Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "airplane-cockpit"

1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer

Votes: 698,135 | Gross: $718.73M

2. Top Gun (1986)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

Votes: 502,954 | Gross: $179.80M

3. Airplane! (1980)

PG | 88 min | Comedy

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Votes: 261,301 | Gross: $83.40M

4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, War

An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 518,515 | Gross: $0.28M

5. Sully (2016)

PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Drama

When pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey

Votes: 298,285 | Gross: $125.07M

6. Final Destination (2000)

R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

Director: James Wong | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke

Votes: 279,682 | Gross: $53.33M

7. 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: 319,428 | Gross: $101.12M

8. Escape from New York (1981)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 157,611 | Gross: $25.24M

9. Air Force One (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 210,215 | Gross: $172.96M

10. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Approved | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 46,150 | Gross: $46.30M

11. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher

Votes: 204,745 | Gross: $125.33M

12. Final Destination 5 (2011)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Death returns to claim the lucky survivors of a deadly bridge collapse in this fifth frightening installment in the series.

Director: Steven Quale | Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta, Miles Fisher

Votes: 125,056 | Gross: $42.59M

13. xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.

Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu

Votes: 97,212 | Gross: $44.90M

14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Votes: 70,585 | Gross: $23.65M

15. Battle of Britain (1969)

G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 24,526 | Gross: $4.36M

16. The Thing from Another World (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite

Votes: 33,402

17. Firefox (1982)

PG | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke

Votes: 29,273 | Gross: $46.71M

18. D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

PG | 99 min | Family, Sci-Fi

A seemingly normal young boy is found abandoned on a mountain road and adopted by a family who are increasingly amazed by his abilities before discovering the secret behind his real identity.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp

Votes: 14,102 | Gross: $7.84M

19. Postal (2007)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Zack Ward, David Foley, Verne Troyer, Chris Coppola

Votes: 24,116 | Gross: $18.01M

20. Zero Hour! (1957)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Votes: 2,297

21. Fail Safe (1964)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 24,415

22. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History, War

The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 7,087

23. Money Plane (2020)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family's life on the line must commit one final heist - rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world's most dangerous criminals.

Director: Andrew Lawrence | Stars: Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, Denise Richards

Votes: 5,689

24. Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Fin and April are on their way to New York City, until a category seven hurricane spawns heavy rain, storm surges, and deadly Sharknadoes.

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, Mark McGrath

Votes: 20,539

25. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama

After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon

Votes: 6,605 | Gross: $20.64M

26. No Way Back (1995)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When an op goes wrong and FBI agent Zack's partner dies, his search for the one responsible takes him to a yakuza in Japan. A mob boss wants revenge for his son's death and Zack's his target.

Director: Frank A. Cappello | Stars: Russell Crowe, Helen Slater, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michael Lerner

Votes: 3,178

27. Angels One Five (1952)

TV-G | 98 min | Drama, War

The story of an RAF fighter squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.

Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond

Votes: 1,276

28. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson

Votes: 8,615

29. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Drama

True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack, Kevin McNulty

Votes: 1,001

30. Reach for the Sky (1956)

Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, War

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson

Votes: 2,993

31. V2. Escape from Hell (2021)

118 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.

Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov, Evgeniy Serzin, Aleksey Filimonov

Votes: 645

32. Holly - The Movie (1984)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Otto, a young man from East-Frisia, comes to the big city of Hamburg to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a wealthy young girl; and ... See full summary »

Directors: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Sky du Mont, Jessika Cardinahl

Votes: 4,622

33. The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 1,582

34. Fighter Squadron (1948)

Approved | 96 min | Action, War

During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea

Votes: 1,026

35. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)

Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis, Robert J. Hanson

Votes: 1,849

36. Terror in the Sky (1971 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama, Thriller

On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Leif Erickson, Doug McClure, Roddy McDowall, Lois Nettleton

Votes: 212

37. The Doomsday Flight (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Thriller

A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Jack Lord, Edmond O'Brien, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon

Votes: 397

38. God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)

Passed | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

During WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Dane Clark, Alan Hale

Votes: 680

39. Target for Today (1944)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History, War

Documentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.

Director: William Keighley

Votes: 84

40. Guy Martin: The Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber (2015 TV Movie)

72 min | Documentary

Guy Martin helps restore XH558, the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber, to prepare it for its last ever flight, a 1000-mile farewell tour of Great Britain, before it is grounded.

Director: James Woodroffe | Stars: Guy Martin, Shaun Dooley, Kevin Stone, Ray Watts

Votes: 229

41. Within the Law (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.

Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly, William Gargan

Votes: 332

42. Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Comedy

A talented but brash stunt pilot enters the Marine Corps and becomes more disciplined.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Frank McHugh

Votes: 407

43. Thud Pilots (2018)

90 min | Documentary

An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.

Director: Mark Vizcarra | Stars: Larry Poole, John R. Casper, Robert L. Cooper, Dennis W. Jarvi

Votes: 245

44. Flug in Gefahr (1964 TV Movie)

70 min | Drama, Thriller

The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.

Director: Theo Mezger | Stars: Hanns Lothar, Benno Sterzenbach, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Günther Neutze

Votes: 179

45. Besatzung Dora (1943)

91 min | Drama, History, War

Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.

Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla

Votes: 61

46. Wings of Victory (1941)

89 min | Drama, War

Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in America. The brave... See full summary »

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Vladimir Belokurov, Mikheil Gelovani, Semyon Mezhinsky, Kseniya Tarasova

Votes: 140

47. Cold War, Hot Jets (2013– )

Documentary

A two-part series looking at the many jet aircrafts of the Cold War era and the rolls they played.

Stars: James Holland, Sergei Khrushchev, David Edgerton, Alexander Macmillan

Votes: 42

48. Na niebie i na ziemi (1974)

94 min | Drama

A psychological drama about a fighter pilot Major Grela, who lost in competition to become second in command, against his colleague from the past, Major Horycki. Horycki attracts Grela's ... See full summary »

Director: Julian Dziedzina | Stars: Andrzej Chrzanowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Krystyna Kolodziejczyk, Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Votes: 32

49. Starting Radial Engines with Buffalo Joe (2020 Video)

7 min | Documentary, Short

Long-time Buffalo Airways DC-3 pilot "Buffalo Joe" McBryan demonstrates how to start the radial engines of a Douglas DC-3 airplane, parked on the ramp at the Yellowknife airport in Canada's... See full summary »

Director: Mikey McBryan | Star: Joe McBryan

50. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Odyssey of Flight 33 (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Passing through the sound barrier, a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Wayne Heffley

Votes: 3,318