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What is your favorite airplane film?

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Whether it is a high-octane dogfight at Mach speed, a desperate mid-air hostage crisis, or a black comedy where nobody can fly the plane, these movies put aircraft at center stage. Which one is your all-time favorite?

  1. Airplane! — ranked #11
    Airplane!
    The 1980 parody masterpiece by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker that turned aviation disaster films into the ultimate comedy.
    1000pts
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  2. Sully — ranked #22
    Sully
    Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2016.
    679pts
  3. Top Gun: Maverick — ranked #33
    Top Gun: Maverick
    The 2022 blockbuster sequel where an older Maverick trains a new generation of pilots for an impossible mission.
    678pts
  4. Non-Stop — ranked #44
    Non-Stop
    Liam Neeson as an air marshal who must identify a killer threatening to eliminate passengers one by one mid-flight.
    555pts
  5. Top Gun — ranked #55
    Top Gun
    The 1986 Tony Scott classic starring Tom Cruise as hotshot Navy pilot Maverick, defining a generation of aerial action cinema.
    555pts
  6. The Aviator — ranked #66
    The Aviator
    Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, exploring his obsessive quest to push aviation to its absolute limits.
    0pts
  7. Snakes on a Plane — ranked #77
    Snakes on a Plane
    Samuel L. Jackson battles venomous snakes released on a flight in this gloriously absurd 2006 action film.
    0pts
  8. United 93 — ranked #88
    United 93
    Paul Greengrass's harrowing 2006 recreation of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers.
    0pts
  9. Air Force One — ranked #99
    Air Force One
    Harrison Ford as the U.S. President who fights back when terrorists hijack his plane in this 1997 action thriller.
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  10. Flight — ranked #1010
    Flight
    Denzel Washington plays a skilled but troubled pilot who miraculously lands a failing plane in Robert Zemeckis's 2012 drama.
    0pts
  11. Con Air — ranked #1111
    Con Air
    Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich star in this 1997 action thriller about convicts who hijack their own prison transport plane.
    0pts

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