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Alive(1993)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 622 votes)

The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

Cast Away(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 5,324 votes)

Chuck Nolan, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

The Expendables 2(2012)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 3,012 votes)

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

Black Box(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 9min | Mystery, Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 485 votes)

Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss' orders, Matthieu begins his own rogue investigation - an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career...

Flight(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 18min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2,686 votes)

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Non-Stop(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Action, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2,428 votes)

Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.

The Grey(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 1,719 votes)

Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway, are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.

Survive!(1976)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.

The Mountain Between Us(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 1,062 votes)

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

Flight of the Phoenix(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 369 votes)

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

Aftermath(2017)

1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 389 votes)

A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.

The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 22min | Adventure
3.6/5 (with 130 votes)

A cargo aircraft crashes 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 a replacement aircraft they will build to escape before their food and water run out.

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The Forgotten(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 492 votes)

Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.

Random Hearts(1999)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 144 votes)

After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.

Lost Horizon(1937)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 83 votes)

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

The Spirit of St. Louis(1957)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 55 votes)

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

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing(2022)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.

Directed by Rory Kennedy - With Andy Pasztor

Turkish for Beginners(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 156 votes)

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuss) together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk (Elyas M'Barek) must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris (Anna Stieblich) and Metin Öztürk (Adnan Maral) to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.

Alaska(1996)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 49min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 58 votes)

Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.

Attack Force Z(1982)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | War, Action
3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific, Capt. P.G. Kelly (Gibson) and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.

White Nights(1985)

2h 16min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

The Buddy Holly Story(1978)

1h 53min | Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 45 votes)

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.

Millennium(1989)

1h 48min | Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 48 votes)

An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

Victor Crowley(2017)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 23min | Comedy, Horror
2.9/5 (with 106 votes)

Ten years ago, over forty people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy. But when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Andrew must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.

Directed by Adam Green - With Kane Hodder

Hell in the Pacific(1968)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 71 votes)

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell(1968)

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

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.

Directed by Hajime Satō - With Keiichi Noda

United(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.

Directed by James Strong - With David Tennant

Lost Horizon(1973)

2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

King of the Lost World(2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 25min | Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley(1985)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 28min | Adventure, Action, Horror
2.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.

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