Movies and TV shows like Moby Dick 1998

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Moby Dick (1998)
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Moby Dick (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, epic, costume drama, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, sea, ocean, captain, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, whale, friendship, danger, water, shipwreck, creature, pirate, revenge, nature, killer animal, hunting, sea monster, courage, animal, moby dick, sea battle, whaling, obsession, friends ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about ocean, escapades, ship, sea, danger, survival and boat mostly in Adventure, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Moby Dick: The North Water (2021), In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Black Sails (2014), Crusoe (2008), Shackleton (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The North Water (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: arctic, expedition, north pole, whaling, scientific expedition, struggle for survival, psycho killer, sea, ship, sailor, psychopath, irishman ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, victorian era
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Moby Dick (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ocean, ship, whale, survival, hunt down, obsessive quest, danger, rivalry, dangerous animal, sea, self destructing, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: nova scotia
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style: scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Black Sails (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspense, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pirate, captain, pirate ship, swashbuckler, island, treasure, gold, treasure hunt, ship, graphic violence, danger, sea ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, ancient times
Place: caribbean, syria, america, west indies
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Crusoe (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Plot: survival, ocean, storm, wisdom of life, sea disaster, friends, wise man, isolation, friendship, escapades, shipwreck, sacrifice ...
Time: 17th century, 18th century
Place: england, fictional island
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100%
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style: exciting, tense, period piece, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, sea, military, leadership, friendship, naval battle, heroic mission, expedition ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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100%
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Shackleton (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style: serious, suspenseful, epic, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: expedition, adventurer, survival, explorer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, danger, ambition, forces of nature, nature, sea ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century, year 1914
Place: antarctica, south pole, britain, england
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100%
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Orca (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer whale, whale, ocean, survival, killer animal, dangerous animal, ship, revenge, sea, fish, animal attack, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Whale (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: whale, lost at sea, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, shipwreck, rescue, isolation, catastrophe ...
Time: 19th century
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Sea Wolf (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: captain, ship, ocean, survival, expedition, danger, sea disaster, isolation, escapades, writer's life, self discovery, sailing ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prehistoric animal, underwater, heroes, obsessive quest, obsession, danger, dangerous animal, chases and races, escapades, losing-it hero, rivalry, deadly creature ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Plot: pirate, pirate ship, sea battle, ocean, sailboat, child in peril, sword fight, pirate captain, kidnapping, danger, escapades, ship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, victorian era, 1870s
Place: jamaica, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Sea Wolf (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ocean, sailing, ship, boat, survival, captain, courage, die hard, pirate, sea voyage, attempted rape, psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Sea Wolf (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story: The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: ship, ocean, survival, castaway, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, storm at sea, violence, sea, social differences ...
Time: year 2008, 1920s, 1900s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
Plot: yacht, spy, military, sailing, ocean, espionage, undercover, state affairs, danger, conquering, heroes, ship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: germany, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Black Sea (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Plot: submarine, underwater, boat, treasure hunt, sea, ocean, gold, isolation, heist, danger, greed, murder ...
Time: year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place: black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Treasure Island (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story: Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: treasure hunt, pirate, expedition, treasure map, island, ship, treasure, adventurer, heroes, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time: 18th century
Place: england, fictional island, caribbean
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40%
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The Reef (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, shark, survival, ocean, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark, panic, dangerous animal, diving, killer animal, boat ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Crossbones (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part ...
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, historical drama, realistic ...
Plot: pirate, danger, escapades, notoriety, rivalry, medieval, terrorizing, sailing, criminal, captain, sorcery, revolution ...
Time: 18th century
Place: bahamas
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39%
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
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39%
The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot: sea, killer animal, animal, creature, water, nature, elderly, fish, fisherman, obsessive quest, survival, lone wolves ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: exciting, serious, period piece, feel good, period drama
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, sailing, battles, pirate, sea, french revolution, napoleonic era, success, swashbuckler, boat ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 18th century
Place: north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Deadliest Sea (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Plot: ship, survival, coast guard, escapades, danger, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, sea, boat, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, period piece ...
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, ship captain, military, sea battle, battles, military life, couples, danger, rescue, treason, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Deep (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, diving, shipwreck, sea, chase, kidnapping, see through clothes, survival ...
Place: haiti, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
Style: suspense, christmas horror, scary, natural horror, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, boat, monster, killer animal, water, creature, fish, animal attack, creature feature, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: bahamas, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's ...
Style: period piece, feel good, serious, exciting, period drama
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, sea battle, pirate, sailing, heroes, napoleonic era, sea, swashbuckler, seafaring, fish, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a ...
Style: epic, psychological, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mutiny, ship, ocean, captain, brutality, betrayal, leadership, sea, tyrant, rebelliousness, military, sailing ...
Time: 18th century, year 1962, victorian era, 1780s, georgian era
Place: tahiti, england, persia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Jaws 3-D (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a ...
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, classic horror, anime ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, boat, creature, fish, underwater, water, animal attack, amusement park, shark attack, creature feature, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: florida, orlando florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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