20 movies like Die Hard, ordered by similarity : John Wick(2014), Sicario: Day of the Soldado(2018), Dirty Harry(1971), John Wick: Chapter 2(2017), Skyscraper(2018), Speed(1994), The Foreigner(2017), The Equalizer(2014), 12 Rounds(2009), White House Down(2013), Female Agents(2008), Holiday(2014) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1988
131 Minutes
Bruce Willis Alan Rickman Bonnie Bedelia Reginald VelJohnson Alexander Godunov Paul Gleason William Atherton Hart Bochner
police officer hostage terrorist rival wealthy man thrilling gritty suspenseful intense office los angeles car elevator christmas party skyscraper robbery party christmas showdown explosion
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|China
2014
101 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Michael Nyqvist Alfie Allen Willem Dafoe Dean Winters Adrianne Palicki Omer Barnea Toby Leonard Moore Bridget Moynahan John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin wife mobster thug puppy fat person brooding dark intense thrilling suspenseful sad house car club office street apartment retirement murder
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA|Mexico
2018
122 Minutes
Benicio Del Toro Josh Brolin Isabela Moner Jeffrey Donovan Catherine Keener Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Matthew Modine Shea Whigham Elijah Rodriguez Howard Ferguson Jr. David Castañeda
attorney father hostage drug enforcement agent drug trafficker fbi agent brash gutsy gripping gritty unrestrained mexican-american border mexico office house car truck drug cartel drug trade revenge
The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
1971
103 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Harry Guardino Reni Santoni John Larch Andrew Robinson John Vernon John Mitchum Mae Mercer
police officer psychopath victim mayor clint eastwood gritty suspenseful thrilling san francisco school bus police station secret hideout crime scene kidnapping murder robbery suicide surveillance rebellion
When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
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
USA|Hong Kong
2018
102 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Neve Campbell Chin Han Roland Møller Noah Taylor Byron Mann Pablo Schreiber McKenna Roberts Noah Cottrell Hannah Quinlivan Adrian Holmes
fbi agent hostage veteran wife child criminal thrilling suspenseful confident tense gripping skyscraper office basement elevator apartment frame-up fire rescue family
A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1994
115 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Dennis Hopper Sandra Bullock Joe Morton Jeff Daniels Alan Ruck Glenn Plummer Richard Lineback Beth Grant Hawthorne James Carlos Carrasco
police officer terrorist bus driver passenger love interest thrilling positive confident los angeles airport highway bus elevator cars terrorism bomb heroism rescue pursuit quest
A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|China|USA|India
2017
114 Minutes
Jackie Chan Pierce Brosnan Ray Fearon Orla Brady Tao Liu Charlie Murphy David Pearse Rufus Jones Niall McNamee Rory Fleck-Byrne Stephen Hogan
businessman teen girl terrorist government official daughter shocking fiery gripping engaging thrilling suspenseful london street office car house big city murder grief terrorism
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2014
132 Minutes
Denzel Washington Marton Csokas Chloë Grace Moretz David Harbour Bill Pullman Melissa Leo Haley Bennett David Meunier Johnny Skourtis Alex Veadov Vladimir Kulich
mysterious man girl russian mobster vigilante co-worker robber brooding confident cool thrilling intense dark diner subway hospital warehouse store office justice secret identity
A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2009
108 Minutes
John Cena Aidan Gillen Ashley Scott Steve Harris Brian J. White Gonzalo Menendez Taylor Cole Kyle Clements Peter Navy Tuiasosopo Travis Davis Nick Gomez
police officer thief fiancée friend terrorist fbi agent suspenseful intense fiery thrilling gritty new orleans roof police station house city home kidnapping terrorism mind games
Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2013
131 Minutes
Channing Tatum Jamie Foxx Maggie Gyllenhaal Jason Clarke Richard Jenkins James Woods Joey King Nicolas Wright Jimmi Simpson Michael Murphy Rachelle Lefevre
police officer president secret service agent mercenary congressman daughter thrilling gripping gutsy intense suspenseful washington, d.c. white house hideout family home secret hideout government offices terrorism police work politics
