Thriller movies about airplanes

List of the best thriller movies about airplanes selected by visitors to our site: Bringing Out the Dead, Basic Instinct, The Client, No Country for Old Men, Bang Bang You're Dead, The Insider, The Bone Collector, 8MM, Mr. Brooks, Charade.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA, France
Duration02:08

A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

    Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:27

    Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:37

    Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:58

    Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:03

    A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:12

    Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:48

    A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
    Duration01:45

    A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
    Duration01:53

    Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:24

    A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
    Duration02:37

    During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, military, history
    CountryGermany, France, Poland, China, Portugal
    Duration01:51

    Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:48

      A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:59

      A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case's statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:37

      The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada
      Duration01:53

      When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryDenmark, Finland, USA, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway
      Duration02:58

      A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Germany, USA
      Duration02:04

        Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryColombia, Spain
        Duration01:32

        A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:27

        Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration02:07

        Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

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