Airport movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant airport movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting and suspense films and TV shows about / with airport, airplane, aviation, pilot, flying, passenger, danger, heroes, stewardess and air disaster plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as airport: The Terminal (2004), Up in the Air (2009), Red Eye (2005), Airport (1970), Black Box (2021), Flight (2012), Pan Am (2011), The Langoliers (1995), Airport '77 (1977), Ground Control (1998).

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 7.4
 492K
The Terminal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, feel good, motivational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: airport, culture clash, stranded, loneliness, happy ending, fish out of water, fictional country, passenger, immigrant, nothing goes right, jazz, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, eastern europe, romania ...
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 7.4
 348K
Up in the Air (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, travel, loneliness, business, couples, business trip, hotel, airport, downsizing, introspection, love affair, airplane ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, las vegas, iran, dallas texas, usa ...
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 6.5
 134K
Red Eye (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, woman in danger, airport, villain, hitman, fear, stewardess, strong female character, danger ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, dallas texas, texas
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 6.6
 22K
Airport (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: airport, disaster, airplane, aviation, bomb, passenger, survival, natural disaster, danger, panic, stewardess, flying ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: chicago, minnesota, milwaukee wisconsin, atlantic ocean, detroit ...
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 7.2
 14K
Black Box (2021)
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, suspenseful, captivating, crime thriller, suspense
Plot: airport, airplane, air disaster, investigation, mission, plane crash, crash, crime solving, uncover truth, problem, forensics, main character dies ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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 7.3
 375K
Flight (2012)
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, captivating, tense, bleak, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: airplane, air disaster, addiction, character study, aviation, courage, alcohol abuse, pilot, morality, airplane crash, disaster, stewardess ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
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 7.0
 21K
Pan Am (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 583 min.
TV show
Story: Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, the series features the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, serious, anime ...
Plot: stewardess, bohemian life, airport, airline, female protagonist, ambitious, american dream, sexism, workplace, sexual tension, workplace problem, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.1
 32K
The Langoliers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: On a red eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But ...
Style: psychological, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, airplane, supernatural, stephen king, apocalypse, survival, obsessive quest, airport, alternate dimension, time, time warp, blind character ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: maine, boston, usa
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 5.8
 12K
Airport '77 (1977)
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
Plot: disaster, airplane, underwater, rescue, airport, survival, aviation, bermuda triangle, airplane accident, hijacking, airplane hijack, frogman ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: washington d.c.
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Ground Control (1998)
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: exciting, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot: air traffic controller, airplane, aviation, airport, pilot, aeroplane, die hard, storm, new year's eve, twins, computer system, air traffic control ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, phoenix arizona
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Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style: scary, splatter, slasher, mockumentary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: infected, virus, zombie, infection, quarantine, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos and mayhem, heroes, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
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 6.1
 438
LAX (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from the airport's IATA airport code, "LAX". On May 17, 2004 NBC announced that they had picked up the pilot to series. This show was not ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, fast
Plot: airport, rivalry, workplace romance, partner, airline, workplace, sexism, workaholic, aviation, friendship, love, staff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.7
 259K
Airplane! (1980)
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, funny, slapstick, absurd ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: airplane, airport, pilot, food poisoning, stewardess, passenger, aviation, absurd humor, air disaster, deadpan, fear of flying, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, los angeles
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A Dog Named Palma (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the ...
Style: touching, sincere, heartbreaking, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot: dog, airport, human dog relationship, pilot, son, friendship, animal, human relationship, bonding, lost, life philosophy, coping ...
Time: 70s
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Come Fly with Me (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy series set in a busy airport and on the departing and arriving flights, featuring characters played by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Style: mockumentary, parody, humorous, sitcom, captivating ...
Plot: airport, pilot, staff, workplace, passenger, everyday life, tourist, society, workplace situations, comedian, comedy team, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, childhood, vacation, child, young heroes, mischievous children, snow, trap ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago, miami
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 6.1
 6K
Jet Lag (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the ...
Style: sweet, sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, airport, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, opposites attract, fall in love, fish out of water, love and romance, misfit, disorder, father son relationship, cooking and food ...
Time: year 2002
Place: paris france, france, latin america, europe, mexico
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 5.3
 2K
Pandemic (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
TV show
Story: The outbreak of a strange, deadly virus aboard a passenger plane sends Los Angeles into a panic in this terrifying TV movie. As the virus spreads across the city and the death toll rises, Dr. Kayla Martina (Tiffani Thiessen, FASTLANE) fights to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: quarantine, pandemic, epidemic, plague, disaster, rescue, airport, fighting the system, danger, investigation, confined, save the day ...
Place: australia, los angeles, usa, california
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 7.1
 382K
Die Hard 2 (1990)
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: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: gunfight, christmas, airplane, fight scenes, airport, one man army, police, hostage, terrorism, lone hero, chase, commando ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: washington d.c., washington state, virginia, los angeles, usa
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style: road movie, black and white, surreal, art house, stylized ...
Plot: on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, road trip, child abandonment, strong female character, swimming, travel, children ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: germany, amsterdam, new york, central europe, west germany ...
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Destination Wedding (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frank and Lindsay two emotionally broken people, must attend a destination wedding. They meet and, over the course of the weekend and against all odds, find themselves drawn to one another even as they are repulsed by one another.
Style: rom com, witty, romantic, ironic, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: wedding, initially antagonists, mountain lion, airport, sex scene, one night stand, cougar, male female relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love ...
Place: california
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 6.1
 3K
Bird People (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: hotel, airport, supernatural, cause and meaning, supernatural romance, love and romance, hopes, starting over, husband wife relationship, hipster, woman, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 5.9
 51K
Passenger 57 (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, hostage, airplane, hijacking, airport, terrorist, motorcycle, evil man, aviation, fbi, danger, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, louisiana, los angeles
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style: feel good, road movie, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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 3.7
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Air Panic (2002)
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, insubordination, airport ...
Time: 21st century
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The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
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, airplane, aviation, airport, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, flying, missile ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: france, europe, paris france, washington d.c., alps
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 5.7
 12K
Airport 1975 (1974)
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, psychotronic, suspense, psychological, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, disaster, airport, survival, aviation, catastrophe, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, airplane accident, death, police officer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: los angeles, salt lake city utah, usa, washington d.c.
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Terminal Invasion (2002)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, airport, supernatural, evil alien, tough heroes, prisoner, anti hero, danger, survival, save the world, confined ...
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 7.3
 14K
Wings (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Plot: aviation, workplace, airport, family relations, friendship, siblings relations, sibling relationship, staff, workplace situations, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, massachusetts
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 7.8
 26K
Playtime (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave ...
Style: surreal, humorous, witty, funny, satirical ...
Plot: tourist, culture clash, skyscraper, restaurant, airport, chaos, farce, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, human existence, fish out of water ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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