Kurenai no buta (1992), The Hurricane (1937), Hot Shots! (1991), Flyboys (2006), Flight Command (1940), Top Gun (1955), High Road to China (1983), Soar Into the Sun (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dogfight movies.
Storyline: In Early 1930's era Italy air pirates, bounty hunters and high fliers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. A former Ace, he now makes a living flying contract jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, action, fantasy, war, historical, pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the Island of Manukura, a French colony in the South Seas, the joyful Terangi is a leader among the natives and the first mate of the Katopua, the tall ship of Captain Nagle. Terangi gets married with Marama and sooner he sails to Tahiti. While in a bar playing with other natives, Terangi is offended by an alcoholic racist French and he hits his face, breaking his jaw. Despite the testimony of Captain Nagle, Terangi is sentenced to six months of forced labor since the victim had political connections with the Powers That Be. Captain Nagle asks the Governor Eugene DeLaage to uses his influence to help Terangi, but the governor refuses. Terangi unsuccessfully tries to escape from the prison, and each attempt increases his sentence. Eight years later, he finally escapes and his jailbreak is celebrated in Manukura. Father Paul finds his canoe and brings Terangi to the island. But a devastating hurricane also arrives in the island threatening the dwellers.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, history, war, aviation, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.
Plot Keywords: comedy, parody, action, military, pilot, humor, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Before the United States enters World War I, some American youths volunteer for the French military. Subsequently, they become the first U.S. fighter pilots and form a squadron known as the Lafayette Escadrille, whose exploits and heroism become the stuff of legend. This fictional version follows a laconic Texas rancher, an eager Nebraska kid, a Black boxer already in France, and a New York swell, as they arrive green for training, get their baptism by fire when German planes ambush them on their first mission, and graduate to heroics. Rawlings, the Texan, falls in love with a young woman he meets at a brothel.
Plot Keywords: war, history, action, adventure, drama, world war i, france ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first official outing, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyway but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Bill Gary is away, Drake has a purported affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Bill Gary's life turns things around.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: war, military, aviation, navy, training, world war ii, combat ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gunfighter Rick Martin returns to his hometown of Casper, Wyoming to learn of the fate of his mother and to warn the town of an impending raid by the Tom Quentin gang. The townspeople however reject him, afraid that his gunslinging past will cause new trouble. Rick learns that his mother did not die of illness but was murdered, and he comes to suspect the town's leading citizen -- a man now engaged to marry the woman Rick loves.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, aviation, heroism, honor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, romance, historical, war, drama, aviation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tae-hun causes trouble for the his unit with his antics. He does not take much seriously until a dogfight leaves a pilot dead and another missing. Tae-hun and the other members of his unit launch a rescue mission to prevent a war from breaking out.
Plot Keywords: action, war, military, korean movie, patriotism, brotherhood, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumors say that the jet is undetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam War pilot Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, war, espionage, cold war, military, science fiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, romance, cold war, spy, pilot ...
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: adventure, action, war, history, drama, biography, aviation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state's air defenses.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, rescue mission, father-son relationship, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war...
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, military, ai, high-tech, adventure, future technology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the governor of Tokyo is killed in his campaign for election, the former CIA agent Travis Hunter is assigned to find the responsible working together with the rookie FBI agent Sean. Travis was raised in Japan, has great connections with the underworld of the streets and is a master in sword and martial arts, trained by a former member of Yakuza. Travis discloses that there is a war between the old and traditional members of Yakuza and the new generation leaded by the deranged and sick Kuroda, who has associated to the Chinese Tong mobster Chen in a powerful drug dealing business. When his fiancée Nayako is brutally and cowardly murdered by one of Kuroda's men, the mission of Travis becomes a personal issue and he seeks revenge.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, usa, pilot, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission. As they begin their assault, Chappy finds that a nuclear strike has been ordered should they fail, which will catch his forces on the ground next to ground zero.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, cold war, sequel, 1980s ...
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