Since it's an aviation forum, I'll throw out a few recommendations for aviation related movies:
"Cloud Dancer" (1980)
I saw a review of this movie in Flying Magazine in 1980 when it was released as a B movie. Basically the review said "it's a great movie if you only watch it when airplane engines are running."
I saw it four years later as a VHS rental and I found that review to be spot on. It's got a hokey plot with a lot of flaws, and some less than Oscar worthy acting but the aerial sequences are superb and there are cameos from a number of well known aerobatic pilots.
"Always" (1989)
It's a remake of
"A Guy Named Joe" but moved about 45 years forward in time and set in the context of fighting forest fires where rather than flying places and bombung them until they burn, they instead fly to places that are already burning and bomb them until they go out. It's got decent acting, an ok plot, leather jackets, an A-26, a PBY, Skymaster, and a Citabria, so what's not to like.
"A Guy Named Joe" (1943)
The original version of the above movie, with B-25s and Spencer Tracy. It's a good movie to watch before or after you watch "
Always".
"The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975)
It's a great movie about the barnstorming era and the transition from WWI to the Air Commerce Act. It uses period correct aircraft including a Standard biplane and some JN-4s (and in a slight deviation from period correctness with some De Havilland Tiger Moths modified to look like JN-4s in some of the scenes).
"Airplane!" (1980)
It's a classic aviation parody comedy movie.
"Zero Hour" (1957)
If you watch
"Airplane!", you need to watch
Zero Hour, where the flashbacks and some of the characters were borrowed.
"The Blue Max" (1966)
It's a well done WWI movie. It has two Phalz D.IIIs, two Fokker DR.Is, three D.VIIs and a couple SE 5 replicas produced for the film. Other aircraft are portrayed by repainted
Tiger Moths and SV.4 Stampe biplanes.
