Best movies with pilots

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

Based on 0 votes, the movie Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr., came in first as the best movie with pilots of all time, followed by American Made and Captain Marvel from 2019. Scroll down for the top 10 movies with pilots, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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Air America

1990 - Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant

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Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his •••

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American Made

2017 - Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Alejandro Edda, Jesse Plemons, Connor...

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American Made is the incredibly true story of a pilot who managed to lead one of the largest covert operations ever carried out by the CIA. Alongside Tom Cruise we will see Domhnall •••

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Captain Marvel

2019 - Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law

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The new film „Captain Marvel” takes place in 1995, when Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), a former U.S. Air Force pilot, becomes one of the most powerful heroes in the galaxy. After training •••

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Courage Under Fire

1996 - Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond PhillipsDrama, Thriller, Mystery, War

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After a friendly-fire mistake that was covered up during the Gulf War, a US Army officer is moved to a desk job. There he has to decide whether a female helicopter commander deserves 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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2025 - Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, Sarah...

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Sonny Hayes, a former Formula 1 talent whose career was cut short by an accident, is given the chance to return to competition. Recruited by a struggling team, he competes alongside young •••

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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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Forever Young

1992 - Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah WoodAdventure, Fantasy, Drama, Science Fiction...

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In 1939, test pilot Daniel McCormick asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig in a cryogenics experiment. He wants to be frozen for a year so he does not have to watch the woman he •••

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This list includes, for example, Air America, Captain Marvel, Sully.

What are the most recent movies in this list?

Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: Mayday (2026), The Dog Stars (2026), F1 (2025).

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Titles released in this period include Captain Marvel (2019), American Made (2017), Sully (2016).

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