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Movies that feel like Runaway Train (1985)

If you loved Runaway Train, the closest films we have are In the Heart of the Sea (2015), First Blood (1982) and The Rock (1996). All three share Runaway Train's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 84% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Andrei Konchalovskykinetictensecontemplativeepic

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If Runaway Train hit the spot, these will too

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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 Β· dir. Ron Howard
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· drama Β· adventure

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believeβ€”a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

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First Blood
1982 Β· dir. Ted Kotcheff
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.7action Β· thriller Β· drama

Action with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Runaway Train

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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The Rock
1996 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.4action Β· adventure Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: prison escape

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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Bloodsport
1988 Β· dir. Newt Arnold
πŸ… 48%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· drama

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

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Mission: Impossible
1996 Β· dir. Brian De Palma
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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GoldenEye
1995 Β· dir. Martin Campbell
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being drama

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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2002 Β· dir. Rob Cohen
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.9action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Contemplative action in both cases

The difference: Plays it as crime more than Runaway Train does

Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.

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Kickboxer
1989 Β· dir. Mark DiSalle
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· drama

Both trade on momentum more than on being thriller

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

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The Fugitive
1993 Β· dir. Andrew Davis
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8action Β· thriller Β· drama

Tense drama in both cases

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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King Kong
2005 Β· dir. Peter Jackson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· drama Β· action

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

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Mission: Impossible III
2006 Β· dir. J.J. Abrams
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both trade on scale more than on being action

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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Mission: Impossible II
2000 Β· dir. John Woo
β˜… 6.1adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Cut from the same action cloth

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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