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Movies that feel likeEscape Plan (2013)

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

If you loved Escape Plan, the closest films we have are No Escape (2015), Unstoppable (2010) and Atomic Blonde (2017). All three share Escape Plan'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 Twisters (2024).

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mikael Håfströmkinetictense
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No Escape
2015 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 46%★ 6.8thriller · actionPrime Video

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

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

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

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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Atomic Blonde
2017 · dir. David Leitch
🍅 79%★ 6.7action · thrillerPrime VideoMax

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 67%★ 6.8action · thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of momentum, 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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Live Free or Die Hard
2007 · dir. Len Wiseman
🍅 82%★ 7.1action · thrillerHulu

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

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Twisters
2024 · dir. Lee Isaac Chung
🍅 75%★ 6.5action · thrillerHulu

Action approached the same way

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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Safe House
2012 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 52%★ 6.7action · thrillerNetflixStarz

Thriller in the same key

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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Homefront
2013 · dir. Gary Fleder
🍅 42%★ 6.5action · thrillerNetflix

Both are action 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 “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
★ 6.4action · thrillerPrime Video

Both play thriller straight

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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The Bourne Legacy
2012 · dir. Tony Gilroy
🍅 56%★ 6.6action · thrillerNetflixStarz

Both working the same action territory

New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

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Olympus Has Fallen
2013 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 49%★ 6.5action · thrillerPrime Video

Both know what they want from thriller

When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

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Hunter Killer
2018 · dir. Donovan Marsh
🍅 38%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

The same action instincts

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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