Cast Away (2000), Lost Horizon (1937), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), United (2011), No Highway in the Sky (1951), Phone Call From a Stranger (1952), Move Over, Darling (1963), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Plane Crash movies.
Storyline: Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girl-friend of one of them. After listening to Churchill's famous "Blood, Sweat and tears" radio address he and some other pilots decide to join the RCAF - and his superior is always the pilot who's girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like to obey he gets troubles.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: bush pilot, fiancée, doctor, daughter, storekeeper, commanding officer, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Whilst crossing a ledge, 4000 feet above the earth, Gabe's friend's equipment fails to work and she slips out of his hand, falling to the ground. Almost a year later, Gabe is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of 'stranded' people. The only catch is that these so called 'stranded' people are in fact looking for three boxes filled with $100,000,000 and they need a mountain ranger to lead them to them!!
Plot Keywords: criminal, hiker, rescue worker, suspenseful, thrilling, rocky mountains, mountain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
Plot Keywords: captain, pilot, navigator, oil worker, drifter, smuggler, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy's mother died.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young boy, father, grandfather, mother, schoolteacher, best friend, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Businessman Gerald Axton goes to his ranch to rest, having had a near-heart-attack due to business worries. But while there (with his female assistant who makes his heart flutter as much as his business worries), a pair of escaped criminals crashes the party, as well as a plane load of passengers who literally crash in. Coincidentally, the plane was carrying the state's governor, whom Axton was at odds with, Axton's ex-paramour and her lover, whom Axton was sending away under false pretenses, and a reporter willing to write up all the sordid details.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: tycoon, escaped convict, secretary, pilot, governor, reporter, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.—Jonathon Dabell <barnabyrudge@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: adventurer, miner, crazy person, young person, colleague, missing person, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Broken Arrow" is the term used to describe a nuclear device that has been lost. In this movie, two nuclear missiles are stolen by rogue US pilot Deakins, but hot on his trail is his co-pilot Hale and a Park Ranger, Terry. The action takes place in Utah's canyon country; a high stakes game of cat and mouse.
Plot Keywords: air force pilot, rookie, traitor, terrorist, park ranger, beautiful woman, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire's professional relationship with Eric -- despite her better judgment -- blossoms into a romance, the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers and becomes determined to uncover the truth, no matter the consequences.
Plot Keywords: therapist, mentor, survivor, passenger, sister, patient, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An airplane filled with V.I.P.s invited Mr. Philip Steven's grand opening of his art collection in Florida is hijacked when a trio knock out the passengers with gas and try to steal the priceless cargo of art treasures. But everything goes wrong for the hijackers when the low flying 747 clips an oil rig and crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. While the passengers remain alive in the shallow water, a daring rescue operation is planned to bring the plane up without breaking it in two.—Adam Carpenter <encenoman@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: girlfriend, millionaire, pilot, hijacker, flight attendant, tense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex-detective Dave Robicheaux has made a new life for himself and his wife Annie running a bait shop in the outskirts of New Orleans. When they save a little girl, the sole survivor of a plane crash, their lives become forever changed. They take the orphan child into their home and prepare to raise her. However, a visit from DEA agent Dautrieve brings out the detective instincts in Robicheaux and he begins to ask about the rest of the passengers. This brings trouble to Robicheaux and he turns to drug lord Bubba Rocque, a childhood friend. But the friendship becomes estranged when an assault on the Robicheaux home leaves one victim...Annie.—P. Wong <pwong@nt.net>
Plot Keywords: ex-policeman, drug lord, exotic dancer, wife, young girl, thug, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: daughter, son, father, friend, pilot, poacher, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1648. French people are relieved: the Thirty Years War is over and they will be able to live in peace. This feeling is shared by General Cadeau, the hero of the war, and his loyal aide, Lieutenant David Picard. But not at all by Marshall of France Mordore, who plans to plunder Spain. Cadeau decides to try to dissuade Mordore from implementing his plan but before meeting him he presents David with his sword dubbed "the gallant blade". This wonderful arm as well as David's talent as a swordsman will come handy as Mordore not only will not hear of peace but will prove treacherous as well.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: composer, wife, resistance fighter, singer, melodramatic, emotional, spectacular ...
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: A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Plot Keywords: pilot, rich girl, patriarch, mechanic, trainee, wolf, passionate ...
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