Movies Like The Hurricane Heist (2018)

The Hurricane Heist is a 2018 action, adventure, crime, thriller film from Rob Cohen with a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Twisters and Deep Impact.

Action Adventure Crime Thriller

Twisters

2024

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

6.8

MagicScore

Deep Impact

1998

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

6.2

MagicScore

Category 7: The End of the World

2005

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.

6.1

MagicScore

500 MPH Storm

2013

When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe the US off the map.

5.4

MagicScore

Force of Nature

2020

A gang of thieves plan a heist during a hurricane and encounter trouble when a disgraced cop tries to force everyone in the building to evacuate.

5.2

MagicScore

The Hurricane

1937

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

6.7

MagicScore

The Day After Tomorrow

2004

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

6.5

MagicScore

The Other Side of Heaven

2001

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.

6.2

MagicScore

Flood

2007

Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.

5.3

MagicScore

#10

Cut Throat City

2020

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Super Cyclone

2012

When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.

4.4

MagicScore

#12

The Accountant

2016

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

T-Men

1947

Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

6.8

MagicScore

#14

Trapped

1949

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

5.9

MagicScore

#15

The Perfect Storm

2000

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

6.5

MagicScore

#16

The Undercover Man

1949

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

6.1

MagicScore

#17

Disclosure Day

2026

A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

Snow Day

2000

When an entire town in upstate New York is closed down by an unexpected snowfall, a "snow day" begins when a group of elementary school kids, led by Natalie Brandston, try to ensure that the schools stay closed by stopping a mechanical snowplow driver by trying to hijack his plow truck. Meanwhile, Natalie's big brother Hal is using this day to try to win the affections of Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in his high school, while Hal and Natalie's father Tom, a TV meteorologist, faces off against a rival meteorologist for weather coverage of the day's events.

5.1

MagicScore

#19

From Good to the Hood

2024

Cheating the tax man was just too tempting for Andrés. Besides, what are the chances of him getting caught? Well, as it turns out, pretty high! And that’s exactly what happens when a couple of tax inspectors turn up at his company to inform him that he owes the IRS a lot of money.

5.9

MagicScore

#20

Sam Whiskey

1969

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

5.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Hurricane Heist?

The top films similar to The Hurricane Heist by MovieMagicScore are Twisters (6.8), Deep Impact (6.2), Category 7: The End of the World (6.1). Each shares action/adventure/crime/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Hurricane Heist worth watching?

The Hurricane Heist holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10 from 1,048 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Hurricane Heist?

The Hurricane Heist (2018) is a action, adventure, crime, thriller film directed by Rob Cohen, starring Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Hurricane Heist?

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About movies like The Hurricane Heist

This ranked list pairs The Hurricane Heist (2018), a action and adventure and crime and thriller film from Rob Cohen, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Toby Kebbell 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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