20 movies like Solar Flare, ordered by similarity : Unstoppable(2010), The Spy Gone North(2018), Everest(2015), Samay: When Time Strikes(2003), The Guilty(2018), All Is Lost(2013), WarGames(1983), Captain Phillips(2013), Udta Punjab(2016), Wind River(2017), American Animals(2018), Buried(2010) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2008
90 Minutes
Tracey Gold Michelle Clunie Chris Brochu Kasan Butcher Ted Monte Cliff De Young
genius doctor businessman coach mayor brash engaging thrilling striking spirited tense america saving the world natural disasters energy storm genius predictions discovery quest
A young math genius discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid and he must alert the world before a powerful businessman stops him.
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.
Drama
South Korea
2018
141 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Sung-min Lee Cho Jin-Woong Ju Ji-hoon
spy broker government official wife businessman kim jong-il thrilling gripping intense suspenseful tense engaging north korea south korea espionage government secrets intelligence nuclear weapons korean relations mission
In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.
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, Crime, Drama
India
2003
136 Minutes
Sushmita Sen Sushant Singh Rajesh Khera Dinesh Lamba Tushar Dalvi
police officer businessman criminal actress daughter bleak disturbing intense suspenseful thrilling india police station house bungalow gruesome murder murder investigation serial murders quest pursuit mystery
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Malvika Chauhan battles time to obtain & solve the clues to solve the various murders occurring in the city.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Denmark
2018
85 Minutes
Jakob Cedergren Jessica Dinnage Omar Shargawi Johan Olsen Jacob Hauberg Lohmann Katinka Evers-Jahnsen Jeanette Lindbæk Larsen Simon Bennebjerg Laura Bro
police officer ex-cop woman kidnapper villain suspect suspenseful thrilling engaging gripping intense emotional denmark police station kidnapping emergencies investigation murder danger fear
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
USA
2013
105 Minutes
sailor dark intense raw thrilling indian ocean boat survival shipwreck sailing danger storm adventure rescue quest 2010s
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action
USA
1983
113 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Dabney Coleman Ally Sheedy John Wood Barry Corbin Juanin Clay Kent Williams Dennis Lipscomb Joe Dorsey Irving Metzman
hacker girlfriend friend doctor programmer military officer tense thrilling seattle household cheyenne mountain facility oregon island supercomputer world war iii video games nuclear attack high school responsibility
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2016
146 Minutes
Shahid Kapoor Kareena Kapoor Alia Bhatt Diljit Dosanjh Satish Kaushik
indian drug addict drug dealer investigator young man musician amusing bleak brash suspenseful gripping thrilling india pakistan drug addiction drug trade investigation political activism politics fight for justice
A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|Canada|USA
2017
111 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Elizabeth Olsen Gil Birmingham Jon Bernthal Julia Jones Kelsey Asbille James Jordan Martin Sensmeier Ian Bohen Matthew Del Negro Eric Lange
fbi agent police officer native american animal-control officer victim hunter gripping thrilling tense suspenseful wyoming indian reservation indian territory wilderness murder investigation wilderness homicide mystery fbi native americans
A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|USA
2018
116 Minutes
Barry Keoghan Evan Peters Jared Abrahamson Blake Jenner Ann Dowd Udo Kier Gary Basaraba Lara Grice Jane McNeill Wayne Duvall
friend student thief principal parent classmate amusing wild unrestrained outlandish thrilling incredible kentucky university museum school van bar heist friendship
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|UK|USA|France
2010
94 Minutes
truck driver terrorist man iraqi insurgent hostage suspenseful bleak shocking tense thrilling underground iraq coffin kidnapping terrorism iraq war buried alive race against time desperation
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Danay Garcia Chad Michael Collins Billy Zane Tom Berenger Joe Lando Juan Sebastián Calero Juan Pablo Gamboa Felipe Calero Lucho Velasco
sniper kingpin sergeant major special agent assassin brutal confident engaging gutsy tense striking colombia sniper drug cartel smuggling mission hired killers assassination plot discovery
For the first time, Brandon Beckett, Richard Miller and Sgt. Thomas Beckett join forces in Colombia to take down a brutal drug cartel.
Drama
USA
2014
90 Minutes
Kenny Maines David Armendariz Nicole Sadler Elijah Montez Junior Vazquez Christy Morris Hans Obma Tim Ybarra
texas ranger brutal chilling confident crafty dark disheartening fiery gripping intense patriotic wild american south mexican-american border mexico drug trafficking american south american latino culture america border control
A landowner in southern Arizona, tired of seeing drug smugglers cross the border through his property, decides to fight back.
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, Crime, Drama
UK
2008
92 Minutes
Geoff Bell Vas Blackwood Robert Boulter Leo Gregory Johnny Harris Tiffany Mulheron Paul Nicholls Shaun Parkes Justin Salinger
bank robber gang leader accomplice hostage police chief mastermind suspenseful tense intense brash engaging spirited london bank robbery greed alibi race against time plot organized crime escape
Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2018
109 Minutes
Jon Hamm Rosamund Pike Dean Norris Mark Pellegrino Larry Pine Shea Whigham Alon Moni Aboutboul Idir Chender Jonny Coyne Kate Fleetwood Leïla Bekhti
diplomat cia agent terrorist kidnapper victim intense brooding bleak gripping beirut american embassy kidnapping terrorism rescue mission revenge undercover operations rescue revenge discovery
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Canada
2008
96 Minutes
Stephen McHattie Lisa Houle Georgina Reilly Hrant Alianak Rick Roberts Boyd Banks Tony Burgess Rachel Burns Raffaele Carniato Daniel Fathers Hannah Fleming
disc jockey producer technician reporter doctor zombie thrilling tense ontario, canada small town radio station church basement silo language virus riots zombies survival radio
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
Australia|UK
2006
109 Minutes
Eddie Redmayne Tom Sturridge Toni Collette Richard Roxburgh Patrick Malahide Kate Maberly Jonathan Overton Amit Shah David Threlfall Cathryn Bradshaw Hugh Sachs
student principal roommate love interest detective psychologist creepy chilling dark engaging brooding disturbing boarding school england boarding-school life secret society psychological profiling murder mind control obsession
A forensic psychologist (Collette) is tasked with determining whether or not a minor should face murder charges for killing his schoolmate.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany|USA
1998
138 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Kevin Spacey David Morse Ron Rifkin John Spencer J.T. Walsh Regina Taylor Siobhan Fallon Hogan Paul Giamatti
negotiator police officer hostage con artist wife embezzler tense gripping thrilling intense chicago police station house office building street big city hostage situation embezzlement framed for murder police corruption
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.