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Movies that feel likeRun Lola Run (1998)

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

If you loved Run Lola Run, the closest films we have are No Escape (2015), Unstoppable (2010) and Don (2006). All three share Run Lola Run'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 The Warriors (1979).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tom Tykwerkineticcontemplativetense
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No Escape
2015 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 46%★ 6.8thriller · actionPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: race against time

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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.

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Unstoppable
2010 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 87%★ 6.8action · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: race against time

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Run Lola Run

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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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
★ 7.2action · drama · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic and contemplative in the same breath

DCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.

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

Tense action 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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The Hunt for Red October
1990 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 88%★ 7.5action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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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True Lies
1994 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 77%★ 7.3action · thrillerHulu

Drama built on tension, twice over

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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Outbreak
1995 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 59%★ 6.6action · drama · thriller

Action with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
★ 6.3action · thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

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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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
★ 6.7action · drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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The Fugitive
1993 · dir. Andrew Davis
🍅 96%★ 7.8action · thriller · drama

Action built on tension, twice over

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

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Body of Lies
2008 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 55%★ 7action · drama · thriller

Drama of the same temperament

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

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The Warriors
1979 · dir. Walter Hill
🍅 88%★ 7.5action · thrillerNetflix

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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