Countdown movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant countdown movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological and serious films and TV shows about / with countdown, survival, violence, race against time, danger, moral dilemma, death, murder, betrayal and claustrophobia plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Colombia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as countdown: Countdown (2019), Demonic (2015), Would You Rather (2012), The Belko Experiment (2016), Oppenheimer (2023), The Specialist (1994), Permanent Residence (2009), Unfriended (2014), Apollo 13 (1995), Countdown (2016).
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52K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Style:
mysterious, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
phone terror, countdown, fear, demon, teenager, youth, supernatural, race against time, curse, death, survival, accident ...
Time:
21st century
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18K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
Style:
scary, demonic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
haunted house, possession, teenager, characters murdered one by one, ghost, demon, missing person, video surveillance, characters killed one by one, investigation, disappearance, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
game of death, survival, group of strangers, danger, torture, game, deathtrap, mind game, psychopath, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, plot twist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be ...
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, slasher, psychological thriller, bloody ...
Plot:
game of death, social experiment, killing spree, office, trapped in a building, last man standing, cruelty, human experiment, murder, mass murder, corporation, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, sex scene, hitman, haunted by the past, bomb, vengeance, femme fatale, murder, redemption, assassination, anti hero, ex cia agent ...
Time:
year 1994, year 1984, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
Style:
erotic, philosophical, romantic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay love, gay romance, gay, unrequited love, gay lead character, homoeroticism, skinny dipping, romantic friendship, brother brother relationship, male nudity, countdown ...
Place:
hong kong, china, tel aviv israel, jerusalem, australia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, teen horror, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, internet, found footage, teenager, suicide, youth, ghost, cyberbullying, computer, social media, revenge, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
334K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
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, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, survival, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, space exploration, race against time, trapped in space, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, north america, texas, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A madman captures a young boy and rigs him with explosives. Ray Fitzpatrick, still haunted by the loss of his own son, will defy orders to stop the clock and save a life
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough ...
Plot:
countdown, wrestling, race against time, police, kidnapping, hostage, child in peril, danger, bomb squad, criminal, brutality, violence ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
Style:
psychological, suspense, clever, scary, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
claustrophobia, survival, mathematics, locked in a room, group of strangers, maze, time travel, time warp, parallel universe, time loop, paranoia, virtual reality ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and ...
Style:
art house, masterpiece
Plot:
arabian nights, queen, economic crisis, countdown, singing competition, tyrant, contest, demonstration, fistfight, male full rear nudity, killing an animal, octopus ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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135K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, psychological, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, plot twist, trap, game of death, mind game, gory, violent, killer, vigilante, police investigation, sadism, serial killer ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, europe
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70K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are ...
Style:
perverse, spiritual, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
destruction, reincarnation, final showdown, struggle, memories, schizophrenia, past life, russian roulette, snow, final battle, female warrior, secret ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, year 1985
Place:
north america, new york, scotland, mexico city, indonesia ...
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687
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The first wave of an alien invasion coincides with a New Years Eve party in a Welsh valley.
Style:
visually stunning, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, futuristic ...
Plot:
alien invasion, new year, air force base, countdown, ferry, spaceship, spacecraft, distopia, human in outer space, survival horror, space, violent ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2014, year 1996, year 2012
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An incoming ballistic missile to Hawaii changes twelve people's lives when they discover they have 20 minutes to live.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, apocalyptic, suspense
Plot:
missile, countdown, nuclear missile, threat, death threat, race against time, nuclear threat, rocket launching, rocket, anxiety, panic, island ...
Place:
hawaii
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Genre: Music
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Jools Holland's annual countdown to Near Year.
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
celebration, holiday, singing, musical performance, new year's eve, countdown, concert, party, tradition, variety show, piano, ritual ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Rick's pizza delivery job takes a wild turn when he stumbles upon a dying man who tasks him to race across town before midnight to uncover a twisted game.
