Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "plane-wreck"

1. War of the Worlds (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Votes: 475,882 | Gross: $234.28M

2. Romancing the Stone (1984)

PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman

Votes: 103,517 | Gross: $76.57M

3. Jurassic Park III (2001)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 341,444 | Gross: $181.17M

4. Into the Blue (2005)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott

Votes: 79,585 | Gross: $18.47M

5. The Midnight Sky (2020)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall

Votes: 89,536

6. A Simple Plan (1998)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe

Votes: 76,254 | Gross: $16.31M

7. Awake (III) (2021)

TV-MA | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After a devastating global event wiped out all electronics and eliminated people's ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter.

Director: Mark Raso | Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt, Lucius Hoyos, Shamier Anderson

Votes: 26,251

8. The Ultimate Gift (2006)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive "the ultimate gift," with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be.

Director: Michael O. Sajbel | Stars: Drew Fuller, James Garner, Abigail Breslin, Bill Cobbs

Votes: 20,461 | Gross: $3.44M

9. Wrecked (2016–2018)

TV-MA | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a plane crashes on a deserted island on the way to Thailand, the crash survivors struggle to get along, and heads clash as they have differing views on how to stay alive and get off the island.

Stars: Zach Cregger, Asif Ali, Brian Sacca, Ally Maki

Votes: 8,023

10. Spell (2020)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

Director: Mark Tonderai | Stars: Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, Lorraine Burroughs, Hannah Gonera

Votes: 9,712

11. Return to Eden (1983)

267 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Meet plain but privileged multi-millionairess Stephanie Harper, whose sole mistake is to fall for handsome young sporting hero Greg Marsden.

Stars: Rebecca Gilling, James Reyne, Wendy Hughes, James Smillie

Votes: 1,641

12. The Last Adventure (1967)

M | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.

Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani

Votes: 3,868

13. Dinosaur Island (2014)

Not Rated | 82 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

A vacation becomes the adventure of a lifetime as a boy finds himself stranded in a world filled with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. He embarks on a journey that will change his future forever.

Director: Matt Drummond | Stars: Darius Williams, Kate Rasmussen, Juliette Frederick, Nicole Yardley

Votes: 2,115

14. Attack Force Z (1981)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Drama, History

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood

Votes: 2,726

15. Zombie Apocalypse (2011 TV Movie)

R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Director: Nick Lyon | Stars: Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning, Johnny Pacar, Gary Weeks

Votes: 5,617

16. Far Cry New Dawn (2019 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Directors: Jean-Sebastien Decant, Patrick Methe | Stars: Leslie L. Miller, Cara Ricketts, Greg Bryk, Reina Hardesty

Votes: 2,422

17. Untold (2002)

R | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries, heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Director: Jonas Quastel | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Andrea Roth, Russell Ferrier, Philip Granger

Votes: 2,048

18. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.

Director: Kwang-Hyun Park | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Shin Ha-kyun, Kang Hye-jeong, Ha-ryong Lim

Votes: 7,543

19. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

107 min | Documentary

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Director: Hubert Sauper | Stars: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni

Votes: 5,664 | Gross: $0.20M

20. Death in the Garden (1956)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also ... See full summary »

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 2,614

21. Eleftheri katadysi (1995)

120 min | Drama, Romance

A young man returns to the city where he grew up where he will meet his childhood love, a married pharmacist, while he will also meet a girl who has just been released from prison.

Director: Giorgos Panousopoulos | Stars: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Alekos Sissovitis, Valeria Hristodoulidou, Antonis Antoniou

Votes: 159

22. Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)

106 min | Comedy, Romance, War

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Ilin

Votes: 601

23. Stranded (2010)

103 min | Horror, Mystery

A platoon of French soldiers on a rescue mission in North Africa confront invisible evil creatures.

