List of Die Hard Scenario Films and Shows

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This is a detailed list of all the Die Hard Scenario movies and TV shows out there. For a list of actors who appeared in these films and shows, see here.

For a list of the Die Hard scenario filmmakers, see here. Some of these filmmakers also primarily inspired by Steven E. de Souza's material for the first Die Hard film as well as his script work for 1985's Commando. Please also note that some of these Die Hard influenced films might be far more inspired by it's sequels, the various similar films (High Noon, Dog Day Afternoon, Airport, The Towering Inferno, Speed, The Fugitive, Reservoir Dogs, Cliffhanger, Broken Arrow, The Rock, Executive Decision, Man on Fire, Hard Boiled, Enemy of the State, Taken, Mission: Impossible, Buried, 24, The Unit, Spooks, Panic Room, Tom Clancy adaptations and either version of The Desperate Hours, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three or Assault on Precinct 13 rather than the original 1988 Die Hard film.

For a list of Die Hard-type video games, see here.

For a list of comparisons between the Die Hard and James Bond film series, see here.

For a list of films that pre-dated and inspired several Die Hard-type films, see here.

For TV shows that had single or multiple episodes that referenced the Die Hard formula, see here.

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List

1-100

• 2:22
• 2 Guns [1] [2] [3]
• 3 Days to Kill: A 2014 Luc Besson action-comedy directed by McG and which has much of the same material found in A Good Day to Die Hard, the James Bond films, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Taken films. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
• 3 Ninjas: High Noon At Mega Mountain
• 4.3.2.1. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
• 6 Bullets [14]
• The 6th Day
• 7 Minutes [15] [16]
• 12 Rounds
• 12 Rounds: Reloaded
• 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (Originally titled Lockdown): A police officer is trapped inside his own precinct by renegade police officers trying to dispose of any incriminating evidence against them.[17] [18] [19] [20]
• 15 Minutes [21] [22] [23] [24]
• 16 Blocks [25]
• 16 December
• 22 Bullets [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]
• 24 [31]
• 24 Hrs: Another Bollywood action thriller.
• 24: India
• 24: Live Another Day
• 24: Redemption
• 24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
• 30 Days of Night [32]
• 30 Minutes or Less
• 80 Minutes [33]
• 88 Minutes: D.O.A. meets Nick of Time meets "24" all in a confined area much like Die Hard with a Vengeance. [34]

A

• The A-Team (2010 film) [35]
• A Bittersweet Life [36] [37]
• A Common Man: A 2013 remake of the hit film A Wednesday!
• A Good Day to Die Hard: John McClane travels to Russia to help his son John Jr., only to discover that he is a CIA operative out to stop Russian terrorists from confiscating weapons-grade uranium.
• A Holiday Heist: 2011 television film loosely in the style of Home Alone and Die Hard.
• A Lonely Place to Die [38] [39]
• A Man Apart [40] [41] [42]
• A Wing and a Prayer (1998 television movie)
• A Wednesday!
• A Monster with a Thousand Heads (A.K.A. Un monstruo de mil cabezas) [43]
• A New Wave [44]
• Abduction (2011) [45] [46]
• Ablaze: Another firefighter action film set in a building a la Backdraft.
• Act of Valor [47] [48]
• Act of War
• Active Stealth [49]
• Acts of Betrayal: 1997 action film which has a Assault on Precinct 13 sort of feel and even pre-dates Panic Room in a way; Also has a group of assassins disguising themselves as thieves so basically a counter to the whole Hans Gruber and his goon's cover story about them being out to rob a place.
• Against the Dark
• Age of Dinosaurs: Another mockbuster from The Asylum which steals scenes from Die Hard and Jurassic Park.
• Age of Kill [50] [51]
• Agent Red
• The Aggression Scale: Home Alone-meets-Die Hard.
• Air Collision
• Air Force One: President James Marshall takes on Russian terrorists who hijacked Air Force One and hold the president's family and passengers hostage.
• Air Force Two [52]
• Air Marshal
• Air Panic (A.K.A. Panic)
• Air Rage
• Airborne: Sounding extremely similar to Broken Arrow and advertised as being the next Turbulence and Executive Decision, this action thriller finds a group of thieves trying to smuggle in a stolen nuclear weapon via plane with a bunch of federal agents being the only ones capable of stopping the villain's efforts.
• Airboss
• Airboss II: Preemptive Strike
• Airboss III: The Payback
• Airboss IV: The X Factor
• Airheads
• Airline Disaster
• Airplane vs Volcano
• Airspeed
• Alan Partridge
• Albino Alligator [53] [54] [55] [56]
• Alex Cross (2012) [57] [58] [59] [60]
• Alien Raiders: Die Hard/Dog Day Afternon-meets-They Live. [61] [62] [63] [64]
• Almost Human [65] [66] [67]
• Along Came a Spider [68] [69] [70]
• The Alternate: Another "save the President" scenario movie.
• Ambushed (1998 film)
• The American
• American Eagle [71]
• American Heist [72] [73]
• American Meltdown (A.K.A. Meltdown)
• Amos & Andrew [74] [75]
• The Anomaly [76] [77]
• Anwar: 2010 unofficial remake of 2008's Traitor.
• April Rain
• Arctic Blue [78]
• Arlington Road
• Armageddon [79] [80] [81] [82] [83]
• Armored: A heist thriller with shades of Die Hard and Panic Room.
• Armed for Action
• Armstrong
• Army of One (A.K.A. Joshua Tree) [84]
• The Art of War [85] [86] [87] [88] [89]
• The Art of War II: Betrayal [90]
• The Art of War III: Retribution [91]
• Asambhav: 2004 remake of 1997's Air Force One.
• Assassins [92] [93] [94] [95]
• Assassin's Game [96] (2015)
• Assassin's Run [97]
• Assassination Games [98] [99]
• The Assault: Another low-rent Jim Wynorski in the style of Die Hard and Assault on Precinct 13.
• Assault on Dome 4: In this SciFi Channel Original movie, an escaped prisoner holds various captives hostage on-board a space station.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film): Police officers and imprisoned criminals must fight to survive when corrupt, disgruntled cops surround the station with the intent of killing all inside. Despite being intended as a remake, the director and his crew (who also made 2002's The Nest) have assembled a film that quite often also resembles elements of the Die Hard franchise. [100]
• Athena: Goddess of War: Spin-off series of Iris.
• Athena: Goddess of War: The Movie: Edited movie version of the aforementioned series.
• ATM: Another thriller from the writer of Buried. [101] [102] [103] [104] [105]
• Atomic Eden [106] [107] [108]
• Atomic Train [109]
• Attack the Block
• Aurora: Operation Intercept
• Automatic
• Avalanche (1994 telefilm)
• Avenger (2006 film)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron [110] [111] [112] [113]
• Awaken (2015) [114]
• Awarapan: Remake of 2005's A Bittersweet Life.
• Awarapan 2: Upcoming sequel to the original Awarapan.

