10 Movies That Totally Ripped Off Die Hard

6. Olympus Has Fallen / White House Down (2013)

We're lumping these two movies together because they not only have the same core premise - Die Hard in the White House! - but they were also released in the same damn year. Imagine that.

Though the two movies are somewhat different from one another, they both share a clear DNA with Die Hard. Olympus Has Fallen sees disgraced secret service operative Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) forced to become a one-man army when North Korean terrorists raid the POTUS' homestead. It's surprisingly serious for the most part, but fairly well-made, and Butler does a solid John McClane impersonation.

White House Down is decidedly sillier and more self-aware, as Channing Tatum's down-on-his-luck, divorced mope is caught in the middle of an assassination attempt on Jamie Foxx's President by real-life villain James Woods (in a spot of too-perfect casting, honestly).

You need look no further than Tatum's grubby tanktop to see the obvious Die Hard influences, in a movie that does a good job painting Tatum's hero as a likeable, everyday guy much like McClane, even if he's obviously extremely capable nonetheless.

Quality-wise, the movies are pretty much on-par depending on your mood, and despite their inherent plotting similarities, they actually make a pretty entertaining double bill. Which order you choose to watch them in is a whole other debate, though.