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Movies that feel like Carry-On (2024)

If you loved Carry-On, the closest films we have are Blood and Bone (2009), The Shallows (2016) and Orphan (2009). All three share Carry-On's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serratensekinetichopefulunsettling
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If Carry-On hit the spot, these will too

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Blood and Bone
2009 · dir. Ben Ramsey
6.7action · crime · thriller

Both land tension and momentum at once

The difference: Missing the unease of Carry-On

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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The Shallows
2016 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 78%6.3horror · drama · thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Jaume Collet-Serra

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Carry-On

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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Orphan
2009 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%7horror · thriller

Both are Jaume Collet-Serra's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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Unknown
2011 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 56%6.8action · mystery · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: None of the hope Carry-On is built on

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%6.6action · crime · thriller

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Carry-On does

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

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Legion
2010 · dir. Scott Stewart
🍅 20%5.3action · fantasy · horror

Hopeful and unsettling in the same breath

When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.

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Gran Turismo
2023 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
7.1adventure · drama · action

Hopeful action in both cases

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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Non-Stop
2014 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%6.9action · thriller · mystery

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.

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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%6.1horror · thriller · action

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
6.3thriller · action

A 2020s answer to the same itch

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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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

A streak of unease through both

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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House of Wax
2005 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 27%5.5horror · thriller · mystery

Both are thriller through and through

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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