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Arctic (2018)

6.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: Iceland, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.

Plot: fish, helicopter, fire, airplane wreck, polar bear, arctic polar circle region, survival, stranded, ...

Cast

Jim Carrey

Steve Carell

Carol Burnett

Will Arnett

Horton Hears a Who! (2008)

6.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: G

Story: An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.

Plot: rescue, elephant, jungle, 3d animation, who, cartoon elephant

Assassins (1995)

6.5 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

Plot: rescue, central intelligence agency (cia), hitman, cat, bank, mexican standoff, seattle, washington, ...

Cast

Tom McGrath

Chris Miller

Christopher Knights

Conrad Vernon

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

6.5 4.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Plot: rescue, wolf, octopus, spy, zoo, penguin, cartoon, villain, ...

Cast

Neve Campbell

David Arquette

Courteney Cox

Emma Roberts

Scream 4 (2011)

6.5 4.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

Style: satirical, absurd

Plot: rescue, mask, sheriff, jealousy, dark comedy, victim, knife, self-inflicted injury, ...

Place: california

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

John Travolta

Jacinda Barrett

Robert Patrick

Ladder 49 (2004)

6.5 885 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.

Plot: rescue, hero, fire, disaster, firefighting, ledge, practical joke, firefighter

Cast

Jackie Chan

Owen Wilson

Lucy Liu

Xander Berkeley

Shanghai Noon (2000)

6.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Plot: princess, rescue, martial arts, native american, sioux, travel, chinese, cowboy, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Sienna Guillory

Oded Fehr

Thomas Kretschmann

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

6.4 4.8K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, dystopia, mutant, sequel, conspiracy, evil corporation, zombie, ...

Killer Elite (2011)

6.3 2.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

Plot: rescue, assassin, based on novel or book, hostage, mentor, secret society, secret agent, beating, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: mexico

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

Linda Hamilton

Arabella Field

Jamie Renu00e9e Smith

Dante's Peak (1997)

6.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Plot: rescue, small town, helicopter, lava, mayor, evacuation, natural disaster, motel, ...

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Katrina Kaif

Danny Denzongpa

Javed Jaffrey

Bang Bang! (2014)

6.2 256 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: Czech Republic, India

Duration: 153 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A young bank receptionist gets mixed up with Rajveer Nanda, a man who has a mysterious background.

Plot: rescue, dancing, london, england, secret agent, heist, revenge, jewel thief, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Andrea Riseborough

Linus Roache

Ned Dennehy

Mandy (2018)

6.2 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

Style: intense

Plot: rescue, nightmare, kidnapping, narcissism, dark comedy, lsd, surrealism, hallucinogen, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Maria Bello

Connor Paolo

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Anthony Piccininni

World Trade Center (2006)

6.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Style: romantic

Plot: rescue, hero, alarm clock, war on terror, runaway, fire engine, based on true story, marine, ...

Cast

Roy Scheider

Lorraine Gary

Murray Hamilton

Joseph Mascolo

Jaws 2 (1978)

6.0 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Plot: dying and death, rescue, island, panic, mayor, shark attack, police chief, current, ...

Cast

Chuck Norris

Lee Marvin

Martin Balsam

Joey Bishop

The Delta Force (1986)

6.0 524 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, airplane, war veteran, fight, patriotism, hijacking, rescue mission, ...

Cast

Seth Green

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Seth Robert Dusky

Joan Cusack

Dan Fogler

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

6.0 792 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When Martians suddenly abduct his mom, mischievous Milo rushes to the rescue and discovers why all moms are so special.

Plot: rescue, alien, martian, alien abduction, alien invasion, based on children's book, duringcreditsstinger, motion capture, ...

Cast

Tim Thomerson

Helen Hunt

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Biff Manard

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Michael Stefani

Trancers (1984)

5.9 229 votes

Genre: Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 77 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

Plot: rescue, police, fight, detective, santa claus, hypnosis, time travel, zombie, ...

Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020)

5.9 64 votes

Genre: Action

Country: India

Duration: 169 min.

Story: A tough army major is deployed to Kurnool on a mission to keep the country safe from external threats.

Plot: rescue, army, corruption, orphan, political intrigue , family dynamics

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

5.9 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.

Plot: rescue, undercover, detective, investigation, carousel, sequel, shootout, dirty cop, ...

Cast

Trace Adkins

Anne Heche

Yancey Arias

Thora Birch

13 Minutes (2021)

5.8 259 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength in each other in order to survive.

Plot: rescue, pregnancy, tornado, natural disaster, destruction, lgbt, bad weather, gay theme

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