Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "helicopter-rescue"

1. Anyone But You (2023)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben's fiery attraction turns ice-cold--until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, Mia Artemis

Votes: 67,041

2. The Towering Inferno (1974)

PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway

Votes: 48,220 | Gross: $116.00M

3. The Deer Hunter (1978)

R | 183 min | Drama, War

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage

Votes: 361,998 | Gross: $48.98M

4. Thunderball (1965)

PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi

Votes: 127,041 | Gross: $63.60M

5. San Andreas (2015)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

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.

Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Colton Haynes

Votes: 256,539 | Gross: $155.19M

6. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite.

Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Katherine Heigl

Votes: 50,123 | Gross: $50.02M

7. We Were Soldiers (2002)

R | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott

Votes: 151,199 | Gross: $78.12M

8. The Right Stuff (1983)

PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

Votes: 65,324 | Gross: $21.50M

9. The Final Countdown (1980)

PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino

Votes: 26,898 | Gross: $16.65M

10. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

G | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Jason Lee

Votes: 39,521 | Gross: $133.11M

11. Playing with Fire (I) (2019)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family

A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.

Director: Andy Fickman | Stars: John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, Tyler Mane

Votes: 16,224

12. Niagara (1953)

Not Rated | 92 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter

Votes: 19,725

13. Fisherman's Friends (2019)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album, "Sea Shanties."

Director: Chris Foggin | Stars: James Purefoy, Meadow Nobrega, David Hayman, Maggie Steed

Votes: 11,324

14. Big Wednesday (1978)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport

The lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s.

Director: John Milius | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville

Votes: 7,363

15. Emmanuelle 5 (1987)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama

Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of a banana republic ... See full summary »

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Monique Gabrielle, Crofton Hardester, Dana Burns Westburg, Yaseen Khan

Votes: 1,136

16. Kilo Two Bravo (2014)

R | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg - or your life.

Director: Paul Katis | Stars: David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O'Mahony

Votes: 14,359

17. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 6,331

18. Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)

PG | 81 min | Adventure, Family

Angus McCormick adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while traveling along the coast of British Columbia with his father, John, he and Yellow become stranded when ... See full summary »

Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Jesse Bradford, Mimi Rogers, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower

Votes: 3,282 | Gross: $11.64M

19. 9 Miles Down (2009)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A security expert is sent to a remote scientific camp to investigate strange things that are happening.

Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Adrian Paul, Amanda Douge, Anthony Waller, Caroline Couret-Delegue

Votes: 3,935

20. Trauma (2009–2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

Follows a small group of flight paramedics on the job and in their lives outside of work.

Stars: Derek Luke, Anastasia Griffith, Aimee Garcia, Kevin Rankin

Votes: 2,739

21. Wyvern (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

They Find a Live Wyvern in small town Alaska.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Nick Chinlund, Erin Karpluk, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles

Votes: 2,358

22. Flood (1976 TV Movie)

98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst. But the town's mayor refuses to open its gates - paving the way for disaster.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Robert Culp, Martin Milner, Barbara Hershey, Richard Basehart

Votes: 538

23. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)

106 min | Action, Comedy

In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.

Directors: Henry Levin, Dino Maiuri | Stars: Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 416

24. Half a Chance (1998)

104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two legends of the past have equal chances of becoming the father of a young beautiful girl. But before they find out which one exactly, they are forced to join efforts for saving her from the Mob.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis, Eric Defosse

Votes: 2,891

25. Tango Charlie (2005)

Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tarun Chauhan, a rookie army officer undergoes ups and downs in his mission and learns the true meaning of 'war' to overcome his weaknesses.

Director: Mani Shankar | Stars: Bobby Deol, Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty

Votes: 2,292

26. Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)

PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Marie, a young lawyer, leaves with her husband Fabrice and a couple of friends, Francis and Alessandra. They are engaged in a dangerous sentimental game together, from which their relations will not come out unseemly.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marie-Sophie L., Francis Huster, Fabrice Luchini, Alessandra Martines

Votes: 818

27. Scorcher (I) (2002)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, California.

Director: James Seale | Stars: Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston

Votes: 1,484

28. La siciliana ribelle (2008)

Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama

The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Amenta | Stars: Veronica D'Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Marcello Mazzarella, Mario Pupella

Votes: 1,903 | Gross: $0.07M

29. Santo vs. Doctor Death (1973)

95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Mexican Wrestler "El Santo" works with Interpol to stop a clever gang of art thieves in Madrid, Spain, lead by the genius Dr. Death.

Director: Rafael Romero Marchent | Stars: Santo, Carlos Romero Marchent, Helga Liné, Jorge Rigaud

Votes: 204

30. High Ice (1980 TV Movie)

104 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A park ranger clashes with an egotistical army officer over how to handle a rescue operation to save three rock climbers stranded on a high elevation ledge of a mountain in Washington state.

