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Movies that feel likeCarry-On (2024)

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

If you loved Carry-On, the closest films we have are Heart of the Beast (2026), Gran Turismo (2023) and Fearless (2006). All three share Carry-On's hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Departures (2008).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serratensekinetichopeful
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Heart of the Beast
2026 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 85%★ 7.5adventure · thrillerRent or buy

Tense where it counts, hopeful underneath

The difference: Easier on the momentum than Carry-On

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.

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Gran Turismo
2023 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
★ 7.1adventure · drama · actionMaxHulu

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Trades the tension of Carry-On for an angle of its own

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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Fearless
2006 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 73%★ 7.5drama · action

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Carry-On does

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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King of New York
1990 · dir. Abel Ferrara
🍅 72%★ 6.9thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Carry-On does

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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Unknown
2011 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 56%★ 6.8action · mystery · thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Jaume Collet-Serra

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%★ 8drama

Hopeful action in both cases

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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Blood and Bone
2009 · dir. Ben Ramsey
★ 6.7action · crime · thrillerStarz

Thriller built on tension, twice over

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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The Tomorrow War
2021 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 51%★ 6.6action · science fiction · adventurePrime Video

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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Invasion
2020 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
★ 5.6science fiction · drama · actionPrime Video

Both work the same hope

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

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The Last Witch Hunter
2015 · dir. Breck Eisner
🍅 17%★ 5.9action · adventure · fantasy

Both play action straight

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
★ 6.5drama

A 2010s answer to the same itch

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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Insurgent
2015 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 29%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

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