B

• Baadshah: Bollywood film that's a combination of Nick of Time, If Looks Could Kill, the Jackie Chan film Rush Hour and The Mask.
• Baazi: A 1995 Bollywood film that steals entire segments and plot points from 1983's Scarface, 1988's Die Hard and 1991's The Hard Way.
• Baby (2015)
• Backdraft
• Badal: 2000 Bollywood thriller heavily inspired by the plot line for 1997's The Devil's Own
• Badges of Fury [115] [116]
• Bait
• Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever [117]
• Ballistica is filled with action, action and another action! Tough and deadly hand to hand combat with various firearms, Paul Logan stars as the CIA's best weapon against international terrorism. This film is a tough action movie in the style of Die Hard, Commando and 12 Rounds!
• Bandits [118] [119]
• Bang Bang!: Bollywood remake of Knight and Day.
• Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
• Bangkok Dangerous (2008) [120] [121] [122]
• Bank Robber
• The Base
• The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
• Batman Begins
• Behind Enemy Lines [123]
• Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
• Below Utopia
• The Berlin File: Mash-up of Swiri, Die Hard and The Bourne Identity franchise.
• Best of the Best 4: Without Warning [124]
• Best Men [125]
• Beverly Hills Cop III: The third installment of the franchise is often described by the original two Die Hard film's writer (who also penned this film) as being "Die Hard in a theme park."
• Beyond Rangoon [126]
• Bichhoo: 2000 remake of Léon: The Professional.
• Big Bullet: 1996 action-crime film about special police unit stopping criminals from committing robberies and hijacking a plane with weapons. The finale is much akin to Die Hard 2.
• Big Game
• The Big Hit [127]
• Black Dog
• Black Horizon: Another trapped on a satellite that's been set out of control by terrorists by Steve Latshaw, who also wrote Memorial Day and Scorpio One. [128] [129]
• Black Mask [130]
• Black Mask 2: City of Masks [131] [132]
• Black Sea
• Black Sea Raid (A.K.A. Special Forces) (2000)
• Black Thunder
• Blackhat [133]
• The Blacklist
• Blackout (2008 film) [134]
• The Blacksheep Affair (A.K.A. Another Meltdown): 1998 so-bad-it's-good turkey that was packaged in the US as a unrelated sequel to 1995's High Risk (A.K.A. Meltdown).
• Blast (1997): Terrorists take over a gymnasium and hold various Olympic hopefuls hostage until a disgruntled detective with a bizarre haircut arrives with the most unlikely solution.
• Blast (2004)
• Blindspot [135] [136]
• Blood Diamond [137] [138] [139] [140] [141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146] [147]
• Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero
• Blown Away
• Body Count (1998 film) [148] [149]
• Body of Lies [150] [151] [152] [153]
• Bone Dry [154]
• The Border (TV series)
• Born of War [155] [156]
• Born to Fight
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Legacy
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Brake: a troubled yet devout Secret Service agent is trapped in the trunk of a car and physically and psychologically tortured by terrorists seeking information about the President of the United States' whereabouts.
• Breakdown [157]: An action thriller with elements of Deliverance, Die Hard, The River Wild and either version of The Vanishing.
• Breaking News: In this Johnny To Hong Kong action thriller, this formula comes off as "Die Hard-in-an-apartment-complex" with some cat-and-mouse intrigue laden here as well.
• Brick Mansions: Remake of District B13.
• Britz [158]
• Broken Arrow: USAF pilot Captain Riley Hale and park ranger Terry Carmichael battle Hale's mentor Major Vic Deakins and his group of rogue military operatives who stole 2 nuclear weapons from a stealth bomber on a desert.
• Bullet (2014 film) [159] [160] [161] [162] [163] [164] [165] [166]
• Bullet to the Head [167] [168] [169]
• Buried
• Burning Sun
• Bus 657: Another heist thriller but this time set on a bus. [170]
• The Butcher

C

• Cabin Pressure
• The Call
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176]
• Career Opportunities [177] [178] [179]
• Carjacked [180]
• Casino Royale [181] [182]
• Cat Run [183] [184]
• Cat Run 2 [185]
• Catch .44 [186] [187]
• Cave In (2003 telefilm)
• Cellular
• Chain of Command: The first of many Die Hard clones starring Michael Dudikoff.
• Chain of Command (2000)
• Chain Reaction [188] [189] [190]
• Chaos: 2005 heist film which borrows from various other heist films and even pre-dates Inside Man.
• Champion: 2000 film which rips off Mercury Rising and The Bodyguard.
• Checkmate (2015)
• Chill Factor: Another Die Hard clone similar to Speed and Broken Arrow
• Christmas Rush (A.K.A. Breakaway): In this TBS original movie, the storyline revolves around a detective (played by Dean Cain) who arrives to take out some jewel thieves who have taken over a shopping mall and taking the detective's spouse hostage.
• "Chuck" [191] [192] [193] [194] [195]
• City Hunter: Another film where terrorists take over a cruise ship. Jackie Chan and Gary Daniels star.
• Civilian- upcoming Jackie Chan film which is described by the creators as "Die hard-in-a-NRA-type-weapons-convention". [196]
• Cleanskin [197]
• Clear and Present Danger: Another pre-dated Die Hard scenario novel loosely adapted in post-Die Hard world.
• Cliffhanger: Troubled ex-mountain rescue climber Gabe Walker confronts international terrorists who force him and others to find 3 suitcases of stolen money in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
• Close Range [198] [199] [200]
• The Cold Light of Day
• Cold War
• Collateral [201] [202]
• Collateral Damage: Commando meets Sudden Death [203] [204] [205] [206]
• Collision [207] (A.K.A. Intersections)
• Collision Course (2012)
• Colombiana[208] [209] [210] [211]
• Command Performance: Die Hard at a rock concert setting. Starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren.
• Comrades in Arms
• Con Air: Imprisoned ex-Army Ranger Cameron Poe battles violent convicts who hijacked a prison transport jet.
• Con Express: Another Broken Arrow and Under Siege 2 clone with stock footage taken from 1993's Cliffhanger.
• Connected: 2008 Chinese thriller that remakes Cellular.
• Contagion (2011) [212]
• Contraband [213] [214] [215]
• The Contract: 2006 action-adventure with dramatic and thriller elements with a Cliffhanger vibe as well as other "trapped-in-the-forest" type movies.
• The Contractor (2007) [216]
• Cop Out: Send up of buddy cop movies and characters including Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and 48 Hours.
• Countdown (2004 film) [217] [218] [219]
• The Courier [220] [221] [222] [223] [224]
• Crackerjack: Troubled Chicago policeman Jack Wild battles terrorist leader Ivan Getz and his gang at a mountainside hotel resort.
• Crackerjack 2 (A.K.A. Hostage Train): Another Under Siege 2: Dark Territory clone.
• Crackerjack 3: Second unrelated sequel to 1994's Crackerjack.
• Cradle 2 the Grave [225]
• Crank
• Crank 2: High Voltage
• Crash Dive
• Crash Landing
• Crash Point: Berlin
• Crash Point Zero (A.K.A. Extreme Limits)
• The Crew (1994)
• Criminal (1995 film): 1995 Bollywood remake of 1993's The Fugitive. [226]
• Crimson Tide: While the film itself isn't directly influenced by Die Hard, it does take a cue from other mutiny-at-sea and underwater disaster films including The Caine Mutiny and The Hunt for Red October. [227] [228]
• Crisis (1997 film)
• Crisis (2014 TV series)
• Critical Mass: A German terrorist group takes over a factory with an off-duty security guard being the only thing standing in their way in another archive-footage laden film courtesy of director Fred Olen Ray.
• Crocodile Hunter (A.K.A. Juen diu daai ngok): [229]
• Crossfire: 1998 independent film where a group of terrorists attempt to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
• Counter Measures
• Counterstrike
• "CSI: Cyber" [230] [231]
• "CSI: Miami" [232]
• "CSI: New York" [233]
• Cutaway: Mash-up of Point Break, Drop Zone and Terminal Velocity[234]
• The Cutter
• Cybergeddon [235] [236]: Another cyber hacking TV show.
• Cyberjack (A.K.A. Virtual Assassin)

