Most Similar Movies to Escape from New York (1981)


If you are looking for movies like Escape from New York (1981), you might like movies tagged with keyword : mercenary, president, prisoners, bleak, thrilling, new york city, prison, cold war, terrorism, hostages, nuclear safety, rescue, escape, 20th century .


Commando (1985), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Hostage (2005), Lockout (2012), Cellular (2004) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Commando (1985)

Commando (1985)

6.7/10 Action, Adventure, Thriller

A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.

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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

6.7/10 Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction

The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick (Vin Diesel) arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

5.5/10 Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller, Science Fiction

Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.

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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

7.3/10 Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

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Hostage (2005)

Hostage (2005)

6.6/10 Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When a family is held hostage, former hostage negotiator Jeff Talley arrives at the scene. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family.

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Lockout (2012)

Lockout (2012)

6.1/10 Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

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Cellular (2004)

Cellular (2004)

6.5/10 Action, Crime, Thriller

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

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Taxi 2 (2000)

Taxi 2 (2000)

6.5/10 Action, Comedy, Crime

Police inspector Emilien and his taxi-driver pal Daniel are back, this time on the tail of a group of Japanese yakuza.

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Riddick (2013)

Riddick (2013)

6.4/10 Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction

Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.

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Runaway Train (1985)

Runaway Train (1985)

7.2/10 Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

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The Fifth Element (1997)

The Fifth Element (1997)

7.7/10 Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.

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Daylight (1996)

Daylight (1996)

5.9/10 Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.

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Air Force One (1997)

Air Force One (1997)

6.5/10 Action, Drama, Thriller

Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

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Sudden Death (1995)

Sudden Death (1995)

5.8/10 Action, Crime, Thriller

A former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

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Babylon A.D. (2008)

Babylon A.D. (2008)

5.6/10 Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction

Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

7.7/10 Action, Crime, Thriller

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?

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Death Race (2008)

Death Race (2008)

6.4/10 Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

8.1/10 Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.

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