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Name these movies in which airplanes and/or airports play a significant role.
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1970
Burt Lancaster runs an airport as a bomber threatens a commercial flight
Airport
1980
Leslie Nielsen headlines this spoof about a traumatized pilot forced to land a plane
Airplane!
1986
Tom Cruise plays Navy pilot Maverick training at an elite fighter school
Top Gun
1990
Matthew Modine leads a WWII bomber crew on their final mission over Nazi Germany
Memphis Belle
1992
Wesley Snipes battles terrorists who hijack a commercial airliner
Passenger 57
1996
Kurt Russell races to stop terrorists planning a chemical attack from a hijacked plane
Executive Decision
1997
Nicolas Cage plays a paroled convict aboard a hijacked prisoner transport flight
Con Air
1997
Harrison Ford is a U.S. president fighting terrorists aboard his aircraft
Air Force One
2001
Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett star in Michael Bay’s WWII epic
Pearl Harbor
2004
Leonardo DiCaprio plays aviation pioneer Howard Hughes
The Aviator
2005
Jodie Foster searches for her missing daughter on a transatlantic flight
Flightplan
2005
Rachel McAdams is terrorized mid-flight by Cillian Murphy in a Wes Craven thriller
Red Eye
2006
Real-time drama about passengers resisting the 9/11 hijackers
United 93
2006
Samuel L. Jackson battles deadly reptiles unleashed aboard a commercial flight
Snakes on a Plane
2012
Denzel Washington plays a troubled pilot investigated after a miraculous crash landing
Flight
2016
Tom Hanks portrays pilot Chesley Sullenberger of the Hudson River emergency landing
Sully
2019
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a pilot trapped in the cockpit during a hijacking
7500
2022
Tom Cruise returns to train a new generation of fighter pilots
Top Gun: Maverick
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