D

• Damned River [237]
• Danger Beneath the Sea: 2002 telefilm clearly influenced by Crimson Tide and The Hunt for Red October among other low-budget submarine film productions. [238]
• Danger Zone [239]
• Dante's Peak: Another enclosed disaster film by Leslie Bohem, the writer of 1996's Daylight. [240] [241] [242]
• Dark Descent: Another Outland clone, which itself was a clone of the High Noon formula.
• The Dark Knight: While the film has been known to be compared to 1995's Heat, others have interpreted it as also containing shout-outs to films much like Se7en, Speed and Die Hard 3 [243][244] [245] [246] [247]
• The Dark Knight Rises [248] [249] [250] [251] [252]
• http://bollywoodnewsflash.com/dark-prince-the-true-story-of-dracula-a-review/
• Daylight [253]
• Dead Calm
• Dead End City: 1988 film released post-Die Hard that plays as a derivative mash-up of Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from N.Y. [254]
• Dead Fire: a film that pre-dates Lockout revolving around scientists and a spaceship crew battling a gang of criminals on a space station.
• Dead in a Heartbeat
• Dead in the Water [255]
• Dead Man Down [256] [257]
• Dead Man's Trigger: Online web series with Hassan Johnson as a man racing against time to stop a bomb from going off in this one season series.
• Dead Men Can't Dance [258]
• Dead Presidents [259] [260]
• The Deadliest Lesson (2008) [261]
• Deadlocked: Another thriller similar to The Negotiator.
• Deadly Heroes: A rather low-budget Die Hard 2-type rip-off that went straight to video.
• Deadly Ransom
• Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
• Death Machine: Another low-budget film with segments taken from Die Hard and Alien.
• Death Squad: An all-star B-movie cast join a 2014 futuristic concept that's a cash-in on The Expendables franchise.
• Death Train (2003)
• Death Train (2006)
• Deadfall (2012 film)
• Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante: Bollywood remake of Trapped (2002 film).
• Deadly Impact
• Deadly Outbreak: Sergeant Dutton Hatfield is pitted against terrorist leader Colonel Baron and his men who have taken over a chemical plant in Tel Aviv.
• Death Ring
• Deep Rising
• Default: Another low-budget plane hijacking thriller but this time done in the found-footage style. [262]
• The Defender (2004) [263]
• Deja Vu: Back to the Future meets Die Hard.
• Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
• Delta Force 3: The Killing Game
• Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
• Demolition High
• Demolition Man [264] [265] [266] [267] [268] [269] [270]
• Demolition University
• Den D: 2008 remake of 1985's Commando and better known as Russian Commando.
• The Departed [271] [272] [273] [274] [275]
• Depth Charge
• Derailed: NATO operative Jacques Kristoff battles terrorists who hijacked an passenger train to search and steal a weaponized, ultra-virulent strain of smallpox.
• Desert Thunder
• Desperado [276] [277] [278]
• Desperate Hours (1990 remake) [279]
• Desperate Measures
• Detention
• Detonator (1993 Pierce Brosnan film) (A.K.A. Alistair MacNeill's "Death Train")
• Detonator (2003)
• The Detonator [280] (2006 Wesley Snipes film)
• Detonator II: Nightwatch
• The Devil's Own
• Dhoom 2: Remake of Day of the Jackal (1973), Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Payback (1999). Scenes are copied from After the Sunset (2004), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), xXx (2003) and Entrapment (1999) with touches of Shalimaar (1978).
• Diamondbacks [281]
• Die Another Day [282] [283] [284]
• Die Hard: Off-duty New York cop John McClane battles German terrorist Hans Gruber and his internationally based group who seize control of Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve.
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder: John McClane battles renegade ex-military commandos who took control of Dulles International Airport.
• Die Hard with a Vengeance: John McClane and shopkeeper Zeus Carver tried to find terrorist mastermind Simon Gruber and his men who is setting bombs in New York to distract them from their own agenda.
• Die Hardest
• Diplomatic Siege: The Romanian embassy is taken over by terrorists and it's up to a bomb expert to stop them. 
• Direct Contact [285]
• Dirty
• Dirty War
• Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York: Low-budgeted 2006 telefilm clearly inspired by 1997's Volcano.
• District B13- Mash-up of elements from Die Hard and Assault on Precinct 13 as well as Transporter and Escape from New York.
• District B13: Ultimatum
• Don't Die Too Hard!: French parody of the general Die Hard premise.
• Don't Say a Word [286] [287] [288]
• Doom: 2005 adaptation of the popular video game that bares far more resemblance to Predator, Aliens, Ghosts of Mars, Deep Rising and Starship Troopers with mild shades of Die Hard and Event Horizon. [289] [290]
• The Double: A 2011 action thriller in the style of Jason Bourne and the Taken franchise.
• Double Deception [291]
• Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen (2012): Japanese telefilm remake of Infernal Affairs.
• Double Identity [292] [293] [294]
• Dragon Fighter: A mishmash of Reign of Fire, Aliens, "24", Jurassic Park and other Die Hard type elements.
• Dredd: Judge Dredd and his rookie partner Judge Anderson are trapped in the 200-story building owned by homicidal drug lord Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal and her gang.
• Drive Hard [295]
• Driven to Kill [296]
• Drop Zone
• Dus
• Dying of the Light [297] [298] [299]

E

• E-Ring
• Eagle Eye [300]
• Echelon Conspiracy: Another cyber thriller in the vein of Live Free or Die Hard, Eagle Eye, Enemy of the State, The Net and TV's "24".
• Edge of Darkness (2010) [301] [302]
• Edge of Tomorrow [303] [304] [305] [306] [307]
• Edison Force [308]
• Ek Ajnabee: Bollywood remake of 2004's Man on Fire.
• El Gringo
• Elephant White [309] [310] [311] [312]
• Elevator (2011 film) [313]
• The Elite
• The Employer [314]
• End Game (2006 film)
• Enemy Action
• Enemy of the State [315] [316]
• Enemies Closer [317] [318]
• Entrapment [319] [320] [321] [322] [323] [324]
• The Equalizer: 2014 loose rehash of the popular 80s television show with a finale that's very influenced by the Die Hard and High Noon formula. Directed by Olympus Has Fallen's Antoine Fuqua. [325] [326]
• Epicenter: Low-budget Towering Inferno type adventure-disaster film which also borrows stock footage from blockbuster films such as Speed, Money Train and Metro.
• Eraser [327] [328] [329] [330] [331] [332] [333] [334]
• Erased [335]
• Escape from L.A.
• Escape Plan: Another contained "Die Hard-in-a-prison" in the style of Half Past Dead. [336] [337][338]
• Escape Under Pressure (A.K.A. The Cruel Deep)
• Evasive Action: A train transporting highly dangerous prisoners is taken hostage when the main prisoner leader manages to help his crew break out of their cell and take the train hostage. One of the prisoners, a wrongly-convicted man, ends up sheltering on the train and realizes his wife and child are on the same transport. He makes all efforts to take out the terrorists one-by-one while saving his family.
• Everly
• Executive Decision: Anti-terrorist expert Dr. David Grant and a team of Special Forces operatives board an 747 airliner that was hijacked by Islamic terrorists.
• Executive Target: Another Die Hard with a Vengeance clone, this time involving the kidnapping of the president by an ex-con who's family is threatened by an underground terrorist circuit. It's up to our hero Michael Madsen to turn the tables on the masterminds behind the deadly chaos.
• Exit Speed: Bus passengers must fight to survive when a group of meth-addicted, vengeful bikers surround it and attack. 
• The Expendables
• The Expendables (TV show)
• The Expendables 2
• The Expendables 3
• The Expendables 4
• Extraction: A US Soldier is tasked with extracting a prisoner from a maximum-security Chechen prison.
• Extraction (2016 Bruce Willis film) [339] [340]
• Extreme Crisis (A.K.A. B gai waak)
• Extreme Ops [341]: This does have several Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit type moments just with snowboarders and terrorists instead of rock climbers and thieves.
• Eye of the Widow

F

• Face of Terror
• Face/Off [342]
• Falcon Down: A SciFi-enhanced version of Broken Arrow/Firefox that involves submarines and more silly special effects.
• Fallout: Die Hard on a NASA space station
• Family Under Siege (A.K.A. Dynamite) 2004 hostage drama-thriller.
• Fast Five [343] [344] [345] [346] [347]
• Faster [348] [349]
• The Fifth Commandment [350] [351] [352] [353]
• The Fifth Element: The second portion of the film has a hostage scenario set aboard an outer space cruise ship.
• Final Approach (2005)
• Final Approach (2007)
• The Final Cut (1996 film) [354]
• The Final Game [355] (A.K.A. Das Finale)
• Final Voyage
• Fire! [356]
• Fire Down Below
• Fire of Conscience [357]
• Fire with Fire
• Firefight (2003 film)
• Firestorm: Smokejumper Jesse Graves takes on escaped convicts led by Randall Shaye, who have kidnapped bird watcher Jennifer, in the midst of a raging forest fire. [358]
• Firestorm (2013): 2013 action-crime thriller with Andy Lau.
• Firetrap
• Firewall: Ransom meets Swordfish with hints of Harrison Ford's typical attempt to rescue his wife and family scenario carried over from the likes of Patriot Games and Air Force One with Mary Lynn Rajskub playing a role much akin to her Chloe O'Brien character on 24.
• First Daughter (1999 TV film)
• First Shot: Second and last sequel to First Daughter.
• First Target: First sequel to First Daughter.
• Fist Power: Another Hong Kong actioner where a madman takes over a school. [359]
• Flight of Fury: A rehash of the Broken Arrow/Firefox rip-off Black Thunder with stock footage from that film inserted and instead of starring Michael Dudikoff, this time it features Steven Seagal.
• Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane: Another cult movie that is clearly a cash-in on the Snakes on a Plane formula.
• Flightplan: An aircraft engineer hunts through the airliner she designed to find her missing daughter everyone denies ever existing while also trying to fight someone who wants her dead. 
• Flipped (2015 film) [360]
• Flypaper (2011 film) [361] [362] [363] [364] [365]
• Force of Five (A.K.A. Power Kids)
• Four Towers: Upcoming 2015 Die Hard rip-off starring Michael Dudikoff and Steven Seagal. [366]
• The Fourth Angel [367] [368] [369] [370] [371] [372]
• Freedom Strike
• Free Fall (1999 film)
• Free Fall (2014) film about a protagonist trapped in an elevator that echoes Panic Room and Die Hard.
• Freezer: Die Hard in a freezing room.
• From Dusk Till Dawn [373] [374] [375]
• From Paris With Love [376]
• The Fugitive [377] [378]
• Full Alert
• Fuego
• Furious 6 (A.K.A. Fast & Furious 6) [379] [380] [381] [382]
• Furious 7 (A.K.A. Fast and Furious 7) [383] [384] [385] [386] [387]

