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Hijacking Movies

Name: Hijacking Movies
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Films about hijackings — planes, buses, and ships taken hostage by desperate or dangerous people.

Hijacking Movies — 12 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Captain Phillips	2013	Paul Greengrass	7.5	Action, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	134	The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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.
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...
Con Air	1997	Simon West	6.8	Action, Thriller, Crime	United States of America	116	Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport pl...
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.
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.
Cliffhanger	1993	Renny Harlin	6.5	Action, Adventure, Thriller	France	113	A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3	2009	Tony Scott	6.4	Crime, Thriller, Action	United Kingdom	106	Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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.
Moonraker	1979	Lewis Gilbert	6.2	Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction	France	126	After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all...
Passenger 57	1992	Kevin Hooks	6	Action, Adventure, Thriller	United States of America	84	Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	1989	William Shatner	5.7	Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller	United States of America	106	A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

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