20 movies like Fail-Safe, ordered by similarity : Greenland(2020), Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula(2020), Redemption(2013), Angel Heart(1987), Fail Safe(2000), The Wall(2017), Most Beautiful Island(2017), Neither Heaven Nor Earth(2015), Pickup on South Street(1953), Seven Days in May(1964), The Sum of All Fears(2002), John Wick: Chapter 2(2017) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
111 Minutes
Henry Fonda Walter Matthau Dan O'Herlihy Sorrell Booke Larry Hagman Frank Overton Dom DeLuise
president pilot soldier soviet soldier chairman suspenseful bleak dark gripping moscow new york city washington, d.c. airplane cold war destruction technology military nuclear attack pursuit sacrifice
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK
2020
119 Minutes
Gerard Butler Morena Baccarin Roger Dale Floyd Scott Glenn David Denman Hope Davis Andrew Bachelor Joshua Mikel Claire Bronson Gary Weeks
traveler estranged wife young boy son neighbor soldier bleak frightening intense gripping suspenseful earth road safe house military academy airport greenland threat of extinction comet sighting apocalypse
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Horror, Action, Mystery & Thriller
South Korea
2020
116 Minutes
Gang Dong-won Lee Jung-hyun Re Lee Hae-hyo Kwon John D. Michaels Min-jae Kim Do-yoon Kim Ye-won Lee Daniel Joey Albright Pierce Conran Geoffrey Giuliano
zombie soldier militia member sister nephew brother-in-law family mobster rogue agent bleak brutal chilling dark creepy eerie engaging gripping gritty intense uneasy
A zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all South Korea. 4 Koreans in HK sail thru the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a truck.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|USA
2013
100 Minutes
Jason Statham Agata Buzek Vicky McClure Benedict Wong Victoria Bewick David Bradley Siobhan Hewlett Lee Asquith-Coe Senem Temiz Ian Pirie
soldier ex-soldier homeless person fighter british man girl dead person nun romantic interest love interest criminal crime boss dark gripping gritty gutsy intense shocking suspenseful tense
A damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
1987
113 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling Stocker Fontelieu Brownie McGhee Michael Higgins Charles Gordone Kathleen Wilhoite
private investigator singer daughter satan magician dark gripping suspenseful new york city new orleans hotel racetrack mystery murder secret detective voodoo investigation mystery pursuit
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Mystery & Thriller
2000
97 Minutes
George Clooney Noah Wyle Richard Dreyfuss Hank Azaria Brian Dennehy Harvey Keitel Don Cheadle James Cromwell Sam Elliott John Diehl Norman Lloyd
general colonel president translator pilot gripping tense omaha, neb. arctic moscow pentagon white house nuclear war cold war difficult decision international conflict military rivalry rescue 1960s
An Air Force bomber pilot (George Clooney) receives erroneous orders to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Mystery & Thriller, War
USA
2017
90 Minutes
soldier sniper enemy bleak brooding chilling emotional suspenseful iraq field village desert survival military engagement war iraq war escape rivalry sacrifice mystery
Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2017
80 Minutes
Ana Asensio Natasha Romanova David Little Nicholas Tucci Larry Fessenden Caprice Benedetti Anna Myrha Ami Sheth Miriam A. Hyman Sara Visser Natalia Zvereva
illegal immigrant young woman bleak brooding emotional moving intense suspenseful new york city united states survival redemption struggle danger illegal immigration illicit business darkness dark secrets sacrifice underdog
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, War
France|Belgium
2015
100 Minutes
Jérémie Renier Swann Arlaud Marc Robert Kévin Azaïs Finnegan Oldfield Christophe Tek Clément Bresson Sâm Mirhosseini Edouard Court Steve Tientcheu
soldier insurgent gripping frightening thrilling creepy eerie brooding gritty afghanistan war military life missing persons mission escape mystery fall 2010s
While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu's men start vanishing one by one without explanation.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Richard Widmark Jean Peters Thelma Ritter Murvyn Vye Richard Kiley Willis Bouchey Milburn Stone Henry Slate George Eldredge Stuart Randall Maurice Samuels
prostitute pickpocket communist informant fbi agent dark suspenseful gripping new york city subway library waterfront espionage communism theft fbi murder pursuit mystery transformation
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