Director: Eugene S. Jones | Stars: David Janssen, Tony Musante, Madge Sinclair, Gretchen Corbett

Votes: 162

31. Raptor Island (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to... See full summary »

Director: Stanley Isaacs | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Steven Bauer, Hayley DuMond, Michael Cory Davis

Votes: 1,033

32. Coming Down the Mountain (2007 TV Movie)

80 min | Drama

An original drama by novelist Mark Haddon about two teenage brothers: angst-ridden David and Ben, who has Downs Syndrome.

Director: Julie Anne Robinson | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Tommy Jessop, Julia Ford, Neil Dudgeon

Votes: 532

33. Paris Holiday (1958)

Approved | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysterious reason.

Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer

Votes: 527

34. Deadliest Sea (2009 TV Movie)

88 min | Adventure, Drama

Based on a true story of a fishing boat out of Kodiak, Alaska that encountered a storm and was hit by a rogue wave. The crew, believing that their vessel was about to capsize, abandoned ship in the Bering sea.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Sebastian Pigott, Greg Bryk, Joanne Boland, Ryan Blakely

Votes: 261

35. The Forgotten Man (1971 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama, War

Former Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Lois Nettleton, Anne Francis, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 95

36. Thud Pilots (2018)

90 min | Documentary

An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.

Director: Mark Vizcarra | Stars: Larry Poole, Benjamin Fuller, Gary Barnhill, Dennis W. Jarvi

Votes: 245

37. Joelma 23º Andar (1980)

80 min | Drama

The after-life journey of a young woman, the youngest in her spiritualist family, after she perishes in the disastrous Joelma building fire in 1974.

Director: Clery Cunha | Stars: Beth Goulart, Liana Duval, Carlos Marques, Ed Carlos

Votes: 103

38. Ya bon les blancs (1988)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego, Evelyne Pieiller

Votes: 205

39. A Callout Away

Documentary | Completed

"A Callout Away" gives viewers a look into the world of search and rescue. From the rivers of Oregon to the mountains of Los Angeles, audiences will experience helicopter rescues, swift water rescues, and more from the volunteers of SAR.

Director: Kali Majors

40. RKO Screenliner: Flying Pinwheels (1952)

Approved | 8 min | Short

Hellicopters and what they are like to fly and what that can accomplish in peace or war are the subjects of this one-reel Screenliner.

Director: Howard Winner | Star: Harry Wismer

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42. Code Red (1981–1982)
Episode: Code Red (1981)

TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As Joe Rorchek investigates a series of arson fires that occupy his firefighter sons, their unit also copes with the introduction of their first female crew member.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Andrew Stevens, Martina Deignan, Julie Adams

Votes: 68

43. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Borrasca (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tubbs and Switek go undercover and pose as drug dealing middlemen to take down Borrasca, a very dangerous counter revolutionary who uses drug money to fight the war against communism in his country.

Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 297

44. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
Episode: Baptism of Fire (1995)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

The men find themselves helping to rescue hostages in the African state of Mokindi. Paul and Sadie are reunited but have to decide whether an army romance is for them.

Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Robson Green, Danny Cunningham, Richard Dillane, Ben Nealon

Votes: 11

45. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
Episode: Bushed (1995)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

B Company are on exercise in the Northern Territory of Australia and are introduced to their Medical Officer who ruffles a few feathers. Their true test is during an exercise in the outback when all their skills are put to the test.

Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Ben Nealon, Shaun Dingwall, Robson Green, Jerome Flynn

Votes: 8

46. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
Episode: Stick Together (1995)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

Michael and Marsha Stubbs have to decide if they should give their marriage another chance. Corporal William Markham joins B Company and his wife creates friction amongst the other army wives.

Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: Rob Spendlove, Denise Welch, Razaaq Adoti, Dawn McDaniel

Votes: 9

47. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
Episode: Twist of Fate (1995)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

The remaining men fight to escape from Mokindi with one soldier sacrificing his life for the others. Dave and Donna have to decide if it is the end of the line for their marriage.

Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Robson Green, Rosie Rowell, David Groves, Angela Clarke

Votes: 10

48. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: Safe on a Boat (1957)

30 min | Drama

Police investigate the theft of Las Vegas casino's safe that disappeared during a lavish wedding ceremony. Blake's only clue points to the honeymooning couple who are en route to Niagara Falls.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Whitney Blake, John Vivyan, Gerald Milton

Votes: 14

49. Survive This! (2007– )
Episode: Sinking of the Oceanos (2007)

40 min

4 August 1991: not only was the position of the ship unknown, but the whereabouts of the captain and some high officials as well.

Director: Mac Kenny

50. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Human Error (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A couple risk their lives getting from Cuba to see House, but his preoccupation with staff issues may cost the woman her life.

Director: Katie Jacobs | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,348