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Plot Summary:
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, disaster movie
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Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Plot Summary:
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Cloud Dancer (1980)
Plot Summary:
Brad Randolph (David Carradine) is the World Champion aerobatic pilot but now, in his early 40s, he faces many challenges to maintain his position. His physical struggles are heightened by the presence of a youthful competitor, Tom Loomis (Joseph Bottoms). Intertwined with his professional struggles is his relationship with Helen St. Clair (Jennifer O'Neil).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Free Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is blowing up planes to make a deadly point to crash investigator Renee Brennan.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Plot Summary:
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Flood! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Plot Summary:
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, splatter, black and white, horror comedy, spooky, weird, cult film
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The Starfighters (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young Air Force lieutenant falls in love with fighter planes while his father, a Congressman and war hero, yearns for him to fly heavy bombers.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Plot Summary:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, corny, disaster movie
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Hurricane (1979)
Plot Summary:
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic, period drama, disaster movie
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Crash Point: Berlin (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, captivating, disaster movie
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976)
Plot Summary:
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne until it can reach an open airfield after a killer aboard the plane fires a gun at an engine and pilot of the plane.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Miracle Landing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Lost Flight (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bridges is the captain of a downed airliner who must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Ground Control (1998)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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The Hindenburg (1975)
Plot Summary:
In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, dieselpunk, tragic ending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, detective, freeze frame, scary
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St. Helens (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, disaster movie
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Airspeed (1999)
Plot Summary:
When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Plot Summary:
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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Seven In Darkness (1969)
Plot Summary:
Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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The Aviator (1985)
Plot Summary:
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, visually appealing, weird
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Miracles Still Happen (1974)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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The Captain (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a pilot who had to ensure the safety of 128 passengers and crew members on the plane when its windshield became damaged mid-flight. The incident is regarded as one of the miracles in aviation history.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, sentimental, disturbing, action adventure, tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, factual, disaster movie
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Plot Summary:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, mockbuster, exciting, disaster movie
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Flight Crew (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia, Cambodia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, disturbing, biting, novela, dramatic, disaster movie
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The Red Tent (1969)
Plot Summary:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, retro, action adventure