power Play (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, independent film, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, escapades, journalism, political conspiracy, danger, political corruption, disaster, chases and races, state affairs, mad scientist, energy ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 932
Caught Inside (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are replaced at the last minute with girls - the heat is turned way up. The one single girl ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: surfing, survival, trapped, danger, rivalry, isolation, ocean, losing-it hero, confined, psychopath, ship, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.7
 888
Air Panic (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: terrorism, airplane, disaster, danger, aviation, rivalry, chases and races, escapades, law enforcement, undercover, insubordination, airport ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.2
 814
For Elise (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young college is responsible for the care of an innocent little girl, but soon all he knows give a twist that will endanger his own life. All begin when crossing under the floor of the third floor to the left, a road without knowing directly the ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, survival, isolation, danger, puppet, doll, governess, toys, puzzle, babysitting, violent content, mentally unstable ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.3
 560
Travellers (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Four friends set out on a motorcycle adventure weekend, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and urban lifestyles. After bartering with a local land owner for a place to set up camp, they spend the night reminiscing over their wasted ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, survival, haunted by the past, captivity, danger, confined, woods, wilderness, buddies, escapades, friendship, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, resort, save the day, rescue, forces of nature, isolation, family in crisis, family life, danger, escapades, confined, heroic mission ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Terror Experiment (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: zombie, bio weapon, survival, plague, violence spree, chaos, danger, confined, experiment gone awry, contamination, isolation, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.4
 573
Deadly Cargo (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Journalist Sara joins timid Victor and pregnant wife Thais, instructors Ivan and Edgar, and local kid Drui in Senegal for some underwater exploration. When their craft blows up following a misfired bullet, they float around in the water for a while ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: dangerous animal, murder, survival, isolation, rescue, danger, ship, ocean, sea, pregnancy, violent content, stowaway ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Style: serious, suspense, independent film, fast, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, tough heroes, rescue, aviation, forces of nature, heroes, save the day, danger, one man army, daring rescue, disaster, hijacking ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Pandora Project (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A CIA agent has to stop a former associate who has stolen a weapon which kills people without harming buildings, all before he is to get married in a few days.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, spy, end of the world, special agent, fellow agent, undercover, rivalry, save the day, escapades, chases and races, master villain, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.9
 343
Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Crash Point Zero (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, tough heroes, save the day, confined, danger, survival, undercover, daring rescue, heroes, race against time, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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