Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "aviation", "mother-son-relationship"

1. Starship Troopers (1997)

R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey

Votes: 321,647 | Gross: $54.81M

2. Pearl Harbor (2001)

PG-13 | 183 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott

Votes: 352,150 | Gross: $198.54M

3. Apollo 13 (I) (1995)

PG | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, History

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise

Votes: 315,929 | Gross: $173.84M

4. The Aviator (2004)

PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly

Votes: 384,361 | Gross: $102.61M

5. Blood Red Sky (2021)

TV-MA | 121 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Peri Baumeister, Carl Anton Koch, Alexander Scheer, Kais Setti

Votes: 54,797

6. Empire of the Sun (1987)

PG | 153 min | Drama, War

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers

Votes: 134,424 | Gross: $22.24M

7. Castle in the Sky (1986)

PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada

Votes: 182,593

8. Left Behind (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

Director: Vic Armstrong | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Lea Thompson, Cassi Thomson, Chad Michael Murray

Votes: 42,560 | Gross: $14.00M

9. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,744 | Gross: $34.59M

10. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Votes: 49,601 | Gross: $20.76M

11. Airport '77 (1977)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Votes: 12,340 | Gross: $30.00M

12. Airport 1975 (1974)

PG | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Votes: 11,891 | Gross: $47.29M

13. Radio Flyer (1992)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama

A father recounts a dark period of his childhood when he and his little brother lived in the suburbs.

Directors: Richard Donner, David Mickey Evans | Stars: Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Elijah Wood

Votes: 14,222 | Gross: $4.65M

14. The Castle (1997)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama

A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.

Director: Rob Sitch | Stars: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe

Votes: 17,507 | Gross: $0.86M

15. Rules Don't Apply (2016)

PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Lily Collins, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, Steve Tom

Votes: 11,676 | Gross: $3.65M

16. Zero Hour! (1957)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Votes: 2,298

17. The Out-of-Towners (1999)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark as they are vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese, Mark McKinney

Votes: 15,002 | Gross: $28.54M

18. The Hindenburg (1975)

Approved | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes

Votes: 6,591 | Gross: $27.95M

19. The Tarnished Angels (1957)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson

Votes: 4,104

20. Johnny in the Clouds (1945)

87 min | Drama, Romance, War

The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery

Votes: 1,648

21. The Sound Barrier (1952)

Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin

Votes: 2,327

22. Ground Control (1998)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A disgraced former air traffic controller is called back into service when the airport's traffic control system malfunctions.

Director: Richard Howard | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson

Votes: 2,720

23. Heart (1999)

R | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: Saskia Reeves, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 707

24. The Gold and the Glory (1984)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Sport

A young Australian man sets out to prove himself, leaving behind his ballerina girlfriend to train for the Coolangatta Gold triathlon, a race once almost won by his father.

Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels, Josephine Smulders

Votes: 205

25. Ekipazh (1980)

PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra Yakovleva

Votes: 2,633

26. Der Stern von Afrika (1957)

88 min | Drama, War

Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank

Votes: 349

27. Saint-Ex (1996)

PG | 82 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson, Janet McTeer, Ken Stott

Votes: 226

28. The Boy in the Mirror (2014)

78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story of a boy who sees his mirror reflection come to life.

Director: Guilherme Fiúza Zenha | Stars: Lino Facioli, Regiane Alves, Ricardo Blat, Gisele Fróes

Votes: 260

29. Central Airport (1933)

Unrated | 72 min | Drama

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown, Grant Mitchell

Votes: 475

30. Gallant Journey (1946)

Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History

This historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers

Votes: 289

31. The Student Connection (1974)

PG | 86 min | Thriller

A man hires a contract killer to snuff the husband of the woman he loves. When the job is done recklessly, and innocent lives are taken, he opts to exterminate the hit-man himself. ... See full summary »

Director: Rafael Romero Marchent | Stars: Ray Milland, Sylva Koscina, Ramiro Oliveros, Franco Giacobini

Votes: 134

32. Flying Devils (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Anny Hardy is a parachute-stunt diver with a flying-circus group of barnstorming pilots which her husband, "Speed" Hardy heads. She meets and falls in love with Bud Murray, the younger ... See full summary »

Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Arline Judge, Bruce Cabot, Eric Linden, Ralph Bellamy

Votes: 158

33. Pursuit (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Bush, the secretary of the head of a ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers

Votes: 176

34. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming (1995)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Sideshow Bob again escapes from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an air show, demanding all television stations immediately go off the air.

Director: Dominic Polcino | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 2,912

35. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Man Hunt (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows... See full summary »

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Richard Beymer

36. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: One for the Money (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Penny picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and discovers it's full of counterfeit money. Sky suspects that a young former engraver might be involved.

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Ron Hagerthy, Gloria Winters, John Doucette

Votes: 8