Plane hijacking is a really scary thing to see. The prospects of dozens of passengers being stuck in the sky with a couple of psychopaths with nowhere to go can freak anyone out. And then, thankfully, a brave young person comes to the rescue saving all the passengers. The fear that appe...
It seems impossible not to be moved (and terrified) by the epic plane crash that happens in this film based on a true story. The beginning of this movie doesn't shy away from a difficult situation, and honestly, it can be hard to watch for anyone who flies a lot. But the film, ul...
Henry has been tasked by his CIA boss (Lawrence Fishburne) to look into an old case: a plane hijacking that ended with the deaths of everyone on board, including the terrorists. The disaster still haunts the CIA to this day, especially since they suspect a mole might’ve leaked info to ...
a plane about to land as the airport has a suicide bomber threatening to blow up the aircraft. While slightly melodramatic, the movie is credited with creating the modern disaster genre. The film is based on the 1968 book of the same name and even went...
Based on the true story of how the real-life Amy Loughren helped authorities take down serial killer Charles Cullen,The Good Nurseis good old-fashioned, ripped-from-the-headlines cinema with a story made all the more terrifying because so little of it is exaggerated. Trust us — you've ne...
These flight recordings confirmed that after the hijacking, the passengers decided to take matters into their own hands and fought the hijackers. This was the only plane that did not reach the hijackers' target, instead, crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. There were no survivors. Black Hawk...
Also ranks #4 on13 Movies That Remind You The Outside Sucks Anyway 5 Captain Phillips Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi 143 votes Paul Greengrass' thrilling biographical drama,Captain Phillips, recounts the incredible true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking – the first American...
"Spy x Family Code: White" hit U.S. theaters this past March (distributed by Crunchyroll) as a standalone spin-off of the anime series (just called "Spy x Family" with a silent "x"). Like similar anime movies-based-on-TV, it's basically a 100-minute episode of the show, but do...
Working with eyes and mass, he plays well off his co-star Christian Bale, with a bombastic plane hijacking opening sequence that remains a dynamite set piece.45 Simu Liu – Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Photo : Everett Collection Role: Xu Shang-Chi / Shaun Director:...
It may sound disingenuous, or insensitive, to call Paul Greengrass’s great docudrama about the hijacking of a United Airlines flight by Al Qaeda terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, an “action film.” Yet part of the movie’s revelatory power is that it is one; it immerses us in what a ...