机长弗兰克（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）与飞机打交道多年，这次他将负责一架“凤凰号”货机，运送一批石油工人和物资到北京去。然而令他意想不到的是，飞机在途中遇到了风暴，弗兰克不得不迫降在荒无人烟的内蒙古戈壁滩上。幸好死伤人员并不多，然而他们的储备水却只够维持一个月的使用，但在一个月内能等到救援的可能性有如买彩票。饥饿和慌张中，幸存者间开始了各种意见分歧与争吵。最后一名自称是飞机设计师的乘客提议，用飞机残骸再造一架飞机自救。然而造飞机并非想象中那么简单，人心在不断尝试中渐渐消耗，仅存的生命之水也越来越少，重伤的“凤凰”还能否在广漠戈壁中涅槃重生？　　本片翻拍自1965年同名电影，两者皆改编自英国小说家Elleston Trevor的同名小说。

Russian operatives hijack a commercial American jet, planning to crash it into a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. resulting in fallout that will devastate the Eastern seaboard. With little time for Air Force fighters to shoot it down, the passengers and crew aboard the aircraft must rely on their own military and civilian training to stop the terrorists before it's too late.

John Wood left the pieces of a broken civilisation behind, to go back to his roots in the woodland, after a virus pandemic struck the world. Residing in a simple cabin, he only wants peace and to live in harmony with nature. Coming from a long line of timber men, he joined the army and served as a soldier for many years. Rebelling against his superiors for killing civilians under martial law. John feels he got his own wife killed when saving hundreds of innocent civilians from certain death. His wife executed point blank as retribution for John's disobedience and supposed heroic acts. Now, a young woman named Maria Johnson has escaped a pandemic research lab. She's been part of experiments to find a cure for the still raging virus. Carrying the potential cure in her blood, she is hunted by profiteers and mercenaries who knows her secret. Coming upon John's cabin in the woods, Maria is instinctively taken into shelter by John. He wants her to recover fast and leave, but by learning her...

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美籍游客贝克特在希腊发生严重车祸后，发现自己莫名身处一场危险政治阴谋的核心。为了保命，他被迫展开逃亡。

一名年迈的圣佩德罗歹徒试图与他的孩子们重新联系，并纠正他过去的错误，但犯罪的黑社会不会自愿放松他们的控制。