20 movies like John Carpenter's Escape From L.A., ordered by similarity : The Osiris Child(2016), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom(2018), Sharknado(2013), The Unseen(2016), Maze Runner: The Death Cure(2018), Beyond Skyline(2017), Lockout(2012), Lazer Team(2015), Escape From New York(1981), The Meg(2018), Jurassic World(2015), War for the Planet of the Apes(2017) ...
Sci-Fi, Action
1996
96 Minutes
Kurt Russell Stacy Keach Steve Buscemi Cliff Robertson Peter Fonda George Corraface Michelle Forbes Valeria Golino Bruce Campbell A.J. Langer Leland Orser
commando president con artist daughter guerrilla leader surfer outlandish gritty thrilling offbeat los angeles jail island amusement park pacific ocean sunset strip race against time missing persons earthquakes police state
The fascist U.S. president enlists a jailed war hero (Kurt Russell) to retrieve a top-secret device stolen by his daughter on island Los Angeles in 2013.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Action
Australia
2016
95 Minutes
Kellan Lutz Daniel MacPherson Isabel Lucas Rachel Griffiths Temuera Morrison Luke Ford
daughter father astronaut mercenary alien man confident cool gripping intense rousing thrilling space foreign planet future space exploration space race rescue impending doom science fiction
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2018
128 Minutes
Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Jeff Goldblum Ted Levine James Cromwell Toby Jones BD Wong Rafe Spall Daniella Pineda Geraldine Chaplin Justice Smith
scientist dinosaur politician businesswoman geneticist animal trainer intense brooding fascinating incredible suspenseful thrilling abandoned amusement park island disaster area forest coast volcano dinosaurs extinction
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Action, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2013
90 Minutes
Tara Reid Ian Ziering John Heard Cassie Scerbo Jaason Simmons Alex Arleo Neil H. Berkow Heather Jocelyn Blair
man daughter ex-wife drunk police officer shark campy emotional intense los angeles house bar street truck helicopter tornado shark attack danger survival stress
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Canada
2016
104 Minutes
Aden Young Camille Sullivan Julia Sarah Stone Ben Cotton Max Chadburn Alison Araya Maxwell Haynes Kurt Ostlund Eugene Lipinski Nickolas Baric Linda Darlow
factory worker daughter estranged father somber bleak brooding dark melancholy gritty town abandonment missing persons invisibility horror discovery escape 2010s
A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2018
142 Minutes
Dylan O'Brien Thomas Brodie-Sangster Kaya Scodelario Giancarlo Esposito Rosa Salazar Aidan Gillen Walton Goggins Ki Hong Lee Barry Pepper Will Poulter Patricia Clarkson
friend leader officer monster young man young woman brooding dark intense thrilling suspenseful bleak field desert city maze camp train escape survival
Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|Canada|Indonesia|UK|China|Singapore
2017
106 Minutes
Frank Grillo Bojana Novakovic Jonny Weston Callan Mulvey Antonio Fargas Jacob Vargas Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian
detective prisoner son alien thrilling suspenseful airy gory prison alien planet spaceship street kidnapping alien attack danger father/son relationship adventure rise fall rescue
A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
2012
95 Minutes
Guy Pearce Stephen Saint-Leger Maggie Grace Vincent Regan Joseph Gilgun Lennie James Peter Stormare Jacky Ido Tim Plester Mark Tankersley Anne-Solenne Hatte
daughter president prisoner agent thrilling intense outer space prison earth space travel prison break wrongful conviction hostage situation race against time rescue escape future
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action
USA
2015
102 Minutes
Burnie Burns Gavin Free Michael Jones Colton Dunn Alexandria Deberry Alan Ritchson Steve Shearer Kirk Johnson Benjamin Scott Johnny Walter Chris Demarais
alien alien abductee fighter villain civilian man engaging suspenseful witty playful airy amusing earth space spaceship science fiction apocalypse danger fighting alien attack
Four losers are thrust into the position of saving the world when they stumble upon a UFO crash site and become genetically equipped to the battle suit on board.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1981
100 Minutes
Kurt Russell Ernest Borgnine Adrienne Barbeau Lee Van Cleef Donald Pleasence Isaac Hayes Season Hubley Harry Dean Stanton Tom Atkins Charles Cyphers
mercenary president prisoners bleak thrilling new york city prison cold war terrorism hostages rescue nuclear safety rescue escape 20th century
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
