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 suspense, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, exciting and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with race against time, danger, rescue, chases and races, death, escape, explosion, murder, survival and heroes plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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race against time movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as race against time: In Time (2011), 24 (2001), Ready Player One (2018), Leviathan (1989), Buried (2010), The Cell (2000), Escape from New York (1981), No Escape (2015), Interstellar (2014), Need for Speed (2014).

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 6.7
 443K
In Time (2011)
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, philosophical, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, distopia, dystopic future, dystopia, class differences, life & death, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, los angeles
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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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Ready Player One (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
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, love, teenage boy, dystopia, computer, teamwork, evil corporation, friendship ...
Time: future, 2040s, 2010s, jurassic, near future ...
Place: ohio, empire state building manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.8
 23K
Leviathan (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
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, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ship, monster, creature feature, experiment gone awry, race against time, sea, survival, sea monster, ocean, suicide, survival horror, shipwreck ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic ocean, rome italy, italy
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 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
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, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
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 6.4
 109K
The Cell (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style: psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, mind game, fbi, investigation, schizophrenia, dream ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: california
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Escape from New York (1981)
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: apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: dystopia, cyberpunk, prison, race against time, escape, post apocalypse, hostage, dystopian future, end of the world, rescue, distopia, darkness ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1981, distant future ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.7
 92K
No Escape (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
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: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot: survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
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 8.7
 2.1M
Interstellar (2014)
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, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 201 min.
Story: Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, breathtaking, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, manly ...
Plot: sword fight, wizard, magic, magical, battles, creature, courage, monster, friendship, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran
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 6.4
 178K
Need for Speed (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, 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, road movie, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: car chase, car, 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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 8.2
 667K
1917 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
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: tense, period piece, entertaining, sad, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, death, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time: year 1917, 1910s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2019
Place: persia, britain, los angeles, france
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 5.9
 76K
Daylight (1996)
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
Plot: survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, post apocalyptic, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, dystopian future, apocalypse, earthquake, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, one man army, danger ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
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, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
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: exciting, suspense, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, disaster, plague, terrorism, survival, race against time, train crash, quarantine, virus, disease, military, natural disaster ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: geneva switzerland, poland, europe, germany, switzerland
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Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
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: exciting, intense, entertaining, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car thief, car theft, caper, master criminal, danger, racing, theft ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.7
 449K
Armageddon (1998)
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, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, outer space, asteroid, race against time, self sacrifice, nasa ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place: new york, paris france, washington d.c., usa, istanbul turkey ...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
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, police, heist, race against time, bomb, police officer, car chase, revenge, weapons, puzzle, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, harlem ...
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 6.5
 105K
Cellular (2004)
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, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.5
 140K
Nerve (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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: exciting, suspense, romantic, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, game, internet, hacker, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, rivalry, danger, friendship, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york, seattle
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 7.4
 115K
Frequency (2000)
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, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time: future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: new york, usa
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
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, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: spy, cold war, secret service, reluctant partners, cia, culture clash, espionage, chase, secret agent, cia agent, mission, race against time ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2015, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place: italy, germany, london, east germany, usa ...
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 6.5
 112K
Octopussy (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
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, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, cold war, secret agent, circus, 007, terrorism, race against time, espionage, agent, secret service, british secret service, kgb ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, east germany, east berlin, fictional island, asia ...
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 4.5
 9K
The Swarm (1978)
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: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, race against time, panic, small town, military, bee, survival, antidote, plague, danger, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
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 5.9
 24K
Piranha (1978)
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, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: piranha, killer fish, killer animal, fish, summer camp, beach, water, rescue, experiment, resort, race against time, animal attack ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, vietnam
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
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
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, firefighter, rescue, survival, natural disaster, race against time, trapped, fire, trapped in a building, architect ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california
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 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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