Movies like Ablaze
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Ablaze (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire city, and stretches the abilities of the fire department and the local hospital to their breaking points.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, firefighting, hospital, fire, chaos, danger, law enforcement, police investigation, evacuation, disaster, pandemic, emergency, firefight, die hard, brother brother relationship, police chase, oil refinery, heroes, hotel, profanity, chases and races, escapades, violent content, pregnancy, car chase ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Ablaze
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about danger, heroes, chases and races, disaster, race against time, escapades and save the day mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ablaze: Ladder 49 (2004), Inferno (2002), Hijack (1998), Counter Measures (1998), Raging Inferno (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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59K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sad, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
firefighter, disaster, friendship, rescue, death of protagonist, redemption, firefighting, fire, funeral, trapped, family relations, danger ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
305
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A fire chief (Gunn) is investigating the cause of a string of blazes that threaten to destroy her small town, while at the same time dealing with her teen daughter's rebelliousness.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, exciting ...
Plot:
rescue, police investigation, save the day, heroes, rebelliousness, danger, escapades, law enforcement, family relations, parents and children, woods, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
437
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, danger, heroes, confined, law enforcement, race against time, save the day, die hard, terrorist plot ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
US Navy medical officer Jake Fuller is assigned to a goodwill visit aboard a Russian submarine. But he and his companion, Lt. Swain, end up alone among terrorists, who have taken over the submarine and threaten to fire its nuclear weapons.
Style:
suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, terrorism, die hard, disaster, boat, ambassador, u.s. navy, sex scene, terrorist, terrorist plot, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
33%
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9-1-1 similar movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, climate, apocalypse, hitman, assassination attempt, warning, battles, survival, heroes, media ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
firefighter, disaster, escapades, danger, society, survival, saving a life, firefight, team, partner, climate, emergency ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hijacking, one man army, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place:
washington d.c., france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, skyscraper, firefighter, catastrophe, fire, survival, tower, rescue, trapped, christmas, danger, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Movies like The Towering Inferno
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
disaster, fire, firefighter, revenge, arson, natural disaster, rescue, trapped, city, firefight, canuxploitation, firefighting ...
Time:
year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A USGS scientist attempts to convince his boss and the residents of Angel Falls, California that a nearby volcano is about to erupt.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
volcano, disaster, natural disaster, lava, pregnant woman, resort, chaos and mayhem, forces of nature, chases and races, save the day, heroes, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
428
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, save the day, one man army, special agent, master criminal, danger, vengeance, race against time, rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Style:
surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, arson, arsonist, delusion, investigation, law enforcement, fire, tragic hero, rescue, escapades, race against time, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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401
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 ⇓
30%
888
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 ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, forces of nature, mysterious character, save the day, chases and races, government agency, heroes, alien encounter ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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834
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 ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The President of the United States, in the midst of negative public opinion, is kidnapped while attending a charity function. However, this is all part of a plan to boost his ratings, the 'kidnappers' being a CIA black ops team. It seems ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, kidnapping, undercover, rescue, daring rescue, heroes, save the day, president, secret agent, special agent, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Films like Backdraft
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
life turned upside down, rivalry, danger, on the run, going straight, dishonesty, violent content, sexual content, profanity, criminal heroes, chases and races, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to ...
Style:
cliffhanger, anamorphic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, prison, firefighter, firefight, natural disaster, fire, hostage, survival, fugitives, forest fire, violence, firefighting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
354
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Style:
serious, exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, heat wave, medicine, nypd, hospital, quarantine, couple relations, chases and races, escapades, danger, race against time, plague ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, chases and races, murder investigation, bomb, medicine, serial killer, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A dangerous criminal hijacks a plane with his fellow prisoners and threatens to crash it into a populated area. The agent who captured him sets out to stop him.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
hijacking, die hard, airplane hijack, airplane, hostage, confined, daring rescue, danger, law enforcement, special agent, abduction, federal bureau of investigation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Films like Ladder 49
343
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 ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, rescue, race against time, danger, save the day, politics, secret agent, special agent, government agency, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A navy pilot fakes his own death and steals a stealth fighter plane from a U.S.A.F base. He then acts as a mercenary, targeting military installations around the world.
Style:
independent film, surprise ending, exciting, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, fighter jet, submarine, die hard, military, aviation, boat, shootout, special forces, commando mission, showdown, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
latin america, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles cop who's joined to try and make up for an earlier PR blunder, to a tropical island to hunt for a buried treasure worth ten ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot:
treasure hunt, natural disaster, island, survival, escapades, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, dishonesty, criminal heroes, chaos and mayhem, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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