Movies Like Short Wings

If you liked Short Wings (2024), a action movie directed by Hank Stowers and Finn Peterson, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Hellfighters (1968)
★ 6.3/10Also action
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
2
The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also action
While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.
3
Airborne (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…
4
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also action
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
5
Supercross (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also action
Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
6
Barbarosa (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also action
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…
7
Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also action
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
8
Pitfall (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action
After a young man is separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.
9
The Warrior's Way (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also action
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
10
Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action
Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
11
Balls Up (2026)
★ 5.8/10Also action
Two marketing executives go "balls out" and pitch a bold full‑coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup. After their drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they must outrun furious fans, criminals…
12
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also action
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
13
Jawbone (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also action
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…
14
Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also action
If one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors who find themselves isolated in some corner of Japan to carry out…
15
The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
16
Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also action
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
17
Legend of the White Dragon (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also action
Forced to hide in the shadows, fugitive hero Erik Reed must clear his name to reunite with his family. Standing in his way is a mysterious villain obsessed with destroying the White Dragon for good.
18
The Specialist (1994)
★ 6/10Also action
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent…
19
The Grey (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also action
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
20
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
★ 6.4/10Also action
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.