Movies like Fire and Rain

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Fire and Rain (1989)
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Fire and Rain (1989)
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 thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
Plot: air disaster, aviation, airplane crash, thunderstorm, airplane accident, crash, disaster, cigarette smoking, catastrophe
Time: year 1985
Place: texas, los angeles, dallas texas

Most similar movies to Fire and Rain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about disaster, air disaster, airplane, aviation, airplane accident, heroes and danger mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Fire and Rain: Freefall: Flight 174 (1995), Miracle Landing (1990), The Last Survivors (1975), Crash Point: Berlin (2009), Lost Flight (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot: airplane, aviation, disaster, air disaster, real life, danger, flight attendant, hostage, chases and races, confined, race against time, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Miracle Landing (1990)
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, panic, pilot, plane crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
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.
Plot: aviation, aeroplane, disaster, christmas, airplane accident, family relations, flying, airplane, air disaster
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Last Survivors (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Plot: boat, disaster, die hard, shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, sea, sinking ship
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Crash Point: Berlin (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, serious
Plot: aviation, airplane accident, crash, pilot, passenger, save the day, moral dilemma, air disaster, danger, aeroplane, air traffic controller, air traffic control ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Lost Flight (1970)
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."
Plot: disaster, air disaster, aviation, jungle, crash landing, survival, airplane, tropical island, airplane accident, sea, castaway, island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Miracles Still Happen (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
Plot: airplane crash, female protagonist, survival, airplane accident, sole survivor, wilderness, air disaster, children, aviation, airplane, airport, girl ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in ...
Plot: aviation, airplane crash, airplane accident, pilot, air disaster, investigation, flying, natural disaster, fate, flashback, beach, male male relationship ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Hurricane (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, heroes, chases and races, rescue, danger, escapades, forces of nature, u.s. air force, boat, submarine ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: air disaster, aviation, airplane, firefighter, firefight, emergency, aeroplane, rescue, disaster, heroic mission, race against time, heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
International Airport (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
Style: soap opera
Plot: air disaster, air traffic controller, bomb threat, divorce, airport, aviation
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
SST: Death Flight (1977)
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: psychotronic, grindhouse
Plot: disaster, aviation, natural disaster, sabotage, airplane accident, ceo, sportscaster, pilot, engaged couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, crash landing, influenza ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
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Survive! (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
Style: disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, realistic, serious ...
Plot: survival, disaster, airplane crash, air disaster, biopic, death, mountain, football team, cannibal, wilderness, gory, danger ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, aviation, space, disaster, escapades, rescue, save the day, heroes, danger, forces of nature, madness, airplane accident ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Sully (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as ...
Style: inspirational, factual, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience: family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: aviation, airplane, investigation, courage, pilot, airplane accident, crash landing, accident, plane crash, biopic, co pilot, air traffic controller ...
Time: year 2016, year 2009, 2010s, 20th century, year 2015 ...
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed.
Plot: intrigue, assassination, obstacle
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Challenger (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: space shuttle, nasa, exploration, space exploration, astronaut, disaster, danger, escapades, space and aliens, heroes, test pilot, tragedy ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1985
Place: texas, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Murder in Texas (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The doctor then marries his mistress, whom he had been keeping during his ...
Plot: plastic surgeon, autopsy, oil well, plastic surgery, sociopath, media circus, man in underwear, heiress, poisoning, doctor, horse riding, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1900s
Place: houston texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Aviator (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Style: melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wilderness, aviation, rescue, courage, loneliness, human spirit, airplane, opposites attract, danger, daring rescue, save the day, against the odds ...
Time: 1920s, year 1985, 80s, year 1918
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: rome italy, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: radio, mass hysteria, panic, disaster, halloween, radio show, radio broadcasting
Time: 20th century, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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My Breast (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's ...
Plot: breast cancer, survival, courage, cancer, surgery, sports writer, writers, male female relationship, death, journalist
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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44 (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on true events, 44 is the story of Migs, an 18 year old high school student trapped between the two opposing forces of his father, a drug dealer and convicted felon, and his mother, an NYPD cop.
Plot: nypd, teenager, father son relationship, female police officer, policewoman, 18 year old, drug dealer
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, rescue, tragedy, summer camp, bus, flood, male bonding, self sacrifice, family relations, loss of child, loss of friend ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Booger Red (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Booger Red is a hybrid documentary/narrative about a veteran reporter who searches for the truth behind the largest purported child sex ring in Texas history. On his journey through the bowels of East Texas, he's forced to confront his own ...
Plot: found footage, investigative journalism, brother in law sister in law relationship, swinger
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny (Jay Underwood) and Cher (Renee Faia) during the early 60's to their divorce in the late 70's.
Plot: art, pop culture, autobiography, talk show, showbiz, pop star, pop music, singing
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style: spooky, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: self defense, lawyer, extramarital affair, true crime, law, serial killer, murder, couples, dangerous attraction, vengeance, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Untamed Love (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the ...
Style: tear jerker
Plot: abuse, children, youth, child hero, child abuse, depression, neglected child, psychological abuse, courtroom, anger, father daughter relationship, physical abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Seven In Darkness (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
Plot: air disaster, disaster, blindness, wilderness, airplane crash, crash, courage, survival, selfishness, confidence, leadership, psychoanalysis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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