Helicopter crash movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant helicopter crash movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting, surprise ending, cult classic and serious films and TV shows about / with helicopter crash, helicopter, survival, danger, rescue, violence, military, soldier, exploding helicopter and explosion plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as helicopter crash: Arctic (2018), Rescue Under Fire (2017), San Andreas (2015), The Swarm (1978), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic Attack (2013), Christmas Icetastrophe (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Fifty Shades Darker (2017), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013).
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63K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek ...
Style:
minimal cast, suspense, touching, visually stunning, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, snow, wilderness survival, polar bear, male protagonist, struggle for survival, very little dialogue, ice, fish ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, stylized, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue mission, military, war, battlefield, battles, chaos and mayhem, battle zone, violent, rescue, squad, danger, courage ...
Place:
afghanistan
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274K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style:
intense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, tsunami, danger, earthquake, end of the world, daughter, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, bee, race against time, panic, small town, survival, military, antidote, plague, scientist, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
texas, houston texas, latin america, austin texas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, scenic, saga, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, kids ...
Plot:
dinosaur, creature, killer animal, animal attack, dangerous animal, chase, tyrannosaurus rex, monster, human animal relationship, giant monster, velociraptor, jurassic park ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, year 2015, future, 20th century ...
Place:
fictional island, caribbean, costa rica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
While returning from a military expedition a helicopter crash lands a commando unit in a dense, remote tropical jungle – a lost world populated by dinosaurs. Now they must find a way out of this isolated valley before becoming prey for prehistoric ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
tyrannosaurus rex, jungle adventure, creature, dinosaur, reptiles, creature feature, giant monster, eaten alive, giant animal, killer animal, animal attack, mad scientist ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistory
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This Christmas, a super frozen object is going to slam into the Earth. In the middle of a small town, and very quickly, dreams of a "White Christmas" will turn into a FROZEN NIGHTMARE.
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
disaster, frozen, climate change, christmas, winter, frozen alive, evacuation, panic, snow, small town, xmas, apocalypse ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Vietnam
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Style:
suspense, intense, scenic, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
monster, king kong, giant monster, creature, giant animal, island, survival, giant creature, monster versus monster, chase, expedition, jungle ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1944 ...
Place:
vietnam, fictional island, washington d.c., pacific ocean, thailand ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Japan, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy figures from Christian’s ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bdsm, sex scene, billionaire, masquerade, proposal, bondage, sex, coitus, adaptation, relationships, submissive woman, sexual harassment ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
father son relationship, violence, cia agent, tough cop, car chase, terrorist, terrorism, 007, american abroad, car accident, traffic jam, uranium ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive ...
Style:
parody, hilarious, funny, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
satire, profanity, jungle, wilhelm scream, stupidity, vietnam war, showbiz, dark humor, violent, helicopter crash, adaptation, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, hawaii, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and ...
Style:
parody, scary, black comedy, independent film, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mad scientist, satire, monster, space and aliens, disaster, disguise, helicopter crash, food, insanity, espionage, rescue, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob ...
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one woman army, female warrior, conspiracy, danger, assassination, murder, hitman, vengeance, army investigation, undercover, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Style:
realistic, rough, epic, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
war, combat, courage, gunfight, military, battles, chaos, sniper, american soldier, shooting, survival, army ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 2002 ...
Place:
somalia, africa, south africa, america, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Desperate to save her sister, Abby takes a dangerous job in the remote Georgian wilderness. Stranded in the mountains after her helicopter crashes, she finds hope through John, a mysterious helper radioing from nearby. As he guides her through the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, grim, existential ...
Plot:
helicopter crash, survival, isolation, female protagonist, man versus nature, desperation, stranded, radio communication, guilt, mental breakdown, rescue, sibling relationship ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a discredited L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.
Style:
mockbuster, intense, suspense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, destruction, animal attack, african american, building collapse, helicopter crash, survival, danger, race against time, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Pakistan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, scary, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Plot:
giant spider, exterminator, military, creature feature, giant monster, save the day, chaos, danger, martial law, creature, monster, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With tensions between North and South Korea, a US helicopter crashes on the North side. The survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support.
Style:
political thriller, tension, suspenseful, action packed, tense
Plot:
helicopter crash, survival, border crossing, hostage situation, soldier, us military, teamwork, evacuation, rescue mission, moral ambiguity, collaboration, ruse ...
Time:
near future
Place:
east asia, north korea
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, political
Plot:
soldier, military, conflict, rescue mission, leadership, moral ambiguity, insubordination, battlefield, combat, power, heroism, platoon ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, rough, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
sniper, iraq war, american soldier, marines, ambush, soldier, trapped, desert, duel, deception, wounded soldier, taunting ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2007, 2000s
Place:
middle east, iraq
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.
Style:
surprise ending, supernatural thriller, dark comedy, dark fantasy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
casino, superhero, alien, alien creature, villain, alien life-form, spider man, decapitation, road trip, alien monster, multiverse, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
mexico, nevada, new york, las vegas, north america
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163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
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287K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Thailand, Australia, Canada, Bangladesh
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord…
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, action thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly
Plot:
mercenary, rescue mission, one against many, kidnapping, ex special forces, one man army, machismo, child kidnapping, death threat, tough guy, jungle, child ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
india, bangladesh, australia, mumbai india
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Jordan, UK, Egypt
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, action packed, saga, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, giant robot, transformation, transforming robot, technology, battles, robot vs. robot, machine, shapeshifting, evil robot ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, near future, 18th century, stone age ...
Place:
egypt, new york, washington d.c., virginia, jordan ...
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200K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
monster, gorilla, kaiju, giant monster, animal attack, creature, giant animal, animal human communication, rescue, giant lizard, rage, mutant animal ...
Time:
2010s, jurassic, 21st century
Place:
everglades, los angeles, illinois, missouri, colorado ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style:
action packed, harsh, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
one man army, revenge, prison, rambo, vietnam war, chase, violent, behind enemy lines, torture, soldier, guerilla warfare, propaganda ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, arizona, thailand, asia, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robot, corruption, undercover agent, moon, save the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, escapades, androids and robots, rescue, chaos and mayhem, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s
Place:
space western
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2.2M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, manly, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, philosophy, dystopia, virtual reality, existentialism, distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, martial arts, gunfight, hacker, simulated reality ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1999, near future, 22nd century ...
Place:
persia, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, suspense thriller, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
military, friendly fire, women in the military, military life, tank, bravery, medal of honor, army investigation, investigation, suicide, desert, politics ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, iraq, pentagon
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