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Movies that feel likeDuel (1971)

Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

If you loved Duel, the closest films we have are Diamonds Are Forever (1971), The Warriors (1979) and The Hunt for Red October (1990). All three share Duel's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bullitt (1968).

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven Spielbergkinetictense
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If Duel hit the spot, these will too

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Diamonds Are Forever
1971 Β· dir. Guy Hamilton
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.5action Β· thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

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The Warriors
1979 Β· dir. Walter Hill
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5action Β· thrillerNetflix

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

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The Hunt for Red October
1990 Β· dir. John McTiernan
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5action Β· thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

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Bullitt
1968 Β· dir. Peter Yates
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the chase

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Duel does

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

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True Lies
1994 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.3action Β· thrillerHulu

Tv movie built on momentum, twice over

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1990s show

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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Air Force One
1997 Β· dir. Wolfgang Petersen
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.6action Β· thriller

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

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Thunderbolt
1995 Β· dir. Gordon Chan
β˜… 6.3action Β· thriller

Both working the same thriller territory

In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

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Dirty Harry
1971 Β· dir. Don Siegel
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: the chase

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.

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Die Hard 2
1990 Β· dir. Renny Harlin
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.2action Β· thrillerHulu

Action in the same key

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

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Taken 3
2014 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 13%β˜… 6thriller Β· action

The same two preoccupations: california, and gas station

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

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Metro
2013 Β· dir. Anton Megerdichev
β˜… 6.4action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both know what they want from thriller

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

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Speed
1994 Β· dir. Jan de Bont
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.3action Β· thrillerNetflix

Cut from the same action cloth

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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