Air Disaster Movies

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1. No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Thriller

An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 4,461

2. The High and the Mighty (1954)

Not Rated | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack

Votes: 6,553

3. The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 1,582

4. Encounter (1952–1961)
Episode: Flight Into Danger (1956)

60 min | Drama

A small planes pilot must take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.

Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: James Doohan, Larry Beattie, Elizabeth Cole, Corinne Conley

Votes: 37

5. Zero Hour! (1957)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Votes: 2,297

6. Crash Landing (1958)

Approved | 76 min | Drama, War

Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Gary Merrill, Nancy Reagan, Irene Hervey, Roger Smith

Votes: 213

7. Jet Storm (1959)

88 min | Thriller

Sir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, ... See full summary »

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Braden

Votes: 526

8. Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Assorted people board a plane with a fire bomb in its luggage hold.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey

Votes: 210

9. The Crowded Sky (1960)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., John Kerr

Votes: 965

10. Trouble in the Sky (1960)

92 min | Drama, Thriller

In Britain, at the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an aircraft manufacturer tries to shift the blame from mechanical failure to pilot error when its newest jet airliner has a series of accidents.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal

Votes: 413

11. Flight That Disappeared (1961)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Craig Hill, Paula Raymond, Dayton Lummis, Gregory Morton

Votes: 829

12. 713 prosit posadku (1962)

78 min | Thriller

Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.

Director: Grigori Nikulin | Stars: Vladimir Chestnokov, Otar Koberidze, Lev Kruglyy, Lyudmila Abramova

Votes: 110

13. Fate Is the Hunter (1964)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette

Votes: 1,901

14. The Doomsday Flight (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Thriller

A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Jack Lord, Edmond O'Brien, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon

Votes: 397

15. Lost Flight (1970 TV Movie)

G | 104 min | Action, Drama

The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Anne Francis, Ralph Meeker, Andrew Prine

Votes: 202

16. Airport (1970)

G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

42 Metascore

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Directors: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg

Votes: 21,711 | Gross: $100.49M

17. Terror in the Sky (1971 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama, Thriller

On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Leif Erickson, Doug McClure, Roddy McDowall, Lois Nettleton

Votes: 212

18. Skyjacked (1972)

PG | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins

Votes: 2,342 | Gross: $2.50M

19. This Is a Hijack (1973)

PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.

Director: Barry Pollack | Stars: Adam Roarke, Neville Brand, Jay Robinson, Lynn Borden

Votes: 147

20. Airport 1975 (1974)

PG | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

50 Metascore

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Votes: 11,873 | Gross: $47.29M

21. Murder on Flight 502 (1975 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Left in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Polly Bergen, Theodore Bikel, Sonny Bono

Votes: 722

22. Mayday at 40, 000 Feet! (1976 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne until it can reach an open airfield after a killer aboard the plane fires a gun at an engine and pilot of the plane.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: David Janssen, Don Meredith, Christopher George, Ray Milland

Votes: 363

23. Flight to Holocaust (1977 TV Movie)

100 min | Action, Drama

A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Fawne Harriman, Desi Arnaz Jr.

Votes: 77

24. SST: Death Flight (1977 TV Movie)

89 min | Adventure, Drama

On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu on-board.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Barbara Anderson, Bert Convy, Peter Graves, Lorne Greene

Votes: 672

25. Airport '77 (1977)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

36 Metascore

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Votes: 12,329 | Gross: $30.00M

26. The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and... See full summary »

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, Tina Chen, Kim Basinger

Votes: 683

27. Crash (1978 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades, resulting in 101 fatalities.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: William Shatner, Adrienne Barbeau, Brooke Bundy, Christopher Connelly

Votes: 303

28. The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)

PG | 113 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

39 Metascore

A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, George Kennedy

Votes: 6,957 | Gross: $13.00M

29. Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)

96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: James Franciscus, Mimsy Farmer, Venantino Venantini, Fiamma Maglione