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France
2008
120 Minutes
Sophie Marceau Julie Depardieu Marie Gillain Déborah François Moritz Bleibtreu Maya Sansa Julien Boisselier Vincent Rottiers Volker Bruch Robin Renucci
frenchwoman resistance fighter british officer geologist ss officer german officer thrilling engaging suspenseful intense gripping emotional france london germany airplane hospital world war ii danger saving the world
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
India
2014
161 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Sonakshi Sinha Govinda Dipendra Sharma Anchal Singh Sumeet Raghvan Freddy Daruwala Chirag Sethi Aashin A. Shah
man secret agent terrorist military officer enemy suspenseful thrilling shocking brooding gory brutal bus mumbai, india terrorism bomb explosion adventure discovery revenge pursuit
A military officer uses his intellect and fighting skills to hunt and knock down a terrorist aiming to rip apart Mumbai via the sleeper cells under his command.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|USA
1984
108 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Michael Biehn Paul Winfield Lance Henriksen Rick Rossovich Bess Motta Earl Boen Dick Miller Shawn Schepps Bruce Kerner
good guy woman android murder victim roommate cyborg gory suspenseful intense tense thrilling los angeles alternate reality police station club city apartment motel room violence robots time travel
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2013
133 Minutes
Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdirahman Faysal Ahmed Mahat M. Ali Michael Chernus Corey Johnson Max Martini Chris Mulkey Yul Vazquez
navy seal captain wife seaman hostage gunman dark emotional tense intense somalia coast cargo ship boat airport lifeboat hijacking kidnapping rescue terrorism
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Action
1988
109 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Tom Berenger Kirstie Alley Clancy Brown Richard Masur Andrew Robinson Kevin Scannell Frederick Coffin
fbi agent thief guide fiancée jewel thief boyfriend confident engaging suspenseful tense thrilling intense pacific northwest canadian border jewelry shop mountain wilderness city hostage situation extortion
An FBI agent (Sidney Poitier) and his mountain guide (Tom Berenger) track a killer trying to cross from Washington into Canada.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2016
90 Minutes
John Gallagher Jr. Tony Goldwyn Adria Arjona John C. McGinley Josh Brener Michael Rooker Sean Gunn Melonie Diaz Abraham Benrubi David Dastmalchian Owain Yeoman
office worker colleague manager swat officer brutal chilling disturbing gritty shocking suspenseful office command center storage closet experiments death game hostage situation survival escape fall mystery
In a twisted social experiment, eighty 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 killed.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
89 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Grace Gummer Pablo Schreiber Robert Wisdom César Pérez David Joseph Martinez Renée Willett Ashton Tatum
drug smuggler drug enforcement agent drug trafficker pilot sick wife police officer tense intense suspenseful thrilling solemn emotional doctor's office airplane field hotel house runway drug cartel drug smuggling
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Mexico|USA
2019
104 Minutes
Gina Rodriguez Ismael Cruz Cordova Anthony Mackie Cristina Rodlo Matt Lauria Aislinn Derbez Ricardo Abarca Damián Alcázar Thomas Dekker
friend kidnapper police officer drug lord henchman drug enforcement agent tense thrilling suspenseful gripping mexico nightclub interrogation room car office kidnapping drug trade drug trafficking ransom gangs
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK
1965
109 Minutes
Michael Caine Nigel Green Guy Doleman Sue Lloyd Gordon Jackson Aubrey Richards Frank Gatliff Thomas Baptiste Oliver MacGreevy Barry Raymond Pauline Winter
spy scientist intelligence officer guard love interest thrilling intense gripping london office apartment train warehouse investigation espionage kidnapping brainwashing corruption deception mystery
In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA
1974
104 Minutes
Walter Matthau Robert Shaw Martin Balsam Héctor Elizondo Earl Hindman James Broderick Dick O'Neill Lee Wallace Tom Pedi Beatrice Winde Jerry Stiller
criminal police officer negotiator hostage mayor cheeky chilling gritty suspenseful brash new york city subway hijacking crime city life pursuit rescue 1970s
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?