G

• Galaxy Quest [388] [389] [390]
• Game of Death (2010) [391]
• Gen-X Cops
• Gen-Y Cops (A.K.A. Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem)
• Get the Gringo [392] [393] [394] [395]
• Getaway [396] [397] [398]
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai [399] [400] [401] [402] [403] [404] [405] [406] [407]
• Ghosts of Mars: Assault on Precinct 13 on Mars.
• G.I. Jane [408] [409] [410] [411] [412] [413]
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation [414] [415] [416]
• Glass Trap: It's Die Hard in a building being attacked by gigantic ants. [417]
• Global Effect
• Go [418] [419]
• GoldenEye [420] [421] [422] [423]
• Good People [424] [425] [426] [427] [428] [429]
• Grand Piano
• Greenmail: Another low-rent Speed rip-off.
• Green Zone
• Greetings to the Devil [430] [431]
• Gridlock (1996)
• Gridlocked (2015) [432]
• Grosse Point Blank [433] [434] [435]
• Ground Control
• Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever
• Guardian (2014) [436]
• The Guest
• Gun Woman [437][438] [439] [440]
• The Gunman (2015) [441] [442]

H

• Hackers [443] [444]
• Half Past Dead
• Half Past Dead 2
• Hangfire (1991 film)
• Hanna [445]
• Hard Boiled
• Hard Rain
• Hard Target
• Hard Target 2
• Hard Time: Hostage Hotel
• Hard to Die
• Hard to Kill [446] [447] [448] [449]
• Harry Brown [450] [451] [452] [453] [454] [455] [456][457] [458][459] [460]
• Hawaii Five-0 (2010 series)
• He Who Dares
• He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege: Sequel to the poorly received He Who Dares.
• Heat [461] [462] [463] [464] [465] [466]
• The Heat [467]
• The Hero: Love Story of a Spy
• Heaven's Burning [468]
• Heaven's Fire: A family friendly take on a "Die Hard-in-a-hospital" setting.
• Heist (2006 TV series) [469] [470] [471] [472]
• Hidden Agenda [473] [474] [475]
• Hidden Camera [476] [477]
• High Noon (2000 telefilm remake)
• High Risk (A.K.A. Meltdown): A Hong Kong police bomb squad man, Kit Li, becomes a stunt double for a famous HK movie star after losing his wife and child to a bus explosion. The same terrorist gang of criminals responsible end up crashing a hotel gala party in order to steal some expensive jewelry. Kit ends up goofing up the terrorist's plans when they avoids being shot at in a parking lot and realizes that the movie star he works with is in the same besieged building.
• Hijack: 2008 Bollywood action thriller with terrorists taking over a plane.
• Hijacked
• Hijacked: Flight 285
• The Hit List: 2011 action film that borrows from Collateral as well as rips off other hit 80s films like The Terminator police station shoot-out.
• Hitman: 2007 videogame adaptation of the popular video game series of the same name with moments similar to Léon: The Professional. Writer Skip Woods would later incorporate a helicopter ambushing a building scene similar to this movie's scene in A Good Day to Die Hard.
• Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
• Hitman's Run
• Home Alone [478]
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Home Alone 3: A resourceful young boy gets into a battle of wits with four international terrorists looking for a missile chip in his neighborhood. 
• Home Alone 4
• Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
• Home Invasion (2016 film)
• Homefront [479] [480] [481] [482] [483] [484] [485] [486] [487] [488] [489] [490]
• Homeland [491]
• Hostage: 2005 adaptation of the Robert Crais crime thriller novel of the same name.
• Hostages (TV show) [492]
• Hostile Takeover (2001)
• Hostile Takedown (2005)
• Hours
• How to Rob a Bank [493]
• The Howling: Reborn
• The Human Shield
• Human Target
• The Hunt for Red October: Loose adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel but has much of the same modus operandi as one comes to expect from John McTiernan's work. [494]
• Hunt to Kill [495]
• The Hurt Locker
• Hunter Killer [496] [497]

I

• I Am Wrath [498] [499] [500] [501]
• I Spy [502]
• Icarus (A.K.A. The Killing Machine) (2010) [503] [504] [505]
• Icebreaker- 1999 Action-Comedy film with Sean Astin playing a vacationing man who helps thwart a hostage situation by a group of terrorists (led by Bruce Campbell) at a tourist attraction.
• The Ignorance of Blood (A.K.A. La ignorancia de la sangre)
• Imposter (2001)
• In the Blood [506] [507] [508]
• In the Line of Fire
• Inception [509] [510] [511] [512] [513]
• Indian (2001 film): Another Bollywood crime drama which ends with the hero having to get a bus rigged with a bomb out of the city.
• Inescapable [514] [515]
• Infernal Affairs [516] [517] [518] [519] [520] [521] [522]
• Infernal Unfairs: 2004 parody of Infernal Affairs
• Inside Man
• Interception
• Interceptor
• Into the Blue
• Into the Blue 2: The Reef
• Intrepid (A.K.A. Deep Water)
• Intruders (2015 film) [523] [524]
• The Intruders
• Invasion Force (1990)
• Invisible Target [525]
• Iris (A.K.A. Ailiseu): Another anti-terrorism espionage series from the creators of Swiri and with elements of Die Hard and 24.
• Iris II: Follow-up series to Iris.
• Iris: The Movie: Edited episodes of the series merged with new footage to form a feature length film.
• Irresistible Force (1993)

J

• Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani: Remakes scenes and portions of Jaani Dushman (1979), Nagin (1976), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), The Matrix (1999), Face/Off (1997), Mission: Impossible II (2000).
• Jack Reacher [526]
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• The Jackal [527]
• "JAG"
• Jarhead 2: Field of Fire [528] [529] [530] [531] [532] [533] [534] [535]
• Jarhead 3: The Siege [536] [537]
• Jason Bourne: The fifth entry in the ongoing spy film series.
• Java Heat Another The Raid type action film. Focuses on an American spy going rogue and seeking help from a good-willed Indonesian cop to stop an international terrorist.
• Jet Stream
• Jeu de cons
• John Q: Another take on the Dog Day Afternoon, The Negotiator and partial Die Hard formula. [538]
• John Wick [539] [540] [541]
• John Wick: Chapter Two
• Johnny Mnemonic [542] [543]
• Junction [544]
• Jung: 2000 Bollywood remake of Desperate Measures with Sanjay Dutt.
• Jurassic City
• Jurassic World [545] [546] [547]
• "Justified" [548] [549] [550] [551]

