Aircraft Pilot Movies - Our ranking is based on critical reception, audience reception and popularity, script and production quality, and general consensus of which movies are truly "great." Some films may not have done great at the box office, but are still audience favorites.
All of the movies on this list involve air travel (of any kind) as a major plot point, and are not necessarily movies that are good to watch on flights. PG | 126 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Aircraft Pilot Movies
John McClane is back, and this time, he's going to save Dulles International Airport. This sequel takes place one year after the events in the first film, but this time the terrorists have taken over the Washington D.C.
The Wind Rises
airport and only McClane can stop them. If he can't, they'll deliberately guide planes to crash. MA15+ | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, War Featuring aerial sequences, a captivating original score and stories told by pilots, air traffic controllers, historians and flight enthusiasts, the independent film makes a strong case for the importance of the "unsung hero of aviation," the local airport.
It centers around a Uruguayan soccer team who gets stranded in the Andes after a plane crash, and while it can be hard to watch at times, it's also based on real events. The story is a true testament to the ability of humans to survive the worst of circumstances.
Votes: 24,117 | Gross: $1.37M M | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance M | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama PG | 87 min | Comedy, Romance Back in the early 2000s, Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a number of odd, screwball romantic comedies.
In this film, Paltrow stars as a trailer-park girl who dreams of being a classy flight attendant — and she has the brains and drive to achieve it. Is all that personal success worth sacrificing for a young Mark Ruffalo?
Rescue Dawn
We're not sure. But this movie has a few good goofy moments, especially from Mike Myers, Christina Applegate, and Candice Bergen. Votes: 55,332 | Gross: $21.01M MA | 154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller Votes: 59,093
| Gross: $56.57M When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the drug dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.
Up In The Air I
M | 130 min | Action, Drama, History Votes: 18,686 | Gross: $59.17M M | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama Votes: 5,941 | Gross: $0.26M Votes: 165,224 | Gross: $89.71M Votes: 43,362 | Gross: $13.08M
Disaster strikes in a DC-4 airliner making a routine trans-Pacific flight, and a washed-up copilot, played by John Wayne, is forced to take command and save the lives of the crew and passengers in this drama-filled thriller.
Votes: 13,420 | Gross: $6.59M M | 104 min | Action, Biography, Drama This underrated Steven Spielberg film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the real-life FBI fraudster Frank Abagnale Jr. One of Abagnale's clever ways of getting away from FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) is impersonating a Pan-Am pilot (despite being 17 and having no flight experience).
Votes: 29,183 | Gross: $27.44M Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is an ex-fighter pilot who is now afraid to fly. But when food poisoning puts an airliner's crew out of commission, he's the only one on board who can safely land the plane.
Flight Of The Phoenix
Absurdity and hilarity, of course, ensue. Performances by the entire cast, which is largely made up of relatively unknown actors, are nuanced, unsentimental, and incredibly emotional — although the script deviates quite a bit from actual events (or at least, what we know about them).
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance In this action-packed thriller, Air Force one is hijacked by a group of terrorists, leaving it up to the president of the United States alone to save his family and culminating with an iconic midair plane-to-plane rescue scene.
Votes: 46,364 | Gross: $90.29M But not all airplane movies are disaster flicks or tense, action hero vehicles. Some of these movies can make you laugh, like "Airplane!," "View from the Top," or "The Terminal" — even though the latter mostly takes place in the airport.
Votes: 18,686 | Gross: $59.17M
View From The Top
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