USA|China
2018
113 Minutes
Jason Statham Li Bingbing Rainn Wilson Cliff Curtis Winston Chao Sophia Cai Ruby Rose Page Kennedy Robert Taylor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Jessica McNamee
shark submarine officer rescue worker oceanographer scientist diver dark thrilling suspenseful frightening gripping gory submarine boat ocean pacific ocean monsters sharks shark attack rescue
A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2015
124 Minutes
Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Irrfan Khan Vincent D'Onofrio Ty Simpkins Nick Robinson Jake Johnson Omar Sy BD Wong Judy Greer Lauren Lapkus
guest military officer geneticist young boy dinosaur animal trainer intense fascinating incredible confident uneasy theme park car office forest costa rica coast dinosaurs theme park breakdown
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|Canada|New Zealand
2017
142 Minutes
Andy Serkis Woody Harrelson Steve Zahn Karin Konoval Terry Notary Amiah Miller Judy Greer Max Lloyd-Jones Devyn Dalton Toby Kebbell Gabriel Chavarria
ape leader human colonel soldier family member brooding emotional intense forest city lair barracks battlefield bridge battle leadership anger danger survival
After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA|Germany
2009
126 Minutes
Chris Pine Zachary Quinto Leonard Nimoy Eric Bana Bruce Greenwood Karl Urban Zoe Saldana Simon Pegg John Cho Anton Yelchin Ben Cross
captain kirk spock cadet friend father alien spirited engaging intricate rousing thrilling amusing space earth spaceship starship enterprise alien planet black hole exploration mystery
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|France
1991
136 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Edward Furlong Robert Patrick Earl Boen Joe Morton S. Epatha Merkerson Castulo Guerra Danny Cooksey Jenette Goldstein Xander Berkeley
robot son mother police officer cyborg artificial intelligence gripping incredible rousing thrilling emotional los angeles desert highway on the run big city steel mill running away apocalypse robots
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Canada|New Zealand|USA
2015
95 Minutes
Munro Chambers Anouk Whissell Laurence Leboeuf Edwin Wright Aaron Jeffery Romano Orzari Michael Ironside Orphée Ladouceur Steeve Léonard
scavenger hero mysterious girl war lord cowboy henchmen outlandish offbeat amusing witty madcap thrilling post-apocalyptic wasteland post-apocalypse courage unlikely hero saving the world weapons friendship adventure
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
1993
126 Minutes
Sam Neill Laura Dern Jeff Goldblum Richard Attenborough Bob Peck Martin Ferrero BD Wong Joseph Mazzello Ariana Richards Samuel L. Jackson Wayne Knight
paleontologist mathematician billionaire grandchild grandfather employee engaging thrilling frightening intense island theme park isla nublar jurassic park wilderness jungle dinosaurs survival scientific experiments man vs. nature
A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1987
101 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Maria Conchita Alonso Richard Dawson Yaphet Kotto Jim Brown Jesse Ventura Mick Fleetwood Dweezil Zappa Charlie Phillips Gus Rethwisch
cop contestant host prisoner stalker killer thrilling intense dark bleak amusing outlandish los angeles labor camp shantytown apartment television studio abandoned building wrongful conviction massacre
In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
2011
116 Minutes
Aaron Eckhart Michelle Rodriguez Ramon Rodriguez Bridget Moynahan Ne-Yo Michael Peña Lucas Till Cory Hardrict Adetokumboh M'Cormack Jim Parrack Will Rothhaar
sergeant lieutenant civilian alien enemy marine tense chilling thrilling gritty powerful los angeles police station underground mojave desert bus military base alien invasion evacuation battle
A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.
Sci-Fi, Action
Japan
2016
120 Minutes
Shinji Higuchi Shin'ya Tsukamoto Satomi Ishihara Jun Kunimura Hiroki Hasegawa Takahiro Miura Kengo Kôra Mikako Ichikawa Issei Takahashi Kanji Tsuda Kimiko Yo
godzilla monster prime minister coast guard officer professor savior bleak thrilling tense frenetic disturbing wild japan tokyo city street government offices sea terror monsters
Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Action, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2017
90 Minutes
Ian Ziering Tara Reid Cassie Scerbo Olivia Newton-John Chris Kattan Masiela Lusha Cody Linley Fabio Charo Gilbert Gottfried Clay Aiken
man shark police officer wildlife victim daughter campy intense frightening chilling creepy brutal house helicopter car street paris london survival animal attack
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.