Many people are afraid of flying and others are even more afraid that something bad will happen on the plane while they are on board. This is why bringing together viewers’ greatest fears and associating them with an isolated vehicle (like a plane) tends to be so successful in audiovisual productions: everyone is curious to see the terrible situations that can happen during a flight, but without being inside self. Below, see a list of five of the best airplane thrillers to stream.
1. Night Flight (2005)
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is returning home after attending her grandmother’s funeral in Texas. While she waits for the last available flight, she meets the charming Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who keeps her company until boarding.
Entering the plane, already a little worried because she hates flying, Lisa is surprised to reach her seat and realize that Jackson is sitting next to her. Some time after the plane takes off, she confesses to the woman that she needs her help to kill a powerful politician who will be staying in the hotel where she works and, if she refuses, a professional assassin will kill her father.
The work is available to Netflix and Prime Video subscribers.
2. Blood Red Sky (2021)
Nadja (Peri Baumeister) is a mysterious woman with a blood disease. One day she and her son travel by plane to the United States to find a doctor who can help her. In the middle of the flight, however, a group of terrorists hijacks the plane and scares the passengers, killing anyone who tries to stop them.
Meanwhile, Nadja distances herself from her son and, in her search, the terrorists misinterpret her behavior and fire a series of shots at her. But she, contrary to what everyone thought, was not dead. And now that her son has been taken away from her, she is forced to reveal her true nature to take him back and survive until the end of the escape. What no one expected, however, was that a bloodthirsty monster was hiding under the skin of an apparently defenseless woman.
Available on Netflix, the film also features names like Dominic Purcell, Alexander Schr, Kais Setti and Nele Kiper.
3.7500 (2019)
Shortly after taking off from a Berlin airport, a plane attempts to be hijacked by a group of terrorists. In the panic generated inside the plane, one of the criminals manages to enter the pilot’s cabin to take control of the vehicle, but is arrested by pilot Tobias Ellis (Levitt). Now he will have to pilot the plane alone and guide it to an emergency landing under pressure from the other hijackers, who will do everything possible to invade the cabin and complete the hijacking of the plane.
7500 is an Amazon Prime Video original film starring actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
4. Nonstop (2014)
Bill is a police officer who is on a plane. Some time after takeoff, he receives an SMS message from an unknown person, saying that one person inside the plane will die every 20 minutes if $150 million is not deposited into a bank account.
Initially Bill appears pragmatic and does not let the threats shake him, believing them to be empty words. But when the first passenger dies, he decides to launch an investigation on board to find out who is responsible for the crime.
The film stars Liam Neeson, but also features names like Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, and Lupita Nyong’o. It is available on Globoplay, Prime Video and Telecine services.
5. Flight Plan (2005)
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful engineer who has designed several things, including the plane he will board to leave Germany directly for New York. Together with her young daughter, they intend to bury Kyle’s husband as soon as they disembark, but an unexpected event changes the tranquility of the escape: the woman wakes up in the middle of the night and her daughter has disappeared.
While looking for the girl, he realizes that none of the passengers have seen her and that none of the crew can find her, saying that the girl didn’t even get on the plane because there is no record of her in the plane documents . As a result, Kyle becomes desperate and begins searching for the entire flight while he tries to stay sane knowing that his daughter is still alive.
Those interested can find the film on the Star+ platform.
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