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Movies that feel like The Perfect Storm (2000)

If you loved The Perfect Storm, the closest films we have are Ashfall (2019), Air Force One (1997) and Poseidon (2006). All three share The Perfect Storm's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and AsianCrush and others, checked against today's data.

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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If The Perfect Storm hit the spot, these will too

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%6.2action · adventure · thriller

Common ground in both: natural disaster and disaster

The difference: None of the stillness The Perfect Storm is built on

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

Wolfgang Petersen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Poseidon
2006 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 33%5.7adventure · action · drama

Both are Wolfgang Petersen's work, and they rhyme

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.

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

Contemplative and kinetic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Perfect Storm does

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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Deep Water
2006 · dir. Jerry Rothwell
🍅 96%7.8documentary · adventure · drama

Two things both keep coming back to: biography and a true story

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 47%6.2drama · action · history

The same mix in both: scale, then tension

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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Runaway Train
1985 · dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
🍅 84%7.2action · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

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.

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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 42%6.9thriller · drama · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

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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The World Is Not Enough
1999 · dir. Michael Apted
🍅 51%6.4adventure · action · thriller

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

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Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · dir. Roger Spottiswoode
🍅 58%6.5adventure · action · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

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Troy
2004 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 53%7.3action · adventure

Epic thriller, and it commits to that

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

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Snitch
2013 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 57%6.4action · drama · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on drama

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

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