American Rescue Movies

List of the best American movies about lifeguards selected by visitors to our site: Only the Brave, The Ice Road, San Andreas, The Guardian, Django Unchained, Breakthrough, Wonder Wheel, Redemption Day, Wrong Turn, Hunter Killer.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:23

    In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:45

      With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom

      Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground to prevent a war.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genreaction, comedy, family
      CountryUSA

      It’s summer again, and everyone’s favorite Junior Rescuers, The Flounders, are back at Tower 2. With the International Junior Rescue Championships headed to Southern California, the eyes of the entire planet are on Malibu Beach. But when Team USA falls victim to a bout of food poisoning, it’s up to Tyler, Dylan, Eric, Lizzie and Gina to represent their country in the world's most extreme lifeguard challenge!

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Malta
      Duration02:28

      In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon
      CountryUSA

      A decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure Chas’s daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma. With the help of the mysterious Nightmare Nurse, the influential Queen of Angels, and brutal Aztec God Mictlantecuhtli, the pair just might have a chance at outsmarting the demon Beroul to save Trish’s soul. In a world of shadows and dark magic, not everything is what it seems, and there’s always a price to pay. The path to redemption is never easy, and if Constantine is to succeed, he must navigate through the dark urban underbelly of Los Angeles, outwit the most cunning spawns of hell, and come face to face with arch-nemesis Nergal – all while battling his own inner demons!

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:18

      In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the isla Nublar, so Claire Dearing, the former park manager, recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:44

      A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

        For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

          An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA

          Loiter Squad is an American sketch comedy television series starring Tyler, The Creator, Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, and Lionel Boyce from the Los Angeles hip hop group Odd Future. The show regularly features other members of the group as well. Jeff Tremaine, Shanna Zablow, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Lance Bangs, Nick Weidenfeld and Keith Crofford are the show's executive producers. The show is produced by Dickhouse Entertainment for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. The show's second season made its debut on March 10, 2013.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA

          Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York, Roger proposes to his boyfriend Tyler , and the gang embarks on a road trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts for Bear Week.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrefantastic, documentary
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          A story that imagines how these real-world phenomena may be related. In this story, startling amateur video and photographic evidence, as well as additional audio recordings, suggests whales weren’t the only creatures affected by the Navy’s sonar. The film follows the two scientists who tracked the whale beachings for years and delivers first-hand, on-camera accounts of what they claim to have discovered in the aftermath of one particular beaching. Their story is nothing less than fantastical: they claim to have found the remains of a mermaid.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

            A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, military, history
            CountryMexico, USA
            Duration02:16

            An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration02:11

            When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrecomedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:57

            A recent college graduate and his friends are forced to lower life expectations when they leave school for the real world. Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration02:35

              Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.

              Markimdb: 4.9
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:38

              In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

              Markimdb: 2.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:26

              Giant albino spiders break free from the depths of Earth in New Orleans, making everyone’s worst nightmare a reality.

              Markimdb: 4.3
              Genrefantastic, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:39

              Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:40

              In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genreaction, thriller
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:21

              Impressive debut feature from writer director Inon Shampanier. A man needs to convince his kidknappers that they have got the wrong person before they deliver him to his death.

              Markimdb: 3.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:34

              Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
              CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
              Duration01:41

              The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical plan.

              Markimdb: 3.6
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA

              After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

              Markimdb: 4.8
              Genrehorror, thriller
              CountryUSA

              Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.

              Markimdb: 8.3
              Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:16

              The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA

              Alex's dreary life is reignited when he meets Rachel, the woman of his dreams. The only thing that stands in the way of their perfect, serendipitous relationship is that Rachel has recently passed away.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, Canada, Thailand

              Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genreaction, adventure, western
              CountryUSA, Australia
              Duration02:10

              Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA, Canada, Indonesia
              Duration01:36

              Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

              Markimdb: 5.4
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:34

              Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA

              1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genredrama, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

              A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.




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