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1. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.

Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal

Votes: 292,069 | Gross: $46.37M

2. Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In rural Arizona, countless killer tarantulas are migrating through a farm town, killing every living thing in their path. The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught.

Director: John 'Bud' Cardos | Stars: William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Lieux Dressler

Votes: 6,188 | Gross: $17.00M

3. Gleaming the Cube (1989)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A young avid skateboarder uncovers a government conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.

Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Le Tuan

Votes: 9,045 | Gross: $2.78M

4. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)

50 min | Drama

Follows the lives of a group of medical professions working for the Flying Doctors Service in the remote Australian outback.

Stars: Lenore Smith, Maurie Fields, Robert Grubb, Val Jellay

Votes: 1,041

5. 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: 11,681 | Gross: $3.65M

6. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror

Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.

Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 16,693 | Gross: $0.55M

7. Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

Daring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop the Germans from changing the outcome of WWI.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing

Votes: 3,367 | Gross: $0.11M

8. Shock (1977)

R | 93 min | Horror

A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.

Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov

Votes: 4,682

9. Scarecrows (1988)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Horror

Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.

Director: William Wesley | Stars: Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn

Votes: 5,658

10. The Arrangement (1969)

R | 125 min | Drama, Romance

An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone

Votes: 3,386 | Gross: $8.72M

11. Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)

R | 103 min | Action, War

Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.

Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim

Votes: 7,183 | Gross: $6.19M

12. Rituals (1977)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.

Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James

Votes: 3,078

13. The Bellboy (1960)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy

Mute bellboy Stanley works at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. In spite of being a serviceable and friendly employee, the clumsy Stanley gets successively into trouble with his mistakes.

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Sonnie Sands

Votes: 4,809

14. Above and Beyond (1952)

Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War

Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating

Votes: 1,342

15. La poliziotta a New York (1981)

91 min | Comedy

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Alvaro Vitali, Giacomo Rizzo, Edith Peters

Votes: 287

16. The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Husband and wife pilots Mike Dandridge and Maggie Colby try to balance their time and priorities between work and family life.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Lana Turner, Jeff Chandler, Richard Denning, Andra Martin

Votes: 224

17. Mercury 13 (2018)

TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary

After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for the spaceflight.

Directors: David Sington, Heather Walsh | Stars: Wally Funk, Rhea Woltman, Sarah Ratley, Bob Steadman

Votes: 1,292

18. Action in Arabia (1944)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 608

19. Porky in Wackyland (1938)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert Clampett, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 2,270

20. Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Aldrich Bowker

Votes: 844

21. Trans (1998)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his ... See full summary »

Director: Julian Goldberger | Stars: Lynn Boyd, Jon Daugherty, Ryan Daugherty, Stephanie Davis

Votes: 431 | Gross: $0.01M

22. Hare Lift (1952)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bank robber Yosemite Sam forces Bugs to try to fly the largest airplane in the world.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 402

23. Penguin for Your Thoughts (1956)

7 min | Animation, Short

Casper discovers a baby penguin and is determined to help the little guy journey to the South Pole.

Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Tom Golden | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Sid Raymond, Cecil Roy

Votes: 38

24. Amazon: Guardians of Eden (1992 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy

Occasionally violent cinematic point and click adventure that mimics the style and feel of the 1940s adventure film serials. In 1957, explorer Jason Roberts travels to the Amazon river basin to find his missing brother.

Stars: Travis Durango, Pamela Vanderwerff, Jon Clark, DeeAnn Blair

25. Rocketeer (1991 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Action adventure game based on The Rocketeer (1991) . With the help of his trusty plane and Howard Hughes' jet pack prototype, stunt pilot Cliff Secord must fight Nazi spies in 1930s L.A. both on the ground and in the air.

Votes: 51

26. Ejection decision - A second too late! (1981)

21 min | Short

Reasons that lead to the deterioration of the survival rate of USAF crew members in out-of-control aircraft are discussed. Pilots who used the ejection seat share their experiences.

Stars: Rudy Delgado, Leland K. Lukens, Grant McNaughton

27. Airplane Academy (2019– )

Documentary

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Star: Charlie Gasmire

28. The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode: The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing (1983)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The A-Team is hired when skyjackers take over an airplane and demand $5 million.

Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz

Votes: 421

29. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: Give a Dog a Bad Name (1987)

Drama

A carnival comes to Coopers Crossing and people get killed. The murderer seems to be a boy from the carnival. Chris' father starts to be in the way for Chris and the others.

Director: Dan Burstall | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 9

30. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: The Hitch-hiker (1987)

Drama

Violet leaves for a vacation. Sam and Emma make plans for their marriage with a bit too much help from Violet. Chris' father comes to visit her. Someone hurts her eye and Geoff takes care of her.