Votes: 632

30. Crisis in Mid-air (1979 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

The life of a stressed out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision which is causing the unhappiness of his wife.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: George Peppard, Karen Grassle, Desi Arnaz Jr., Michael Constantine

Votes: 74

31. Ekipazh (1980)

PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra Yakovleva

Votes: 2,633

32. Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 115 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland

Votes: 1,296

33. Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama

On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., resulting in 78 fatalities.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Jeannetta Arnette, Barry Corbin, Stephen Macht, Dinah Manoff

Votes: 416

34. Hostage Flight (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Thriller

Trans Allied Flight 136 is hijacked in flight and diverted by its four captors to New York's JFK Airport. When the plane departs for London and the terrorists begin murdering hostages, the passengers begin to fight back.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Ned Beatty, Barbara Bosson, René Enríquez, Jack Gilford

Votes: 195

35. International Airport (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.

Directors: Don Chaffey, Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Gil Gerard, Berlinda Tolbert, Pat Crowley, Katherine Moffat

Votes: 151

36. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise

Votes: 383

37. Fire and Rain (1989 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

On August 2, 1985, Delta Airlines Flight 191 is en route to Los Angeles via Dallas-Fort Worth, taking off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When the plane is landing in Fort Worth, wind-shear ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Charles Haid, John Beck, Tom Bosley, Richard Christie

Votes: 152

38. Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989 TV Movie)

82 min | Thriller

Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.

Director: David Darlow | Stars: Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin

Votes: 141

39. Miracle Landing (1990 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

A passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flight over Hawaii and is forced to make an emergency landing.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Connie Sellecca, Wayne Rogers, Ana Alicia, Nancy Kwan

Votes: 648

40. Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When a passenger plane crashes after a bomb scare, there are many unanswered questions, which can only be attributed to "pilot error". The pilot's wife, Diane Halstead, is convinced her ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frederick Coffin, Peter Jurasik

Votes: 333

41. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Drama

The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Richard Thomas, Leon Russom

Votes: 770

42. Passenger 57 (1992)

R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

50 Metascore

An airline security expert must take action when he finds himself trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control of it.

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher

Votes: 50,737 | Gross: $44.07M

43. Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

A pilot ferrying a crop duster aircraft, from the United States to Australia, gets lost over the south Pacific Ocean and the pilot of a commercial airliner is his only hope of being found.

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Robert Loggia, Scott Bakula, Rebecca Rigg, Alan Fletcher

Votes: 627

44. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Drama

True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack, Kevin McNulty

Votes: 1,001

45. Hijacked: Flight 285 (1996 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after take-off, two of his aides, traveling as ordinary passengers, take control of the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Susan Batten, James Brolin, Michael Gross, Anthony Michael Hall

Votes: 604

46. Executive Decision (1996)

R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

62 Metascore

When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation.

Director: Stuart Baird | Stars: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal, John Leguizamo

Votes: 61,604 | Gross: $56.57M

47. Panic in the Skies (1996 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Drama

The cockpit of a Boeing 747 is struck by lightning during takeoff for a flight to Europe, fatally injuring the flight crew. Laurie, the senior flight attendant, enlists the aid of passenger... See full summary »

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Kate Jackson, Ed Marinaro, Erik Estrada, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 377

48. Pandora's Clock (1996)

PG-13 | 176 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A man infected with a deadly virus boards Quantum Airlines flight 66 in Frankfurt, Germany. The US government must stop the plane before it lands at JFK International Airport.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Daphne Zuniga, Jane Leeves, Richard Lawson

Votes: 773

49. Turbulence (1997)

R | 100 min | Action, Thriller

After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a flight attendant must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 12,614 | Gross: $11.47M

50. Air Force One (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

62 Metascore

Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 210,210 | Gross: $172.96M

51. Final Descent (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A commercial pilot is forced to keep a plane aloft that was struck in midair by another plane to keep it from ripping apart even as the fuel is running out and the air and cabin pressure is dropping.

Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Robert Urich, Annette O'Toole, John de Lancie, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 945

52. Medusa's Child (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 240 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Vincent Spano, Lori Loughlin, Gail O'Grady, Kevin Dillon

Votes: 496

53. Blackout Effect (1998 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

There has been a mid-air collision involving a passenger jet and a cargo flight, killing everyone aboard the two planes. The NTSB investigator in charge, whose girlfriend died in the crash,... See full summary »

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Charles Martin Smith, Denis Arndt, Leslie Hope

Votes: 555

54. A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV Movie)

93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An air-traffic controller (Claudia Christian) faces the challenge of her career when she is forced to guide a disabled airplane to safety, unaware that her husband is aboard.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Claudia Christian, Jeff Yagher, Jessica Tuck, Christopher Cousins

Votes: 146

55. Ground Control (1998)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A disgraced former air traffic controller is called back into service when the airport's traffic control system malfunctions.

Director: Richard Howard | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson

Votes: 2,720

56. Free Fall (1999 TV Movie)

89 min | Action, Drama

An NTSB investigator (Jaclyn Smith) and her boyfriend (Bruce Boxleitner), who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Bruce Boxleitner, Hannes Jaenicke, Scott Wentworth

Votes: 429

57. Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)

R | 101 min | Action, Thriller

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.

Director: David Mackay | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Tom Berenger, Jennifer Beals, Jeffrey Nordling

Votes: 2,368

58. Airspeed (1999)

PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After lightening strikes Flight 109, the only chance for survival is a young girl.

Director: Robert Tinnell | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Bronwen Booth, Joe Mantegna, Lynne Adams

Votes: 1,437

59. Sonic Impact (1999)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

When a deranged criminal is caught, he is then being transported by plane, along with some other criminals. Through a stroke of luck he is able to subdue the Federal agents assigned to ... See full summary »

Director: Rodney McDonald | Stars: James Russo, Ice-T, Michael Harris, Sam Anderson

Votes: 542

60. Nowhere to Land (2000 TV Movie)

90 min | Thriller

A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Jack Wagner, Christine Elise, James Sikking, Mark Lee

Votes: 942

61. Submerged (2000)

R | 95 min | Action

Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Coolio, Maxwell Caulfield, Brent Huff, Nicole Eggert

Votes: 834

62. Jinji pojiang (1999)

114 min | Action, Thriller

A airplane flight goes wrong.

Director: Jianya Zhang | Stars: Bing Shao, Yong You, Fan Xu, Huaqiong Chi

Votes: 137

63. Killing Moon (1999 TV Movie)

95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A scientist and a dishonest agent work toward different ends as a mysterious virus afflicts passengers on a flight to Hawaii.

Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Kim Coates, Daniel Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, Daniel Kash

Votes: 532

64. Mach 2 (2000)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Secret Service agents target a presidential candidate by hijacking the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Brian Bosworth, Shannon Whirry, Michael Dorn, Cliff Robertson

Votes: 657

65. Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001 Video)

R | 98 min | Action, Music, Thriller

Terrorists hijack an airplane that is broadcasting a rock concert live on the Internet.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Zak Santiago, Monika Schnarre, Sharon Alexander, Gabrielle Anwar

Votes: 2,344

66. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Thriller

Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Eric Roberts, Alexandra Paul, Anne Openshaw, Kevin Jubinville

Votes: 853

67. Air Rage (2001 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure

A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the hostages dead and decide to get payback by massacring the village. Upon return home to the US, they must face the consequences.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Ice-T, Cyril O'Reilly, Kimberly Oja, Steve Hytner

Votes: 737

68. Check-in to Disaster (2001 TV Movie)

Drama about an aircraft with passengers which has to make an emergency landing on a tiny deserted runway in the middle of the desert.

