20 movies like Flight From Ashiya, ordered by similarity : Adrift(2018), First Man(2018), The Finest Hours(2016), All Is Lost(2013), Unbroken(2014), Everest(2015), The Mountain Between Us(2017), For Those in Peril(1944), On the Threshold of Space(1956), The Martian(2015), In the Heart of the Sea(2015), The Great Waldo Pepper(1975) ...
Adventure, Drama
Japan|USA
1964
100 Minutes
Yul Brynner Richard Widmark George Chakiris Suzy Parker Shirley Knight Eiko Taki Joe DeRita
pilot survivor sergeant lieutenant wife tense thrilling inspiring japan air force base ocean airplane lifeboat air force shipwreck fear prejudice loss storm rescue
A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
Romance, Adventure, Drama
Hong Kong|Iceland|USA
2018
120 Minutes
Shailene Woodley Sam Claflin Jeffrey Thomas Elizabeth Hawthorne Grace Palmer Marisiale Tunoka Kael Damlamian Neil Andrea Apakuki Nalawa Tim Solomon
sailor husband wife shipwreck survivor shipmate couple thrilling gripping frightening emotional incredible suspenseful boat ocean sea shipwreck ship pacific ocean shipwreck survival
A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
USA|Japan
2018
141 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Claire Foy Jason Clarke Kyle Chandler Corey Stoll Patrick Fugit Christopher Abbott Ciarán Hinds Olivia Hamilton Pablo Schreiber Shea Whigham
neil armstrong astronaut wife son engineer test pilot thrilling intense confident inspiring moon florida space center space shuttle family home spaceship moon space exploration space travel life story
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Kyle Gallner John Magaro Beau Knapp Eric Bana Graham McTavish Abraham Benrubi
sailor engineer coast guard officer survivor crew member rescue worker brooding emotional intense boat ocean massachusetts office car street storm wreckage danger survival coast guard
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
USA
2013
105 Minutes
sailor dark intense raw thrilling indian ocean boat survival shipwreck sailing danger storm adventure rescue quest 2010s
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Iceland
2015
121 Minutes
Jason Clarke Josh Brolin John Hawkes Robin Wright Emily Watson Michael Kelly Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Martin Henderson Elizabeth Debicki Ingvar Sigurdsson
mountain climber sherpa team leader survivor friend family member bleak emotional gripping tense intense mount everest base camp house trail helicopter hospital mountain climbing storm danger
The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
Romance, Adventure, Drama
USA
2017
104 Minutes
Kate Winslet Idris Elba Beau Bridges Dermot Mulroney Linda Sorensen Vincent Gale Marci T. House Dania Nassar Lee Majdoub Andres Joseph Nancy Sivak
doctor journalist pilot neurosurgeon photojournalist survivor bleak frightening gripping suspenseful tense moving mountain airplane airport lake restaurant cave stranded airplane crash
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Adventure
UK
1944
67 Minutes
pilot hero soldier survivor rescue worker enemy fascinating gripping inspiring intense patriotic channel sea war zone boat plane world war ii rescue mission stranded
An RAF officer wishes to fly, but isn't allowed and is posted to the RAF Air Sea Rescue operating in the English Channel.
Adventure
USA
1956
98 Minutes
Guy Madison Virginia Leith John Hodiak Dean Jagger Warren Stevens Martin Milner
captain wife lieutenant pilot doctor major gripping tense florida air force base balloon mountain air force space travel experiments car crash daunting task quest sacrifice 1950s
Scientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Hungary|Jordan
2015
142 Minutes
Matt Damon Jessica Chastain Kristen Wiig Jeff Daniels Michael Peña Kate Mara Sean Bean Sebastian Stan Aksel Hennie Donald Glover Mackenzie Davis
astronaut survivor president scientist wife crew member brooding emotional intense tense dark nasa facility camp mars spacecraft space station control room space travel stranded mars
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Drama, Action, Adventure, History
USA|Australia|Spain
2015
116 Minutes
Chris Hemsworth Benjamin Walker Cillian Murphy Brendan Gleeson Ben Whishaw Michelle Fairley Tom Holland Paul Anderson Frank Dillane Joseph Mawle Edward Ashley
captain crew member whale wife family member child bleak emotional intense tense powerful somber ship ocean raft cabin house bar whaling animal attack
A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.