K

• Kaante: Bollywood film starring Sanjay Dutt and which rips off Reservoir Dogs, Heat and The Usual Suspects.
• The Keeper [552]
• Khakee (A.K.A. The Brown Uniform)
• Kill Cruise (A.K.A. Der Skipper)
• Kill Kane [553]
• The Kill Point
• The Killer (1989 John Woo film)
• The Killer: (2006 Bollywood remake of Collateral.
• Killers in the House
• The Killing Jar (2010 film) [554] [555]
• Killing Moon
• Killing Zoe [556] [557] [558] [559]
• The Kingdom
• Kingsman: The Secret Service: It's more James Bond related (with it's plot baring resemblance to Tomorrow Never Dies as well as Live Free or Die Hard) but it has various references to Jason Bourne, "24", Mission: Impossible, The Raid: Redemption and Taken and has a similar parody type like that of Archer, Get Smart, Austin Powers and Johnny English. [560] [561] [562] [563][564] [565] [566] [567] [568] [569] [570] [571][572] [573] [574]
• The Assassin Next Door (A.K.A. Kirot) [575] [576]
• Knight and Day [577] [578]
• Knock-Off [579] [580]
• Knock Out: Bollywood rip-off of Phone Booth.
• Krrish: Bollywood remake of Paycheck. [581]

L

• "La Femme Nikita (TV series)"
• La Horde (A.K.A. The Horde)
• Land of the Free: Another PM Entertainment Group, Inc. production with many scenes stolen from Die Hard.
• Last Action Hero
• Last Best Chance
• The Last Blood (A.K.A. Ging tin 12 sou si or 12 Hours of Terror): 1990 Hong Kong film starring Andy Lau, which was advertised in other countries as being an unofficial sequel to Hard Boiled, due to both films ending in a hospital stand-off. [582]
• The Last Boy Scout: Ode to buddy cop movies with another violent tale pitting a John McClane-esque hero against more overwhelming odds.
• The Last Castle: The Rock meets The Shawshank Redemption. [583]
• Last Hour (2008) [584]
• The Last Hour
• Last Man Standing: This remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo plays off more like Die Hard in period clothing. [585] [586] [587]
• Last Man Standing (2011 telefilm)
• Last of the Dogmen [588] [589]
• Last Passenger
• Last Resort [590]
• The Last Ship [591]
• The Last Stand
• The Last Siege: Never Surrender (A.K.A. Hijack): A former ATF agent stops a terrorist organization from executing a Presidential candidate and his staff on a train headed to the candidate's campaign state.
• Law Abiding Citizen
• Legends [592] [593]
• Léon: The Professional [594] [595]
• Lethal Tender: A team of terrorists seize a water purification plant and threaten to pollute a city's entire drinking supply. However, the attack is in fact a cover-up of an in-progress robbery and their attack gets thwarted by an off-duty detective and female plant worker.
• Leverage: The television series makes constant note of Dog Day Afternoon and the original Die Hard.
• Leviathan [596] [597] [598]
• Liberty Stands Still: Much like Blown Away and Speed came out around the same time, this film bares much resemblance to Phone Booth.
• License to Kill: While the film is trying to be far more faithful to the source material and was shot around the same time as the original Die Hard, it still shares much in common with the style of that film as well as a Joel Silver production such as 1987's Lethal Weapon. It also notably is rather similar to some revenge films such as the pre-DHS film Commando and the TV series "Miami Vice"; later on, it's style and similar plot lines were recreated in 2008's Quantum of Solace. [599] [600] [601] [602] [603] [604] [605] [606] [607] [608] [609]
• Light It Up
• Lila & Eve [610] [611]
• Lima: Breaking the Silence: Unlike like some movie sites indicated, this isn't at all factually related to the actual 1997 incident in Lima. It is instead another action film where a hostage situation must be defused.
• Live Free or Die Hard: John McClane and hacker Matt Farrell battle an internet-based terrorist organization, led by a former member of the United States Department of Defense, who are systematically shutting down the United States.
• Live Hard: 1989 Hong Kong parody of the original Die Hard with Simon Yam.
• Live Wire: A film about a FBI bomb squad member who attempts to stop a terrorist group that's responsible for a water-created bomb causing people to explode. Promoted as a mix between Die Hard and Patriot Games.
• Living & Dying [612]
• Loaded Weapon 1: A National Lampoon parody of Silence of the Lambs as well as the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon franchise.
• Locke
• Lockout: Wrongly imprisoned CIA agent Marion Snow infiltrates a orbital space prison to battles inmates who taken control of it and rescue Emilie Warnock, the daughter of the President of the United States. Often cited as being a mash-up of Taken, Die Hard and Escape from New York in outer space. [613] [614] [615]
• London Has Fallen: Long-awaited follow-up to Olympus Has Fallen
• The Long Kiss Goodnight [616] [617] [618] [619]
• Looper [620] [621] [622] [623] [624] [625] [626]
• The Losers [627] [628] [629] [630]
• Loyal Opposition: Terror in the White House [631]
• Lucy [632] [633] [634] [635] [636]

M

• MacGyver
• MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
• MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
• MacGruber: spoof of MacGyver as well as a direct spoof of other 80s hits such as Die Hard and Top Gun.
• Mach 2
• Mad City
• The Maiden Heist [637]
• Maiden Voyage: a D-list movie star helps save a boat from terrorists. Surprisingly, despite bad reviews and a terrible budget, this movie has far more happening in it than Speed 2: Cruise Control
• Main Hoon Na: 2004 action comedy that steals entire plot segments and scenes from Toy Soldiers, Hiding Out, Fight Back to School, Back To School, Never Been Kissed and 1995's Mortal Kombat
• The Man from Nowhere [638] [639] [640] [641] [642] [643] [644] [645] [646] [647] [648] [649] [650] [651] [652] [653] [654]
• Man on a Ledge: Combine elements of Dog Day Afternoon, Die Hard and Inside Man and the result is this action-packed heist thriller.
• Man on Fire (2004) [655] [656]
• Mardaani [657]
• The Marine (2006)
• The Marine 2: A resort is taken over by foreign terrorists with one skilled Army veteran who can defuse the situation. Related in name only to 2006' The Marine. [658]
• The Marine 3: Homefront Die Hard in an abandoned freighter. [659]
• The Marine 4: Moving Target [660] [661]
• Marked for Death [662] [663] [664] [665]
• The Marksman
• Marshal Law (1996 TV movie)
• Masterminds: Another Die Hard-in-a-school premise.
• Max Payne
• Maximum Breakout [666] [667]
• Maximum Conviction: Another Die Hard-in-a-prison concept.
• Maximum Force [668] [669]
• Maximum Revenge: Again, another prison film with loose Die Hard elements.
• Maximum Risk
• McBain [670] [671]
• Mea Culpa: Another French mash-up of the Taken and Die Hard formulas with some Korean cinema influence as well. [672]
• Mean Guns
• The Mechanic (2011 version) [673] [674] [675]
• The Mechanik (A.K.A. The Russian Specialist) [676]
• Medusa's Child [677]
• Memorial Day
• Men of War [678][679][680]
• Mercenaries
• Mercenary: Absolution [681] [682]
• Merchant of Death
• Mercury Rising [683]
• Merisairas: 1996 eco-thriller starring Peter Firth anad Clark Peters.
• Metro
• Mexican American
• Midnight Eagle [684] [685] [686] [687] [688]
• Militia
• Minority Report [689] [690] [691] [692] [693] [694] [695] [696] [697]
• Minority Report (2015 TV series version)
• Misfire [698] [699] [700] [701] [702] [703] [704] [705]
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous [706] [707]
• Missing (2012 TV show) [708]
• Mission: Impossible (1996) [709] [710]
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol [711] [712] [713] [714]
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible II [715]
• Mission: Impossible III [716]
• Mission Kashmir
• Mistrial: Die Hard in a court house.
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Die Hard in a department store with spies versus other government assassins.[717] [718]
• Momentum [719] [720] [721]
• Money Train: Written by Doug Richardson, this action-crime-comedy-thriller follows two expelled police officers attempting to rob a money train while escaping both the police and a psychopath in the area. [722] [723]
• Montana (2014 film)
• Most Wanted [724] [725] [726] [727]
• Motorcade: Another political action thriller in the vein of Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down helmed this time by Joe Caranahan. [728]
• Murder at 1600 [729] [730] [731] [732]
• Murder Live!
• My Father is a Hero (A.K.A. The Enforcer) [733] [734] [735] [736] [737] [738]
• My Name is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure [739]

