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

If you couldn't tell already, airplane thrillers pretty much all follow a similar format, usually involving a hijacking of some kind, but "Flightplan" is the only plane film to take place on an Elgin E-474, a novelty double-decker — though nothing is novelty about the experience these passengers are in for. Making the long flight from Germany to New York to bury her husband is airplane engineer Kyle Pratt, along with her young daughter. Upon waking from a peaceful nap, Kyle realizes the seat next to her, her daughter's seat, is empty. In a panic, she begins searching the double-decker plane, though the captain and the air marshal say Kyle's daughter never boarded the plan.