20 best movies like Final Approach (2007)


List of the best movies like Final Approach (2007): Hijacked, Passenger 57, Ticker, 6 Bullets, Flight 93, Survivor, Air Force One, Nighthawks, Executive Decision, Beast of Burden.

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Markimdb: 3.8
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, history
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:29

Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:01

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:04

Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Bulgaria
Duration01:30

Former race car driver Brent Magna (Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner (Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The businessman had been a colleague of Sallinger years before, when they were both cops. When mobsters kidnap the businessman's daughter, he hunts them down to rescue her and protect her

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

    The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration02:13

      A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

        A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Revolves around a British military contractor Lex Walker who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he begins an investigation.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryItaly
        Duration01:36

        A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
        CountryUSA, Hong Kong
        Duration02:46

        An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryGermany, South Africa, USA
        Duration01:32

        A terrorist posing as environmentalist hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California with the intent of detonating an electromagnetic bomb over the US.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Canada
        Duration01:46

        Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        A wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he's madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he's forced to actually save her life while not revealing that it's been a ruse all along.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryHong Kong
        Duration01:37

        After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:42

        Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography, history
        CountryUSA, Mexico

        Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
        Duration02:27

        Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Two lovers, driving their Dodge Charger, are ruthlessly chased by the police after robbing a grocery store.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching his every move is the just-released Cameron Poe, who'd rather reunite with his family.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:39

        Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, music
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration02:11

        While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Deadly Impact follows hard-nosed cop Thomas Armstrong (Flanery) whose life was shattered when he became the helpless target of a mastermind murderer. Returning home after a much-needed break, Armstrong joins the FBI to seek revenge and help track down the same killer that threatened his existence, however this time the assassin is back to terrorize not just a single person, but the entire city.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:06

        Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:19

        When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountrySouth Korea

        Burnt-out transit cop Jay forms an unlikely alliance with pickpocket Kay to stop a terrorist hijacker from blowing up a subway car during rush hour.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:34

          A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.




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