Best movies with airplanes

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Discover the best movies with airplanes, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, came in first as the best movie with airplanes of all time, followed by Carry-On and Con Air from 1997. Scroll down for the top 10 movies with airplanes, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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Air Force One

1997 - Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn CloseAction, Thriller

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A group of Russian terrorists hijacks Air Force One, the plane of the President of the United States. President James Marshall, a former soldier, escapes them and fights back alone on •••

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Carry-On

2024 - Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Logan...

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On Christmas Eve, an airport security guard is pressured to let a suspicious piece of luggage pass through security. With time running short and not knowing who he can trust, he tries to •••

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Con Air

1997 - Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John MalkovichAction, Thriller, Crime

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Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe is paroled and wants to get home to his wife and the daughter he has never met. The plane taking him there also carries the most dangerous convicts in the •••

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Devotion

2022 - Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski, Daren Kagasoff, Joe...

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Devotion, an aerial warfare epic based on the best-selling book of the same name, tells the true and terrifying story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their •••

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Die Hard 2

1990 - Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William SadlerAction, Thriller

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One year after the events in Los Angeles, cop John McClane is waiting for his wife at Washington's airport on Christmas Eve. Terrorists take over air traffic control to free a drug lord •••

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Fight or Flight

2025 - Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Katee Sackhoff, Marko Zaror, JuJu Chan, Julian...

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A mercenary is given the mission to find a person on a plane. He ends up protecting them, however, when the surrounding passengers try to eliminate them both. Josh Hartnett stars in the •••

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Firefox

1982 - Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David HuffmanScience Fiction, Action, Thriller

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The Soviets have built a new fighter jet, the Firefox, said to be invisible to radar. The British send Mitchell Gant, a former Vietnam War pilot, on a secret mission into the Soviet Union •••

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Flight

2012 - Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly ReillyDrama

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Pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol. When his plane malfunctions in flight, he pulls off a miraculous crash landing in which six people die, and the investigation •••

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Flight Risk

2025 - Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Leah Remini, Maaz Ali, Paul Ben-Victor...

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A pilot flies a federal agent and an important witness, who must testify in New York, in a small plane. As they soar above the Alaskan wilderness, the passengers discover that not everyone •••

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Im Westen nichts Neues

2022 - Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald, Edin...

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Young Paul, aged 17, enters the Western Front in the First World War, but his initial euphoria quickly fades in the face of the harsh reality of the trenches.

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This list includes, for example, Sully, Top Gun: Maverick, The Aviator.

What are the most recent movies in this list?

Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: Mayday (2026), Fight or Flight (2025), Flight Risk (2025).

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Titles released in this period include Sully (2016), Left Behind (2014), Non-Stop (2014).

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