Best movies about rescue missions

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Best movies about rescue missions

Discover the best movies about rescue missions, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie 13 Days, 13 Nights, starring Roschdy Zem and Lyna Khoudri, came in first as the best movie about rescue missions of all time, followed by Apollo 13 and Argo from 2012. Scroll down for the top 10 movies about rescue missions, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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13 Days, 13 Nights
2025 - Roschdy Zem, Lyna Khoudri, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Christophe Montenez, Sina Parvaneh, Yan...
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On August 15, 2021, the Taliban enter Kabul, and Commander Mohamed Bida is in charge of the French embassy, the last Western embassy left open. Along with 500 people trapped there, his •••
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Apollo 13
1995 - Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
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The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a •••
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Argo
2012 - Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan ArkinDrama, Thriller
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As the Iranian revolution reaches its peak, a CIA specialist comes up with a risky plan to get six Americans out of the country, who are hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador. Ben •••
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Captain Phillips
2013 - Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez
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Tom Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips, whose cargo ship, the MV Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009, becoming the first American cargo ship captured by pirates in two •••
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Cleaner
2025 - Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar, Clive Owen, Flavia Watson, Ray Fearon, Rufus Jones, Lee...
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A group of radical activists take 300 hostages at an energy company gala in a London skyscraper. Joey, a former soldier turned window washer, is left suspended at the level of the 50th •••
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Cliffhanger
1993 - Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael RookerAction, Adventure, Thriller
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A year after a friend dies in a terrible fall, former mountain ranger Gabe Walker and his partner Hal are called back to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers. Up there they •••
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Commando
1985 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan HedayaAction, Adventure, Thriller
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John Matrix, the former leader of a special forces unit, lives in seclusion in the mountains with his daughter Jenny. When she is kidnapped by a former South American dictator who wants to •••
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Daylight
1996 - Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo MortensenAction, Adventure, Thriller
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Fleeing the police, a group of armed robbers drives into a tunnel under the Hudson River and runs into trucks carrying toxic waste. The explosion seals both ends of the tunnel, which •••
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Deepwater Horizon
2016 - Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John MalkovichDrama, Action
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The story of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, which exploded in April 2010 and caused the worst oil spill in US history. Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and John Malkovich star in •••
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Escape Plan 2: Hades
2018 - Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Jesse MetcalfeAction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery...
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Ray Breslin runs a team of security experts trained to break people out of the world's most secure prisons. When Shu Ren, his most trusted operative, is kidnapped and locked inside a •••
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