Flight Crew

Flight Crew (2016) is a Russian action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Nikolai Lebedev built the film around Alexei Gushin, a military pilot cashiered for defying a senseless order. His only route back to flying runs through a civil airline job — and a crew that has no interest in liking him. Danila Kozlovsky and Vladimir Mashkov lead the cast.

Gushin lands under the command of hard-nosed captain Leonid Zinchenko, while his co-pilot Alexandra keeps him at arm's length. The tension inside the cockpit is constant and low-grade — until a distress signal from a volcano-ravaged island turns a routine flight into something else entirely. Three people who can barely stand each other have to decide how far they are willing to go.

One of the costliest Russian productions of its year, the film delivers its disaster and emergency-landing sequences on a genuine big-screen scale. Stream Flight Crew (2016) online on iFILM.