Airplane crash movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant airplane crash movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, exciting and intense films and TV shows about / with airplane crash, air disaster, airplane, danger, catastrophe, plane crash, survival, disaster, death and airplane accident plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
635
TOP 10 movies tagged as airplane crash: Alive (1993), Tape 407 (2012), Black Box (2021), Flight (2012), Passengers (2008), Miracles Still Happen (1974), The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), Society of the Snow (2023), Send Help (2026), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984).
Best films
New films
List of airplane crash movies
68K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
Style:
mockumentary, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
dinosaur, found footage, creature, government facility, airplane crash, survival, deadly creature, danger, creature feature, government, eaten alive, monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, crime thriller, suspense
Plot:
airport, plane crash, airplane, investigation, air disaster, missing person, problem, forensics, uncover truth, crash, die, airplane crash ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
395K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip ...
Style:
psychological, tense, inspirational, emotional, heroic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
airplane, addiction, air disaster, aviation, courage, pilot, character study, airplane crash, stewardess, morality, airport, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, orlando florida, atlanta georgia, california
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, captivating, psychological, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, plot twist, tragedy, love and romance, love affair, supernatural, survivor, psychology, airplane crash, disaster, counselor, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Is relevant?
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, sole survivor, wilderness, survival, airplane accident, female protagonist, children, aviation, air disaster, crash survivor, plane crash, teenage girl ...
Place:
peru
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, inspirational ...
Plot:
survival, airplane crash, mountain, disaster, desperation, crash, photograph, rugby, rescue, struggle for survival, snow, airplane accident ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
andes mountains, uruguay, chile, south america, latin america ...
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Style:
psychological horror, horror comedy, dark comedy, psychological thriller, f word
Plot:
airplane crash, island, male nudity, stranded on an island, survival, beach, bare chested male, killing an animal, boar, castaway, desert island, colleague ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sexualized violence, brother sister sex, dysfunctional family, incest, hotel, football player, first sexual experience, rape, airplane crash, bare butt, prostitute, forbidden love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vienna, new england, austria, europe, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
405K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military ...
Style:
exciting, clever, suspense, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
gunfight, airplane, christmas, fight scenes, airport, police, hostage, one man army, airplane accident, chase, lone hero, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, washington state, usa, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Denise Watson is a TV station worker who is the only survivor of a unexplained, horrific airplane crash in which she is completely unscratched. Soon, Denise becomes haunted by feelings of unworthiness as well as seeing strange people following her ...
Style:
retro, christmas horror, independent film, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
sole survivor, premonition, airplane crash, psychic, undead, suicide, supernatural, airplane accident, disaster, ghost, survival, airplane ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
273K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, harsh, bad ending, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, wolf attack, forces of nature, struggle for survival, wilderness survival, stranded ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, disaster, time warp, scientist, airplane crash, investigation, airplane, robot, time paradox, female warrior, aviation, paradox ...
Time:
future, year 1989, year 1963, distant future
Is relevant?
665K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time:
y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot:
survival, island, struggle for survival, stranded, fight, food, soccer, desperation, starvation, mercy killing, hostility, trapped ...
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake, his mind as he happens to be the air traffic controller, who fails to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, suspenseful, tense, touching ...
Plot:
depression, air traffic controller, airplane crash, revenge, guilt, loss of wife, grief, tragedy, investigation, vigilante, death, retribution ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, germany
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
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 ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
aviation, airplane accident, pilot, airplane crash, air disaster, investigation, flying, fate, beach, flashback, disaster, male male relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the ...
Style:
slasher, cult classic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
airplane crash, supernatural, disaster, sole survivor, paranormal, aviation, psychic power, psychic, pilot, ghost, memory loss, haunted by the past ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist's brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and secretly begins investigating the crash.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, airplane crash, crime solving, police investigation, cause and meaning, uncover truth, brother sister relationship, unsolved crime, investigator, female protagonist, cover up, danger ...
Is relevant?
285K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Alcoholic pilot, Ted Striker has developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, but nevertheless boards a passenger jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend. Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to ...
Style:
parody, spoof, absurd, slapstick, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
airplane, airport, satire, pilot, food poisoning, absurd humor, aviation, stewardess, passenger, disaster, flight attendant, deadpan ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, chicago
Is relevant?
261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote Pacific island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lesbian, female protagonist, tough heroes, sniper, airplane crash, heroine, secret service agent, one woman army, female fighter, heroes, chases and races, save the day ...
Place:
latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style:
retro, exciting, serious, realistic, sex comedy ...
Plot:
world war one, biplane, ambition, fighter plane, fighter pilot, aviation, class differences, german army, chivalry, soldier, military, air attack ...
Time:
1910s, year 1966, year 1916, 1930s, 70s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, england, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, fishing, war, aviation, crash landing, behind enemy lines, death of brother, nazi, resistance fighter, airplane crash, warplane, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, scotland
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, disgusting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, cryptozoology, jungle, deadly creature, found footage, dangerous animal, lost world, adventurer, discovery, escapades, eaten alive, airplane crash ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
congo, africa, somalia
Is relevant?
684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
Is relevant?
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.
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