Style:
crime thriller, fast paced, suspenseful, twist ending, road movie ...
Plot:
countdown, urban, chase, reluctant hero, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, urban decay, cat and mouse, desperation, corruption, violence, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
What happens when a washed up KGB agent, who has defected to the United States, gets into the back seat of an Uber with a Nuclear Bomb he has to disarm in 48 hours?
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear bomb, satire, espionage, countdown, problem, nuclear threat, bomb, bomb threat, secret agent, threat, race against time, special agent ...
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
988
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, deathtrap, isolation, survival horror, locked in, eye, kidnapping, race against time, moral dilemma, countdown, trapped in a building, struggle for survival ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
mixed martial arts, father daughter relationship, boxing, martial arts, countdown, protective father, male protagonist, fight, father, enemy, father and daughter, daughter ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is taken to the Joint Operations Center by police officer Shi Qiang, who's investigating the mysterious suicide wave among scientists worldwide, and recruited to sneak into an organization called the ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
ufo, alien, technology, advanced technology, alien technology, experimental technology, hi-tech, futuristic technology, extraterrestrial technology, countdown, secret, alien encounter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
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142
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two Americans wake up in Dakar, Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests ticking down from ten hours. Guided by a threatening voice on the phone, these men complete a series of violent tasks that spark widespread protest against Western ...
Style:
suspense, intense, political thriller
Plot:
terrorism, violence, countdown, hostage, extremism, desperation, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, survival, coercion, moral dilemma, international relations ...
Place:
senegal, africa, west africa
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A rootless genius, Iris Nixon, steals an enigmatic code from a charming philanthropist and disappears. A tense countdown ensues as she races to unravel the code's mystery.
Style:
suspense, tense, neo noir, twist ending
Plot:
countdown, cat and mouse, obsession, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, manipulation, anti hero, heist, surveillance, hi-tech, moral dilemma, identity ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
.A countdown of the greatest superstars in WWE History. From Hulk Hogan to Randy Savage to The Rock to John Cena enjoy an experience down memory lane for long-time fans, and a new experience for new fans of WWE.
Style:
semi autobiographical, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing
Plot:
legacy, legend, champion, wrestling, dream, title bout, king, giant, boxing, combat, fan, professional wrestling ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
florida
Is relevant?
382
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers, one an FBI agent and the other an international money launderer, put aside their differences and band together to save their family by going after a perilous extraction deep in kingpin territory.
Style:
suspense, fast paced, crime thriller, tense
Plot:
brotherhood, criminal underworld, family drama, countdown, dangerous mission, loyalty, organized crime, fbi agent, rescue, urban, crime family, siblings ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yemen
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A number of obstacles stands in the way of a young couple as only 10 days are left for their wedding, each obstacle is in one way or another caused by the aftermath of the 2015 war in Yemen.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional, tense, intense ...
Plot:
wedding, resilience, economic crisis, social realism, civil unrest, countdown, young couple, social commentary, family bonds, family conflict, hopes, domestic drama ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The events occur between 4:45 am and 6:15 am in the Colombian jungle. Mark, an American contractor wakes up doped, tortured and hung up by the arms next to a local prostitute that acts as interpreter whilst the kidnappers want to hack a 60 billion ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
jungle, murder, torture, kidnapping, prostitute, oil company, abduction, hostage, race against time, survival, desperation, interrogation ...
Place:
colombia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A young man has a mere six hours to escape with his best friend from their hometown before a nuclear reactor explodes.
Style:
suspense, tension, apocalyptic
Plot:
nuclear threat, escape, countdown, friendship, survival, disaster, evacuation, small town, desperation, road trip, apocalypse, uncertainty ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
Style:
suspense, sincere, touching, captivating, tear jerker ...
Plot:
dog, animal shelter, animal rights, human animal relationship, puppy, animal rescue, compassion, motherhood, saving a life, animal, pets, salvation ...
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