Movies like Air Force One Down
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Air Force One Down (2024)
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
On her first assignment aboard Air Force One, a rookie Secret Service agent faces the ultimate test when terrorists hijack the plane, intent on derailing a pivotal energy deal. With the President's life on the line and a global crisis at stake, her bravery and skills are pushed to the limit in a relentless battle that could change the course of history.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, intense, action packed, captivating, thrilling, patriotic, powerful
Plot:
terrorism, rookie, president, secret service, counter terrorism, national security, war on terror, airplane, terrorist, agent, hijacking, save the world, capture, airplane hijack, terrorist attack, save the day, survival, hostage, rescue, heroism, bravery, struggle for survival, military, conspiracy, espionage ...
Place:
washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and intense films with plots about terrorism, terrorist, conspiracy, survival, espionage, hostage and betrayal mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Air Force One Down: One More Shot (2024), State of Siege: Temple Attack (2021), Airliner Sky Battle (2020), Jade (2025), 97 Minutes (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Following the attack on the black site in Poland, Navy SEAL Jake Harris is ordered to escort terrorist suspect Amin Mansur to Washington D.C. for interrogation. Before the prisoner transfer process is complete, though, the airport is attacked by a ...
Style:
intense, thrilling, captivating, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, war on terror, special agent, agent, mission, military, gunfight, navy seal, hostage, combat, special ops ...
Place:
washington d.c., poland
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95%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on the true incident of the 2002 terrorist attack in Gujarat's Akshardham temple, the story revolves around the bravery of NSG commandos, who stood up for their country and their people in the worst of times.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, action thriller, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, terrorist attack, hostage situation, rescue mission, heroism, counter terrorism, commando unit, war on terror, terrorist group, mission, sacrifice ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
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68%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Russian operatives hijack a commercial American jet, planning to crash it into a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. resulting in fallout that will devastate the Eastern seaboard. With little time for Air Force fighters to shoot it down, the ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hijacking, terrorism, propaganda, russophobia, terrorist, suicide mission, nuclear threat, suicide, terror, nuclear power plant, hostage situation, survival ...
Similarity:
63%
682
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jade presents the story of a woman who comes between a powerful businessman and a gang leader in their search for a hard drive that could damage the operations of Interpol. Despite grieving for the brother she accidentally killed, the woman is ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, action packed ...
Plot:
corruption, female protagonist, organized crime, guilt, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, grief, conspiracy, cat and mouse, gang leader, betrayal, violent ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hijacked 767 will crash in just 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of NSA Deputy Toyin, NSA Director Hawkins prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
undercover agent, remote control, cia, nuclear bomb, doctor, interpol, morse code, terrorist attack, hijacking, hostage, terrorism, deception ...
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassination of president, conspiracy, spy, espionage, family in danger, hostage, kidnapping, assassination, frame up, special agent, scapegoat, assassination plot ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A semi-retired special ops assassin and a DEA agent cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
terrorist, special ops, agent, terrorism, father son relationship, hitman, special agent, murderer, entity, criminal organization, espionage, hacking ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weeks after the deadly assault on Fortress Camp, Robert makes a daring rescue to save Sasha, the widow of his old nemesis Balzary. But back in the camp's command bunker, it appears Sasha may have devious plans of her own. As a new attack breaks ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, intense ...
Plot:
hostage, spy, sniper, fight, fighting crime, battles, crime boss, criminal, murderer, murder, gunfight, rescue ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense
Plot:
terrorist, counter terrorism, army, hostage, hospital, terrorist attack, hostage situation, showdown, rescue mission, fighting crime, terrorism, confronting the past ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
As Israel is rocked by a series of terrorist bombings, a US senator's daughter is killed in one bloody explosion. Now, ex-Mossad agent Etan must lead an elite, covert team of agents and mercenaries to find the man responsible—the elusive ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
military, occupation, mossad, manhunt, terrorism, suicide bomber, wartime life, war zone, soldier, israeli palestinian conflict, palestinian-israeli conflict, wartime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
Style:
action thriller, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, undercover agent, covert operation, spy thriller, espionage, cia, agent, undercover police officer, battles, swashbuckler, working undercover, arms dealer ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An Indian army officer goes after the mastermind behind a terror attack that also resulted in personal loss to him.
