Movies like Mayday 2005
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Mayday (2005)
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, intense, realistic, disaster movie
Plot:
air disaster, airplane, survival, disaster, aviation, flying, crash landing, plane crash, airplane accident, airline, exploding airplane, accident, survivor, catastrophe, tragedy, teamwork, heroism, crew, passenger, panic, air traffic control, rescue, claustrophobia, investigation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
pacific ocean
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Most similar movies to Mayday
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about disaster, survival, catastrophe, air disaster, aviation, airplane accident and airplane mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mayday: Lost Flight (1970), Uncommon Valor (1983), The Captain (2019), Flug in Gefahr (1964), Faultline (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bridges is the captain of a downed airliner who must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Style:
tropical, suspense, tense, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, air disaster, plane crash, stranded, leadership, power struggle, isolation, human nature, conflict, aviation, marooned ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
air disaster, aviation, airplane, airplane accident, fire brigade, aeroplane, emergency, firefighter, rescue, plane crash, disaster, heroic mission ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, emotional, realistic
Plot:
aviation, search and rescue, pilot, rescue mission, lost at sea, airplane accident, survival, teamwork, desperation, heroism, isolation, air traffic control ...
Place:
pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, new zealand
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging ...
Style:
action drama, intense, tense, suspense
Plot:
courage, arson, firefighter, teamwork, danger, disaster, rescue, heroism, panic, hospital, fire, fireman ...
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a pilot who had to ensure the safety of 128 passengers and crew members on the plane when its windshield became damaged mid-flight. The incident is regarded as one of the miracles in aviation history.
Style:
suspense, action adventure, sentimental, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
air disaster, plane crash, aviation, co pilot, aviator, pilot, risk, airline, heroism, crash, determination, peril ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.
Style:
tense, suspense, period piece, tension
Plot:
airplane, air disaster, survival, crash landing, heroism, claustrophobia, food poisoning, panic, ethical dilemma, rescue, airport, suspicion ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
61%
325
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student Greg Chambers encounters the seismic readings, he rushes to tell his professor, Anthony ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, harsh, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
disaster, survival, earthquake, resort, graduate student, small town, catastrophe, burned alive, ocean, professor, city, coastal town ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, tension
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, weather, death threat, catastrophe, social problems, struggle for survival, small town, scientist, danger, man versus nature, twister ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, airplane, save the day, survival, danger, spouse in danger, heroes, forces of nature, military, volcano, aeroplane, aircraft ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, hawaii
Similarity:
52%
404
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fire, hotel, trapped, arson, deathtrap, trap, luxury hotel, struggle for survival, house fire, death threat, disaster, survival ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Mika is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki and his ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, entertaining
Plot:
air disaster, stewardess, rescue mission, heroes, rescue team, salvation, rescue attempt, search and rescue, struggle for survival, passenger, saving a life, exploding airplane ...
Similarity:
47%
24K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
airport, disaster, airplane, aviation, bomb, airplane accident, passenger, natural disaster, survival, danger, panic, stewardess ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
chicago, rome italy, minnesota, detroit, milwaukee wisconsin ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Style:
suspense, psychological, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, disaster, terrorist, air disaster, aviation, terrorism, vietnam war, hijacking, airplane accident, survival, sergeant, crash ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, russia, moscow russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, educational, f word
Plot:
air disaster, thunderstorm, plane crash, grief, survivor, investigation, rescue attempt, aviation, airplane crash, disaster, crash, airplane accident ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
dallas texas, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
aviation, airplane, disaster, air disaster, flight attendant, airplane accident, real life, danger, hostage, race against time, survival, confined ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, montreal
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, action drama ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teamwork, rescue mission, young mother, second chance, redemption, wildfire, firefighting, firefighter, fire, intelligence agency, workplace situations ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a series of strange earthquakes hit California, a seismologist named Kimberly Stevenson is sent to the Angeles Forest to investigate the epicenter. This might prove to be her biggest task so far, but also the one that will bring her renown. She ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, race against time, chases and races, mysterious character, escapades, danger, frame up, rescue, isolation, wilderness, disaster, catastrophe ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
Plot:
disaster, aviation, airplane, aeroplane, apocalypse, crash landing, airplane accident, crew, airplane crash, pilot, flight attendant, panic ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
airplane, airport, catastrophe, aviation, disaster, airplane accident, survival, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, death, mountain ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, washington d.c., salt lake city utah, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, grim, period drama
Plot:
underwater, trapped, submarine, sea, rescue, claustrophobia, survival, isolation, disaster, fear, realism, crew ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, rescue, airplane, airport, underwater, airplane accident, aviation, frogman, bermuda triangle, hijacking, airplane hijack, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, 80s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
39%
949
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, disaster, danger, aviation, rivalry, chases and races, escapades, law enforcement, undercover, airport, insubordination ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychotronic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
aviation, sabotage, airplane, survival, confined space, catastrophe, influenza, rescue mission, heroism, pandemic, tragedy, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deadly patchwork of destructive cyclones is on an apocalyptic path of convergence at a populated Midwest city center. There, the twisters will merge into one mega tornado that threatens to obliterate the cities for hundreds of miles around.
Style:
intense, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, fast paced ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
tornado, disaster, natural disaster, destruction, extreme weather, survival, mass destruction, chaos, man versus nature, evacuation, panic, spectacle ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
38%
581
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
navy, submarine, accident, rescue mission, survival, rescue attempt, crash, underwater fight, rescue from drowning, military officer, team, saving a life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her daughter, 15-year-old Samantha. But when a powerful ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
airplane, air disaster, aviation, fear, widow, mother daughter relationship, female writer, stranded, catastrophe, air traffic controller, doom, airplane accident ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, airplane accident, aviation, disaster, crash landing, sahara desert, thirst, isolation, pilot ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, libya, africa, middle east
Similarity:
36%
528
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
«Spitak» tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, emotional, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, tragedy, hopes, grief, loss, disaster, tragic event, destruction, family tragedy, hell on earth, survival, mourning ...
Place:
armenia, russia, soviet union, moscow russia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, airplane accident, space, aviation, disaster, plane crash, danger, heroes, escapades, rescue, save the day, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, greenland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia, Cambodia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally ...
Style:
suspense, biting, sentimental, disturbing, novela ...
Plot:
natural disaster, aviation, risk, rescue mission, heroism, coworker relationship, disaster, social relations, rescue team, beefcake, love affair, daring rescue ...
Similarity:
35%
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