14 Best Movies Like The Last Boy Scout

A deranged bomber rigs a city bus to explode if its speed drops below 50 mph. LAPD officer Jack must keep the bus moving while rescuing trapped passengers and outwitting the killer.

A rogue General and his team seize Alcatraz, threatening San Francisco with deadly VX gas. An unlikely duo—a chemist and a former SAS officer—must infiltrate the prison island and stop the assault.

On a white-water rafting trip, a family’s vacation turns deadly when they encounter two armed fugitives. The mother—a skilled paddler—must navigate both the dangerous rapids and the criminals to save her family.

In a medieval kingdom, a strong-willed princess refuses a cruel suitor on her wedding day. He retaliates by seizing the kingdom and imprisoning her in a tower. Trained in martial arts, she escapes, battles mercenaries, rescues her family, and ultimately defeats the oppressive suitor—decapitating him—and secures the throne, earning the right for women to choose their own paths.

A perpetually grumpy cat in a mall pet shop befriends a lonely 12-year-old girl named Chrystal who discovers she can hear Grumpy talk. When a dognapping plot unfolds on Christmas Eve, the duo team up to save the day—though Grumpy refuses to make it anything other than the “Worst. Christmas. Ever.”

A sickly widow, Nadja, boards a transatlantic overnight flight with her son. When terrorists hijack the plane and pose it as a terrorist threat, she unleashes her hidden vampire nature to protect her child and thwart the hijackers.

A mountain rescuer, Gabe, haunted by tragedy, is roped into another rescue—but finds the stranded hikers are criminals seeking $100 million lost from a plane robbery in the Rocky Mountains. Dodging danger and scaling perilous terrain, Gabe must outsmart them to survive.

Terrorists hijack Air Force One, killing many. President Marshall hides on the plane, rescues hostages, and thwarts the hijackers’ plan to free a dictator. Epic midair stunts and patriotic grit define the fight for survival.

Mob boss Bellavance, freshly bailed, orders his henchmen to retrieve missing money. They attack a family’s home. The disturbed teen Owen and his stepsister Lauren fight back with brutal ingenuity, turning the tables on the attackers.

A teenage girl fights to survive when a school shooting turns deadly, taking matters into her own hands to save her fellow students.

An 8-year-old boy is accidentally left home alone for Christmas and must defend his house from two bungling burglars.

A SWAT team becomes trapped in a rundown apartment building controlled by a ruthless drug lord and must fight their way through his heavily armed henchmen to survive.

In a dystopian future, Judge Dredd, a law enforcer with the power to act as judge, jury, and executioner, must take down a ruthless drug lord inside a massive slum tower.

John McClane, an NYPD detective, arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife during a company Christmas party. Terrorists seize control of the high-rise where the party is held, and McClane becomes the sole hope to stop them. Using wit, grit, and resourcefulness, he battles through the building to rescue hostages, including his wife—and confronts the charismatic terrorist leader, Hans Gruber.