20 movies like The Flight of the Phoenix, ordered by similarity : Flight of the Phoenix(2004), For Those in Peril(1944), The Mountain Between Us(2017), Nine Men(1943), Sands of the Kalahari(1965), Independence Day(1996), Pacific Rim Uprising(2018), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963), Snakes on a Plane(2006), The Finest Hours(2016), Beau Geste(1966), The Three Musketeers(1933) ...
Adventure
USA
1965
147 Minutes
James Stewart Richard Attenborough Peter Finch Ernest Borgnine Ian Bannen Ronald Fraser Christian Marquand Dan Duryea George Kennedy Gabriele Tinti Alex Montoya
survivor captain pilot navigator worker soldier tense suspenseful desert sahara airplane plane crash survival death engineering quest 1960s
After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.
Adventure, Drama, Action
USA
2004
112 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Giovanni Ribisi Tyrese Gibson Miranda Otto Hugh Laurie Tony Curran Jacob Vargas Scott Michael Campbell Kevork Malikyan Sticky Fingaz Jared Padalecki
captain pilot navigator oil worker drifter smuggler intense thrilling mongolia gobi desert airplane plane crash survival teamwork engineering aviation race against time quest underdog escape
Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
Adventure
UK
1944
67 Minutes
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An RAF officer wishes to fly, but isn't allowed and is posted to the RAF Air Sea Rescue operating in the English Channel.
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
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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
1943
68 Minutes
Jack Lambert Gordon Jackson Fredrick Piper Grant Sutherland Bill Blewett Eric Micklewood
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The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they ... See full summary »
Adventure
UK|USA
1965
119 Minutes
Stuart Whitman Susannah York Stanley Baker Harry Andrews Theodore Bikel Nigel Davenport Barry Lowe
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After a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he would eliminate the other men in the group.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
USA
1996
145 Minutes
Will Smith Bill Pullman Jeff Goldblum Mary McDonnell Judd Hirsch Margaret Colin Randy Quaid Robert Loggia James Rebhorn Harvey Fierstein Adam Baldwin
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The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
UK|China|Japan|USA|Mexico
2018
111 Minutes
John Boyega Scott Eastwood Jing Tian Cailee Spaeny Rinko Kikuchi Burn Gorman Adria Arjona Jin Zhang Charlie Day Levi Meaden Rahart Adams
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Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
Comedy, Adventure
USA
1963
175 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Edie Adams Milton Berle Jimmy Durante Jonathan Winters Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn
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A group of motorists hear about a crook's hidden stash of loot, and race against each other across the country to get to it.
Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Germany
2006
105 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Kenan Thompson Julianna Margulies Nathan Phillips Mark Houghton Sunny Mabrey Lin Shaye David Koechner Byron Lawson Emily Holmes Gerard Plunkett
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An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.
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
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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.
Adventure
USA
1966
103 Minutes
Guy Stockwell Doug McClure Telly Savalas Leslie Nielsen David Mauro Robert Wolders Leo Gordon Michael Constantine Malachi Throne Joe De Santis X Brands
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In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
Adventure
USA
1933
75 Minutes
John Wayne Armand Schaefer Jack Mulhall Francis X. Bushman Jr. Raymond Hatton Ruth Hall Al Ferguson Hooper Atchley Gordon De Main Robert Frazer Edward Piel Sr.
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Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.
Action, Adventure
Australia|South Africa|USA
2015
120 Minutes
Tom Hardy Charlize Theron Nicholas Hoult Hugh Keays-Byrne Josh Helman Nathan Jones Zoë Kravitz Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Riley Keough Abbey Lee Courtney Eaton
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In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.
Adventure, Fantasy
New Zealand|USA
2002
179 Minutes
Elijah Wood Ian McKellen Liv Tyler Viggo Mortensen Sean Astin Cate Blanchett John Rhys-Davies Bernard Hill Christopher Lee Billy Boyd Dominic Monaghan
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While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Adventure, Fantasy
New Zealand|USA
2003
200 Minutes
Elijah Wood Ian McKellen Liv Tyler Viggo Mortensen Sean Astin Cate Blanchett John Rhys-Davies Bernard Hill Billy Boyd Dominic Monaghan Orlando Bloom
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Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
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
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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.
Adventure, Fantasy
New Zealand|USA
2001
178 Minutes
Elijah Wood Ian McKellen Liv Tyler Viggo Mortensen Sean Astin Cate Blanchett John Rhys-Davies Billy Boyd Dominic Monaghan Orlando Bloom Christopher Lee
hobbit wizard elf dwarf warrior orc dark intense suspenseful middle-earth village cave forest mountain journey magic ring survival teamwork showdown
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2001
91 Minutes
Sam Neill William H. Macy Tea Leoni Alessandro Nivola Trevor Morgan Michael Jeter John Diehl Bruce A. Young Laura Dern Taylor Nichols Mark Harelik
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A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Sci-Fi, Adventure
Canada
2013
94 Minutes
Luke Pasqualino Ben Cotton Lili Bordán Jill Teed John Pyper-Ferguson Brian Markinson Karen LeBlanc Sebastian Spence
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Prior to 1973, Satan seemed all but dead and gone, the causality of a modernist mindset. But with Linda Blair's disturbing performance in The Exorcist, Satan returned with a vengeance and ... See full summary »
Adventure
1952
115 Minutes
Ralph Richardson Ann Todd Nigel Patrick John Justin Joseph Tomelty Denholm Elliott Jack Allen Ralph Michael
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A British manufacturer (Ralph Richardson) loses a son and a son-in-law (Nigel Patrick) trying to fly faster than the speed of sound.