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Movies that feel likePoseidon (2006)

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.

If you loved Poseidon, the closest films we have are The Expendables 2 (2012), In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). All three share Poseidon's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 13 Assassins (2010).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wolfgang Petersenepickinetictensemelancholy
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The Expendables 2
2012 · dir. Simon West
🍅 68%★ 6.6action · adventure · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 42%★ 6.9thriller · drama · adventure

Two things both keep coming back to: ship and shipwreck

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Poseidon does

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · dir. Peter R. Hunt
🍅 81%★ 6.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: daughter

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Poseidon

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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Cell 211
2009 · dir. Daniel Monzón
🍅 98%★ 7.6action · thriller · dramaNetflix

Tense and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Poseidon does

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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Hero
2002 · dir. Zhang Yimou
★ 7.9drama · adventure · action

Both are built on the same subject: grief

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

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The Perfect Storm
2000 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
★ 6.5drama · adventure · action

Both are Wolfgang Petersen's work, and they rhyme

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

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Air Force One
1997 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 78%★ 6.6action · thriller

Wolfgang Petersen working the same nerve twice

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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Armageddon
1998 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 42%★ 6.7action · science fiction · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cataclysm

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

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Blood Diamond
2006 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 64%★ 8drama · thriller · actionApple TV+

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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Apocalypto
2006 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 65%★ 7.9action · drama · historyPrime VideoHulu

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

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Self/less
2015 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 18%★ 6.5science fiction · action · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

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