Here are our seven favorite movies that take place on planes. A Note Before We Board We want to clarify The post The Mile ...

A lot of things can happen on an airplane. You can fall in love, catch a criminal, or even get into an all-out-war with a bunch of snakes. We, of course, are talking about movies. Movies that take ...

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An airplane is a vehicle for transporting passengers, but for Hollywood, it’s a conduit for a good story. There’s something about setting a movie 30,000 feet in the air that facilitates action.

From "Snakes on a Plane" to "Airplane!" these films have lessons for fliers. Sept. 9, 2009 — -- I've always loved the movie "Airplane!" and I defy anyone to see it and not laugh out loud. It's a ...

There are plane movies—the sort that you might want to watch when you're stuck in the middle seat of a long flight—and then there are plane movies that are actually about planes. Given how a lot of ...

Airplanes changed travel. They also changed movies. Over the years, many a film has been set on a plane, or largely revolved around a plane. There have been thrillers, horror movies, and comedies ...

“Flight Risk,” a thriller on board an airplane, opens this week and features a rare villainous turn from Mark Wahlberg. It follows recent flight-centric films like “Carry-On,” “In Flight” and “No Way ...

You know the feeling: the pilot announces that you've hit cruising altitude. You turn on a movie, and just as someone on screen peels their clothes off or starts spewing blood, a flight attendant ...

This past weekend, I slid into an assigned seat on what I think was the biggest airplane I have ever been on. Stuck between a window and a stranger for a flight over the Atlantic, I decided to seize ...

Francis Ford Coppola may not have had any input in the Naked Gun films/TV show, but without him, they wouldn't exist. It all starts with the Airplane! sequel. The key actors from the 1980 film ...