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Movies that feel like Poseidon (2006)

If you loved Poseidon, the closest films we have are The Perfect Storm (2000), Hero (2002) and The Expendables 2 (2012). All three share Poseidon's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wolfgang Petersenepickineticcontemplativetensemelancholyromantic

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If Poseidon hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are Wolfgang Petersen's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as Poseidon

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

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Sits closer to history than Poseidon does

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 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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Blood Diamond
2006 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 64%8drama · thriller · action

The same mix in both: momentum, then stillness

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%7.8action · drama · history

Both land scale and melancholy at once

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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The Patriot
2000 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 61%7.2drama · history · war

One thread runs through both: daughter

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

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Air Force One
1997 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 78%6.5action · 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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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

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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Babel
2006 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 68%7.5drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: daughter

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%7.2drama

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Flightplan
2005 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 36%6.3thriller · drama · mystery

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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Outbreak
1995 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 59%6.6action · drama · science fiction

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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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