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Air Crew (1980)
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Original name: Экипаж
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, crying, disaster movie
Plot:
natural disaster, airplane, co pilot, aviation, disaster, danger, daring rescue, forces of nature, pilot, stewardess, survival, passenger, mountain, airport, catastrophe, heroes, chases and races, escapades, disability, doctors and patients, race against time, save the day, airplane accident, escape, volcano ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia
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Most similar movies to Air Crew
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about danger, escapades, disaster, chases and races, heroes, race against time and catastrophe mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Air Crew: Airport '77 (1977), Airport 1975 (1974), The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), Airspeed (1999), Tidal Wave (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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.
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100%
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
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!
Style:
psychological, cult classic, fast, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, aviation, airport, airplane, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, airplane accident, missile ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 80s
Place:
europe, france, alps, washington d.c., paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
airplane, die hard, aviation, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, aeroplane, air traffic control, teenage life, school, parents and children, escapades, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
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100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Man-sik and Yeon-hee, are unsure as to whether they can overcome past wounds and continue being a couple. Dr. Kim, who cautions against a possible mega-tsunami at Haeundae, collapses in agony springing from an unexpected turn-up of his daughter and ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tear jerker ...
Plot:
tsunami, lifeguard, disaster, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, post apocalypse, death of mother, survival, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, busan, south korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, save the day, daring rescue, danger, race against time, forces of nature, nuclear power plant, violent content, chases and races, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, russia
Similarity:
44%
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:
40%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, avalanche, rescue, ski, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, ski resort, adaptation, winter, danger, skating ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
antarctic, tokyo
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, danger, save the day, race against time, rescue, catastrophe, mountain, profanity, village, heroic mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A USGS scientist attempts to convince his boss and the residents of Angel Falls, California that a nearby volcano is about to erupt.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, lava, volcanic eruption, pregnant woman, mountain, forces of nature, chaos and mayhem, resort, evacuation, chaos ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
38%
476
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
The hottest summer in years: Meteorologist Jan returns from Oklahoma, where he has studied twisters up close, after faring a traumatic catastrophe during his dangerous research. Back in Berlin, he comes to face with his past and his ex-girlfriend ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
tornado, disaster, forces of nature, save the day, obsessive quest, chases and races, heroes, escapades, danger, natural disaster, fear, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, oklahoma, berlin germany
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, flight attendant, heroes, heroic mission, confined, danger, pilot, die hard, airplane, space, aviation, airport ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
36%
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:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An air-traffic controller quits after a plane crash but, years later, goes to help an airport that is in the path of a terrible storm.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
air traffic controller, aviation, airplane, airport, flight attendant, pilot, die hard, airplane accident, aircraft, aeroplane, new year's eve, storm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, mysterious character, forces of nature, law enforcement, chases and races, contests and competitions, environmentalism, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, danger, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, chases and races, heroes, heat wave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
480
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, forest fire, forces of nature, survival, save the day, heroes, hidden identity, disorder, danger, apocalypse, natural disaster, firefighter ...
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dam, disaster, danger, daring rescue, save the day, race against time, rescue, survival, escapades, mentally unstable, forces of nature, natural disaster ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Style:
psychotronic, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, hotel, resort, ranch, escape, pandemic, survival, infidelity, love affair, trapped, wiretap ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
33%
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:
33%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, survival, climate, natural disaster, apocalypse, mountain, rescue, fighting the system, race against time, heroes, escapades, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat, military ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story:
Quantum Airlines flight 66 has just taken off from Frankfurt, Germany bound for New York's JFK International Airport with 247 passengers aboard. After take-off, a man infected with a Doomsday Virus passes out while a flight attendant and doctor ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, epidemic, virus, deadly virus, aviation, infection, disease, die hard, survival, natural disaster, airplane accident, dystopia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, iceland, europe, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own, is about to have its first flight. But the son of the owner decides to upload more software, he doesn't bother to check if there are any viruses ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
airplane accident, airplane, boeing 747, computer virus, save the day, danger, chaos, escapades, rivalry, race against time, space travel, aviation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Rutland, Vermont, Forestry Service supervisor Dan Blanchard and his wife Dr. Christy Blanchard hope life will return to normal now a transplant liver is expected for their brave son Jason (12). Daughter Marie was ordered to bring Jason to perform ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense
Plot:
disaster, escapades, forces of nature, child illness, against the odds, danger, survival, heroes, daring rescue, save the day, race against time, one man army ...
Place:
usa, vermont
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, tough heroes, save the day, survival, confined, danger, undercover, heroes, daring rescue, race against time, one man army ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, alaska
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
volcano, natural disaster, disaster, survival, chaos and mayhem, heroes, danger, dystopian future, optimism, escapades, chases and races, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Style:
serious, suspense, independent film, fast, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, rescue, tough heroes, aviation, disaster, one man army, daring rescue, heroes, danger, save the day, forces of nature, airport ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
32%
379
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, danger, father son relationship, rescue, disaster, save the day, escapades, race against time, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, landslide ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
31%
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