The families of two pilots killed in a plane crash during the filming of the Tom Cruise movie American Made have filed a lawsuit which alleges the star was partly to blame for the accident.

The crash, which occurred in September 2015 in Colombia, left pilots Alan Purwin, 51, and Carlos Berl, 58, dead, while fellow passenger Jimmy Lee Garland, 55, was left partly paralysed.

The families of Purwin and Berl are suing the producers of the film for wrongful death and damages, claiming that they "cut corners" and ignored basic safety procedures in a rush to save time and money.

While they're not named as defendants in the lawsuit, Cruise and director Doug Liman are singled out for "negligence", with the families citing the duo's "desire to film a high-risk, action-packed motion picture" as partly responsible for the accident.