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Airplane Disaster Movies

Name: Airplane Disaster Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Films about airplane disasters, hijackings, and aerial emergencies at 30,000 feet.

Airplane Disaster Movies is a structured movies dataset with 27 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 27 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1980 to 2025; Across 27 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 5.5 to 8; Across 27 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Society of the Snow	2023	J. A. Bayona	8	Drama, History	Spain	143	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.
Airplane!	1980	Jim Abrahams	7.3	Comedy	United States of America	88	An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Black Box	2021	Yann Gozlan	7.3	Mystery, Thriller, Drama	France	130	Mathieu 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, Mathieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts d...
Sully	2016	Clint Eastwood	7.2	Drama, History	United States of America	96	On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of avia...
United 93	2006	Paul Greengrass	7.1	Drama, History, Crime, Thriller, Action	France	111	A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Die Hard 2	1990	Renny Harlin	7	Action, Thriller	United States of America	124	One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system ...
Flight	2012	Robert Zemeckis	6.9	Drama	United States of America	138	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 pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in ...
Plane	2023	Jean-François Richet	6.9	Action, Adventure, Thriller	United Kingdom	107	After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.
Alive	1993	Frank Marshall	6.9	Adventure, Drama, History	United States of America	127	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 rations and through the freezing cold.
Non-Stop	2014	Jaume Collet-Serra	6.8	Action, Thriller, Mystery	France	107	Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyon...
Blood Red Sky	2021	Peter Thorwarth	6.8	Horror, Thriller, Action	Germany	123	A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.
The Edge	1997	Lee Tamahori	6.8	Action, Adventure, Drama	United States of America	117	The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak b...
The Mountain Between Us	2017	Hany Abu-Assad	6.7	Drama, Adventure, Romance	United States of America	109	Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and...
Final Destination	2000	James Wong	6.6	Horror	United States of America	98	After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
The Grey	2012	Joe Carnahan	6.6	Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	117	Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward towar...
Air Force One	1997	Wolfgang Petersen	6.5	Action, Thriller	United States of America	124	When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
U.S. Marshals	1998	Stuart Baird	6.5	Thriller, Crime, Action	United States of America	131	U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just anot...
Flightplan	2005	Robert Schwentke	6.4	Thriller, Drama, Mystery	United States of America	98	Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery a...
Red Eye	2005	Wes Craven	6.4	Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	85	An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's i...
Behind Enemy Lines	2001	John Moore	6.4	Action, Drama, Thriller, War	United States of America	106	While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. 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 time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail...
Lift	2024	F. Gary Gray	6.4	Action, Comedy, Crime	United States of America	107	An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.
No Way Up	2024	Claudio Fäh	6.3	Thriller, Horror, Action	United Kingdom	90	Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
Executive Decision	1996	Stuart Baird	6.3	Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	132	Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
Broken Arrow	1996	John Woo	6.1	Action, Thriller	United States of America	108	When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams wi...
Six Days Seven Nights	1998	Ivan Reitman	6.1	Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance	United States of America	102	In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a ...
Flight Risk	2025	Mel Gibson	5.9	Action, Thriller	United States of America	91	A pilot transports a U.S. Marshal accompanying a government witness to a trial in New York. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
Snakes on a Plane	2006	David R. Ellis	5.5	Action, Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Horror	United States of America	105	FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of fr...

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Airplane Disaster Movies

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