Everest (1998), Touching the Void (2003), Climbing Blind (2020), The Walk (2015), Blindsight (2006), The Conquest of Everest (1953), Beyond the Edge (2013), Non-Stop (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best High Altitude movies.
Storyline: A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie, and her summit team in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick, to ascend the chilling might of the world's most feared peak to save her.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, mountain climbing, survival, disaster, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Busey specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Snipes lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Butler so he can track them down. DIE HARD meets PASSENGER 57 meets CLIFFHANGER.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, adventure, stunts, fbi, undercover ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ditch Brodie is a maverick skydiving instructor. One day, a beautiful girl comes in, wanting to take her first jump. Up in the air, Ditch takes his eyes off her momentarily, then looks back to find out that she has fallen out, dying on impact. Ditch is suspicious that all is not as it seems, because he distinctly remembers hooking her static line on...
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, spy, conspiracy, crime, mystery ...
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: action, thriller, crime, suspense, violence, tension, pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, horror, suspense, disaster, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this action-packed drama, a group of people who have completed a therapy program to overcome their severe fear of flying celebrate with a group flight to L.A. However, they soon discover that there are perfectly good reasons to be afraid of airliners - a group of terrorists hijack the jet, murdering the pilot and threatening to kill all the passengers with chemical weapons. With the captain's chair empty, one of the passengers is forced to bring the plane safely to the ground.—Mark Deming
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, suspense, disaster, psychological fear, survival, confined space ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: FBI agent Gretchen Blair is on a flight to Washington D.C. when the man seated beside her makes an unusual offer. He explains that the plane they're on is about to be hijacked, and promises to pay her seventy-five million dollars if she can get him safely back on the ground. When a gang of professional thieves takes control of the plane, she realizes he isn't joking. Soon Gretchen finds herself caught in the middle of an elaborate mid-air heist, fighting to save the passengers while the thieves tear the plane apart, searching for the stolen loot hidden somewhere on board.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, sci-fi, thriller, disaster, mystery, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, suspense, tension, violence, hostage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When terrorists hijack a flight, one man must find a way to save everyone on board.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, suspense, adventure, aviation, counter-terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When wealthy executive Raymond Stone (Joe Mantegna) sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole (Elisha Cuthbert), and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, disaster, suspense, survival, pilot ...
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