Style:
tense, suspense, action packed, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, military, working undercover, undercover agent, fighting crime, criminal gang, organized crime, terrorist group, terrorist plot, counter terrorism, war on terror, terrorism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Operation Gold Fish is an upcoming Telugu action thriller film written and directed by Sai Kiran Adivi.
Style:
suspenseful, action thriller, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, special forces, war on terror, special agent, terror, special ops, secret mission, swat, mission, swat team, national security, military ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
kashmir, india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In this ticking clock action-thriller, a courier's last delivery of the day may also be the last day of his life. Strapped with explosives, he must fight for his life while trying to solve a mystery involving both his family and a criminal ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bomb, death threat, problem, terrorist, fight, threat, bomb threat, terrorism, mission, delivery man, hostage, survival ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, fast paced, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, military, rescue mission, special agent, national security, rescue attempt, infiltration, confrontation, heroism, covert operation, government facility ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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591
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A soldier searching for his missing wife breaks into a high-tech facility, believing she's been caught in a human trafficking ring. But beyond its walls, he finds a surreal, futuristic fantasy park where reality and illusion blur. As he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, surreal, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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37%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, politics, daring rescue, u.s. president, commando mission, propaganda ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, dark, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jihad, terrorism, terrorist, islam, turk, intelligence, investigation, espionage, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, betrayal, geopolitics ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, washington d.c., london, turkey
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria, India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, saga, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, secret service, hostage, terrorist, president, conspiracy, one man army, terrorist attack, save the day, danger, u.s. president, propaganda ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, tokyo, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
36%
260
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Chaos reigns in Los Angeles when three criminals, led by a psychotic mastermind named McMasters, takes over a police station and threaten to kill everyone in it unless a large ransom is paid. FBI special agent Roger Kinkaid uses his extensive ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
hostage, fbi agent, ransom, armed forces, swat team, agent, criminal, hostage situation, psychopath, ransom demand, taken hostage, law enforcement ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Intense drama based on the 1984 hijacking of bus line 300, in which 41 passengers and a bus driver were attacked and held captive by terrorists in Israel.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, hostage situation, kidnapping, terrorist, bus, abduction, terrorist attack, taken hostage, problem, rescue attempt, confined space ...
Place:
israel
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, fast paced, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
terrorist, hostage, rescue mission, armed forces, rescue, mission, heroic mission, dangerous mission, danger, swat, domestic terrorism, fight ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
33%
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, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
freezer, kidnapping, danger, confined, hostage, twists and turns, struggle for survival, claustrophobia, prisoner, gang, isolation, cold ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, fast paced ...
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, sniper, hostage, assassin, serial murder, murder, terrorist attack, blackmail, blackmailer, murderer, murder mystery ...
Place:
london, berlin germany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.
Style:
intense, tense, psychological, realistic, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, hostage, taxi driver, jeopardy, terrorist attack, bomb, bomb threat, threat, danger, characters in danger, death threat ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of which they have never seen.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mission, battles, military, vietnam war, ambush, combat, fight, agent, team, special agent, risk, threat ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a group of ex-military members is hired to retrieve a lost bag of stolen money, their mission becomes more difficult after a lone hunter finds the bag first.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, fast paced ...
Plot:
ex military, problem, money, secret mission, mission, team, military, money problems, stolen money, manhunt, forest, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
32%
811
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Arjun aka Ramakrishna is a RAW marshall from Delhi who has a 100% success rate at nabbing terrorists. What happens when he makes enemies out of India's most wanted Ibrahim Qureshi and his son Sohail?
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, action packed ...
Plot:
terrorism, spy thriller, spy, espionage, counter terrorism, problem, fight, war on terror, fighting crime, special agent, agent, terrorist ...
Place:
india, delhi
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.
Style:
tense, political thriller, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
assassination of president, prime minister, usa president, blackmail, conspiracy, murder, hostage, assassination, kidnapping, murderer, criminal, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
belgium, washington d.c.
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage situation, airplane hijack, hostage negotiator, hijacking, politics, aviation, terrorist attack, terrorist, capture, economic crisis, political unrest ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
31%
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