If You Liked Con Air, Watch These Next
Finished Con Air (1997) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Con Air, most of them are action, thriller, crime.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.U.S. Marshals(1998)
6.6ThrillerCrimeActionAlso thriller and crime
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
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3.The Delta Force(1986)
6.0ActionThrillerWarAlso action and thriller
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.
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4.Killer Elite(2011)
6.3ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and thriller
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…
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5.Rampage: Capital Punishment(2014)
6.0ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
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6.Transporter 2(2005)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in…
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7.The Marksman(2021)
6.8ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and thriller
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…
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10.Sniper(1993)
6.2ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and thriller
Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller.
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11.Broken Arrow(1996)
6.1ActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry…
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12.Passenger 57(1992)
6.0ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and thriller
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.
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13.Nighthawks(1981)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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14.Truth or Consequences, N.M.(1997)
6.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million…
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15.Close Range(2015)
6.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
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16.Commando(1985)
6.8ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and thriller
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With…
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17.Escape from New York(1981)
7.0ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
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18.Death Warrant(1990)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in this violent world.
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19.Once Upon a Time in Mexico(2003)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
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20.Sicario: Day of the Soldado(2018)
6.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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