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1. Con Air (1997)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Newly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Colm Meaney
Votes: 319,358 | Gross: $101.12M
2. Air Crash Investigation (2003– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Dramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.
Stars: Jonathan Aris, Stephen Bogaert, John Cox, John Nance
Votes: 5,909
3. Cliffhanger (1993)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner
Votes: 139,994 | Gross: $84.05M
4. Flightplan (2005)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan
Votes: 171,862 | Gross: $89.71M
5. United 93 (2006)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas, J.J. Johnson
Votes: 110,953 | Gross: $31.57M
6. The Delta Force (1986)
R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is sent in to resolve the crisis.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop
Votes: 21,921 | Gross: $17.77M
7. Passenger 57 (1992)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An airline security expert must take action when he finds himself trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control of it.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher
Votes: 50,732 | Gross: $44.07M
8. Cloak & Dagger (1984)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra
Votes: 8,376 | Gross: $9.72M
9. Lost Horizon (1937)
Approved | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard
Votes: 14,458
10. Drop Zone (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A tough cop teams up with a professional skydiver to capture a renegade computer hacker on the run from the law.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter
Votes: 21,575 | Gross: $28.72M
11. 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, History
Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
Director: José Padilha | Stars: Batsheva Dance Company, Zina Zinchenko, Ben Schnetzer, Daniel Brühl
Votes: 17,304 | Gross: $3.19M
12. Flight 93 (2006 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, History, Thriller
Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross, Ty Olsson
Votes: 9,910
13. Neerja (2016)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
The story of courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986 when it was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Director: Ram Madhvani | Stars: Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tikku, Abrar Zahoor
Votes: 23,767 | Gross: $1.54M
14. Bellbottom (2021)
123 min | Action, Thriller
When an Indian commercial airliner is hijacked by terrorists in the mid 1980s, a government agent is tasked with rescuing the 210 hostages.
Director: Ranjit Tewari | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Lara Dutta, Sumit Kaul
Votes: 23,634
15. Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)
Unrated | 119 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss
Votes: 1,275
16. IB 71 (2023)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Thriller
A spy action thriller about the two-front war between Indian intelligence agencies and the Pakistani establishment in 1971.
Directors: Sankalp Reddy, Lee Whittaker | Stars: Anupam Kher, Vidyut Jammwal, Nissar Khan, Mir Sarwar
Votes: 10,393
17. Skyjacked (1972)
PG | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins
Votes: 2,342 | Gross: $2.50M
18. Strategic Command (1997)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab.
Director: Rick Jacobson | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Paul Winfield, Richard Norton, Amanda Wyss
Votes: 928
19. Hijacked (2012)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Director: Brandon Nutt | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Rob Steinberg, Craig Fairbrass, Gina Philips
Votes: 3,768
20. Superchick (1973)
R | 94 min | Action, Comedy
Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with ... See full summary »
Director: Ed Forsyth | Stars: Joyce Jillson, Louis Quinn, Thomas Reardon, Tony Young
Votes: 635
21. Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A criminal carrying stolen money and gold hijacks a plane that crashes in a Mexican swamp, where the survivors are terrorized by a giant crocodile.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Heidi Lenhart, Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, Darryl Theirse
Votes: 2,253
22. Panic (2002)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Rodney Rowland, Kristanna Loken, Alexander Enberg, Ted Shackelford
Votes: 891
23. Hijacked: Flight 285 (1996 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after take-off, two of his aides, traveling as ordinary passengers, take control of the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Susan Batten, James Brolin, Michael Gross, Anthony Michael Hall
Votes: 603
24. Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
PG | 124 min | Action, Drama, History
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to ... See full summary »
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 1,027
25. Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001 Video)
R | 98 min | Action, Music, Thriller
Terrorists hijack an airplane that is broadcasting a rock concert live on the Internet.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Zak Santiago, Monika Schnarre, Sharon Alexander, Gabrielle Anwar
Votes: 2,344
26. Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
PG | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Hideo Kô, Masaya Takahashi
Votes: 1,949
27. Panchatanthiram (2002)
150 min | Comedy, Drama
Ram (Kamal Haasan) is a playboy pilot. His marriage to Mythili (Simran) disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a ... See full summary »
Director: K.S. Ravikumar | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Simran, Ramya Krishnan, Ramesh Aravind
Votes: 4,434
28. The Assault (2010)
R | 91 min | Action, History, Thriller
Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.
Director: Julien Leclercq | Stars: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas
Votes: 4,145
29. Hijack (2008)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Thriller
After the passing away of his wife, Pooja, Delhi-based Vikram Madan, enrolls his daughter, Priya, in a boarding school in Amritsar, and re-locates to work as a Mechanic at Chandigarh ... See full summary »
Director: Kunal Shivdasani | Stars: Shiney Ahuja, Mona Ambegaonkar, Ananya Chadha, Gananay Chadha
Votes: 364
30. The Verdict (2016 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Can it be justified to shoot down a civilian plane, converted by terrorists into a deadly suicide missile? Can "human arithmetic" be a legal calculus?
