Fighter pilot movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant fighter pilot movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with fighter pilot, military, soldier, airplane, pilot, aviation, flying, danger, fighter plane and aerial combat plots mostly in Action, Drama and War genres shot in USA, Russia, China and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as fighter pilot: High Flyers (2020), Sky Fighters (2005), Top Gun (1986), For Those We Love (2007), Born To Fly (2023), Red Tails (2012), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Burning Blue (2013), Firefox (1982), Behind Enemy Lines (2001).

List of fighter pilot movies

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 6.6
 485
High Flyers (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.
Style: rough, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot: air force, fighter pilot, airplane, danger, war, friendship, bravery, dangerous mission, grief, love, military training, russophobia ...
Place: middle east
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 5.7
 5K
Sky Fighters (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Les Chevaliers du ciel (English: Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fighter pilot, fighter plane, aviation, military, terrorism, aerial combats, air force, betrayal, heroic mission, false accusation, rescue, save the day ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, alps
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 6.9
 498K
Top Gun (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night, manly, kids ...
Plot: fighter pilot, aviation, pilot, u.s. navy, fighter jet, officers and cadets, airplane, flying, aerial combat, cold war, u.s. military, aviator ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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For Those We Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Yarn follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: aviator, fighter pilot, world war two, military, kamikaze, japanese military, world war, military training, air battle, japanese soldier, battles, heroism ...
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 6.0
 2K
Born To Fly (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A talent trainee pilot is given the opportunity to virtually test the latest fighter jet, which pushes him to his limits.
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic
Plot: fighter jet, military life, fighter pilot, air force, pilot, test pilot, military operation, warplane, aviator, military
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 5.9
 37K
Red Tails (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Style: epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, fighter pilot, airplane, war, interracial relations, aerial combats, military life, black history, discrimination, african american, soldier, military base ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2012, year 1944, year 1942
Place: europe, cuba, italy, pentagon
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
Style: realistic, entertaining, saga, uplifting, twisted ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: fighter pilot, fighter plane, warplane, u.s. navy, u.s. military, aerial combat, aircraft carrier, test pilot, fighter jet, sniper, aviation, leadership ...
Time: 2020s, year 1969, year 1986, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, mojave desert, california, san diego california
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 6.2
 3K
Burning Blue (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which ...
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, forbidden love, gay interest, lgbt, fighter pilot, couple relations, friendship, military life, against the rules, life turned upside down, lgbtq, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, new york
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 5.9
 29K
Firefox (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, fighter plane, behind enemy lines, espionage, chase, submarine, fighter pilot, fighter jet, aviation, aerial combat, military ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, england, asia ...
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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 5.1
 56K
Stealth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Style: entertaining, action packed, action adventure, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, military, fighter plane, u.s. navy, aerial combat, aviation, warplane, robot, profanity, fighter pilot, airplane, computer game ...
Time: future, year 2005, 21st century
Place: north korea, seattle, alaska, russia, washington d.c. ...
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, bomber, pilot, fighter pilot, combat, bombing, aviation, fighter jet, fighter plane, evil ...
Time: year 1991, 70s
Place: vietnam, europe, china, asia, france
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 5.1
 979
Into the Sun (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul Watkins (Michael Paré) is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor everything he needs to know about being a pilot in the Air Force. The actor, Tom Slade ...
Style: suspense, action comedy, independent film, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aviation, fighter jet, space, battles, military, soldier, friendship, unrequited love, fighter pilot, friends, quibbling, power relations ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: middle east
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Attackers. The Last Fight. (2015)
Genre: War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: Following on from the events of the first Attackers series, Major Bestuzhev is promoted to Lt Colonel and given command of a newly-formed fighter regiment. He is given the latest Soviet fighter, the Yak-3, but with no veterans to draw upon he has to ...
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: air battle, aerial combats, aerial combat, fighter pilot, fighter plane, soldier, military, air attack, wartime, battles, military life, air raid ...
