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Movies that feel likeSkyscraper (2018)

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

If you loved Skyscraper, the closest films we have are Ashfall (2019), Pathaan (2023) and The Wolf's Call (2019). All three share Skyscraper'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 Plane (2023).

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rawson Marshall Thurberkinetictenseepic
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

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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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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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Plane
2023 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 79%★ 6.5action · adventure · thrillerRent or buy

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

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

Epic action in both cases

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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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 80%★ 7.1action · thriller · adventurePrime VideoParamount+

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Tense adventure in both cases

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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The Expendables 3
2014 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · adventure · thriller

Action built on scale, twice over

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

Both are thriller through and through

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Adventure approached the same way

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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

Both working the same action territory

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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Kraven the Hunter
2024 · dir. J.C. Chandor
🍅 15%★ 5.5action · adventure · thrillerDisney+

Thriller in the same key

Kraven Kravinoff's complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

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