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Martina Gedeck, Florian David Fitz, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 1,327
31. Porfirio (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Living between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio - a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon - dreams of being able to fly.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Porfirio Ramirez Aldana, Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy Santos Torres
Votes: 312
32. The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Gary Collins, Chuck Connors, Henry Gibson, Peter Haskell
Votes: 188
33. Zameen (2003)
154 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Colonel Ranvir and ACP Jaideep joins forces to fight against Pakistani terrorists, who hijacks an Indian airplane and demands to free their militant leader in return.
Director: Rohit Shetty | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Mukesh Tiwari
Votes: 1,702
34. Bad Attitudes (1991 TV Movie)
88 min | Action, Comedy
Bad Attitudes is a family action/comedy movie. It centers around two hijackers that take over a plane; not with a billionaire as planned but one carrying a group of smart children with bad attitudes.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Ellen Blain, Ralph Bruneau, Carlease Burke, Maryedith Burrell
Votes: 243
35. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 1,309
36. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise
Votes: 383
37. Kandahar (2010)
150 min | Action, Drama
Another mission with Mahadevan and crew, as they deal with international terrorism with a flight being hijacked by hardcore terrorists.
Directors: Major Ravi, Kudamaloor Rajaji | Stars: Mohanlal, Amitabh Bachchan, Ganesh Venkatraman, Ragini Dwivedi
Votes: 436
38. The Hamburg Cell (2004 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama, War
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott, Omar Berdouni
Votes: 836
39. Payanam (2011)
115 min | Action, Crime
The movie deals with the stance of the government officials on such a serious issue and how a belated decision will make a situation worse, in an already edgy circumstance.
Director: Radha Mohan | Stars: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prakash Raj, Sana Khan, Poonam Kaur
Votes: 898
40. Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe (2000 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
The story of the hijacking of Air France Flight AF139 on 27 June 1976 from Athens and the subsequent mission to rescue the hostages from the airport terminal at Entebbe in Uganda. The movie... See full summary »
Director: Eyal Sher | Stars: Janet Almog, Michel Bacos, Ehud Barak, Muki Betser
Votes: 74
41. Live or Die in Entebbe (2012)
52 min | Documentary, History
Operation Entebbe, hailed as the most brilliant rescue operation in recent history - Israel's greatest mythological raid - is the Mimouni family's greatest tragedy.
Director: Eyal Boers | Stars: Martine Mimouni Arnold, Akiva Laxer, Amos Eran, Ehud Barak
Votes: 11
42. The Flight That Fought Back (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
A docudrama about the efforts of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 to derail the 9/11 terrorists' plan for the hijacked airliner.
Director: Bruce Goodison | Stars: Greg Benson, Toni Youngblood, Jason LeGrande, Bryce Wagoner
Votes: 655
43. Top Mission (1987)
90 min | Action
Once the head of a special anti-terrorist surveillance unit, CIA agent Mike Graves has gone bad and has now put together his own terrorist organization. Colonel Noble of the CIA assigns two... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Alphonse Beni, Kurt Eberhard, Philip Gordon, Mike Smith
Votes: 38
44. O kloios (1987)
120 min | Action, Thriller
A commercial flight from Athens to Thessaloniki was hijacked by six young communists who asked the pilots to fly to Yugoslavia.
Director: Kostas Koutsomytis | Stars: Socrates Alafouzos, Dimitris Karambetsis, Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Aias Manthopoulos
Votes: 42
45. Yoni (2002)
56 min | Biography
Lt. Col. Jonathan Netanyahu was the commander of Israel's famous General Staff Reconnaissance Unit. Jonathan, known to family and friends as Yoni, was killed in action during the famous ... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Vinokur | Stars: Yonathan Netanyahu, Rachel Ahonov, Yanush Ben-Gal, Ilan Berman
46. Freedom Flight (2013 TV Movie)
55 min | Drama, History
1956. Three Hungarian friends hijack a plane to escape from the Iron Curtain.
Director: Péter Fazakas | Stars: Kálmán Varju, Tamás Lengyel, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Csankó
Votes: 264
47. The Edge (1985 Video)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
USA decides to change the world's balance of power by providing Finland with a nuclear bomb. which could mean the start of WW3.
Director: Allan Levine | Stars: Jan Taylor Hendricks, Simon Sekulovich, Robert Reece, Karen Cannata
Votes: 13
48. United 300 (2007)
5 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Andy Signore | Stars: Scott Burn, Ken Gamble, Ceilidh Lamont, Victor of Aquitaine
Votes: 270
49. Únos (1953)
113 min | Drama
Directors: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Stars: Jirí Dohnal, Ladislav Pesek, Jaroslav Mares, Antonin Klimsa
Votes: 36
50. Sprawa pilota Maresza (1956)
97 min | Action, Drama
Director: Leonard Buczkowski | Stars: Wienczyslaw Glinski, Alicja Raciszówna, Lidia Wysocka, Leon Niemczyk
Votes: 30