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Iron Eagle II (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: aviation, airplane, air force, cold war, fighter jet, military, air attack, war on terror, flying, army, colonel, u.s. air force ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
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Flight of Black Angel (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A top US Air Force fighter pilot decides that his call sign of Black Angel means that he's a messenger of God. Freely committing murders as he goes, he steals a nuclear weapon and his plane. Taking a family hostage to help him, he works on ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, futuristic, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, hijacking, space, disaster, world war, hostage, radioactivity, fighter pilot, atomic bomb, u.s. air force, chaos, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, spectacular ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, aerial combat, luftwaffe, air battle, fighter pilot, raf, british history, battles, fighter plane, world war, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, poland, england, english channel, europe ...
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V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic
Plot: fighter pilot, wartime life, wartime, aviator, flying, airplane, escape plan, world war two, attempted escape, military, soldier, military life ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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 6.7
 94K
Midway (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Style: historical drama, bleak, exciting, scary, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, sea battle, aerial combat, naval battle, air battle, warship, fighter plane, navy, aircraft carrier, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2019, year 1942, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place: pearl harbor, pacific ocean, tokyo, washington d.c., honolulu hawaii ...
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 4.1
 2K
Red Sky (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, conspiracy, mission, soldier, save the day, love triangle, rivalry, danger, airplane, dishonesty, pilot, missile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, las vegas, iran, st. petersburg russia ...
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 6.2
 91
Convoy PQ-17 (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: "PQ-17 was the code name for an Allied Second World War convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ-17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: world war two, naval battle, navy, aviator, submarine, air battle, air force, struggle for survival, aerial combat, war, fight for supremacy, showdown ...
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 6.7
 116K
Hot Shots! (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, absurd, light ...
Audience: kids, date night, family outing, teens
Plot: airplane, goofy hero, satire, stupidity, aviation, heroic mission, air force, save the day, disorder, military base, love and romance, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1971, year 1975
Place: iraq, mediterranean sea, california
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Search and Destroy (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a battle with infamous Ukrainian Arms Dealer Igor Rodin, John is discharged from the army. Three years later he is approached by his old General ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: commando, submarine, one man army, one against many, sniper, mission, terrorist group, attempted murder, race against time, revenge, rescue, arms dealer ...
Place: eastern europe, africa
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 6.3
 13K
The Red Baron (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of ...
Style: emotional, captivating, exciting, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, soldier, fighter pilot, airplane, aviation, flying, great war, fall in love, rise to the top, pilot, airplane shot down, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, belgium, france, berlin germany
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Soar Into the Sun (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After he performs a dangerous dare-devil stunt at an air show, South Korean Air Force pilot Tae-hun is kicked out of the elite Black Eagles flying team and transferred to a combat unit where he immediately comes into conflict with ace pilot ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: military, fighter jet, aerial combats, rivalry, fall in love, daring rescue, heroic mission, against the rules, friendship, danger, soldier, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, north korea
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 6.6
 27K
Devotion (2022)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: korean war, racism, new year, mission, aviation, winter, airplane, aircraft, world war, life, captain, medal of honor ...
Time: year 1951, year 1950, 50s, 1950s
Place: rhode island, north korea, france, french riviera
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Departed Heroes (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Style: exciting, dramatic, historical drama, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: country, japanese occupation of china, military, chinese history, aviator, air force, chinaman, military service, fighter pilot, chinese army, test pilot, wartime ...
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Greyhound Attack (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: WWII drama from film-maker Christopher Forbes which follows American fighter pilots on a perilous mission into the skies of enemy territory.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic, tense
Plot: world war two, pilot, captain, air attack, mission, u.s. air force, aerial bombardment, dangerous mission, fighter pilot, air raid, air force, fighter plane ...
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 7.0
 16
Always Ready (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Matthew Ko, Aircrewman Officer II of the Government Flying Service (GFS), and Benjamin Yip, Pilot I, frequently work together. While Benjamin flies an aircraft, Matthew rescues people. Matthew and Benjamin are appointed to train Aircrewman Officer ...
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: helicopter pilot, workplace situations, rescue mission, rescue team, aviator, teamwork, airplane trip, workplace, fighter pilot, save the day, social services, test pilot ...
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in ...
Style: touching
Plot: world war two, navy, japanese history, aviation, fighter pilot, aerial combats, japanese navy, pacific war, air attack, newspaper reporter, war, tragic event ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: pearl harbor, japan, pacific ocean
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