Top Airline Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Val Kilmer

Meg Ryan

Kyle MacLachlan

Frank Whaley

The Doors (1991)

7.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Plot: rock 'n' roll, airplane, hippie, joint, poetry, lsd, hallucination, wilderness, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Kelly McGillis

Val Kilmer

Anthony Edwards

Top Gun (1986)

7.1 9.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

Plot: dying and death, secret love, lovesickness, airplane, loss of loved one, self-discovery, hostility, fighter pilot, ...

Cast

Uhm Jung-hwa

Park Sung-woong

Lee Sang-yun

Bae Jung-nam

OK! Madam (2020)

7.1 56 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: South Korea

Duration: 100 min.

Story: A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.

Plot: airplane, hijacking, flight, airplane hijacking, inter-korean relations

Place: hawaii

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss

Ron Howard

Paul Le Mat

Charles Martin Smith

American Graffiti (1973)

7.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Plot: farewell, rock 'n' roll, robbery, airplane, car race, love at first sight, radio station, radio presenter, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: california

Cast

Spencer Tracy

Milton Berle

Sid Caesar

Buddy Hackett

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

7.0 697 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 192 min.

Audience: G

Story: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, airplane, chase, competition, treasure hunt, national park, slapstick comedy, caper, ...

Place: california

Cast

Bruce Willis

Bonnie Bedelia

William Sadler

John Amos

Die Hard 2 (1990)

7.0 6.5K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

Plot: helicopter, airport, based on novel or book, ambush, cop, sequel, snow, shootout, ...

Cast

Ben Affleck

Josh Hartnett

Kate Beckinsale

William Lee Scott

Pearl Harbor (2001)

6.9 7.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Plot: army, airplane, nurse, patriotism, pilot, pearl harbor, u.s. air force, dyslexia, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: hawaii

Cast

George Clooney

Vera Farmiga

Anna Kendrick

Sam Elliott

Up in the Air (2009)

6.9 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

Plot: suitcase, business, omaha, on the road, fired from the job, downsizing, cross country, videoconferencing, ...

Place: las vegas

Cast

Gerard Butler

Mike Colter

Tony Goldwyn

Yoson An

Plane (2023)

6.9 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

Style: intense

Plot: airplane, pilot, held hostage, plane crash

Place: philippines

Cast

Denzel Washington

Don Cheadle

Kelly Reilly

John Goodman

Flight (2012)

6.9 6.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Plot: airplane, confession, investigation, pilot, emergency landing, flight, alcoholism, f word, ...

Cast

Liam Neeson

Julianne Moore

Scoot McNairy

Michelle Dockery

Non-Stop (2014)

6.8 5.8K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.

Plot: airplane, hijacking, murder, airplane hijacking, terrorism, cell phone, transatlantic, text messaging, ...

Cast

Peri Baumeister

Carl Anton Koch

Kais Setti

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Alexander Scheer

Blood Red Sky (2021)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: 18

Story: A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

Plot: airplane, vampire, flashback, murder, airplane hijacking, dead dog, terrorist attack, told in flashback, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Michael Douglas

Kathleen Turner

Danny DeVito

Zack Norman

Romancing the Stone (1984)

6.8 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Style: romantic

Plot: airplane, smuggling (contraband), chase, kidnapping, crocodile, anti hero, treasure hunt, treasure map, ...

Place: south america, colombia

Cast

Meg Ryan

Tom Hanks

Ross Malinger

Bill Pullman

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

6.7

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Duration: 105 min.

Story: After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?

Cast

Ha Jung-woo

Yeo Jin-goo

Sung Dong-il

Chae Soo-bin

Hijack 1971 (2024)

6.7 155 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: 15

Story: In the year 1971, former Korean Air Force fighter pilot Tae-In (Ha Jung-Woo) works as a pilot for a commercial airline. He faces a crisis inside a hijacked flight with the passengers, including Yong-Dae (Yeo Jin-Goo), and his crew members, including Captain Kyu-Sik (Sung Dong-Il) and Flight Attendant Ok-Soon (Chae Soo-Bin).

Plot: airplane, hijacking, based on true story, airplane hijacking, terrorist bombing, inter-korean relations

Time: 1970s

Cast

Ben Stiller

Robert De Niro

Teri Polo

Blythe Danner

Meet the Parents (2000)

6.7 6.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.

Plot: daughter, central intelligence agency (cia), airplane, airport, nurse, cat, orderly, father-in-law, ...

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Martin Sheen

Katharine Ross

James Farentino

The Final Countdown (1980)

6.6 677 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG

Story: During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Plot: airplane, time travel, pearl harbor, pacific war, naval warfare, japanese, uss nimitz

Time: world war ii, 1940s, 1980s

Cast

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Masato Hagiwara

Yuuka Nanri

Unsho Ishizuka

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)

6.6 561 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 90 min.

Story: In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.

Plot: airplane, violin, adult animation, alternate timeline, foreign occupation, anime, ambiguous

Time: 1990s

Cast

Tom Cruise

Dakota Fanning

Miranda Otto

Justin Chatwin

War of the Worlds (2005)

6.6 9.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

Plot: daughter, new jersey, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, based on novel or book, underground, dystopia, alien, ...

Cast

Ben Stiller

Chris Rock

David Schwimmer

Jada Pinkett Smith

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

6.5 7.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.

Plot: dance, friendship, jealousy, airplane, africa, hunger, lion, zoo, ...

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