If You Liked Flight of the Phoenix, Watch These Next
Finished Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Flight of the Phoenix, most of them are action, adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.North Sea Hijack(1980)
6.3ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and adventure
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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2.The Edge(1997)
6.9ActionAdventureDramaAlso action and adventure
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them --…
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4.The Call of the Wild(1972)
6.1AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part…
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5.Deepwater Horizon(2016)
6.9DramaActionAlso drama and action
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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6.News of the World(2020)
6.9DramaWesternAdventureAlso drama and adventure
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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7.San Andreas(2015)
6.3ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
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8.The High and the Mighty(1954)
5.9AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight that takes a terrifying turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean after the point of no return.
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9.100 Rifles(1969)
5.9AdventureWesternWarAlso adventure and drama
When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is thrown into prison as well. Working together, the two escape and take…
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10.Cave Rescue(2019)
5.9AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
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11.Alive(1993)
6.9AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
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12.The Perfect Storm(2000)
6.5DramaAdventureActionAlso drama and adventure
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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13.Dark of the Sun(1968)
6.5WarAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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14.Gold(2016)
6.6AdventureDramaThrillerAlso adventure and drama
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
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15.Gray Lady Down(1978)
6.5ThrillerDramaActionAlso drama and action
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
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16.Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time(2010)
6.3AdventureFantasyActionAlso adventure and action
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
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17.The Cowboys(1972)
7.1WesternAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang…
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19.Brothers Under Fire(2026)
5.9ActionThrillerMysteryAlso action and drama
Captain Jordan Wright's squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel. As Jordan tries to lead survivors to safety, war erupts between his squad and the cartel, forcing him into a battle to save his men.
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20.2012(2009)
5.9ActionAdventureScience FictionAlso action and adventure
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for…
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