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Movies that feel likeThe Perfect Storm (2000)

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.

If you loved The Perfect Storm, the closest films we have are Air Force One (1997), Ashfall (2019) and Troy (2004). All three share The Perfect Storm's kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Runaway Train (1985).

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

Wolfgang Petersen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Perfect Storm for an angle of its own

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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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground in both: natural disaster and disaster

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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Troy
2004 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 53%★ 7.3action · adventureParamount+

The same hand behind both of them: Wolfgang Petersen

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

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GoldenEye
1995 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 81%★ 7.2adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Both land scale and momentum at once

When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Adventure with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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Runaway Train
1985 · dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
🍅 84%★ 7.2action · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

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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Poseidon
2006 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 33%★ 5.7adventure · action · thriller

Both lean on scale more than on thriller

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.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on tension more than on action

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Epic thriller in both cases

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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Mission: Impossible II
2000 · dir. John Woo
★ 6.1adventure · action · thrillerParamount+

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

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