Movies like Saving the Titanic
If you like "Saving the Titanic" you are looking for tense, suspense and suspenseful movies about / with titanic, boat, engineer, irishman, ocean liner, cruise ship and yacht themes of Drama and History genre shot in Ireland or Germany.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Saving the Titanic (2012)
581
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, heroic
Plot:
titanic, boat, engineer, irishman, ocean liner, cruise ship, yacht, ship, heroism, rocket, all male cast, duty, coal, sinking ship, electrician, steam, motor, shovel
Time:
year 1912, 1910s
Place:
ireland
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Saving the Titanic
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and suspense films with plots about war, biopic, survival, world war two, catastrophe, ship and moral dilemma mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Saving the Titanic: Unsinkable: Titanic Untold (2024), Titanic (2012), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), 7:19 (2016), The Treaty (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
shipwreck, titanic, investigation, political intrigue, sinking ship, sea disaster, cruise ship, castaway, puzzle, ship, sunken ship, crime solving ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
An extraordinary re-telling of the doomed voyage that features both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers to upper class guests.
Style:
emotional, realistic, costume drama, epic, historical drama ...
Plot:
titanic, shipwreck, passenger, ocean liner, sea disaster, tragedy, drowning, ocean, ship, sinking ship, cruise ship, ghost ship ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 20th century, year 1912
Place:
england
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Style:
fairy tale, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black and white
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sinking ship, titanic, disaster, iceberg, ship, ocean, shipwreck, older man younger woman marriage, sunken ship, survival, rescue, race against time ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1912, edwardian era
Place:
atlantic ocean, newfoundland, england
Similarity:
66%
717
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
natural disaster, building collapse, catastrophe, trapped, survival, struggle for survival, destruction, deathtrap, tragic event, demolished city, trap, teamwork ...
Similarity:
52%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, educational, suspenseful ...
Plot:
irish history, politics, negotiation, diplomacy, nationalism, british government, leadership, moral ambiguity, biopic, betrayal, sacrifice, mature ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the last days of World War II, Gauleiter Eigruber ordered the blasting of the salt mine. Stolen art treasures are stored there. The villagers oppose it.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, historical drama, tense, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, social relations, arts and culture, wartime, society, fighting the system, showdown, jewelry, art collection, war, artwork ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse ...
Style:
suspense, historical drama, powerful, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
infantry, black history, usa history, african american, regiment, riot, military, american soldier, black, racial tension, segregation, police brutality ...
Time:
year 1917, 2020s, 1910s
Place:
houston texas
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot:
chinese civil war, historical event, struggle for survival, sea disaster, sinking ship, sailor, couple relations, relationship problems, crash, ship, relationships, karate ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient china, taiwan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
mossad, post war germany, investigation, justice, cold war, realism, legal battle, biopic, nazi, courtroom, conspiracy, investigative journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
The historical rearguard last stand that took place on 13 July 1660 at a mountain pass in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande and Siddi Masud of Adilshah ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
military, bravery, warrior, indian history, battles, heroism, loyalty, sacrifice, warlord, final showdown, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
india
Similarity:
38%
281
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Italy, September 1943. After the armistice and the flight of the King, the war theaters of the North-East see the advance of Tito's partisans. At the center of the story, in this dramatic historical context, the figure of Norma Cossetto, a ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
power struggle, soldier, life is a bitch, guerilla warfare, partisan, military, military life, wartime, wartime life, war, society, world war two ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3rd, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, representatives of struggling workers call for a general strike. In the church of San Francisco, in the working class neighborhood ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching ...
Plot:
political repression, working class, labor strike, labor union, francisco franco, capitalist society, police, journalist, love triangle, police violence, catholic church, housewife ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, basque country
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings ...
Style:
exciting, tense, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
biopic, spanish history, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, tall man, death of brother, loss of brother, death of father, loss of father, death, giant, world war one ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
basque country
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illegal abortion, abortion, abortion rights, feminist, women's rights, pregnancy, male female relationship, social problems, female protagonist, social issues, women, social commentary ...
Time:
60s
Place:
chicago, midwest
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.
Style:
anthology, realistic, patriotic, historical drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
society, social issues, human nature, social problems, aging, life is a bitch, elderly, youth, citizenship, family relations, city life, slice of life ...
Place:
china, beijing china
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
naval battle, world war one, german officer, war, weapons, danger, escapades, love and romance, sea, warship, great war, german history ...
Time:
year 1914
Place:
germany
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, repression, political oppression, society, social issues, life is a bitch, social problems, resistance, realism, emigration, refugee ...
Place:
german democratic republic, east germany, germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
terrorism, world trade center manhattan new york city, disaster, politics, witnessing a crime, state affairs, chases and races, law enforcement, undercover, leadership, skyscraper, incompetent official ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
Movie in collections
939
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Dreaming of changing the world, SEO Chang-dae takes part in KIM Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, SEO adopts a very aggressive propaganda campaign, and it makes KIM become the strongest candidate in the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, political
Plot:
politics, political conspiracy, presidential campaign, assassination, election campaign, election, political intrigue, political unrest, political activism, political activist, suspicion, political campaign ...
Time:
year 1967, 80s, 60s, year 1970, year 1969 ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
brutality, islam, independence, genocide, rape victim, bangladesh liberation war, cruelty, war for independence, indo pakistani war, women's rights, liberation, multiple storylines ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
india, bangladesh
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Solar Eclipse is a conspiracy theory period movie based on true events, that led to the eventual assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The movie demonstrates a violent India, at the backdrop of a non-violent Gandhi, and hard-line fanatic mindsets ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassination, conspiracy theory, political unrest, conspiracy, politics, murder, religious conflict, extremism, fanaticism, non violence, police procedural, betrayal ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
india, usa
Similarity:
28%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, whistleblower, rocket launching, race against time, risk, corporate greed, engineer, moral dilemma, realism, bureaucracy, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
politics, undercover, political intrigue, danger, state affairs, government agency, government facility, international crisis, mossad, nuclear, terrorism, spy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
israel, middle east, lebanon, jerusalem, france ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
post war germany, world war two, post war, children, coming of age, survival, child, teenager, kids in trouble, orphan, brothers, teenage life ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1946
Place:
europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep ...
Style:
emotional, historical drama, period piece, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
berlin wall, train travel, train, cold war, getting home, moral dilemma, family reunited, claustrophobia, escape, identity, regret, cold ...
Place:
east germany, east berlin, german democratic republic
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story:
A story of the romances of two couples upon the doomed ship. Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a wealthy woman mourning the loss of her aunt, who reignites a romance with old flame, Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher). Meanwhile, a charming ...
Style:
fairy tale, sad, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
titanic, disaster, shipwreck, iceberg, ocean liner, ocean, ship, sea, rape, historical event, water, pandemic ...
Time:
1910s, year 1912
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
abortion, conspiracy, court, lawsuit, social relations, human rights, civil rights, social problems, conflict, legal action, showdown, family problems ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, poignant, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oppression, love story, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, piano, anti semitism, world war two, sacrifice, forbidden love, classical music, courage, prodigy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
26%
Related movie lists
