Movies and TV shows like The Seawolf
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The Seawolf (1971)
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Original name: Der Seewolf
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Plot:
ocean, tough guy, strong man, brutality, strength, sea captain, ship, survival, sea, revenge, sailor, violence, shipwreck, manhood, sailboat, shark attack, tyrant, adventurer, tropical island, sadism, leadership, morality, castaway, blindness, culture clash ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, pacific ocean
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Most similar movies to The Seawolf
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and captivating films and TV series with plots about survival, ship, sea, ocean, escapades, danger and seafaring mostly in Adventure, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Seawolf: The Sea Wolf (2008), Crusoe (2008), Moby Dick (2011), Sea Wolf (2009), Robinson Crusoe (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
ship, ocean, storm at sea, violence, sea, castaway, survival, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, social differences ...
Time:
year 2008, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
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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, shipwreck, desert island, ocean, sea disaster, wise man, wisdom of life, friends, storm, isolation, friendship, escapades ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century
Place:
england, fictional island
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
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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:
realistic, exciting, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, whale, ship, obsessive quest, hunt down, rivalry, dangerous animal, danger, lost at sea, ocean, self destructing, escapades ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
nova scotia
Similarity:
77%
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:
ship, ocean, captain, survival, danger, expedition, isolation, sea disaster, self discovery, escapades, writer's life, sailing ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, female nudity, ship ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, oceania, pacific ocean, scotland, london
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.
The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its ...
Style:
costume drama, retro, period piece, period drama
Plot:
sailing, victorian england, sea, yacht, boat, sailboat, sailor, port, brother brother relationship, crew, ocean, ship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
britain, england, liverpool
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 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, serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, sea, ocean, captain, whale, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, danger, friendship, water, shipwreck, creature ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The First Circumvalation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Style:
epic, tense, captivating, disturbing, heroic ...
Plot:
sea voyage, spanish history, sea adventure, exploration, ship, sea disaster, traveler, travel, explorer, historical figure, danger, survival ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain, atlantic ocean, pacific ocean, the philippines, portugal
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story:
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, humorous
Plot:
island, survival, isolation, slavery, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, shipwreck, robinson crusoe, pets, goat, parrot, tropical island ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria, Switzerland, West Germany, Hungary, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
heroic, tension, suspense, period drama
Audience:
kids
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, traitor, dangerous mission, bravery, pursuit, military, imperial russia, treachery, threat, loyalty, courage ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
siberia, russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
49%
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:
costume drama, epic, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutiny, ship, ocean, brutality, corporal punishment, betrayal, captain, native tribe, language barrier, discipline, leadership, tyrant ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, victorian era, year 1962, georgian era ...
Place:
tahiti, england, persia, europe
Similarity:
47%
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, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, sailing, ship, boat, survival, captain, attempted rape, courage, die hard, pirate ship, sea voyage, pirate ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story:
A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, danger, on the run, escapades, female whipping, prisoner, society, injustice, life is a bitch, sailing ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place:
australia, england, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
nautical, suspense, atmospheric, tension, melancholic ...
Plot:
adventurer, treasure hunt, sea, shipwreck, sailor, rivalry, treasure, mediterranean, obsession, moral ambiguity, auction, exploration ...
Place:
barcelona
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
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Story:
Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, dark, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
revenge, mastermind, vengeance, betrayal, identity, escape, justice, literary, confined, corruption, sailor, disguise ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france, marseille
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Frank at the last minute for the start of the Vendée Globe. Nine days into the race and leading, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, suspenseful
Plot:
sea, ocean, sailing, once in a lifetime opportunity, follow your dream, contests and competitions, rivalry, escapades, adventurer, human spirit, ship, navigator ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
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Story:
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, realistic ...
Plot:
adventurer, medieval, heroes, heroic mission, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, hopes, political unrest, culture clash, society, priest ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century
Place:
asia, china, venice, italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 65 min.
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Story:
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is ...
Style:
sincere, intense, light, exciting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
travel, sea, adventurer, ship captain, journey, obsessive quest, ship, summer, sea adventure, youth, avalanche, scientist ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
fictional island, ussr, patagonia, australia, new zealand
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
An ordinary teen boy on one extreme adventure after another!
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, light ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
jungle, shark, ocean, tornado, jungle adventure, boy, teenage boy, con artists, brother brother relationship, danger, adventurer, twister ...
Similarity:
41%
680
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, crime thriller, dark, noir ...
Plot:
gold mine, jungle, survival, danger, golddigger, organized crime, power struggle, moral ambiguity, violence, betrayal, smuggling, greed ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, captivating
Plot:
island, isolation, shipwreck, teenager, survival, stranded, danger, teamwork, friendship, exploration, lost civilization, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure
Country: France
TV show
Style:
historical drama, period piece, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
pirate, accused of murder, countryside, ocean, honor, wrongful accusation, justice, sailor, rural setting, village, water, adventure hero ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
264
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 390 min.
TV show
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, tension, period drama
Plot:
kidnapping, manhunt, escape, friendship, betrayal, conspiracy, survival, fugitive, coming of age, loyalty, moral ambiguity, sea voyage ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 520 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
penal colony, wrongful imprisonment, colonization, victorian england, mutiny, prison, false accusation, literary, convict, society, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
australia, tasmania
Similarity:
34%
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:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
arctic, expedition, north pole, struggle for survival, whaling, sea, scientific expedition, psycho killer, sailor, ship, irishman, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era
Similarity:
34%
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, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Style:
tense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot:
mutiny, napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, ship captain, injustice, navy, courtroom drama, male male relationship, ocean, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
18th century, year 1962, 1790s, georgian era
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
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Story:
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to ...
Style:
period piece, semi serious, sincere, epic, captivating ...
Plot:
sea voyage, ship, sea captain, fall in love, imperialism, introspection, social differences, unlikely couple, escapades, military, teaching the ways of the world, wooing ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, georgian era, regency period
Place:
australia, england
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
desert island, shipwreck, tropical island, robinson crusoe, survival, dog, death of dog, bare chested male, sole survivor, storm, sinking ship, tropics ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
fictional island, virginia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
inspirational, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, survival, mentor, life & death ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, south america, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
Similarity:
33%
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