118 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Fredric March Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Martin Balsam George Macready Whit Bissell Hugh Marlowe
president military officer assistant mistress tense intricate suspenseful washington, d.c. white house office army base texas politics deception political coup cold war discovery rivalry pursuit 1960s
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Canada
2002
118 Minutes
Ben Affleck Morgan Freeman James Cromwell Liev Schreiber Bridget Moynahan Alan Bates Ciarán Hinds Philip Baker Hall Ron Rifkin Bruce McGill Colm Feore
cia agent president scientist partner secret agent cia analyst thrilling suspenseful gripping intense washington, d.c. baltimore white house government building cia office big city espionage war terrorism nuclear attack
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Italy|Hong Kong|Canada
2017
122 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Common Laurence Fishburne Riccardo Scamarcio Ruby Rose Lance Reddick Peter Stormare Bridget Moynahan Franco Nero John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin widower dog enemy crime boss murderer soldier guard criminal thrilling tense suspenseful engaging gripping intense united states italy art museum city catacombs
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Canada
2017
91 Minutes
Sean Bean Patrick Sabongui Joel David Moore Mary McCormack Maxwell Haynes Sharon Taylor Kirby Morrow Kevin O'Grady Bradley Stryker
contractor pilot wife son husband businessman brooding dark gripping powerful house suburbia pakistan battlefield military technology terrorism civilian deaths war taliban discovery
Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Canada
2018
110 Minutes
Jovan Adepo Wyatt Russell Pilou Asbæk Mathilde Ollivier John Magaro Iain De Caestecker Jacob Anderson Dominic Applewhite Bokeem Woodbine Marc Rissmann
paratrooper enemy soldier nazi zombie scientist bleak creepy brutal gory thrilling suspenseful village laboratory office underground shelter airplane nazi occupation soldiers world war ii
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2011
112 Minutes
Kyle Chandler Elle Fanning Joel Courtney Gabriel Basso Ron Eldard Noah Emmerich Riley Griffiths Ryan Lee Zach Mills AJ Michalka Glynn Turman
teen boy teen girl friend father deputy military officer thrilling emotional endearing suspenseful gripping heartwarming ohio train tracks lair small town household military base train crash filmmaking
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2010
107 Minutes
Naomi Watts Sean Penn Sam Shepard Ty Burrell David Andrews Brooke Smith Noah Emmerich Bruce McGill Michael Kelly Liraz Charchi Khaled Nabawy
cia agent wife husband writer diplomat government official thrilling tense suspenseful washington, d.c. new york city government offices city home secret identity journalism corruption leaked information chase betrayal
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2012
138 Minutes
Denzel Washington Don Cheadle Kelly Reilly John Goodman Bruce Greenwood Brian Geraghty Tamara Tunie Melissa Leo Nadine Velazquez Peter Gerety Garcelle Beauvais
pilot co-pilot passenger investigator drug dealer drug addict gripping dark emotional airplane bar office household airplane crash substance abuse investigation lifestyle changes rescue transformation 2010s
An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Mexico|Guatemala
2010
97 Minutes
Scoot McNairy Whitney Able Mario Zuniga Benavides Annalee Jefferies Justin Hall Ricky Catter Paul Archer Stan Wong
journalist american tourist soldier monster gripping profound mexico border infectious disease aliens quarantine journey destruction military quest wretched excess escape 2010s
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2017
120 Minutes
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Lake Bell Jon Bernthal Emory Cohen Jeffrey Donovan Benjamin Bratt Jessy Schram Evan Jones
stockbroker gang leader gang member husband inmate white supremacist brooding brutal dark gripping tense thrilling california chino state prison prison street city criminal underworld gang war gangs
A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|France|Turkey
2009
101 Minutes
Kate Beckinsale Gabriel Macht Tom Skerritt Columbus Short Alex O'Loughlin Shawn Doyle Joel Keller Jesse Todd Arthur Holden Erin Hicock Bashar Rahal
u.s. marshal doctor friend pilot scientist government agent suspenseful chilling gripping antarctica research station airplane office settlement outdoors murder isolation survival darkness dark secrets
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.