Director: Colin Budds | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 10

31. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Sartech: Part 1 (1983)

Adventure, Drama, Family

The Hobo discovers a small aircraft crashed in a forest in the wilderness. All passengers and crew survive the crash, but some are seriously wounded and the radio doesn't work.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Ann de Villiers, Sharry Flett, Becky Garrison

Votes: 13

32. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Sartech: Part 2 (1983)

Adventure, Drama, Family

Search and rescue is dispatched, but without a working emergency transmitter, the plane is difficult to find. Some of the more seriously injured passengers' conditions worsen and another turns out to be a diabetic, short on insulin.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Tom Arnott, Michel Barrette, Ann de Villiers

Votes: 14

33. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Smoke (1979)

Adventure, Drama, Family

A provisioner aggressively sells traps and poison to help locals deal with wildlife, driven into their communities by a forest fire. A toddler ingests some poisoned meat, so a Hobo-lead team set out to fly in the antidote in poor weather.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Monte Markham, Kate Lynch, Gary Reineke

Votes: 31

34. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1996)
Episode: Foul Play in the Sky (1993)

Not Rated | 21 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Kimberly is in trouble when her uncle Steve succumbs to a sleeping potion in the middle of flying an airplane with her on board.

Director: Shuki Levy | Stars: Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, Walter Jones, Amy Jo Johnson

Votes: 552

35. Police Rescue (1989–1996)
Episode: Public Mischief (1995)

Crime, Drama

Mickey gets hooked up with a couple living life dangerous as base jumpers, while Georgia looks into a factory with a little too many work accidents.

Director: Julie Money | Stars: Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, John Clayton

36. Police Rescue (1989–1996)
Episode: The River (1996)

Crime, Drama

A small plane carrying a father and son crashes in the mountains due to bad weather. A search party is organised but the search is further complicated when Angel becomes lost as well.

Director: Scott Hartford-Davis | Stars: Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, John Clayton

37. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)
Episode: Trust No One (1995)

TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Crime

The rangers attempt to capture counterfeiters. They escape, but the rangers take the fake money into evidence. When $5 million is missing, Trivette is accused. Walker must clear Trivette's name and find the real criminals.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Noble Willingham, Sheree J. Wilson

Votes: 114

38. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: A Choice of Enemies (1986)

Drama

A young adventurer, trying to cycle to Birdsville, eats a poisonous plant and has to be airlifted out.

Director: Dan Burstall | Stars: Andrew McFarlane, Liz Burch, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bruce Barry

Votes: 12

39. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Misplaced (2012)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Earth's 5 most powerful sorcerers make all the adults on the planet disappear, it's up to the Team, Zatanna, and Billy Batson to stop them.

Director: Michael Chang | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Jesse McCartney, Stephanie Lemelin, Danica McKellar

Votes: 3,200

40. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: The Green Mill Murder (2012)

TV-PG | 55 min | Crime, Drama, History

Miss Fisher's plans to enjoy a night in a Jazz club are interrupted by a puzzling crime when a man collapses suddenly on the dance floor, murdered.

Director: Kate Dennis | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 593

41. Sugar and Spice (1989)
Episode: The Barnstormer (1989)

Comedy, Drama, Family

The arrival of a barnstorming pilot and his mechanic brings excitement and near disaster to Willsford. The pair want to organise rides for the locals and for that they need two capable assistants.

Director: John Gauci | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Michelle Kearley, Penelope Shelton, Louise Hall

42. The Flying Doctors (1985)
Episode: Part 3 (1985)

Drama, Romance

Dr Harry holds a town meeting to convince the locals of Dr Tom's worthiness, but Tom thinks Harry has turned against him and resigns. Tom leaves for Sydney and Harry gives chase to persuade him to return.

Director: Pino Amenta | Stars: Andrew McFarlane, Lorna Patterson, Keith Eden, Vikki Hammond

Votes: 7

43. Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode: O Ke Ali'i Wale No Ka'u Makemake (2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In order to stop a meth epidemic on the Island, McGarrett and Danny go undercover as pilots, but when McGarrett is seriously wounded, Danny is forced to break their cover in order to save his partner's life.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park

Votes: 580

44. The Blacklist: Redemption (2017)
Episode: Borealis 301 (2017)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

On the hunt for a ring of ruthless thieves, Tom and Mr. Solomon must go undercover on an international flight they believe will be hijacked. Howard urges Tom to find proof of a conspiracy orchestrated by Scottie.

Director: Elodie Keene | Stars: Famke Janssen, Ryan Eggold, Edi Gathegi, Tawny Cypress

Votes: 384

45. The Crown (2016–2023)
Episode: Moondust (2019)

TV-MA | 56 min | Biography, Drama, History

The 1969 moon landing occasions a mid-life crisis in Prince Philip, who thinks of the adventures he has missed as the Queen's consort.

Director: Jessica Hobbs | Stars: Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Daniels

Votes: 5,012