Movies Like Wings of Dread (2026)

Wings of Dread is a 2026 action, crime, thriller film from Ashton Chen with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Dhurandhar and Casino Royale.

Action Crime Thriller

Dhurandhar

2025

A mysterious traveler slips into the heart of Karachi's underbelly and rises through its ranks with lethal precision, only to tear the notorious ISI-Underworld nexus apart from within.

7.3

MagicScore

Casino Royale

2006

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

7.6

MagicScore

United 93

2006

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

7.1

MagicScore

Con Air

1997

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

6.8

MagicScore

Hijack 1971

2024

Pilots Tae-in and Gyu-sik are set to fly to Gimpo. Under the guidance of flight attendant Ok-soon, passengers are busy boarding. However, shortly after takeoff, a homemade bomb explodes, turning the cabin into chaos.

6.6

MagicScore

Wanted Man

2024

Follows a police officer who must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her after a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, but then he must decide who to trust when they discover that the attack was executed by American forces.

6.6

MagicScore

Extinction

2014

Deep in the Amazon jungle a group of scientists are on a dangerous mission. When their guide suddenly abandons them, they find themselves in a savage and hostile environment. However, things turn deadly when they find they are in the middle of a hunting ground for a pack of prehistoric predators long thought extinct.

3.8

MagicScore

Cliffhanger

1993

A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.

6.5

MagicScore

Executive Decision

1996

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

High Forces

2024

"Anyone? There is ......" A mysterious message from Gao Haojun comes from ten thousand meters in the air. A five-star A380 ultra-luxury airliner was hijacked on its international maiden voyage, and international security expert Gao Haojun stood up to a group of thugs, his daughter Xiaojun was trapped in the cabin, and Mike, the leader of the hijackers, threatened the lives of more than 800 people in the plane as a bargaining chip, and Xiaojun's mother, Fu Yuan, was also in danger. ...... Will the passengers on board be able to land safely and how should this crisis be resolved?

6.2

MagicScore

#11

Skyjacked

1972

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

6.2

MagicScore

#12

Airport '77

1977

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

5.6

MagicScore

#13

Ransom

1974

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...

5.5

MagicScore

#14

Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying

1999

A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.

4.3

MagicScore

#15

Good News

2025

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

7.1

MagicScore

#16

OK! Madam

2020

A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.

7.1

MagicScore

#17

Pokiri

2006

Pandu is a contract killer , and will accept any contract provided the amount is right. The Police want him for questioning, while the underworld needs him to silence their opponents. No one really knows this assassin's background. It is only Pandu who knows his real identity and he has no intention of sharing it with anyone .

7.3

MagicScore

#18

Mayhem!

2023

Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife and her daughter, but when he gets blackmailed by a dangerous local godfather, he must embark on a dangerous drug smuggling mission which results in a tragedy. Now he has only one purpose: to seek merciless vengeance.

6.7

MagicScore

#19

Captain Phillips

2013

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

7.5

MagicScore

#20

Passenger 57

1992

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.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Wings of Dread?

The top films similar to Wings of Dread by MovieMagicScore are Dhurandhar (7.3), Casino Royale (7.6), United 93 (7.1). Each shares action/crime/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Wings of Dread worth watching?

Wings of Dread holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 7 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Wings of Dread?

Wings of Dread (2026) is a action, crime, thriller film directed by Ashton Chen, starring Ashton Chen, Iko Uwais, Qu Jingjing.

Where can I find more recommendations like Wings of Dread?

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About movies like Wings of Dread

This ranked list pairs Wings of Dread (2026), a action and crime and thriller film from Ashton Chen, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ashton Chen take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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