Air Disaster Movies
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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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: 362
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Airport 1975 (1974)
PG | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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: 11,871 | Gross: $47.29M
10. Destination: Infestation (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While on a flight home from Colombia, the plane that Dr. Carrie Ross and her daughter are on is attacked by bullet ants whose sting is the most painful and deadliest on the planet. Joining ... See full summary »
Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Jessalyn Gilsig, Antonio Sabato Jr., Serge Houde, Karen Holness
Votes: 1,044
11. 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
12. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
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: 376,296 | Gross: $93.77M
13. 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
14. The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 73 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, Tammy Grimes, Lynn Loring
Votes: 1,263
15. Chariot (2013)
87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Seven strangers find themselves unwitting participants in a U.S. government evacuation program gone horribly wrong.
Director: Brad Osborne | Stars: Anthony Montgomery, Ian Sinclair, Brina Palencia, Michelle Sherrill
Votes: 2,403
16. Altitude (2017)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.
Director: Alex Merkin | Stars: Denise Richards, Dolph Lundgren, Jonathan Lipnicki, Greer Grammer
Votes: 4,139
17. Airport '77 (1977)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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: 12,326 | Gross: $30.00M
18. 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
19. Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Director: John Pogue | Stars: Mercedes Mason, Josh Cooke, Mattie Liptak, Ignacio Serricchio
Votes: 20,860
20. Airport (1970)
G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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: 21,709 | Gross: $100.49M
21. The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
PG | 113 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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
22. 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
23. Airplane! (1980)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Votes: 261,270 | Gross: $83.40M
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
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