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82
7.6
/115043/
72
/2768/
71
/1587/
3.7
/58963/
90
/209/
83
/6638/
90
/40/
cc age 16+

United 93 (2006)
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
poster
82
7.8
/8964/
73
/224/
73
/138/
3.9
/11096/
96
/78/
90
/341/
83
/27/

Bus 174 (2002)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
poster
80
7.6
/25077/
74
/497/
73
/229/
3.5
/8788/
100
/12/
84
/68/

Neerja (2016)
Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
poster
80
7.8
/516137/
78
/16500/
75
/7308/
3.8
/365847/
93
/280/
89
/6809/
82
/48/
cc age 14+

Captain Phillips (2013)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.6
/40501/
75
/1141/
74
/599/
4.1
/74898/
98
/45/
88
/930/
68
/4/

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.1
/17983/
71
/546/
68
/287/
3.7
/7272/
96
/110/
76
/278/
82
/26/

A Hijacking (2012)
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/32239/
72
/538/
69
/336/
3.5
/11335/
82
/130/
86
/1673/
70
/35/
cc age 17+

Tsotsi (2005)
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
poster
82
75
7.7
/4646/
77
/114/
77
/97/
4.3
/10729/
91
/44/
91
/64/
79
/22/

Eureka (2001)
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
poster
Netflix
74
6.6
/3214/
65
/186/
69
/63/
3.7
/23871/
91
/23/
84
/25/
cc age 15+

Good News (2025)
When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.
poster
FXNow
67
6.9
/336954/
71
/10066/
67
/4537/
3.5
/198445/
59
/70/
75
/12754/
52
/23/
cc age 17+

Con Air (1997)
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
66
6.8
/11955/
69
/805/
74
/415/
3.3
/35011/
66
/35/
65
/32/
70
/4/

Emergency Declaration (2022)
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
poster
64
6.8
/59689/
66
/1061/
64
/712/
2.9
/12174/
46
/153/
62
/7946/
55
/34/
cc age 16+

Rendition (2007)
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
poster
64
6.5
/147301/
67
/3967/
65
/2556/
3.2
/66460/
68
/56/
53
/2659/
59
/16/
cc age 15+

Cliffhanger (1993)
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
poster
64
6.9
/286166/
71
/11416/
68
/5619/
3.1
/142417/
62
/228/
63
/3709/
56
/41/
cc age 14+

Non-Stop (2014)
Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.
poster
63
6.5
/64881/
68
/2001/
63
/1002/
3.1
/28559/
62
/42/
53
/1064/
62
/20/
cc age 15+

Executive Decision (1996)
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
poster
71
56
6.8
/3954/
70
/272/
67
/131/
3.4
/8533/
84
/12/

Hijack 1971 (2024)
Based on a real event, an easy Korean domestic flight bound for Gimpo takes an ill-fated turn when one of the passengers, Yong-dae (Yeo Jin-goo), hijacks the plane with a bomb, demanding to change the flight’s path to North Korea, where his brother lives. With the captain (Sung Dong-il) losing his eyesight from the initial bomb blast, co-pilot Tae-in takes over the flight and fights to save the lives of the passengers, along with the flight attendant Ok-soon (Chae Soo-bin).
poster
58
52
6.2
/6210/
64
/256/
66
/273/
3.2
/4109/
39
/24/

God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...
poster
51
5.9
/53217/
64
/1980/
59
/1084/
2.9
/21970/
30
/27/
38
/909/
50
/19/
cc age 15+

Passenger 57 (1992)
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
51
6.7
/2038/
75
/134/
71
/50/
3.2
/3566/

Okay! Madam (2020)
A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.
poster
50
5.8
/13691/
63
/505/
55
/316/
2.9
/7426/
50
/12/
32
/169/
36
/7/

Airport '77 (1977)
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
poster
69
42
7.1
/4063/
68
/84/
68
/19/
3.3
/1668/
70
/10/
71
/2/

Omertà (2018)
A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
poster
Netflix
50
41
5.2
/39012/
52
/392/
53
/78/
2.2
/15675/
43
/7/
60
/5/
cc age 16+

Beast (2022)
A former RAW officer, who is among the hostages in a mall taken over by terrorists, has to foil their plans and prevent the government from releasing a dreaded terrorist, who he had helped put in prison at great personal cost.
poster
49
33
5.6
/2693/
62
/54/
55
/73/
2.9
/1124/
50
/6/
18
/18/

Ransom (1974)
Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
33
5.5
/1985/
62
/330/
60
/79/
3.2
/499/
56
/2/

