20 best movies like The Stunt Man (1980)

List of the best movies like The Stunt Man (1980): The Mountain Between Us, The One I Love, The Next Three Days, Charlie Countryman, Catchfire, Into the Night, Lethal Weapon, Flight of the Phoenix, Jet Pilot, Jean-Claude Van Johnson.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

    On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

    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: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Romania
      Duration01:43

      While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:10

      A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:41

      What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Iceland
      Duration02:28

      A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:34

      Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, family, crime
      CountryTurkey

      Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:39

      In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Colombia
      Duration01:08

      A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Watermelon farmer Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) goes after the Mob, when they try to strong arm him to use their melon picking crew.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Boomer (Wiper) is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death of Carlos (Carmen Argenziano), his mentor and father figure, Boomer becomes disillusioned with the brutal and inhumane nature of his job. Consequently, he decides to hand in his resignation to the Chicago Police Department and return to his home town of Joliet, where his fiancé, Kelly (Natasha Henstridge), awaits.While en route back to Joliet, however, Boomer makes a grievous error in judgment when he stops for, and assists, an unfortunate motorist whose vehicle appears to have broken down; the naive ex-cop is swiftly attacked and rendered unconscious. Boomer awakes to find that his car and wallet have been stolen, and that he has become involved in a dangerous game of mistaken identity.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.

      Markimdb: 2.6
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      Teen Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L.A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer. Jack had an affair with Mitzi Price, a very powerful business man's wife. Her husband, Laszlo Price, then blackmails Jack into going to New York City to get information from Rachel Montgomery, about who she is selling her company to. Jack brings Alex with him to make sure that he will be safe. Jack and Rachel fall in love while Alex falls in love Rachel's daughter Kelly. Eventually Jack tells Rachel why he was sent to New York, and the two work together to bring Laszlo Price down. Rachel needs to have two million dollars in order to not sell her company. Alex wins the money in a halftime contest at a basketball game. They provide information about Laszlo Price to the police, and he is arrested.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:28

      A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:30

      While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA

      Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:11

      The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A socially awkward young man kidnaps an aspiring actress with the hope that they will fall in love. A psychosexual noir that explores power dynamics between men and women.

      Markimdb: 2.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, western
      CountryUSA

      After an accidental explosion at a local mine, dinosaurs emerge from the rubble to terrorize a small western town. Now, a group of gunslingers must defend their home if anyone is going to survive in a battle of cowboys versus dinosaurs.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
      Duration01:37

      The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:33

      Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

      High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      A group of friends run a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group brings along her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip to an isolated cove. But when their plane crashes, the two sisters must use their strength, resourcefulness and immense courage to survive a pack of great white sharks.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:57

      A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to join the group and Seth’s uptight fiancée insists on tagging along. This raucous road trip comedy features hip-hop star Asher Roth.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryChina, USA

      PALI ROAD is a mysterious and thrilling journey in search for true love between two different worlds. Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with or profiting from the girl's murder; a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire Christian community in America.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:46

      A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      When a crisis threatens to destroy their high school, four teens hatch a daring plan to raise $10 million. Step one? Breaking into the U.S. Mint.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Stu Undercoffler (Eric Roberts) is a corrupt CEO whose drive for power has led him to make some highly unethical choices. Once Stu's self-serving decisions have begun to spread darkness through the world, there's no stopping it. After losing his wife, Stu begins to have a crisis of conscience but starts to believe he is being stalked and has been hallucinating. Is he losing his mind or have his former victims come back to wreck havoc on him?




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