20 movies like Air Force One, ordered by similarity : White House Down(2013), London Has Fallen(2016), Beast of Burden(2018), Deepwater Horizon(2016), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), 2012(2009), Captain Phillips(2013), Transporter 2(2005), Icarus(2010), The Wave(2015), Everest(2015), Die Hard 2(1990) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany
1997
124 Minutes
Harrison Ford Gary Oldman Glenn Close Wendy Crewson Paul Guilfoyle William H. Macy Liesel Matthews Dean Stockwell Xander Berkeley Bill Smitrovich Elya Baskin
president terrorist wife daughter vice president dictator thrilling intense airplane moscow white house survival terrorism kidnapping deception family showdown quest sacrifice rescue
Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
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
UK|Bulgaria|USA
2016
99 Minutes
Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhart Morgan Freeman Angela Bassett Alon Moni Aboutboul Radha Mitchell Charlotte Riley Patrick Kennedy Melissa Leo Jackie Earle Haley Robert Forster
prime minister terrorist secret service agent president family member british intelligence agent brooding emotional intense london big ben helicopter street buckingham palace car terrorism rescue danger survival determination
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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, Drama, Action
USA|Hong Kong|China
2016
107 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Kurt Russell Douglas M. Griffin James DuMont Joe Chrest Gina Rodriguez Brad Leland John Malkovich Dave Maldonado J.D. Evermore Ethan Suplee
oil driller foreman crew member wife daughter rescue worker chilling gripping intense house helicopter oil drilling platform bunker ocean office oil spill drilling operation explosion danger survival
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2013
120 Minutes
Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhart Morgan Freeman Angela Bassett Melissa Leo Ashley Judd Rick Yune Dylan McDermott Radha Mitchell Finley Jacobsen Cole Hauser
u.s. president first lady secret service agent terrorist politician son gripping tense frenetic thrilling suspenseful white house washington, d.c. office government building capitol building terrorism kidnapping second chance race against time
Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2009
158 Minutes
John Cusack Chiwetel Ejiofor Amanda Peet Oliver Platt Thandie Newton Danny Glover Woody Harrelson Tom McCarthy Liam James Morgan Lily Zlatko Buric
scientist president ex-wife radio host millionaire politician thrilling hysterical heartwarming intense playful solemn los angeles washington, d.c. wyoming tibet earth yellowstone national park apocalypse survival
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
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, Mystery & Thriller
France|USA|Germany
2005
88 Minutes
Jason Statham Amber Valletta Alessandro Gassman Hunter Clary François Berléand Jason Flemyng Jeff Chase Keith David Matthew Modine Tim Ware
driver politician son bodyguard terrorist wife frenetic unrestrained thrilling intense brutal miami laboratory convention center airplane warehouse school kidnapping drug trafficking biological warfare
Transporter Frank Martin, surfaces in Miami, Florida and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Canada
2010
88 Minutes
Dolph Lundgren Katelyn Mager Lindsay Maxwell Samantha Ferris Marian Koprada John Tench David Lewis Monique Ganderton Bo Svenson Stefanie von Pfetten
hit man wife daughter girlfriend mobster russian thrilling melodramatic unrestrained tense hong kong vancouver, british columbia real estate firm family home betrayal family dark secrets undercover operations double life protection
A Soviet-trained assassin is determined to escape his double life as a hitman and as a husband-father.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
Norway|Sweden
2015
105 Minutes
Kristoffer Joner Ane Dahl Torp Jonas Hoff Oftebro Edith Haagenrud-Sande Fridtjov Såheim Laila Goody Arthur Berning Herman Bernhoft Eili Harboe Silje Breivik Håkon Moe
geologist family wife scientist thrilling suspenseful emotional shocking intense gripping norway mountain tsunami earthquakes catastrophe fear danger family adventure pursuit
Although anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Iceland
2015
121 Minutes
Jason Clarke Josh Brolin John Hawkes Robin Wright Emily Watson Michael Kelly Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Martin Henderson Elizabeth Debicki Ingvar Sigurdsson
mountain climber sherpa team leader survivor friend family member bleak emotional gripping tense intense mount everest base camp house trail helicopter hospital mountain climbing storm danger
The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1990
124 Minutes
Bruce Willis Bonnie Bedelia William Atherton Reginald VelJohnson Franco Nero William Sadler John Amos Dennis Franz Art Evans Fred Dalton Thompson Tom Bower
detective wife terrorist general thrilling suspenseful washington dulles international airport airplane church virginia terrorism love aviation politics heroism christmas love underdog rescue pursuit
John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
India
2017
165 Minutes
Salman Khan Katrina Kaif Paresh Rawal Angad Bedi Jay-Jay Botha Erdal Besikçioglu Zachary Coffin Najmeddin AlHadad Pradeep Rawat Casey Shannon Kumud Mishra
spy agent terrorist nurse thrilling confident engaging suspenseful iraq austria hospital terrorism rescue abduction husband/wife relationship rescue pursuit quest adventure 21st century
When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.
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
USA
1958
96 Minutes
James Mason Rod Steiger Inger Stevens Neville Brand Angie Dickinson Kenneth Tobey Jack Klugman Jack Kruschen Carleton Young Barney Phillips Harlan Warde
hostage terrorist wife daughter fbi agent expert thrilling frenetic creative subway new york city greenwich village airplane office terrorism bomb family kidnapping extortion deception
Duped by former army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.
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
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
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
2014
89 Minutes
Richard Armitage Sarah Wayne Callies Matt Walsh Max Deacon Nathan Kress Alycia Debnam-Carey Arlen Escarpeta Jeremy Sumpter Lee Whittaker Kyle Davis Jon Reep
resident weather forecaster storm chaser family member friend mayor chilling dark intense town house street car tunnel hospital weather survival climate change saving the town natural disasters
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2010
94 Minutes
Denzel Washington Chris Pine Rosario Dawson Kevin Dunn Ethan Suplee Kevin Corrigan Jessy Schram Jeff Wincott Elizabeth Mathis Lew Temple Meagan Tandy
engineer conductor safety inspector yardmaster father daughter tense thrilling emotional intense suspenseful train railway railyard pennsylvania runaway train toxic chemicals disaster father/daughter relationship death
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.