Updated 1 minute ago, January 1, 2025

Netflix’s became a breakout hit during the 2024 holiday season and continues to dominate the platform in 2025. If you’re looking for films with a similar storyline or craving more TSA-centric content, we got you covered.

In what became one of the most lucrative and Oscar-nominated disaster films of all time—earning 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture—Airport set the stage for the 1970s craze of “disaster” films. Unlike the terrorist-driven tension in Carry-On, Airport focuses on a dual crisis: Dean Martin stars as an airplane pilot grappling with a bomb threat, while Burt Lancaster portrays an air-traffic controller battling to keep a Chicago airport operational during a relentless snowstorm.

Directed by Wes Craven, this 30,000-foot-high thriller shares thematic similarities with Netflix’s Carry-On in its high-stakes, confined setting. Starring Rachel McAdams as a woman kidnapped by a charming but dangerous terrorist (Cillian Murphy) during a routine flight, the story spirals into a tense plot involving the assassination of a political figure. Like Carry-On, it blends personal stakes with an escalating, claustrophobic sense of tension. notes, “What could have been a forgettable summer thriller instead evolves into a slow-burning, taut narrative full of surprises,” highlighting Craven’s ability to create suspense within a real-world framework.