Directors: Hugues Martin, Sandra Martin | Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Thierry Frémont, Saïd Taghmaoui, Aurélien Wiik

Votes: 1,003

24. Second Nature (2003 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man comes out of a coma with amnesia. He believes he was in a plane crash that killed his wife and kid and he worked for an agency as assassin. Soon he's sent on another mission. Who is he and who can he trust?

Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Louise Lombard, Kurtis O'Brien, Leigh Zimmerman, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 841

25. Heroes on Deck: World War II on Lake Michigan (2016)

56 min | Documentary

Heroes on Deck: World War II On Lake Michigan reveals the amazing story of how more than one hundred World War II aircraft ended up on the bottom of Lake Michigan, one of America's Great Lakes.

Director: John Davies | Stars: Bruce Bittner, Hunter Brawley, Beverly Dawson, Chuck Downey

Votes: 21

26. Brødrene Dal og legenden om Atlant-Is (1994– )

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

While attending the Nobel prize-giving ceremony in Oslo - themselves just having just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace - the Dal brothers all of a sudden find themselves incapable of ... See full summary »

Stars: Lars Mjøen, Knut Lystad, Trond Kirkvaag, Tom Mathisen

Votes: 938

27. A Captive in the Land (1990)

PG | 96 min | Drama

An American meteorologist spots an aircraft wreckage while flying over the Arctic. When he spots a badly injured Soviet airman, he parachutes down with first aid supplies, but an encroaching storm severely limits their chance of rescue.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Sam Waterston, Aleksandr Potapov, Keir Giles, Victor Ignatyev

Votes: 75

28. BUZZ! Junior: Jungle Party (2006 Video Game)

Family

As you have great fun against your other fellow friends or monkeys beware of the more fun that will come

Stars: Daysharne Douglas, Becky Boxer

Votes: 32

29. Fern Hill (2005)

Adventure, Drama, Family

FERN HILL is a coming of age story about four 13 year old boys on a weekend in 1987 into the mountains of Colorado in search of a father and a lost plane. The unexplained mystery of Colin's... See full summary »

Director: Cole Claassen | Stars: Daniel James, David James, Myles Bruce, Mackenzie Harden

Votes: 53

30. B-52 (2001)

122 min | Documentary

A parable about present American culture explain The bomb airplane B-52 that symbolizes the dominance of the United States about the world.

Director: Hartmut Bitomsky | Stars: Hartmut Bitomsky, Maureen Selwood, Jon Wagner

Votes: 65

31. Le gentleman de Cocody (1965)

84 min | Adventure

Two competing criminal gangs look in the jungle in the Ivory Coast for a plane full of diamonds.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Jean Marais, Liselotte Pulver, Philippe Clay, Nancy Holloway

Votes: 140

32. Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund (2021 TV Movie)

89 min | Documentary, History, War

The "Battle for Moscow" began 80 years ago in October. The Wehrmacht tried to take Moscow. The film tells the story of a fateful year - Moscow 1941, when the survival of the Soviet capital ... See full summary »

Director: Artem Demenok | Stars: Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Vyacheslav Molotov, Sergei Eisenstein, Semyon Timoshenko

Votes: 14

33. Society Hour Zero (1966)

110 min | Drama

A disgraced ex-pilot of the Greek Air Force has one last chance to redeem himself, by shedding light on a terrible air crash. But, strong political interests and unscrupulous mediators are bent on silencing him. Will the truth shine?

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Mary Hronopoulou, Floretta Zana, Andreas Barkoulis

Votes: 291

34. Land and Live in the Jungle (1944)

60 min | War

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until ... See full summary »

Stars: Mel Ford, Van Heflin, Patrick McVey, Charles Tannen

Votes: 24

35. Starfighter - Mit Hightech in den Tod (2010 TV Movie)

87 min | Documentary

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Director: Kai Christiansen | Stars: Melvin Belli, Charles de Gaulle, Anatoli Gribkov, Gerlinde Hippel

Votes: 13

36. Der Tod war schneller - Die Starfighter-Affäre (1998 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

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Director: Joachim Schroeder | Stars: Jack Bailey, Roland Beamont, Melvin Belli, Heinz Birkenbeil

