| | Wonder Woman (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $412.56M Lead Role: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis, | Director: Patty Jenkins, When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. |
| | Pacific Rim (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $101.79M Lead Role: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, | Director: Guillermo del Toro, As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. |
| | Sully (2016)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $125.07M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey, | Director: Clint Eastwood, The story of Chesley Sullenberger, 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. |
| | Flight (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $93.75M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, | Director: Robert Zemeckis, An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling. |
| | Top Gun (1986)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 50 | Earnings: $176.78M Lead Role: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, | Director: Tony Scott, As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom. |
| | American Made (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $51.34M Lead Role: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, | Director: Doug Liman, The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. |
| | Hot Shots! (1991)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $69.47M Lead Role: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, | Director: Jim Abrahams, A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. |
| | Broken Arrow (1996)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $70.45M Lead Role: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, | Director: John Woo, Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans. |
| | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $37.76M Lead Role: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, | Director: Kerry Conran, After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world. |
| | Green Lantern (2011)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 39 | Earnings: $116.59M Lead Role: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, | Director: Martin Campbell, Reckless test pilot Hal Jordan is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers that inducts him into an intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps. |
| | The TV Set (2006)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $0.27M Lead Role: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, | Director: Jake Kasdan, The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the Network TV process of casting, production and finally airing. |
| | The Rocketeer (1991)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $46.70M Lead Role: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, | Director: Joe Johnston, A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high flying masked hero. |
| | Blue Thunder (1983)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $42.30M Lead Role: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, | Director: John Badham, The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle. |
| | The Aeronauts (2019)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Vincent Perez, | Director: Tom Harper, Balloon pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s. |
| | San Andreas (2015)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $155.18M Lead Role: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Colton Haynes, | Director: Brad Peyton, 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. |
| | Always (1989)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 50 | Earnings: $43.86M Lead Role: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, | Director: Steven Spielberg, The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind. |
| | Restless (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 47 | Earnings: $0.16M Lead Role: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, | Director: Gus Van Sant, The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII. |
| | Six Days Seven Nights (1998)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 51 | Earnings: $74.33M Lead Role: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, | Director: Ivan Reitman, Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island. |
| | Canopy (2013)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $0.01M Lead Role: Khan Chittenden, Morning Tzu-Yi Mo, Robert Menzies, Edwina Wren, | Director: Aaron Wilson, Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of ... |
| | Zaytoun (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 39 | Earnings: $0.04M Lead Role: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Nofi, | Director: Eran Riklis, Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond. |
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