Explosions movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant explosions movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting, cult classic, entertaining and serious films and TV shows about / with explosions, explosion, betrayal, gunfight, vengeance, weapons, gun, chase, dialogue and mentor plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as explosions: The Kingdom (2007), Operation Red Sea (2018), Lock Up (1989), Point of No Return (1993), Predators (2010), Death Race: Inferno (2013), Bastille Day (2016), Hitman (2007), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), Parker (2013).
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137K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, investigation, military, fbi, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, deception, muslim, gunfight, war on terror, spy ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
middle east, saudi arabia, iraq, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Morocco
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist ...
Style:
breathtaking, exciting, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex special forces, chinese army, ship, nuclear, law enforcement, terrorism, desert, military, group of criminals, save the day, arms dealer, weapons ...
Place:
somalia, china, morocco
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49K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by ...
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, prison escape, prison warden, corruption, vengeance, prisoner, prison life, tough guy, electric chair, jail, self sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
hitman, female assassin, female spy, killer, female killer, female warrior, espionage, female martial artist, tough girl, murder, contract killer, death penalty ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., new orleans, california, europe, venice ...
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261K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, futuristic, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, monster, jungle, creature, space and aliens, evil alien, deadly creature, hunting, hi-tech, predator, alien life-form, survival horror ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, future
Place:
texas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, ...
Style:
bloody, brutal, suspense, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, desert, street racing, prison, chase, racing, female prisoner, runaway, car, confined, survival, chases and races ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2012, future
Place:
south africa, africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Plot:
pickpocket, terrorism, cia, cia agent, rogue agent, terrorist, strong female character, secret service, french police, intelligence agency, conspiracy, investigation ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
france, paris france
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185K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style:
serious, exciting, breathtaking, action packed, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, revenge, fight scenes, assassination, conspiracy, gun fu, genetically altered ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, istanbul turkey, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
father son relationship, violence, cia agent, tough cop, car chase, terrorist, terrorism, 007, american abroad, car accident, traffic jam, uranium ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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135K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, saga, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
heist, robbery, mafia, assassin, betrayal, revenge, kidnapping, hitman, romancing a criminal, car chase, fight scenes, gangster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, miami, chicago, new orleans ...
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337K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style:
exciting, action comedy, entertaining, action thriller, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
assassin, cia, spy, hitman, secret service, chase, female spy, on the run, ex cia agent, mercenary, mission, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, kansas, langley virginia, new york ...
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158K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Style:
surprise ending, clever, suspenseful, political, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, secret service, assassination attempt, president, conspiracy, assassination, assassination of president, kidnapping, chase, terrorist, betrayal, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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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:
suspenseful, sexy, exciting, cult classic, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
helicopter, aviation, conspiracy, helicopter pilot, chase, car chase, military, murder, vietnam war, law enforcement, terrorism, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, north america, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, absurd, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, prison, revenge, jungle, military, one man army, escape, martial arts, prison escape, explosions, survival, cannon ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
128K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style:
exciting, suspense, political, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
terrorism, revenge, cia, espionage, spy, terrorist, assassination, cia agent, politics, ira, hitman, traitor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., ireland, north africa, scotland yard, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to a protect beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic ...
Style:
saga, suspense, entertaining, action packed, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
james bond, 007, terrorism, femme fatale, secret service, agent, oil, secret agent, espionage, chase, spy, sex ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, turkey, istanbul turkey, basque country, england ...
Is relevant?
207K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, neo noir, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, car chase, cia, mafia, mercenary, covert operation, shootout, car, escapades, undercover, caper, ira ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style:
suspense, saga, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, 007, chase, female spy, world war three, top secret, hot and sexy, espionage, secret agent, secret service, female martial artist ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, hong kong, vietnam, china, england ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, environment, toxic, small town, betrayal, investigation, environmentalism, one man army, danger, good versus evil, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
kentucky, usa, appalachia, texas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, gangster, vigilante, lone hero, murder, vengeance, jamaican, violence, hand to hand combat, drug lord, voodoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, latin america ...
Is relevant?
69K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Style:
suspense, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, martial arts, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time loop, violence, danger, murder, alternate timeline, time jump ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 19th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., canada
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship ...
Style:
suspense, intense, exciting, action thriller, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hockey, terrorism, hostage, martial arts, one man army, female assassin, die hard, terrorist, fight scenes, explosions, hockey player, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, year 1993
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
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227K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized ...
Style:
exciting, fast, visually appealing, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
prison, car chase, racing, revenge, violence, car race, murder, betrayal, survival, tough guy, rivalry, ex convict ...
Time:
year 2008, future, year 2012, 2010s, 2020s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's ...
Style:
exciting, sexy, action packed, saga, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, female protagonist, archaeology, treasure, tomb, strong female lead, solar eclipse, archaeologist, artifact, lost treasure, kick-butt women, time travel ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
cambodia, iceland, italy, venice, siberia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, North Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The story in short: Some kind of evil people, have found out a way to extract bodily fluids from the base of the brain of unsuspecting victims. This fluid is then used for some reason or another. A couple of western heroes have to stop this in true ...
Style:
thrilling, fast paced, suspenseful, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, violence, explosions, mad scientist, rescue mission, exploitation, kidnapping, revenge, blood, vietnam war, agent, body horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
asia, europe
Is relevant?
48K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, retro, cult classic, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
safecracker, bank robbery, robbery, mafia, organized crime, character study, heist, criminal, bank robber, great ending, violence, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, scary, saga, suspense ...
Plot:
alien, robot, space travel, dystopia, strong female lead, female android, evil alien, alien invasion, strong female character, space and aliens, androids, monster ...
Time:
future, 24th century, year 1997, 90s
Is relevant?
468K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style:
captivating, inspirational, tense, exciting, crime drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, labor union, italian mafia, gangster, killer as protagonist, high society, old man, mob hit, arrest, prison, hitman ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 1940s, year 1960, 70s ...
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, chicago, ireland, washington d.c. ...
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386K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, entertaining, funny, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
one man army, tough guy, secret identity, retribution, revenge, martial arts, one against many, home invasion, twists and turns, vigilante, chase, vengeance ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
america, usa, pentagon
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