37. The Survivor: Behind the Scenes with Dean Bennett (1981 Video)

6 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Dean Bennett | Stars: Dean Bennett, Glenn Boswell, Richard Boue, Richard Boué

38. Latham tente une 2e fois la traversée de la Manche (1909)

Documentary, Short

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Star: Hubert Latham

39. The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode: Dead on Course (1962)

TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A Canadian plane crashes under mysterious circumstances in Ireland. Steed's leads take him to the Shamrock airport and a convent, while Dr. King performs autopsies on the dead passengers hoping to find a clue pointing to the wreck's cause.

Director: Richmond Harding | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Jon Rollason, John McLaren, Liam Gaffney

Votes: 147

40. Air Crash Investigation (2003– )
Episode: Flying Blind (2003)

TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, History

AeroPeru flight 603 crashed on a routine flight from Lima to Santiago in 1996, due to a severe failure with the flight instruments.

Director: Gary Lang | Stars: David Bamber, Stephen Bogaert, Victor A. Young, Nicholas Kilbertus

Votes: 182

41. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Operation Urgent (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

During a fierce thunderstorm, Sky picks up a mayday call from a Air Force courier plane which is about to run out of gas. The Air Force request Sky's assistance in locating the downed ... See full summary »

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, John Banner

Votes: 8

42. Wide Country (1962–1963)
Episode: A Cry from the Mountain (1963)

60 min | Drama, Sport, Western

After their plane crashes in a remote area, Andy must travel down a mountain to get help for a seriously injured Mitch.

Director: John Peyser | Stars: Earl Holliman, Andrew Prine, Jacques Aubuchon, Brad Weston

43. Adventures of the Seaspray (1966– )
Episode: Forgotten Island (1967)

Adventure, Family

The Wells family discovers an uncharted island. While exploring its interior, they are captured by descendants of The HMS Bounty's mutineers who insist that the Seaspray's crew remain on ... See full summary »

Director: David Baker | Stars: Walter Brown, Susanne Haworth, Gary Gray, Rodney Pearlman

44. The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode: The Black Island: Part 1 (1991)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Tintin is shot by the pilot of downed plane, he travels to Britain to uncover a sinister plot.

Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier, Henri Labussière

Votes: 380

45. Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
Episode: The Crackup (1958)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

While off duty, Wes and Skip wait alongside an airport runway for Wes' friend Riley Jackson who is arriving in a plane he is piloting. When Riley is making his final approach to the airport... See full summary »

Director: Robert G. Walker | Stars: Jim Davis, Lang Jeffries, Nancy Rennick, Mary K. Cleary

46. Beanyx (2013– )
Episode: Iceland Trip 2018 - April (2018)

4 min | Comedy

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Director: Patrik Procházka | Star: Patrik Procházka

47. Running Wild with Bear Grylls (2014– )
Episode: Zachary Quinto in the Panama Jungle (2020)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Actor Zachary Quinto and Bear battle the Panama jungle

Director: Ben Simms | Stars: Bear Grylls, Zachary Quinto

Votes: 36

48. Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode: Chapter Six: The Dive (2022)

TV-14 | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Behind the Iron Curtain, a risky rescue mission gets underway. The California crew seeks help from a hacker. Steve takes one for the team.

Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard

Votes: 19,634

49. Survive (2020)
Episode: Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines (2020)

TV-MA | 7 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Jane awakens to find herself amongst the wreckage. And in the eye of the storm. The search for warmth and shelter begins.

Director: Mark Pellington | Stars: Sophie Turner, Corey Hawkins, Josie Long

Votes: 102

50. Survive (2020)
Episode: You Can Die Here Alone (2020)

TV-MA | 8 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Survivor's remorse settles in for Jane, but Paul pleads for her to stay strong and find the will to let them work together.

Director: Mark Pellington | Stars: Sophie Turner, Corey Hawkins

Votes: 99