20 movies like Icarus, ordered by similarity : The Wave(2015), Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula(2020), Homefront(2013), Unstoppable(2010), Air Force One(1997), Maze Runner: The Death Cure(2018), Captain Phillips(2013), Blood Father(2016), The Bouncer(2018), 2012(2009), The Clovehitch Killer(2018), WarGames(1983) ...
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.
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
USA
2013
100 Minutes
Jason Statham James Franco Winona Ryder Kate Bosworth Frank Grillo Izabela Vidovic Chuck Zito Rachelle Lefevre Marcus Hester Clancy Brown
dea agent daughter drug lord townsperson bleak dark intense bayou small town fear protection corruption family father/daughter relationship escape sacrifice rescue pursuit escape 2010s
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord.
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.
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.
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".
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, Action
France
2016
88 Minutes
Mel Gibson Erin Moriarty Diego Luna William H. Macy Michael Parks Thomas Mann Elisabeth Röhm Ryan Dorsey
father ex-convict daughter drug dealer thrilling tense dark gritty new mexico united states drugs estrangement father/daughter relationship reunion escape on the run violence escape revenge 21st century
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France|Belgium
2018
82 Minutes
Jean-Claude Van Damme Sveva Alviti Sami Bouajila Sam Louwyck Kaaris Kevin Janssens Alice Verset Dimitri Thivaios Laurent D'Elia Cécilia Ngô
bodyguard bouncer daughter strip-club owner police detective stripper thrilling engaging suspenseful gripping brutal intense nightclub strip club investigation undercover operations working undercover father/daughter relationship fighting danger
A nightclub bouncer in his fifties who's taken punches, literally and figuratively, struggles to raise his 8-year-old daughter.
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
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Dylan McDermott Charlie Plummer Samantha Mathis Madisen Beaty Brenna Sherman Lance Chantiles-Wertz Kat Pérez Jonathan Riggs
family father son murder suspect killer chilling creepy dark disturbing eerie engaging frightful gripping intense shocking suspenseful thrilling tense uneasy america
A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.
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, Crime, Drama
Iceland|UK|Germany
2016
110 Minutes
Hera Hilmar Baltasar Kormákur Gísli Örn Garðarsson Ingvar Sigurdsson Þorsteinn Bachmann Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir Þorsteinn Gunnarsson Margrét Bjarnadóttir Ágúst Bjarnason
surgeon daughter drug dealer father criminal intense melodramatic suspenseful thrilling gory brooding reykjavík, iceland criminal underworld family home drug addiction family crime desperation father/daughter relationship rise
A troubled father, working as a doctor, decides to go to extreme measures for saving his daughter from a devastating influence of her boyfriend, a drug dealer.
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.
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, Crime, Drama
USA
2015
114 Minutes
Liam Neeson Ed Harris Joel Kinnaman Common Boyd Holbrook Genesis Rodriguez Vincent D'Onofrio Bruce McGill Lois Smith Patricia Kalember Beau Knapp
hit man mob boss police detective estranged son friend mobster brooding dark intense restaurant police station car street bar bedroom assassination mobsters estrangement danger protection
Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France|USA|UK
2008
91 Minutes
Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Famke Janssen Leland Orser Jon Gries David Warshofsky Katie Cassidy Holly Valance Goran Kostic Olivier Rabourdin Camille Japy
teen girl father mother stepfather friend trafficker chilling gripping suspenseful paris united states human trafficking family rescue kidnapping quest pursuit escape 2000s
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
India
2005
132 Minutes
Udita Goswami Emraan Hashmi Shamita Shetty Sameer Kochhar Vishwajeet Pradhan
young man young woman police officer husband wife thrilling intense gripping melodramatic india city house bungalow police station restaurant death murder loss of money husband/wife relationship investigation
Siddharth and Sonia are happily married to each other until Anna walks into Siddharth's life. Things takes a worst turn, when Anna gets killed and Siddharth finds himself in deep trouble.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Czech Republic|France
2002
113 Minutes
Matt Damon Franka Potente Chris Cooper Clive Owen Brian Cox Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Gabriel Mick Walton Goggins Josh Hamilton Julia Stiles Orso Maria Guerrini
jason bourne girlfriend assassin government official killer amnesiac gripping thrilling intricate intense europe bank car government offices italy on the run identity memory loss pursuit government agents
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
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.