20 movies like Captain Phillips, ordered by similarity : The Finest Hours(2016), Unstoppable(2010), Fatal Rescue(2008), Buried(2010), Badlapur(2015), The Stolen(2016), Beirut(2018), Never Let Go(2015), 7 Days in Entebbe(2018), The Negotiator(1998), Everest(2015), Timecrimes(2007) ...
7.8/10
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.
6.8/10
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Kyle Gallner John Magaro Beau Knapp Eric Bana Graham McTavish Abraham Benrubi
sailor engineer coast guard officer survivor crew member rescue worker brooding emotional intense boat ocean massachusetts office car street storm wreckage danger survival coast guard
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
6.8/10
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.
3.7/10
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Germany
2008
89 Minutes
Steve Guttenberg Aislinn Sands Dominic Rickhards Nicolas Landman-Burghardt Martin Höner Anna Fin Florian Kriener Robert Dreno
rival boy chilling crafty dark emotional engaging intense intricate germany rescue trapped rivalry dark secrets discovery mystery rescue rivalry 21st century
The mystery surrounding Mike is that of Andy, the mother's brother, who disappeared in the woods one day.
7.0/10
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.
7.4/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2015
123 Minutes
Varun Dhawan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Huma Qureshi Yami Gautam Divya Dutta Vinay Pathak Radhika Apte
mother son father partner wife robber brash confident dark emotional gritty intense india house car apartment police station vengeance tragic death bank robbery
An innocent man turns brutal when his family gets killed in a bank robbery and one of the perpetrators escapes. 15 years later, he begins his deadly game of vengeance.
5.3/10
Adventure, Action, Western, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|United Arab Emirates|New Zealand
2016
95 Minutes
Alice Eve Graham McTavish Jack Davenport Richard O'Brien Cohen Holloway Gillian MacGregor Glen Levy Stan Walker Stig Eldred Lukas Hinch Emily Corcoran
mother son missing person maori englishwoman murderer intense gripping tense new zealand countryside missing persons kidnapping violence rescue revenge gold rush discovery pursuit rescue
The story of a woman who must find her kidnapped son, navigating a world she doesn't know, on the edge of danger with every heartbeat.
6.4/10
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.
5.3/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Morocco|Spain|UK
2015
93 Minutes
Angela Dixon Nigel Whitmey Lisa Eichhorn Velibor Topic Heather Peace Rami Nasr Samantha Bolter Michael Xavier
single mother baby child heroine kidnapped child kidnapper hero police captain chilling dark emotional frenetic gripping intense powerful shocking united states morocco spain city
A single mother on vacation, takes the law into her own hands to take back her abducted child.
5.8/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
UK|USA|France|Malta
2018
107 Minutes
Daniel Brühl Rosamund Pike Eddie Marsan Lior Ashkenazi Denis Menochet Ben Schnetzer Nonso Anozie Angel Bonanni Mark Ivanir Andrea Deck Peter Sullivan
hijacker terrorist flight attendant passenger hostage jew bleak brooding intricate intense gripping unrestrained airplane airport office terrorism hijacking negotiation rescue israeli-palestinian conflict
Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
7.3/10
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.
7.1/10
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.
7.2/10
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Action, Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2007
88 Minutes
Karra Elejalde Candela Fernández Bárbara Goenaga Juan Inciarte Nacho Vigalondo Libby Brien Nicole Dionne Philip Hersh
man woman wife scientist attacker gripping intense household forest laboratory time travel crime accident death mystery quest 2000s
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
6.6/10
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany
2005
113 Minutes
Bruce Willis Kevin Pollak Ben Foster Jonathan Tucker Marshall Allman Michelle Horn Jimmy Bennett Tina Lifford Kim Coates Serena Scott Thomas Robert Knepper
sheriff hostage accountant wife criminal daughter tense rousing emotional gripping california los angeles small town office road hostage situation police work crime kidnapping starting over
When a family is held hostage, former hostage negotiator Jeff Talley arrives at the scene. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family.
5.6/10
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.
7.0/10
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA|Germany|United Arab Emirates
2007
110 Minutes
Jamie Foxx Chris Cooper Jennifer Garner Jason Bateman Ashraf Barhoum Ali Suliman Jeremy Piven Richard Jenkins Tim McGraw Kyle Chandler Frances Fisher
special agent fbi agent forensic expert technician reporter police officer tense frenetic thrilling intense emotional saudi arabia oil field washington, d.c. war zone foreign relations oil bombing investigation unlikely allies
A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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.
5.5/10
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
partisan german officer captain colonel general nazi powerful engaging tense intense dark gutsy yugoslavia world war ii nazism former yugoslavia war heroes battle life during wartime pursuit
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
7.5/10
Drama, War
UK|USA
1961
157 Minutes
Gregory Peck David Niven Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker Anthony Quayle James Darren Irene Papas Gia Scala James Robertson Justice Richard Harris
captain explosives expert resistance fighter security head soldier sister engaging tense brash gripping intense greece boat mountain village island cliff sabotage covert operations mountain climbing
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
7.8/10
War, Drama, History
UK|Netherlands|France|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Fionn Whitehead Tom Glynn-Carney Jack Lowden Harry Styles Aneurin Barnard James D'Arcy Barry Keoghan Kenneth Branagh Cillian Murphy Mark Rylance Tom Hardy
soldier enemy captain pilot chilling emotional gripping inspiring intense beach europe boat world war ii invasion escape battle rescue survival escape rescue
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
7.5/10
Drama
USA|UK|France
2006
111 Minutes
David Alan Basche Richard Bekins Susan Blommaert Ray Charleson Christian Clemenson Khalid Abdalla Lewis Alsamari Gregg Henry Peter Hermann Denny Dillon David Rasche
terrorist hostage passenger crew member loved one air traffic controller emotional intense tense dark frightening airplane airport hotel united states sept. 11th teamwork hijacking death daunting task
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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