The Red Tent (1971), Lost (2005), Cast Away (2000), Lost Horizon (1937), Airplane! (1980), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), Sully (2016), Flight (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Plane Crash movies.
Storyline: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Sean Connery) leads a 1928 North Pole air search for Italian explorer Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch).
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, historical, biographical, survival, expedition, arctic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bank vice president Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) is lost in more ways than one: On his way to a rendezvous with his family in Nevada, he finds that the back roads do not match his maps. However, Jeremy has also lost direction from a moral standpoint, having just committed a robbery back in California during which he betrayed Archer (Danny Trejo), his ruthless partner. His only company for this long, dark road trip of the soul is Judy (Ashley Scott), an operator who gives him directions by phone.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, sci-fi, mystery, thriller, survival, enigmatic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man is marooned on an island after his plane crashes into the ocean. Far away from home, his girlfriend, and any human contact, he engages in a battle of wits with himself as he is tested mentally, physically, and emotionally in order to survive.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, drama, loneliness, hope, human nature, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, drama, mystery, utopia, expedition, philosophy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.
Plot Keywords: comedy, parody, disaster, aviation, humorous, satire, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, desert, teamwork, leadership, hope, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On Thursday, January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when pilot Chesley"Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all one hundred fifty-five aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, true story, heroism, aviation, crisis, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems...
Plot Keywords: action, drama, thriller, disaster, aviation, suspense, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In World War II, the German pilots Lieutenant Horst Schopis, Josef Schwartz and Wolfgang Strunk crash their airplane in the wilderness of Norway after shooting down a British airplane. They walk through a snow storm until they reach shelter in an abandoned hunter cabin. Soon the British pilot Captain Charles P. Davenport and the gunner Robert Smith arrive in the cabin and they become prisoners of the German pilots. However, after the initial friction between the enemies, they realize that they should team-up to survive in the wilderness in the beginning of an improbable friendship.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, survival, norway, snow, british, wilderness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who joined the armed forces during the second world war. Only to be captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific. During his capture, Louie must continue his fight by surviving through the war.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, survival, japan, true story, biography, torture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.
Plot Keywords: survival, disaster, biographical, adventure, drama, true story, cannibalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, true story, american football, teamwork, tragedy, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, war, survival, aviation, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the clever husband and the jealous young photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, wilderness, thriller, mystery, action, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.
Plot Keywords: 1950s, rise to fame, classic songs, family dynamics, cultural conflict, teen idol, musical dreams ...
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