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Cliffhanger(1993)

3.2/5 (with 1,007 votes)

A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.

Captain Phillips(2013)

Κ-15
| 2h 14min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 3,078 votes)

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Executive Decision(1996)

15
| 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 386 votes)

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.

Passenger 57(1992)

3.0/5 (with 454 votes)

An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand for this sort of thing.

Rendition(2007)

16
| 2h | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 288 votes)

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

United 93(2006)

15
| 1h 51min | Drama, History, Crime, Thriller, Action
3.6/5 (with 615 votes)

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

A Hijacking(2012)

Κ-15
| 1h 43min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

Airport '77(1977)

2.8/5 (with 118 votes)

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

Beast(2022)

2h 2min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

A former RAW officer, who is among the hostages in a mall taken over by terrorists, has to foil their plans and prevent the government from releasing a dreaded terrorist, who he had helped put in prison at great personal cost.

Directed by Nelson Dilipkumar - With Vijay, Pooja Hegde

Eureka(2000)

3h 38min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 35 votes)

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Okay! Madam(2020)

1h 40min | Comedy, Action
3.8/5 (with 14 votes)

A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.

Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying(1999)

1h 41min | Thriller, Action
2.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.

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Neerja(2016)

2h 2min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.

Directed by Ram Madhvani - With Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Shekhar Ravjiani, Yogendra Tiku, Eisha Chopra

Ransom(1974)

1h 29min | Action, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 25 votes)

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...

Skyjacked(1972)

1h 41min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Bus 174(2002)

1h 58min | Documentary, Crime
3.7/5 (with 60 votes)

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

Directed by José Padilha - With Sandro Rosa do Nascimento

Scrap Heaven(2005)

1h 57min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The lives of three people intersect on a late bus ride that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Shingo is a miserable young desk cop bucking for homicide division. Tetsu is a restroom cleaning attendant who has a mentally ill father and a penchant for mischief. And Saki is a petulant druggist/chemist who was born without an eye and keeps her disfigurement hidden behind shades. Months after the hijacking, the trio lives re-intertwine as they playfully seek revenge for their unhappy lives, until the games become deadly serious.

The Hamburg Cell(2004)

1h 46min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.

Directed by Antonia Bird

Cabin Pressure(2001)

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A fully automated commercial jetliner is prepared to make its maiden voyage. Without an on-flight pilot, the craft relies on satellite linking for its course. But when the plane suddenly deviates from its determined route and establishes a circular pattern over Seattle, it becomes evident that the craft has been hijacked by a disgruntled former airline employee who has hacked into the flight's computer system from his apartment, somewhere in the United States. Now, a former discredited Navy pilot and an oddball technician must race against the clock to find where the angry employee is, and regain control of the plane before it crashes into the city.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1998)

1h 40min | Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Omertà(2018)

1h 36min | Action, Drama
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Directed by Hansal Mehta - With Rajkummar Rao

Bad Men of Thunder Gap(1943)

57min | Western

Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.

Directed by Albert Herman

The Last Promise(2010)

2h 10min | Thriller, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

"Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro(1989)

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

Directed by Robert L. Collins - With Karl Malden, Lee Grant, E. G. Marshall, Vera Miles, Christina Pickles, Robert Mammone, ...

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful(1977)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.

Hostage(1987)

1h 35min | Drama, Action

The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.

De Punt(2009)

1h 21min | Drama, History, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

More than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expectations or hidden agenda.

Directed by Hanro Smitsman

It May Happen to You(1937)

21min | Crime, Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.

How Scared She Was(2020)

10min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A devastated father is the victim of a violent carjacking, his four year old daughter kidnapped in the process. A small town journalist, out of his depth, is tasked with the story; and burdened with the hope of finding the girl.

C 299,792 km/s(2013)

4.7/5 (with 2 votes)

This film is the story of an idealistic flight officer who hijacks her spaceship during an interplanetary cold war, and attempts to escape our solar system in search of other habitable worlds. However, when a small group of soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Kai provide unexpected resistance, Malleck’s master plan is threatened. A compelling sci-fi action/drama about one woman's vision for the next logical step in human development: the leap from interplanetary to interstellar colonization.

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