Director: Uwe Frießner | Stars: Jürgen Lehmann, Isabella Parkinson, André Hennicke, Adam Bousdoukos

Votes: 46

69. Cabin Pressure (2002 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Drama, Action, Adventure

A fully automated commercial jetliner is prepared to make its maiden voyage. Without an on-flight pilot, the craft relies on satellite linking for its course. But when the plane suddenly ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Simmonds | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Rachel Hayward, Winston Rekert, Françoise Yip

Votes: 273

70. Panic (2002)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Rodney Rowland, Kristanna Loken, Alexander Enberg, Ted Shackelford

Votes: 893

71. Code 11-14 (2003 TV Movie)

85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An FBI agent went to Australia with his family to capture a serial killer. When Australian Police captured the main suspect, he and his family went back to USA. Unfortunately the REAL ... See full summary »

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: David James Elliott, Terry Farrell, Stephen Lang, Nanci Chambers

Votes: 456

72. Air Marshal (2003)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When terrorists hijack a flight, one man must find a way to save everyone on board.

Director: Alain Jakubowicz | Stars: Dean Cochran, Alan Austin, Eli Danker, Tarri Markel

Votes: 575

73. NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 (2004 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

A team of federal investigators have to comb through the wreckage of a crashed airplane to find the cause of the fatal downing. Was it terrorism? Negligence? Human failure? Or just a tragic accident?

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Eric Close, Kevin Dunn, Tyra Ferrell

Votes: 185

74. Crash Landing (2005)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a hostage situation arises on a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on board, Major John Masters (Antonio Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorists and land the plane.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Michael Paré, Brianne Davis, Rene Raymond Rivera

Votes: 928

75. Mayday (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Action, Drama

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Dean Cain, Kelly Hu, Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 689

76. Flight 93 (2006 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, History, Thriller

Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross, Ty Olsson

Votes: 9,911

77. United 93 (2006)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, History

90 Metascore

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas, J.J. Johnson

Votes: 110,960 | Gross: $31.57M

78. Final Approach (2007 TV Movie)

240 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An action filled account of an Ex FBI negotiator who uses all his skills to save a jumbo jet headed for Los Angeles California from the terrorists who have placed a bomb on board.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Dean Cain, Anthony Michael Hall, Ernie Hudson, Sunny Mabrey

Votes: 707

79. Flight of the Living Dead (2007)

Unrated | 89 min | Horror

A mad scientist is transferring a dead woman in a freezer with an armed guard on a plane to Paris. After slight turbulence, the freezer breaks down and she awakens, turns into a zombie, and infects all on board.

Director: Scott Thomas | Stars: David Chisum, Kristen Kerr, Kevin J. O'Connor, Richard Tyson

Votes: 9,532

80. Hijack (2008)

Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Thriller

After the passing away of his wife, Pooja, Delhi-based Vikram Madan, enrolls his daughter, Priya, in a boarding school in Amritsar, and re-locates to work as a Mechanic at Chandigarh ... See full summary »

Director: Kunal Shivdasani | Stars: Shiney Ahuja, Mona Ambegaonkar, Ananya Chadha, Gananay Chadha

Votes: 364

81. Crashpoint - 90 Minuten bis zum Absturz (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 96 min | Drama

After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Jauch | Stars: Peter Haber, Maximilian von Pufendorf, Bernadette Heerwagen, Julia Hartmann

Votes: 476

82. Airline Disaster (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When the President learns that domestic terrorists have skyjacked the passenger jet her brother is flying, she must choose between family and the safety of the people in the cities below.

Director: John Willis III | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Lindsey McKeon, Scott Valentine, Geoff Meed

Votes: 1,442

83. Turbulent Skies (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own is about to have its first flight. But a virus shuts down the plane mid-flight and the pilots are incapacitated so there's no one who can fly the plane.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Brad Dourif, Nicole Eggert, Patrick Muldoon

Votes: 757

84. Air Collision (2012 Video)

PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A fierce electromagnetic storm disables air traffic control, sending a commercial airliner and Air Force One, carrying the president of the United States and his family, on a collision course.