N

• Navy SEALs [740] [741] [742] [743]
• "NCIS"
• "NCIS: Los Angeles"
• Need for Speed [744] [745] [746]
• The Negotiator [747] [748] [749]
• The Nest
• The Net [750] [751] [752] [753]
• The Net 2.0
• The Net (series)
• NetForce: Another adaptation of Tom Clancy's cyber thriller work.
• Never 2 Big (A.K.A. Butter) [754]
• New York: 2009 Bollywood crime thriller extremely similar to 1999's Arlington Road
• Next
• The Next Three Days
• Nick of Time
• The Night Crew (2015) [755]
• Night of the Kickfighters [756]
• "The Nine" (2009 TV show) [757]
• Nitro [758]
• No Contest
• No Contest II: Face the Evil
• No Easy Days
• No Escape
• No Good Deed (2002) [759] [760] [761]
• No Good Deed (2014) [762] [763] [764]
• Now You See Me [765] [766]
• Now You See Me 2
• Now You See Me 3
• Nowhere to Land
• Non-Stop: An alcoholic Air Marshall must fight people on board a passenger jet who claim they will kill one passenger every twenty minutes until ransom is paid.
• Not Safe for Work
• The Numbers Station: A movie with a Black Ops soldier and informant trapped at a CIA outpost which is attacked. This film has been compared to the Jason Bourne and Die Hard films as well as Assault on Precinct 13 and Panic Room. John Cusack would later star in the DHS film Grand Piano.
• The November Man [767] [768] [769]

O

• Octopus [770]
• Olympus Has Fallen: Disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Banning battles a group of North Korean terrorists who seized control of the White House and hold President Benjamin Asher and others hostage.
• On Deadly Ground [771] [772] [773] [774] [775]
• One Good Cop [776] [777] [778]
• One in the Chamber [779] [780]
• Open Fire
• Operation Delta Force
• Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
• Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target
• Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
• Operation Delta Force 5: Open Fire
• Operation Noah: A 1998 film which some belived the 2004 film Blast is a loose remake of.
• Operation Rogue
• Operator (2015)
• The Other Guys [781] [782] [783]
• Out for Justice [784] [785] [786] [787]
• Out of Sight [788] [789] [790] [791] [792]
• Out of Time [793] [794] [795] [796] [797]
• Outbreak [798] [799]
• The Outsider (2014 film): Another Taken clone.

P

• P2 [800]
• The Package (2012 film) [801]
• Palm Harbor Vice
• Pandemic (2007)
• Pandora's Clock [802]
• The Pandora Project
• Panic in the Skies!
• Panic Room: A mother and daughter are trapped inside their panic room, with armed thieves waiting outside and trying to get in.
• Passenger 57: Ex-cop turned airline security expert John Cutter outwits psychotic terrorist Charles Rane and his gang who hijacked a jet in a escape attempt.
• The Patriot (1998 film) [803] [804]
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop: An underappreciated, overweight mall cop takes action after a gang of highly organized thieves take over the mall on Black Friday with the intention of robbing it blind.
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
• Pawn [805] [806]
• Paycheck
• "Payday": Web series based on the videogames of the same name.
• The Peacekeeper
• The Peacemaker
• Person of Interest: This TV series reference references 24, the new Batman films and Die Hard 3 and Die Hard 4 as well as shades of Bourne Identity, Deja Vu and Minority Report.
• Phoenix: Low-budget Action-SciFi Thriller that steals elements from "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Aliens, Blade Runner and Die Hard. The main hero's name is also spelled similarly to "John McClane".
• Phone Booth
• Piranhaconda
• The Player (2015 TV show) [807] [808] [809] [810]
• Point Blank: Rudy Ray must stop his brother's criminal gang, led by Wallace, when they take over a shopping mall.
• Point Blank (2010 film) (A.K.A. À bout portant) [811] [812]
• Point Break [813] [814] [815] [816] [817]
• Point Break (2015 remake)
• Police Story 2 [818] [819]
• Police Story 3: Supercop [820] [821] [822] [823]
• Police Story 4: First Strike [824] [825]
• Police Story 2013
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
• Pound of Flesh [826] [827] [828] [829]
• Premium Rush: Another action-thriller similar to Die Hard 3 and Speed and takes place all in one day.
• The President's Man: Line in the Sand (A.K.A. The President's Man 2)
• Prey: 2007 action-adventure thriller which is "Die Hard-in-a-jeep" with the survivors inside being attacked by lions. [830]
• The Prince: Lots of contained building shoot-outs in this one. [831]
• Prisoners [832] [833] [834] [835] [836]
• Project S (A.K.A. Supercop 2)
• Project Shadowchaser (A.K.A. Shadowchaser)
• Project Shadowchaser II
• Proof of Life [837]
• The Protector (A.K.A. Tom Yum Goong)
• The Protector 2 (A.K.A. Tom Yum Goong 2) [838]
• Proximity
• The Punisher (1989 film) [839] [840]
• The Punisher (2004 film) [841] [842] [843]
• Punisher: War Zone [844] [845]
• Pups [846]
• The Purge
• The Purge: Anarchy
• The Purge: Election Year
• Purple Storm: Another 1999 action thriller often compared to Swiri.
• Puzzle (2006 film) [847]
• Puzzle Palace: Upcoming Die Hard pitched cop drama written by David Guggenheim (writer of the 2012 action films Safe House and Stolen).[848] [849]

Q

• Qayamat: City Under Threat: 2003 Bollywood remake of The Rock with elements also stolen from Crimson Tide and Executive Decision.
• Quantico [850] [851] [852] [853]
• Quantum of Solace [854] [855] [856]
• Quarantine (2000 film) [857]

R

• Rabid Dogs (2015 remake) [858] [859]
• Race Against Time [860]
• The Raid (2016 American remake)
• The Raid 2: Sequel to The Raid: Redemption which expands upon the storyline somewhat like The Departed did to it's respective crime scenario.
• The Raid: Redemption: A SWAT team works to take out a drug lord in a large apartment slum.
• Rain Fall
• Rangers [861]
• Rapid Exchange (A.K.A. Flight 747): This heist film borrows heavily from Cliffhanger.
• Raze [862]
• The Real McCoy [863] [864] [865]
• RED [866] [867]
• RED 2 [868]
• RED 3
• Red Dawn (2012): Loose remake of the 1984 original film which is inspired by and even references the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
• Red Eye [869] [870]
• Red Mercury
• The Red Phone: Manhunt (A.K.A. Anti-Terrorist Cell: Manhunt)
• Red Phone 2 (A.K.A. The Red Phone: Checkmate or Anti-Terrorist Cell: Checkmate)
• Red Siren [871] [872] [873]
• Red Wolf: A group of terrorists murder the captain of a cruise ship and take everyone hostage. Their plan is to steal the uranium being stored in the ship's safe. It's up to a security officer and a pickpocketing cocktail waitress to stop them.
• The Ref [874]
• Reindeer Games [875]
• Remote: 1993 DTV rip-off of Home Alone.
• The Replacement Killers
• The Rescue (1988)
• Reservoir Dogs [876] [877] [878]
• Resident Evil [879]
• Resident Evil: Afterlife [880]
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse [881]
• Resident Evil: Damnation [882]
• Resident Evil: Degeneration
• Resident Evil: Extinction [883]
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Restraint [884] [885]
• Retrograde [886] [887]
• Returner (A.K.A. Ritânâ): It's Die Hard, Terminator films, E.T., Timecop, Mission: Impossible II, Hard Boiled, The Matrix and Equilibrium all in one explosive package. [888] [889]
• Riddick [890] [891] [892] [893] [894]
• Riding the Edge
• Riot (1996) [895]
• The River Wild
• Road Ends
• The Rock: Imprisoned ex-SAS operative John Mason and FBI chemical weapons agent Stanley Goodspeed lead a Navy SEAL team to Alcatraz Island when a renegade general and his team of rogue U.S. Force Recon Marines take over the island and threatened San Francisco with rockets armed with poison gas.
• Rogue Strike (Working title was "Deep Terror"): Another submarine flick featuring Eric Roberts.
• Ronin [896] [897]
• The Rookie: CTU
• Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534
• Rumble in the Bronx [898] [899] [900] [901]
• Run All Night [902] [903]
• Run Lola Run [904]
• The Rundown [905] [906]
• Running Out of Time
• Rush Hour [907]
• Rush Hour 2 [908]
• Rush Hour 3 [909]
• Russian Transporter (A.K.A. Nepobedimyy)

