🏷 Discover The Best Hijacking Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unveiling the Thrilling World of Hijacking Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to embark on a heart-pumping journey through the gripping world of hijacking movies and TV shows. From intense action sequences to thought-provoking storylines, we've curated a list of the best films and series that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you're a fan of classic thrillers or modern-day blockbusters, our collection has something for everyone.

Cast

Tom Hanks

Barkhad Abdi

Barkhad Abdirahman

Faysal Ahmed

Captain Phillips (2013)

7.5 7.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Plot: ship, africa, fisherman, hijacking, somalia, based on true story, poverty, pirate, ...

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Lee Byung-hun

Jeon Do-yeon

Kim Nam-gil

Emergency Declaration (2022)

7.5 433 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 140 min.

Story: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Plot: airplane, pilot, hijacking, emergency landing, flight, airplane hijacking, aviation, terrorism, ...

Hijack (2023) TV Show

7.5 829 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.

Plot: london, england, airplane, hijacking, autopilot, investigation, flight, airplane hijacking, ...

Place: dubai

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Cast

Ryo Horikawa

Akio Otsuka

Rei Sakuma

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) TV Show

7.5 35 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Story: It is the year 0083 of the Universal Century. The rebellious Principality of Zeon has been defeated in the One Year War by the Earth Federation. However, a faction of Zeon remnants led by Aguille Delaz fled from the final battle, hiding themselves away. After three long years, they attempt to rise up once more, sending Delaz’s ace pilot, Anavel Gato, to infiltrate a Federation research base to steal one of two secretly developed prototype Gundams along with its deadly nuclear warhead.Threatened by the rogue Gundam suit and seeking to retain peace, the Earth Federation mobilizes the newly developed Albion carrier to recover the stolen unit. Manned by the remaining test pilots, with rookie pilot Kou Uraki piloting the remaining prototype Gundam, the Albion and her crew are determined to stop Gato, retake the stolen Gundam, and prevent the Zeon remnants from starting another war.

Plot: space colony, hijacking, earth, space, mecha, test pilot, anime, real robot, ...

Cast

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja

Shabana Azmi

Shekhar Ravjiani

Yogendra Tiku

Neerja (2016)

7.3 244 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 122 min.

Story: Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.

Plot: hijacking, biography, based on true story, airplane hijacking, terrorism, tragic event, heroine, flight attendant

Cast

Pauline u00c9tienne

Laurent Capelluto

Jan Bijvoet

Mehmet Kurtuluu015f

Into the Night (2020) TV Show

7.1 586 votes

Genre: Science Fiction

Country: Belgium

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.

Plot: sun, pilot, airplane, hijacking, flight, airplane hijacking, survival, apocalypse, ...

Cast

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J.J. Johnson

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Gary Commock

Polly Adams

Opal Alladin

United 93 (2006)

7.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Plot: airplane, war on terror, hijacking, terror cell, based on true story, emergency landing, airplane hijacking, terrorism, ...

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

Rajkummar Rao

Timothy Ryan Hickernell

Rajesh Tailang

Rupinder Nagra

Omertà (2018)

6.8 25 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 96 min.

Story: A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Plot: hijacking, taliban, terrorism, terrorist plot, al qaeda

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, ...

Con Air (1997)

6.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Plot: undercover, ambush, war veteran, psychopath, bravery, mexican standoff, sandstorm, hijacking, ...

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

Sylvester Stallone

John Lithgow

Michael Rooker

Janine Turner

Cliffhanger (1993)

6.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.

Plot: airplane, mountain, rocky mountains, hijacking, suitcase, climbing, heist, money, ...

Cast

Chuck Norris

Lee Marvin

Martin Balsam

Joey Bishop

The Delta Force (1986)

6.0 524 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, airplane, war veteran, fight, patriotism, hijacking, rescue mission, ...

Cast

Steven Seagal

Eric Bogosian

Katherine Heigl

Morris Chestnut

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

5.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

Plot: race against time, pentagon, u.s. air force, satellite, u.s. navy seal, terrorism, hand to hand combat, cyber terrorism, ...

Cast

Vijay

Pooja Hegde

Selvaraghavan

Shine Tom Chacko

Beast (2022)

5.2 84 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: R

Story: A former RAW officer, who is among the hostages in a mall taken over by terrorists, has to foil their plans and prevent the government from releasing a dreaded terrorist, who he had helped put in prison at great personal cost.

Plot: hijacking, heist, soldier, mall, raw agent