20 movies like The Aviator, ordered by similarity : The Mountain Between Us(2017), Everest(2015), For Those in Peril(1944), Jurassic Park III(2001), The Grey(2012), Test Pilot(1938), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948), Mad Max: Fury Road(2015), Tarzan Finds a Son!(1939), Touching the Void(2003), Thor: Ragnarok(2017), High Road to China(1983) ...
Adventure
USA
1985
98 Minutes
Christopher Reeve Rosanna Arquette Jack Warden Sam Wanamaker Scott Wilson Tyne Daly Marcia Strassman Will Hare Jeff Harding Timothy Stack Larry B. Williams
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A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
Adventure
USA
1938
118 Minutes
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Gloria Holden Louis Jean Heydt
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Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Adventure, Western, Drama
USA|Mexico
1948
124 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston Tim Holt Herman Brix Barton MacLane Alfonso Bedoya
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Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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
USA
1939
90 Minutes
Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan John Sheffield Ian Hunter Henry Stephenson Frieda Inescort Henry Wilcoxon Laraine Day Morton Lowry Gavin Muir
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Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
Drama, Adventure
UK|USA
2003
107 Minutes
Brendan Mackey Nicholas Aaron Simon Yates Ollie Ryall
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The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Action, Fantasy
USA|Australia
2017
130 Minutes
Chris Hemsworth Tom Hiddleston Cate Blanchett Idris Elba Jeff Goldblum Tessa Thompson Mark Ruffalo Karl Urban Anthony Hopkins Benedict Cumberbatch Sam Neill
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Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
Adventure
USA|Yugoslavia|Hong Kong
1983
105 Minutes
Tom Selleck Bess Armstrong Jack Weston Wilford Brimley Robert Morley Brian Blessed
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During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.
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
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Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
Adventure, Drama
USA
1972
109 Minutes
Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox Bill McKinney Herbert Coward James Dickey Ed Ramey Seamon Glass
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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
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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
USA
1930
73 Minutes
George Arliss H.B. Warner Alice Joyce Ralph Forbes David Tearle Reginald Sheffield Nigel de Brulier Ivan F. Simpson
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An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... 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.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
USA
2015
114 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Carla Gugino Alexandra Daddario Ioan Gruffudd Archie Panjabi Paul Giamatti Hugo Johnstone-Burt Art Parkinson Will Yun Lee Kylie Minogue Colton Haynes
pilot wife daughter co-pilot co-worker scientist emotional intense gripping california helicopter building street car underwater natural disasters earthquakes tidal wave destruction family
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Adventure, Action
Finland|UK|Germany
2014
90 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Onni Tommila Ray Stevenson Mehmet Kurtulus Victor Garber Ted Levine Felicity Huffman Jim Broadbent Jorma Tommila Risto Salmi
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A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|Hong Kong
2017
109 Minutes
Gerard Butler Jim Sturgess Abbie Cornish Alexandra Maria Lara Daniel Wu Eugenio Derbez Amr Waked Adepero Oduye Andy Garcia Ed Harris Robert Sheehan
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When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.