Take Flight With These 30 Aviation Movies, From Thrillers to Rom-Coms

Featuring acclaimed actor Denzel Washington, "Flight" follows commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker after his aircraft suffers a mechanical malfunction at 30,000 feet, sending him and everyone aboard his plane toward a track of homes. Somehow, he pulls off a miraculous crash-landing. He's praised and immediately dubbed an aviation hero, but all that quickly begins to fade when a lawyer for the airline shows up and reveals that Whip's blood sample from the hospital — where he was being treated the night of the crash — shows that he had alcohol in his system. A crash investigation unfolds, and Whip's drug and alcohol addictions and more come to light.