Director: Liz Adams | Stars: Reginald VelJohnson, Jordan Ladd, Gerald Webb, Michael Teh

Votes: 1,236

85. Last Flight to Abuja (2012)

TV-14 | 81 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Mid-air difficulties forces a Nigerian commercial plane into an emergency landing with devastating consequences.

Director: Obi Emelonye | Stars: Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jim Iyke, Ali Nuhu

Votes: 384

86. Airborne (II) (2013)

TV-14 | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

With Britain battered by a storm, one last plane takes off. Shortly after, passengers start disappearing one by one. Those that remain frantically try to discover who - or what - is behind it before they share the same fate.

Directors: Dominic Burns, Simon Phillips | Stars: Craig Conway, Simon Phillips, Gemma Atkinson, Alan Ford

Votes: 2,577

87. Hijacked (2012)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.

Director: Brandon Nutt | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Rob Steinberg, Craig Fairbrass, Gina Philips

Votes: 3,768

88. Brave Hearts: Umizaru (2012)

116 min | Action

Mika (Riisa Naka) is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 ... See full summary »

Director: Eiichirô Hasumi | Stars: Hideaki Itô, Riisa Naka, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Yukijirô Hotaru

Votes: 316

89. Flight (I) (2012)

R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller

76 Metascore

Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman

Votes: 376,309 | Gross: $93.77M

90. Collision Course (2012)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover-up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her... See full summary »

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: David Chokachi, Tia Carrere, Meghan McLeod, Tim Abell

Votes: 614

91. Flight 7500 (2014)

PG-13 | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Jamie Chung

Votes: 17,163

92. Non-Stop (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

56 Metascore

An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery

Votes: 276,595 | Gross: $92.17M

93. Flight from Hell (2014)

86 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Disaster waits for those traveling on the last red-eye flight from a secluded Pacific island. The captain and chief flight attendant fight to save passengers from the otherworldly storm of chaos and paranoia aboard their doomed aircraft.

Director: Vincent Zhou | Stars: Ed Westwick, Zhu Zhu, Leon Lee, Cary Alexander

Votes: 350

94. Airplane vs. Volcano (2014 Video)

TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing, but, when the relentless onslaught of lava ... See full summary »

Directors: James Kondelik, Jon Kondelik | Stars: Dean Cain, Robin Givens, Tamara Goodwin, Matt Mercer

Votes: 2,272

95. Flight World War II (2015)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After Flight 42 travels through a storm they find themselves in France, 1940, during World war II.

Director: Emile Edwin Smith | Stars: Faran Tahir, Robbie Kay, Aqueela Zoll, Matias Ponce

Votes: 2,317

96. The Carrier (2015)

TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

As an antibiotic-resistant pandemic devastates the planet, the only safe place is in the air.

Director: Anthony Woodley | Stars: Edmund Kingsley, Jack Gordon, Karen Bryson, Joe Dixon

Votes: 1,114

97. Lost in the Pacific (2016)

89 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A story centered around a group of elite passengers on board an inaugural luxury, transoceanic flight that turns into a disaster.

Director: Vincent Zhou | Stars: Brandon Routh, Yuqi Zhang, Russell Wong, Bernice Liu

Votes: 1,711

98. Flight Crew (2016)

TV-14 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Aircraft crew members must put off their differences when a natural disaster threatens to death hundreds of tourists.

Director: Nikolay Lebedev | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Kempo

Votes: 6,004

99. Sully (2016)

PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Drama

74 Metascore

When pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey

Votes: 298,280 | Gross: $125.07M

100. The Fast and the Fierce (2017)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When terrorists plant a bomb on a commercial flight, the passengers aboard the plane must fight to keep the plane in the air and all the passengers alive: the bomb is rigged to detonate whenever the plane dips below 800 feet.

Director: Ron Thornton | Stars: Adrian Paul, Dominique Swain, Moose Ali Khan, Mimi Davila

Votes: 732



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