Highest-Rated Movies about 'Airplane Crash', Sort by Popularity

Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004), Flight (2012), Unbroken (2014), We Are Marshall (2006), Island in the Sky (1953), Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), Back From Eternity (1956), Belle & Sebastian -- The Adventure Continues (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Airplane Crash movies.

#1. Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004)

Storyline: The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former pilot of the same company, this film reveals a complex web of complicity between the Air Force and the company to circumvent security controls in order to obtain greater economic benefit in operations.

Plot Keywords: pilot, boss, businessman, co-pilot, passenger, love interest, passionate ...

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#2. Flight (2012)

Storyline: Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems...

Plot Keywords: pilot, co-pilot, passenger, investigator, drug dealer, drug addict, gripping ...

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#3. Unbroken (2014)

Storyline: The life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who joined the armed forces during the second world war. Only to be captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific. During his capture, Louie must continue his fight by surviving through the war.

Plot Keywords: athlete, olympic athlete, crew member, air force pilot, prisoner of war, prison guard, uplifting ...

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#4. We Are Marshall (2006)

Storyline: In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?

Plot Keywords: coach, assistant, president, football player, student, bleak, emotional ...

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#6. Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

Storyline: A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: baby, wife, ape, animal, intense, emotional, melodramatic ...

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#8. Belle & Sebastian -- The Adventure Continues (2015)

Storyline: September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life . . .

Plot Keywords: belle, firemen, dog, hiker, niece, pilot, emotional ...

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#9. Ground Zero (1987)

Storyline: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: photographer, scientist, aborigine, hermit, chilling, intricate, somber ...

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#10. U.S. Marshals (1998)

Storyline: When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Meanwhile, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown.

Plot Keywords: u.s. marshal, prisoner, fugitive, partner, girlfriend, police officer, incredible ...

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#11. The Mountain Between Us (2017)

Storyline: After their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass and photojournalist Alex Martin hire private pilot Walter to get them to Denver for connecting flights to Alex's wedding in New York and Ben's emergency surgery appointment in Baltimore. Walter, who has not filed a flight plan, suffers a fatal stroke mid-flight, and the plane crashes on a mountaintop in the High Uintas Wilderness. Ben, Alex, and Walter's dog survive the crash with various injuries..

Plot Keywords: doctor, journalist, pilot, neurosurgeon, photojournalist, survivor, bleak ...

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#12. Run for the Sun (1956)

Storyline: Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests.—jimthemoviefreak@gmail.com

Plot Keywords: journalist, writer, nazi collaborator, nazi, native american, hunter, frightening ...

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#13. The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

Storyline: Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London, Roy Walsh (James Kenney) and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Walsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: commodore, sergeant, airman, crew member, commander, wife, tense ...

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#14. Jurassic Park III (2001)

Storyline: Dr. Alan Grant is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is that happy that he announce in public, that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby. Kirby and his wife, Amanda want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true. When the plane lands, Dr. Grant realizes that there is another reason why they are there, that he doesn't know of. Now, Dr. Grant is stuck on an island he has never been on before, with what was a plane journey now turned into a search party.

Plot Keywords: father, scientist, mercenary, guide, son, dinosaur, suspenseful ...

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#15. Bombers B-52 (1957)

Storyline: U.S Air Force Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. He first met him in Korea, where his emergency arrival for repairs while enroute for what Chuck thought was the colonels "hot date" in Tokyo, caused the death of several of his crewmen. Now several years later when Chuck, while still in the Air Force, is now weighing continued enlistment or retirement, the base's new C.O. is none other than Col. Herlihy. Compounding his dislike is a budding romance with Chuck's daughter, Lois.—Bill Walch

Plot Keywords: mechanic, pilot, daughter, sergeant, colonel, father, tense ...

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