Seafaring movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant seafaring movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, serious, realistic, feel good, visually appealing and intense films and TV shows about / with seafaring, sea, ocean, ship, boat, escapades, danger, catastrophe, mentor and dialogue plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
seafaring
TOP 10 movies tagged as seafaring: The Bounty (1984), White Squall (1996), All Is Lost (2013), Waterworld (1995), Dead Calm (1989), Crimson Tide (1995), Cutthroat Island (1995), Robinson Crusoe (1997), Sphere (1998), Titanic (1997).
Best films
List of seafaring movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style:
epic, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking ...
Plot:
ship, island, mutiny, betrayal, sea, storm at sea, sailboat, survival, boat, lost at sea, murder, suspense ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s, georgian era, year 1984, 1780s
Place:
england, tahiti, pacific ocean, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, rough, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, survival, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, teacher, boat, suspense, catastrophe, mentor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, west indies, florida, south america, cuba ...
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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, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, edwardian era, georgian era
Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, touching, suspenseful, tense, reflective ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, boat, isolation, sea, storm, survivor, loneliness, forces of nature, ship, ocean, human spirit, sailor ...
Time:
21st century
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200K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ocean, sailing, boat, distopia, water, rescue, dystopic future, sea, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
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42K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, sexy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, ship, psychopath, isolation, ocean, woman in danger, maniac, obsession, yacht, suspense, survival, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, california, pacific ocean
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116K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, suspense, navy, military, russian, nuclear bomb, spy, war, u.s. navy, boat ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, mediterranean sea, alabama, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete ...
Style:
exciting, breathtaking, humorous, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
pirate, treasure hunt, swashbuckler, female protagonist, pirate ship, ship, betrayal, island, sword fight, adventurer, treasure map, treasure ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century
Place:
fictional island
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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:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
survival, desert island, shipwreck, friendship, stranded on an island, island, ocean, destiny, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss, female nudity ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
london, scotland, fictional island
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108K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, mind bending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
ocean, survival, paranoia, first contact, psychology, alien, space and aliens, time travel, supernatural, psychologist, space, submarine ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
love, love story, titanic, disaster, ship, forbidden love, love and romance, fall in love, tragedy, survival, ocean, shipwreck ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
los angeles, new york, atlantic ocean, england
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style:
touching, breathtaking, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot:
music, genius, jazz, ship, prodigy, musician, loneliness, pianist, child prodigy, orphan, friendship, musician's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
italy, new orleans, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, island, love and romance, desert island, stranded, jungle, opposites attract, initially antagonists, battle of the sexes, fall in love, disaster, air disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hawaii, usa, tahiti, new york, fictional island
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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, realistic, feel good, road movie
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, adventurer, navy, military, bully, heroes, duel, battles, sea, french revolution ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
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84K
Genre: Action, War
Country: France, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, factual, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
submarine, world war two, military, navy, war, naval battle, ocean, nazism, naval officer, sea battle, ship captain, mission ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
germany
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603K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, fictional island
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244K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style:
psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
travel, island, adventurer, utopia, obsessive quest, exotic island, beach, drugs, tourist, marijuana, desire, secret place ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 2000
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, colourful, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
pirate, mythology, treasure hunt, chase, arabian nights, sinbad, swashbuckler, heroes, sea monster, good versus evil, friendship, treasure ...
Time:
ancient times, middle ages, 8th century
Place:
sicily, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, ship, storm at sea, storm, forces of nature, shipwreck, fish, sea, ocean, fishing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, atlantic ocean, boston, portugal
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
inventor, sea, british navy, sailboat, ocean, military life, against the odds, escapades, sea disaster, father son relationship, sailing, seafaring ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, jamaica
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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:
feel good, serious, exciting
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, sea battle, heroes, pirate, sea, sailing, courage, boat, friendship, french revolution, seafaring ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
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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, feel good
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, heroes, battles, french revolution, sea, sailing, success, courage, boat, pirate ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
north africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 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:
feel good, realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, heroes, french revolution, adventurer, sailing, sea, pirate, napoleonic era, seafaring, boat, courage ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1790s
Place:
france, europe, brittany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, motivational, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, african american, military, u.s. navy, human spirit, courage, racial discrimination, navy, racial segregation, against the odds, prejudice, diving ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 50s
Place:
cuba, new jersey, africa, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers is led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea.
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, stylized, anime ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
disney, steampunk, princess, treasure hunt, expedition, adventurer, atlantis, ancient civilization, fantasy world, ancient mystery, monster, museum ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
atlantic ocean, washington d.c., iceland
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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:
survival, expedition, adventurer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, nature, leadership, ambition, forces of nature, explorer, sea ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
antarctica, south pole, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 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, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, military, heroes, leadership, navy, war, military life, naval battle, rebel, rebelliousness ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, rough, feel good ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sea battle, sailboat, military, rebellion, war hero, military life, rivalry, army investigation, war, ship, boat ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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75K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
pirate, childhood, fantasy world, children, fairy, boy, magic, imaginary kingdom, young heroes, first love, youth, teenager ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, big ben london, england, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 17th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
Style:
exciting, fairy tale, entertaining, colourful, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
pirate, ship, treasure hunt, fantasy world, sword fight, disney, treasure, captain, pirate ship, pirate captain, curses spells and rituals, boat ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
caribbean, jamaica, fictional island
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