S

• Sacrifice (2011 film): Another Man on Fire styled action-crime thriller. [910] [911]
• Safe: Mercury Rising with elements of Die Hard, Hard Boiled and Taken
• Safe House (1998 TV movie) [912]
• Safe House (2012)
• Safehouse (2008)
• Salt [913] [914] [915] [916]
• San Andreas [917] [918]
• Sarfarosh
• Score: Hong Kong action film inspired by Hard Boiled and Reservoir Dogs. [919]
• Score 2: The Big Fight
• The Score [920] [921] [922]
• Scorpio One [923]
• "Scorpion" [924] [925]
• SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines
• Search and Destroy (1988)
• Second in Command: 2006 update of The Alamo-meets-Assault on Precinct 13. [926]
• Seconds to Spare
• Seeking Justice [927] [928] [929]
• The Sentinel [930]
• Serial Bomber (A.K.A. Countdown)
• Set It Off [931] [932]
• Setup [933]
• Shaft (2000) [934] [935] [936]
• The Siege [937]
• Sgt. Gabo Boga
• Shadow Conspiracy [938]
• Shadow Man [939] [940]
• Shakedown (2002 film)
• Sharpshooter: A stylish cash-in on the Shooter type movie formula.
• Shattered (2007) (A.K.A. Butterfly on a Wheel)
• Shelter (1998 film)
• The Shield [941] [942] [943] [944] [945]
• Shoot 'Em Up [946]
• Shooter [947] [948] [949] [950] [951]
• Showdown in Little Tokyo [952] [953] [954] [955] [956] [957] [958]
• The Siege [959] [960] [961] [962]
• Silent Hunter: 1995 low-budget action film about a hero, who's half John McClane, half Rambo and set in a Cliffhanger type setting.
• Silent Night, Zombie Night: Die Hard in an apartment with zombies during pre-Christmas week. [963]
• Silent Trigger: Uncanny 1996 tale about an assassin fighting enemy opposition from within a building where he must defend himself while also executing a bounty via sniping the target.
• Silent Venom: A low-budget Fred Olen Ray production cashing in on the Snakes on a Plane craze but this time having it be set on a submarine.
• Silicon Towers [964] [965] [966]
• Sinners and Saints
• Siren: Another Dead Calm inspired film released in 2010. [967] [968]
• Skin Trade [969] [970] [971] [972][973][974] [975] [976]
• Skin Traffik [977] [978] [979] [980] [981] [982] [983]
• Skyfall (this almost makes one wonder if any 90s or earlier 00s 007 film is fair game to add as well): Noted as resembling various portions of The Dark Knight, Live Free or Die Hard and Home Alone by multiple critics.[984] [985] [986]
• Skyline [987]
• Skyscraper
• Sleeper Cell
• Sleepless Night [988] [989] [990] [991] [992]
• Slipstream (2005) [993] [994] [995] [996]
• Smith (television show)
• Snake Eyes
• Snakes on a Plane
• Snakes on a Train: Mockbuster by intentionally awful movie company The Asylum.
• Sneakers [997] [998] [999] [1,000]
• The Sniper (2009)
• Sniper: Kill Shot
• Sniper: Legacy [1,001] [1,002] [1,003] [1,004]
• Sniper: Reloaded
• Sniper 2 [1,005] [1,006]
• Sniper 3 [1,007] [1,008]
• Snitch [1,009] [1,010] [1,011]
• Snowpiercer: Children of Men with a "Die Hard-on-a-train" niche.
• Soldiers of Fortune [1,012]
• Someone Like You: 2009 Tamil-language film that's a remake of 2008's A Wednesday!. [1,013]
• Sonic Impact
• Source Code [1,014] [1,015]
• Space Mutiny [1,016] [1,017] [1,018] [1,019] [1,020] [1,021] [1,022] [1,023] [1,024] [1,025] [1,026] [1,027]
• Space Truckers
• Spartan [1,028] [1,029] [1,030] [1,031] [1,032] [1,033] [1,034] [1,035]
• Special Forces (2003 film)
• Special Forces (2011 film) [ http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/462553/Special-Forces/overview]
• Speed: Los Angeles SWAT officer Jack Traven and passenger Annie Porter try to save the passengers of a bus held hostage by vengeful bomber Howard Payne when he rigged to blow if the bus goes below 50mph.
• Speed: 2007 similarly-titled Bollywood remake of Cellular.
• Speed 2: Cruise Control: SWAT officer Alex Shaw and Annie Porter tries to save crazed computer genius John Geiger who takes over the cruise ship's computer control systems.
• Spooks [1,036]
• Spooks: Code 9
• Spooks: The Greater Good [1,037]
• Spy Hard
• The Squad (2015 film) [1,038]
• Stand Off (1994 telefilm): Another Dog Day Afternoon stylized hostage thriller. [1,039]
• Stand Off (2012 film)] [1,040]
• Standoff (2016 film) [1,041] [1,042]
• Star Runners: 2009 telefilm that rips off The Fifth Element and Star Wars while also having plenty of homages to similar films such as Die Hard, Aliens and the Doom video game. [1,043] [1,044]
• Star Trek: First Contact [1,045] [1,046] [1,047] [1,048] [1,049] [1,050]
• Star Trek Into Darkness [1,051] [1,052] [1,053]
• Stash House: Described as Panic Room-meets-Hostage and stars Dolph Lundgren.
• Steel Sharks
• Stolen: 2012 rip-off of the typical formula followed in the Die Hard and Taken films.
• Stone Cold [1,054]
• Storage 24
• Storm Catcher: It's a 1999 low-budget rehash of Broken Arrow with Robert Miano as the main villain and Dolph Lundgren as our heroic protagonist.
• Street Fighter [1,055] [1,056] [1,057] [1,058]
• Stretch
• Strike Back
• Strike Zone
• Striking Range
• Stranglehold (1994)
• Strategic Command
• Street Fighter: The Movie
• Street Kings [1,059] [1,060] [1,061] [1,062] [1,063] [1,064] [1,065]
• Sudden Death: Disgraced ex-Pittsburgh firefighter Darren McCord tries to stop ruthless ex-government agent Joshua Foss and his group who seized an ice arena and rigged bombs on it during game 7 of NHL Stanley Cup finals game.
• Sub Down
• Submarines
• Submerged (2000)
• Submerged (2005 Steven Seagal film)
• Submerged: 2015 film by the director of the upcoming Bruce Willis film Extraction.
• Sugar and Spice [1,066]
• The Sum of All Fears [1,067] [1,068]
• Survival Quest
• Surviving the Game
• Survivor [1,069]
• Sushi Girl [1,070] [1,071] [1,072] [1,073] [1,074]
• SWAT: Unit 887 (A.K.A. 24 Hours): A 2015 action thriller starring Michael Paré and Tom Sizemore which is a blatant rip-off of the TV series "24".
• SWAT: Warhead One
• S.W.A.T. [1,075] [1,076] [1,077]
• S.W.A.T.: Firefight
• Swiri (A.K.A. Shiri): This 1999 action-thriller follows two federal agents trying to stop a villain from launching an attack that could cause an all-out war between the North and South provinces of Korea. Promoted in the United States as being a blend of both John McTiernan's Die Hard and Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita.
• Swelter [1,078]
• Sweepers [1,079] [1,080] [1,081] [1,082] [1,083] [1,084] [1,085]
• $windle [1,086]
• Switchback [1,087]
• Swordfish: A cyber techno-thriller that later reused elements in Live Free or Die Hard. The film follows a cyber hacker anti-hero who must save his daughter from a unusual terrorist gang pulling off an uncanny heist that isn't what it seems at first. The film even steals elements from Speed and Broken Arrow. [1,088] [1,089] [1,090] [1,091] [1,092] [1,093]

