Mission gone awry movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mission gone awry movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense and exciting films and TV shows about / with mission gone awry, danger, heroes, explosion, survival, chases and races, mission, escapades, race against time and death plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mission gone awry: The Thing (2011), Space Cowboys (2000), The Expendables 2 (2012), In Bruges (2008), Sunshine (2007), Apollo 13 (1995), Secretly Greatly (2013), Hayabusa (2011), Chasing Christmas (2005), Frankenstein's Army (2013).

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 6.2
 145K
The Thing (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
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 6.5
 86K
Space Cowboys (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, nasa, astronaut, outer space, old age, space shuttle, space opera, space exploration, space, self sacrifice, human in outer space, satellite ...
Time: 20th century, year 1958, year 2000, y2k, future ...
Place: space western, california
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The Expendables 2 (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Style: exciting, action packed, bloody, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, ex military, villain, mercenary, hotshot, tough heroes, commando, revenge, terrorist plot, leader, heroes, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, china, new orleans, nepal, paris france ...
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 7.9
 459K
In Bruges (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, humorous, atmospheric, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: dark humor, hitman, guilt, haunted by the past, tourist, suicidal, friendship, death, suicide, assassin, dialogue, character study ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, future, medieval times, 21st century
Place: belgium, bruges, ireland, europe, bolivia ...
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 7.2
 266K
Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, end of the world, sun, earth, self sacrifice, spaceship, expedition, astronaut, heroic mission, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
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 7.7
 314K
Apollo 13 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style: factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, epic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot: astronaut, survival, nasa, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, outer space, race against time, space, space exploration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1970, year 1969 ...
Place: houston texas, usa, pacific ocean, texas, florida ...
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Secretly Greatly (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: As a North Korean sleeper cell agent, Ryu-han infiltrates the South and assumes the role of a village idiot in a rural town. He observes the townsfolk and waits patiently for his mission. One day, after 2 years of playing the role of the village ...
Style: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: espionage, spy, undercover, social relations, secret agent, mission gone awry, inter-korean relations, communism, politics, gain trust, fellow agent, bromance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, north korea, east asia
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 5.7
 125
Hayabusa (2011)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan
Story: May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the ...
Style: realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious
Plot: spacecraft, mission gone awry, danger, race against time, space travel, workplace, save the day, outer space, asteroid, chases and races, space and aliens, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Chasing Christmas (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, christmas classics
Plot: christmas, ghost, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, supernatural, sent to the past, christmas carol, mission, christmas spirit, xmas, holiday, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s
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Frankenstein's Army (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, nazi zombie, nazi, frankenstein, mad scientist, found footage, deadly creature, nazi occultism, undead, military, human experiment, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany
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Dead Space: Aftermath (2011)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The End was only the Beginning.The year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but now also the USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O'Bannon have ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, space horror, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, space, trapped in space, mission gone awry, survival, deadly creature, supernatural, space travel, space and aliens, danger, survival horror, imaginary ...
Time: future, 2010s
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 5.9
 15K
Phantom (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, political thriller ...
Plot: submarine, military, cold war, nuclear submarine, navy, nuclear threat, underwater, military life, mission gone awry, danger, sea disaster, haunted by the past ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, sea, underwater, nuclear, radiation sickness, disaster, sea disaster, nuclear threat ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1989, 80s ...
Place: soviet union, russia, nova scotia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
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The Challenger (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, intellectual ...
Plot: investigation, space shuttle, science, uncover truth, research, mission gone awry, scientist, satellite, space travel, professor, nasa, space exploration ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: usa, florida
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Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: military, confined, arab israeli conflict, sergeant, tank, mission gone awry, military life, moral dilemma, leadership, danger, battle zone, deathtrap ...
Time: year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
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 6.8
 320K
The Transporter (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, tough heroes, fight scenes, escapades, car, smuggling ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, europe, saint tropez, riviera ...
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 7.4
 24K
Paradise Now (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, controversial, depressing ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, islam, self sacrifice, israeli ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
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 7.7
 860K
Gravity (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: isolation, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, outer space, space station, loneliness, disaster, sole survivor, catastrophe, survivor ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, seattle, houston texas
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Special Agent Oso (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, South Korea
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Special Agent Oso is a Disney Channel interactive animated series created by Ford Riley. Special Agent Oso hit the air on April 4, 2009 with a six episode block, and the companion 15-episode series Three Healthy Steps first aired from February 14 to ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: special agent, heroes, mission gone awry, goofy hero, escapades, government agency, disorder, world spanning, music, panda
Time: 2000s, 2010s
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, soldier, heroes, battles, danger, military life, mission gone awry, daring rescue, cliche, tough heroes, nuclear threat, timebomb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, washington d.c., north korea
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Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, police corruption, investigation, uncover truth, vigilantism, partners against crime, working undercover, gunfight, corruption, partner, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
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 5.1
 1K
Legacy (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: soldier, conspiracy, obsession, rivalry, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, breaking point, dishonesty, losing-it hero, isolation, military, locked in a room ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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 5.9
 880
Stormforce (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Na een ‘incidentje’ tijdens een receptie voor de hoogste legertop wordt duiker Rick Symons naar het 40ste Search and Rescue smaldeel in Koksijde gestuurd. Rick wordt er opgenomen in een even competente als aparte Sea King crew. Zijn grootste ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: navy, daring rescue, danger, mission gone awry, partner, lone wolves, escapades, demotion, rescue mission, terrorism, rivalry, unsupportive coworkers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.1
 44K
Meet Dave (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: alien, space, friendship, benign alien, alien invasion, captain, humanity, stupidity, robot, alien encounter, disorder, crew ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.2
 10K
D-Day (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: 9 years ago Wali Khan (Irrfan Khan) was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao (Nasser) to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh (Arjun Rampal) Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: spy, espionage, terrorism, danger, mission gone awry, working undercover, terrorist, rivalry, islam, revenge, agent, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, pakistan, india
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Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence ...
Style: anime, computer animated, adult animation, sexy, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, military, alien, space wars, alien invasion, insect, heroes, danger, friendship, infantry, distant planet, space opera ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, 23rd century
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 6.1
 73K
Windtalkers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Style: realistic, factual, intense, stylized, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, war, native american, code, marines, artillery, wartime, battles, survival, soldier, friendship ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1943
Place: japan, america, arizona, asia, pacific ocean
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 8.3
 18K
Spooks (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: intelligence agency, cia, spy, terrorism, police, espionage, squad, code breaking, undercover, profanity, heroes, double agent ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, lebanon, europe, london, britain ...
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 8.4
 196K
24 (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method ...
Style: exciting, cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, president, political conspiracy, secret service, terrorist, terrorist plot, government agency, race against time, assassination of president, investigation, assassination attempt, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, middle east
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 7.8
 375K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
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