Highest-Rated Movies about 'Fighter Jets'

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), Independence Day (1996), Top Gun (1986), Top Gun (1955), Soar Into the Sun (2012), Iron Eagle (1986), Into the Sun (2005), Red Sky (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Fighter Jets movies.

#2. Independence Day (1996)

Storyline: On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their ...

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, action, adventure, alien invasion, disaster, usa, heroism ...

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#3. Top Gun (1986)

Storyline: Code-named "Maverick", Pete Mitchell, the impetuous daredevil Navy-pilot ace, is accepted into Miramar's elite Fighter School, also known as "Top Gun". There, as the impulsive pilot competes with the best of the best, not only will he meet Charlie, the flying school's curvaceous astrophysics instructor, but also the brilliant and highly competitive fellow student, "Iceman", with whom right from the start, he will engage in a reckless contest. As Maverick is haunted by his father's mysterious death, will he be able to suppress his wild nature to win the prestigious Top Gun Trophy?

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, military, competition, brotherhood, sacrifice, honor ...

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#4. Top Gun (1955)

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 ...

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#6. Iron Eagle (1986)

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 ...

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#7. Into the Sun (2005)

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 ...

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#8. Red Sky (2014)

Storyline: Butch 'Cobra' Masters aces his USNAF top gun squad, until they are all disgraced, blamed for an exercise turned tragically wrong as manipulated real-time information made them launch real rockets on a cave hideout for chemical arms. As suggested at court trial, his mates accept to avoid a conviction by applying for a voluntary dismissal, each finding a niche in civilian aircraft. When ambitious Pentagon official John Webster, the former squad's former superior, urgently needs their specialty of strike capacity in the Middle East but can't officially engage troops for diplomatic risks, the team is informally reassembled under promise of full rehabilitation. They are retrieved from placed as far as Moscow, complemented for research with his ex girl friend, now investigative reporter, supposed to prevent chemical weapon Rainmaster falling in the hands of crazy Kurdish militia in Syria, but layers of betrayal cause unforeseen trouble.—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, military, espionage, cold war, usa, russia ...

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#9. Iron Eagle II (1988)

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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#10. Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)

Storyline: Chappy Sinclair is back. This time he tries to help a woman, whose South American village has been taken over by a former Nazi, who is now a cocaine dealer and who uses her village as his base of operations. She manages to escape and goes to the States and meets up with Chappy. When Chappy tries to get help from the Air Force, he discovers that the General he is speaking to, is the Nazi's partner. So, he along with three ageing pilots, take some vintage fighter planes and go there to try and help.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, revenge, heroism, american film ...

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#11. Iron Eagle IV (1995)

Storyline: When Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in sharpening them for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive U.S. Air Force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.—Richard Jones <rjo339@swbell.net>

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, rescue mission, cold war, usa ...

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