T

• T-Force
• Tactical Force
• Tail Sting
• Taken
• Taken: The Search for Sophie Parker
• Taken 2
• Tak3n (A.K.A. Taken 3) [1,094]
• Takers [1,095] [1,096]
• The Taking of Beverly Hills
• The Taking of Pelham 123: Another remake of a pre-Die Hard scenario film that while referencing the original source material, also references Speed and has a twist ending that's been noted as being rather similar to Die Hard with a Vengeance.
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998 telefilm remake)
• Tango & Cash [1,097] [1,098] [1,099] [1,100] [1,101]
• The Target (2014): South Korean remake of Point Blank (2010 film).
• The Task: Web series based on Die Hard and various other scenario films/shows.
• Tathastu: 2006 Bollywood remake of 2002's John Q, starring Denzel Washington.
• TC 2000
• Tears of the Sun
• Terminal Rush
• Terminal Velocity
• Terminator: Genisys [1,102] [1,103] [1,104]
• The Terror Experiment: an action-horror film where a man must escape a plaza taken over by zombies using fire escape equipment.
• Tezz: this Bollywood action thriller has heavy influences of Speed, 1975's The Bullet Train and the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
• This Ain't Die Hard XXX
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film) [1,105] [1,106]
• Three Kings [1,107] [1,108] [1,109]
• Thrill (1996 telefilm)
• This Ain't The Expendables XXX
• Thunderbolt [1,110]
• Ticker
• Tides of War (A.K.A. U.S.S. Phantom: Poseidon Below) [1,111]
• Tiger House [1,112]
• Time Bomb (2006 telefilm)
• To Die is Hard: 2010 low-budget Die Hard parody. [1,113]
• Todos a bordo
• Tokarev (A.K.A. Rage) [1,114]
• Tomorrow Never Dies [1,115] [1,116] [1,117]
• Tooken: Poorly received parody of action thrillers such as Taken film series.
• Top of the World
• Total Force
• Total Recall: Paul Verhoeven's loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale!" also mocks action films of that current period. [1,118] [1,119] [1,120] [1,121] [1,122]
• Total Recall (remake) (2012 rehash): [1,123] [1,124] [1,125] In this version of the Philip K. Dick novel, director Len Wiseman (who noted how he wanted to make his action heroes be much like the ones in the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard films) and writer Mark Bomback conduct a mishmash closer in tone to the original novel while also baring resemblance to Minority Report and the Jason Bourne films.
• The Tournament
• The Tower
• Three Days
• Tomorrow by Midnight [1,126]
• Tower Block [1,127]
• Tower Heist: Heist comedy with nods to many other heist films including the remakes of Ocean's 11 and Die Hard. [1,128]
• The Town [1,129]
• Toy Soldiers
• Traitor [1,130] [1,131] [1,132] [1,133] [1,134] [1,135] [1,136] [1,137] [1,138]
• Tracers [1,139] [1,140] [1,141][1,142] [1,143]: Another Parkour action thriller by the writer of Daylight and Volcano and in the style of District B13 and Premium Rush.
• Training Day [1,144] [1,145] [1,146] [1,147] [1,148] [1,149] [1,150] [1,151] [1,152] [1,153] [1,154] [1,155] [1,156] [1,157] [1,158] [1,159] [1,160] [1,161]
• Transgression [1,162]
• Transit
• The Transporter [1,163]
• Transporter 2 [1,164]
• Transporter 3
• The Transporter Refueled
• Trapped (2001 TV movie)
• Trapped (2002 film) [1,165] [1,166] [1,167] [1,168] [1,169] [1,170]
• Treacherous
• Tremors 5: Bloodlines [1,171] [1,172]
• Trespass (1992)
• Trespass (2011 home invasion film with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman) [1,173]
• Triple 9 [1,174] [1,175] [1,176] [1,177]
• Tripwire
• True Lies [1,178] [1,179]
• True Vengeance [1,180] [1,181] [1,182]
• Tube
• Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge: 2002 Bollywood remake of The Long Kiss Goodnight.
• Tunnel
• Turbulence
• Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
• Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
• Turbulent Skies: Another low-budget rip-off of the 1996 blockbusters Executive Decision and Broken Arrow.
• Twister: Another Jan de Bont thriller. [1,183]
• Typhoon (A.K.A. Tae-poong): 2005 South Korean action film in the vein of Hollywood blockbusters such as The Rock, Broken Arrow and The Peacemaker and other S. Korean films such as Swiri.

U

• Ultimate Force
• The Ultimate Weapon [1,184] [1,185] [1,186] [1,187]
• Undeclared War
• Under Siege: Ex-Navy SEAL operative Casey Ryback takes on embittered former CIA agent William Strannix and his men who seized of US battleship USS Missouri where Ryback serves as the ship's cook.
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: Casey Ryback battles a group of mercenaries who hijacked a passenger train and use it as a makeshift command center of a deadly weapons satellite.
• The Unit
• Universal Soldier: The Return
• Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business
• Unknown (2011 film)
• Unstoppable (2004 film) (A.K.A. Nine Lives) [1,188] [1,189]
• Unstoppable (2010)
• Unthinkable
• U.S. Marshals [1,190]
• U.S. Seals
• U.S. Seals 2 (A.K.A. U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force)
• U.S. Seals: Dead or Alive (A.K.A. U.S. Seals 3: Frogmen or as Frogmen Operation Stormbringer)

V

• Vally of the Sasquatch [1,191]
• Vantage Point: Traumatized Secret Service agent Thomas Barnes investigates the assassination attempt on President Henry Ashton and tries to find terrorists involved in the attempt in Spain.
• The Vault
• Vehicle 19
• Velocity Trap
• Venomous
• Vertical Limit
• Vice [1,192]
• The Vigilante
• The Viral Factor
• Virus (1999 film): Mash-up based on a Dark Horse comic book and reminiscent of Star Trek: First Contact, Deep Rising, The Abyss, Aliens, Under Siege and Terminator franchise. [1,193] [1,194] [1,195]
• Volcano [1,196] [1,197] [1,198] [1,199]
• Voyage
• Voyage of Terror

W

• Waist Deep [1,200] [1,201] [1,202] [1,203]
• Wake: Rather delayed film about a Caribbean island under siege by thieves and pirates. Originally was supposed to star Bruce Willis but the actor dropped out once the film was beset with financial funding issues. [1,204]
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire
• Walking Tall (2004 film) [1,205] [1,206] [1,207]
• Walking Tall: Lone Justice
• Walking Tall: The Payback [1,208]
• Walking Vengeance (A.K.A. Solo Quiero Caminar) [1,209] [1,210]
• Wanted [1,211] [1,212]
• War (A.K.A. Rogue Assassin) (2007): Noted as being similar to various Hong Kong films let alone sharing plot similarities with Face/Off and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and being marketed similarly much like Heat and Black Rain. [1,213] [1,214] [1,215]
• Warhead: Another Nu Image Films production promoted as another film in the style of Broken Arrow and Executive Decision on it's Laserdisc release.
• White House Down: U.S. Capitol policeman and failed Secret Service applicant John Cale tries to protect President James Sawyer and rescue his daughter when a paramilitary group seizes control of the White House, while also discovering that World War III may be on the horizon.
• Whiteout (2000)
• Who Am I? [1,216]
• The Whole Ten Yards [1,217] [1,218]
• Windfall: 2003 heist film with elements of Hard Rain (set during a hurricane) and Top of the World (stranded in a casino) [1,219].
• The World is Not Enough [1,220] [1,221]
• World War Z: Based on the best-selling book of the same name, the first of various other films contains similar themes and elements like that of Aliens, 28 Days Later and Contagion while also having Brad Pitt feature as a John McClane type character. [1,222] [1,223] [1,224] [1,225] [1,226]
• Wrecked: 2010 thriller similar to Buried.
• The Wrecking Crew (2000)
• Wrong Side of Town
• Wrongfully Accused [1,227]

X

• XXX: From the writer of Airheads, comes this counter-spy adventure movie with plot lines similar to other films such as Die Hard with a Vengeance. [1,228] [1,229] [1,230]
• XXX: State of the Union: Sequel to xXx ends up also referencing films such as Air Force One and The Parallax View. [1,231]
• xXx: The Return of Xander Cage

Y

• Yankee Zulu [1,232]
• You're Next: This Action-Horror film was inspired by Scream, Home Alone, Die Hard and Straw Dogs. [1,233]

Z

• Zameen: 2003 Bollywood remake of 1997's Air Force One
• The Zero Hour: 2010 hostage action-drama thriller. [1,234]
• Zero Tolerance (1994 film)
• Zero Tolerance (2015 film)