Neerja (2016), Pacific Adventure (1947), Non-Stop (2014), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), The Crowded Sky (1960), Airport 1975 (1974), Mozambique (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cockpit movies.
Storyline: Neerja is the story 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 Keywords: young woman, mother, father, terrorist, passenger, gripping, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles "Smithy" Kingsford-Smith.
Plot Keywords: pilot, prime minister, navigator, air traffic controller, crew member, spirited, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find the terrorist in time and save everyone?
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, u.s. marshal, passenger, terrorist, pilot, flight attendant, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship's computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers' lives - if there only wouldn't be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.
Plot Keywords: pilot, stewardess, terrorist, judge, old flame, air traffic controller, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manfred von Richthofen (John Phillip Law) arrives from the Cavalry, at a squadron in the German air force under the command of Oswald Boelcke. He quickly becomes an ace. Meanwhile, a Canadian pilot named Roy Brown arrives at a British squadron, where the top scoring pilot is Victoria Cross winner, Major Lanoe Hawker. Brown ruffles the feathers of his squadron mates by refusing to drink a toast to von Richthofen. Von Richthofen and fellow squadron pilot, Hermann Goering clash when squadron commander Boelcke is killed after a mid air collision( Boelcke's upper left wing struck the undercarriage of Böhme's Albatros ). von Richthofen is given command of the squadron. Outraged when he is ordered to have his aircraft camouflaged, von Richthofen has the squadron's aircraft painted in bright conspicuous colors, claiming that gentlemen should not hide from their enemies. Later, von Richthofen is wounded during an aerial battle; meanwhile Lanoe Hawker is killed. Brown and his squadron decide to attack von Richthofen's airfield, destroying their aircraft on the ground. However, von Richthofen, with the help of a batch of new fighters from Anthony Fokker, the 'Richthofen Flying Circus' launches a counter attack on the British airfield. Brown later kills von Richthofen during an aerial combat, and Hermann Goering takes over command of the 'Flying Circus'.—H W Thorn
Plot Keywords: fighter pilot, german officer, mentor, thrilling, engaging, gripping, germany ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: navy pilot, soldier, stewardess, wife, passenger, engaging, incredible ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: pilot, stewardess, airline employee, air traffic controller, passenger, boyfriend, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An out-of-work and penniless American pilot is offered work in Mozambique and promptly becomes an unwitting pawn in a world of drug smuggling, kidnap and murder.
Plot Keywords: pilot, crime boss, young woman, smuggler, trafficker, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ryan Weaver romances beautiful women before he kills them. Ryan is arrested, convicted, and is part of a Christmas Eve transfer of prisoners on a transcontinental 747 commercial flight. Other airlines at JFK may have holiday passengers waiting on stand-by, but this jumbo jet takes off with a lot of empty seats. Ryan and another prisoner overpower and kill their guards. The few civilian passengers are herded into a "pantry" on the plane and are not seen again until the end of the movie. Ryan eliminates the other prisoners and all the crew members except Teri Halloran. The remainder of the movie follows a "cat-and-mouse" game between Ryan and Teri on the 747.—Dennis Lewis <dsl@sprynet.com>
Plot Keywords: flight attendant, killer, pilot, air traffic controller, passenger, convict, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This last film in the 'Airport 'series ends fast - with an SST (supersonic transport); Concorde. Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) Murray deal with nuclear missiles being fired at the'speed-bird' (the actual British Concorde's ATC name) as a passenger on-board is carrying documents which can bring down the titan of a large military contractor, and in order to prevent this, the CEO tries to arrange for the plane's mid-air destructoon, using the French air force as a patsy.who are under the impression they're bringing down a compromised plane.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: journalist, pilot, scientist, stewardess, gymnast, married man, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a deranged criminal is caught, he is then being transported by plane, along with some other criminals. Through a stroke of luck he is able to subdue the Federal agents assigned to bring him, free the other criminals, and take over the plane. He then threatens to crash the plane into a populated area unless his demands are met. The FBI agent who captured him then decides to get on the plane while in flight to do something. He does but things don't go as planned, and the criminal continues his plan to crash the plane unless the agent can do something, the military is going to shoot the plane down.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, criminal, mastermind, gang members, psychopath, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover-up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her daughter, 15-year-old Samantha. But when a powerful solar flare strikes her flight home, killing the pilot, knocking out the co-pilot and frying all the electronic systems on the plane, it looks like she may not get there. As she panics, can she land the plane safely and see her daughter again.
Plot Keywords: passenger, pilot, thrilling, incredible, airplane, cockpit, airplanes ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde.—Leigh Roche
Plot Keywords: terrorist, secret service agent, rival, bleak, disturbing, frenetic, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Master criminal Newcastle (Lance Henriksen) and his team concoct an elaborate plan to steal a valuable Scottish antique, but are thwarted by the SWAT team. Later, Newcastle learns that Syrian forces are counterfeiting vast amounts of money that they transport by airplane. Newcastle and his partner, Ketchum (Lorenzo Lamas), decide to steal $250 million from one of the planes -- while it's in flight. Their meticulous plan starts to fall apart when they stop trusting each another.
Plot Keywords: criminal, thief, partner, pilot, syrian, engaging, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A jetliner captain (Charlton Heston) and stewardess (Yvette Mimieux) respond to a skyjacker (James Brolin) who wants to go to Moscow.
Plot Keywords: pilot, assassin, hostage, stewardess, fighter pilot, senator, disturbing ...
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