Race against time movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant race against time movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, serious and cult classic films and TV shows about / with race against time, chase, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, danger, storytelling, death, chases and races and escape plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as race against time: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), In Time (2011), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Need for Speed (2014), No Escape (2015), Cellular (2004), 1917 (2019), Leviathan (1989), Interstellar (2014), Source Code (2011).
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List of race against time movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are ...
Style:
stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, secret service, reluctant partners, culture clash, cia, cia agent, undercover, chase, secret agent, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 2015, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, germany, london, rome italy, east germany ...
Is relevant?
480K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time:
future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place:
usa, los angeles, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, terrorism, revenge, race against time, lone hero, heist, police, buddy cop, car chase, terrorist, police officer, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
car, car chase, street racing, car race, race, ford mustang, race against time, frame up, cross country, justice, racing, driver ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco, new york, detroit ...
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98K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, suspense thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, coup d'etat, family in danger, riot, execution, race against time, escape, rebellion, american abroad, danger, wrong place wrong time, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam, middle east ...
Is relevant?
110K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, cell phone, lone hero, violence, race against time, home invasion, kidnapped, telephone call, family in danger, psychopath, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Is relevant?
761K
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style:
period piece, visually stunning, tense, entertaining, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, race against time, soldier, british soldier, british army, death, battlefield, military, british military, dangerous mission, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 20th century, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
persia, los angeles, britain, europe, france
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style:
scary, rough, exciting, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ship, experiment gone awry, sea, monster, creature feature, race against time, sea monster, creature, shipwreck, survival horror, suicide, ocean ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic ocean, italy, rome italy
Is relevant?
2.5M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
Is relevant?
579K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, twists and turns, memory, save the day, changing the past or future, destiny, terrorism, time ...
Time:
future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
Is relevant?
122K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, road movie, action packed, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
chase, delivery, organized crime, bicycle, cyclist, on the run, cycling, race against time, corrupt cop, police corruption, voice over narration, money ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, china, seattle ...
Is relevant?
81K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, race against time, tunnel, trapped, rescue, catastrophe, taxi driver, fire, self sacrifice, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, ocean liner, race against time, underwater, sea disaster, cruise ship, sea, sinking ship, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, train, terrorism, race against time, plague, survival, railway, train crash, quarantine, undercover, train wreck, disease ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
476K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, race against time, self sacrifice, asteroid, nasa, save the world ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, taj mahal ...
Is relevant?
176K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, trapped, buried alive, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, threat, panic, desperation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Jake Blues is just out of jail, and teams up with his brother, Elwood on a 'mission from God' to raise funds for the orphanage in which they grew up. The only thing they can do is do what they do best – play music – so they get their ...
Style:
funny, road movie, hilarious, surreal, action comedy ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
music, chase, prison, blues, race against time, road trip, car chase, redemption, musician, police chase, on the road, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
chicago, illinois, indiana, arizona, usa ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India, Singapore, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Style:
exciting, captivating, atmospheric, stylized, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, video game, virtuality, geek, dystopia, teenage boy, love, quest, computer, teamwork, virtual world ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, jurassic, 80s ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, ohio, new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, sea monster, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, survival, disaster, sea creature, shark, ship, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, prehistory, 80s
Is relevant?
297K
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Iceland, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, dark fantasy, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
witch, magic, true love, fantasy world, magical, curses spells and rituals, sword fight, love and romance, imaginary kingdom, fall in love, chase, imaginary ...
Time:
19th century, year 2007, 2000s, future, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe
Is relevant?
206K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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:
cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, president, political conspiracy, terrorist, terrorist plot, secret service, government agency, race against time, assassination of president, bodyguard, twists and turns, assassination attempt ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, new york, usa ...
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147K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, teen, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, game, internet, hacker, danger, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, friendship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
new york, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few "boost happy" pals to accomplish a seemingly ...
Style:
intense, entertaining, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car theft, organized crime, betrayal, car thief, master criminal, machismo, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, time machine, danger, alternate reality, heroic mission, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, technology, jungle, race against time, killer animal ...
Time:
future, prehistory, prehistoric times, 1900s, year 2005
Place:
chicago, illinois
Is relevant?
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
120K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. James Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Style:
exciting, tense, saga, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, espionage, cold war, circus, secret agent, 007, race against time, terrorism, agent, secret service, female nudity, train ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india, east germany, west germany, east berlin, fictional island ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, bee, race against time, panic, small town, survival, military, antidote, plague, scientist, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
texas, houston texas, latin america, austin texas
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Style:
natural horror, perverse, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
piranha, fish, killer fish, killer animal, animal attack, rescue, resort, race against time, water, disaster, swimming, summer camp ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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