Adventure, Drama
USA
1975
107 Minutes
Robert Redford Bo Svenson Bo Brundin Susan Sarandon Geoffrey Lewis Edward Herrmann Philip Bruns Roderick Cook Kelly Jean Peters Margot Kidder Scott Newman
pilot celebrity friend filmmaker inspiring lighthearted midwest airplane hollywood, calif. air force show business aviation rivalry daunting task fame adventure pursuit rise 1930s
After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2013
133 Minutes
Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdirahman Faysal Ahmed Mahat M. Ali Michael Chernus Corey Johnson Max Martini Chris Mulkey Yul Vazquez
navy seal captain wife seaman hostage gunman dark emotional tense intense somalia coast cargo ship boat airport lifeboat hijacking kidnapping rescue terrorism
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama
France|Germany|South Africa|Switzerland|Monaco|USA
2018
98 Minutes
Mélanie Laurent Daniah De Villiers Langley Kirkwood Ryan Mac Lennan Brandon Auret Lillian Dube Lionel Newton Tessa Jubber
girl lion lion tamer father mother inspiring passionate charming positive emotional tense south africa farm wilderness wildlife preserve plains human-animal friendship secret dangerous information journey
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
War, Drama, History
UK|Netherlands|France|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Fionn Whitehead Tom Glynn-Carney Jack Lowden Harry Styles Aneurin Barnard James D'Arcy Barry Keoghan Kenneth Branagh Cillian Murphy Mark Rylance Tom Hardy
soldier enemy captain pilot chilling emotional gripping inspiring intense beach europe boat world war ii invasion escape battle rescue survival escape rescue
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Biography, Drama
USA
2016
96 Minutes
Tom Hanks Aaron Eckhart Valerie Mahaffey Delphi Harrington Mike O'Malley Jamey Sheridan Anna Gunn Holt McCallany Ahmed Lucan Laura Linney Wayne Bastrup
pilot airline employee passenger rescue worker wife investigator brooding emotional intense airport airplane hudson river new york city conference room house emergency landing rescue heroism investigation stress
The story of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew.
Adventure, Drama
USA|Canada|China
2018
97 Minutes
Kodi Smit-McPhee Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson Marcin Kowalczyk Jens Hultén Natassia Malthe Spencer Bogaert Mercedes de la Zerda Leonor Varela
tribesman tribal leader wolf young man hunter saber-toothed cat bleak brutal intense inspiring plains cliff cave ocean survival migration hunting isolation family reunification fall
In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity.
Adventure, Drama
USA
2012
117 Minutes
Liam Neeson Frank Grillo Dermot Mulroney Dallas Roberts Joe Anderson Nonso Anozie Ben Bray James Badge Dale Anne Openshaw Peter Girges Jonathan James Bitonti
sharpshooter oil driller pilot colleague incredible gripping inspiring alaska oil refinery wilderness bar airplane survival plane crash man vs. beast wolves rescue quest adventure 2010s
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
USA
2000
129 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Tommy Lee Jones Donald Sutherland James Garner James Cromwell Marcia Gay Harden William Devane Loren Dean Courtney B. Vance Barbara Babcock Rade Serbedzija
pilot engineer navigator friend boss wife cheeky amusing positive tense thrilling united states space spaceship training area outer space spacecraft reunion heroism disaster
When retired engineer Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.
Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|New Zealand
1984
132 Minutes
Mel Gibson Anthony Hopkins Laurence Olivier Edward Fox Daniel Day-Lewis Bernard Hill Liam Neeson Simon Adams
capt. william bligh fletcher christian sailor governor commander native spirited thrilling hms bounty tahiti ocean ship mutiny infatuation daunting task sailing redemption failure revenge sacrifice
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.