Mythica: The Iron Crown (2016)
When a team of unlikely heroes hijacks a steam-powered battle wagon, a daring young wizard (Marek) steals the final piece of the all-powerful Darkspore and embarks on a desperate quest to deliver the cursed artifact to the gods for safe keeping; but when they are caught in a death race between a ruthless team of elite mercenaries and a trinity of demons, Marek must learn to believe in herself before her friends are killed and the Darkspore is lost, to stop the evil necromancer (Szorlok) from uniting the Darkspore and flooding the living world with his legions of undead.
poster
52
31
5.7
/2630/
63
/43/
61
/52/
2.9
/963/
25
/21/

Skyjacked (1972)
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
poster
68
27
6.7
/510/
68
/10/
72
/6/
3.5
/491/
50
/6/
84
/30/

Scrap Heaven (2005)
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
24
5.3
/1282/
56
/32/
52
/20/
3.0
/537/
35
/7/
68
/4/

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
poster
63
21
5.8
/713/
56
/88/
59
/31/
2.9
/594/
88
/3/

High Forces (2024)
"Anyone? There is ......" A mysterious message from Gao Haojun comes from ten thousand meters in the air. A five-star A380 ultra-luxury airliner was hijacked on its international maiden voyage, and international security expert Gao Haojun stood up to a group of thugs, his daughter Xiaojun was trapped in the cabin, and Mike, the leader of the hijackers, threatened the lives of more than 800 people in the plane as a bargaining chip, and Xiaojun's mother, Fu Yuan, was also in danger. ...... Will the passengers on board be able to land safely and how should this crisis be resolved?
poster
Starz
37
21
4.3
/2536/
49
/48/
44
/61/
2.6
/655/
14
/7/
22
/23/

Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
poster
The Roku Channel
36
16
3.8
/996/
34
/17/
47
/27/
27
/23/

Crash Landing (2006)
When a hostage situation arises on-board a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on-board. Major John Masters (Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorist and land the plane.
poster
57
16
5.5
/1008/
54
/19/
55
/23/
3.2
/219/

The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
poster
43
15
3.4
/473/
45
/10/
37
/13/
2.8
/394/
43

Kandahar (2010)
Another mission with Mahadevan and crew, as they deal with international terrorism with a flight being hijacked by hardcore terrorists.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
12
6.9
/870/
60
/10/
53
/10/
3.3
/209/
64
/9/

The Hamburg Cell (2004)
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
32
5
3.7
/421/
37
/13/
44
/12/
12
/3/

Fatal Conflict (2000)
In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.
poster
?
100
/1/

Cipher in the Clouds (2025)
Inspired by the mystery around D.B. Cooper, two relentless detectives' interview a flight attendant trying to crack the case for what truly happened on board of flight 305. Will she provide the details needed to capture the notorious skyjacker, or will it lead to another dead end?
poster
68
?
6.4
/353/
66
/52/
75
/15/

Hijacked: Flight 73 (2023)
On 5 September 1986, Palestinian terrorists stormed Pan Am Flight 73 as it stalled on the Karachi Airport tarmac. Exploring what happened over the next 16 hours, including the death of 21 passengers, in a day that would change terrorist operations for ever.
poster
?
5.0
/6/
10
/1/
10
/1/

The Sky Pirate (1969)
Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba.
poster
?
8.2
/17/

Barefooted (2012)
A young taxi driver has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for quite some time. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror. However, things change when two young man try to hijack his car in the middle of Georgian suburb.
poster
71
?
6.8
/138/
67
/12/
80
/1/

The Last Promise (2010)
"Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.
poster
50
?
4.8
/117/
33
/3/
70
/1/

Hostage (1987)
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
34
?
5.9
/158/
10
/1/

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
poster
60
?
5.8
/89/
60
/20/
62
/3/

GameStop: The Wall Street Hijack (2021)
A group of young, risk-embracing day traders used social media to organize a massive stock buy-up. Jordan Belfort provides details about the story, exploring how it shook the world's markets.
poster
The Roku Channel
48
?
5.3
/177/
37
/7/
56
/5/

This Is a Hijack (1973)
A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
44
?
4.4
/221/
37
/8/
48
/6/

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
poster
66
?
6.8
/322/
65
/13/
67
/3/

De Punt (2009)
More than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expectations or hidden agenda.
poster
58
?
6.2
/132/
60
/2/
52
/4/

It May Happen to You (1937)
From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
poster
46
?
3.6
/309/
52
/9/
51
/14/

Cabin Pressure (2001)
A fully automated commercial jetliner is prepared to make its maiden voyage. Without an on-flight pilot, the craft relies on satellite linking for its course. But when the plane suddenly deviates from its determined route and establishes a circular pattern over Seattle, it becomes evident that the craft has been hijacked by a disgruntled former airline employee who has hacked into the flight's computer system from his apartment, somewhere in the United States. Now, a former discredited Navy pilot and an oddball technician must race against the clock to find where the angry employee is, and regain control of the plane before it crashes into the city.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
?
5.7
/283/
47
/4/
66
/4/

Flight to Hong Kong (1956)
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.


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