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Movies that feel likeNo Escape (2015)

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

If you loved No Escape, the closest films we have are Unstoppable (2010), Haywire (2011) and Twisters (2024). All three share No Escape's tense and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Air Force One (1997).

πŸ… 46% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Erick Dowdletensekinetic
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· HBO Max Β· Amazon Prime Video

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If No Escape hit the spot, these will too

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Unstoppable
2010 Β· dir. Tony Scott
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: race against time

The difference: Reviewed even better

When a massive, unmanned locomotive roars out of control, the threat is more ominous than just a derailment. The train is laden with toxic chemicals, and an accident would decimate human life and cause an environmental disaster. The only hope of bringing the train to a safe stop is in the hands of veteran engineer Frank Barnes, and young conductor Will Colson, who must risk their lives to save those in the runaway's path. Inspired by true events.

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Haywire
2011 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 80%β˜… 5.8action Β· thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then momentum

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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Twisters
2024 Β· dir. Lee Isaac Chung
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.5action Β· thrillerHulu

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

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Atomic Blonde
2017 Β· dir. David Leitch
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.7action Β· thrillerPrime VideoMax

Both lean on momentum more than on action

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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Extraction
2020 Β· dir. Sam Hargrave
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.8action Β· thrillerNetflix

Tense thriller in both cases

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

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

Action built on momentum, twice over

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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Hunter Killer
2018 Β· dir. Donovan Marsh
πŸ… 38%β˜… 6.6action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: coup d'etat

Untested American submarine commander, Capt. Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns a secret Russian coup is in the offing, a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Glass must coordinate with an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters, rescue the kidnapped Russian president, and hopefully prevent World War III.

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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Mile 22
2018 Β· dir. Peter Berg
πŸ… 23%β˜… 6.1action Β· thrillerNetflix

Action approached the same way

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.

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Homefront
2013 Β· dir. Gary Fleder
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.5action Β· thrillerNetflix

Both are thriller through and through

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan β€œGator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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Safe House
2012 Β· dir. Daniel Espinosa
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.7action Β· thrillerNetflixStarz

Both working the same action territory

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

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Darkland: The Return
2023 Β· dir. Fenar Ahmad
β˜… 6.3thriller Β· action

Thriller in the same key

Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?

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