U.s. sailor movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant u.s. sailor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, dramatic and talky films and TV shows about / with u.s. sailor, friendship, mentor, death, catastrophe, cigarette smoking, dancing, father son relationship, love and dancer plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
u.s. sailor
TOP 10 movies tagged as u.s. sailor: Madame Butterfly (1995), In Harm's Way (1965), Redwood Highway (2013), Kill Your Darlings (2013), The Sapphires (2012), The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), South Pacific (2001), Haven (2001), Youth in Revolt (2009), I Am Cuba (1964).
List of u.s. sailor movies
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, stylized, emotional, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, betrayal, interracial romance, marriage, adaptation, destiny, guilt, hospital, idealism, art, culture clash, childhood ...
Time:
18th century, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, paris france, canada, china ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Style:
realistic, factual, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
war, world war two, naval battle, military, wartime, naval officer, father son relationship, adultery, u.s. navy, military life, suicide, marital infidelity ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
pearl harbor, hawaii, san francisco, polynesia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good
Plot:
family relations, on the road, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, golden years, redemption, hopes, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, pacific ocean
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
captivating, bleak, serious, intellectual, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, poet, obsession, friendship, youth, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1944, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, harlem ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sweet, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
girl group, vietnam war, friendship, music band, family relations, lifestyle, desire for fame, musician's life, ambition, showbiz, goodhearted, musical tour ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
vietnam, australia, england, saigon, asia ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
world war two, friendship, ship, transformation, adaptation, stereotypes, mythology, sacrifice, multiple storylines, fight, love, race ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
pentagon, new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, jazz, starting over, musician's life, music, fall in love, showbiz, love affair, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
england, europe, london, scotland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque (Rade Serbedzija). The war is tearing them apart.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious
Plot:
world war two, couples, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfilled love, island, wartime life, military life, love and romance, battle of the sexes, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
polynesia
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506
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrants, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
europe, belgrade, vienna, harvard university, naples italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of Yosemite National Park, is on the brink of failure. The grandson of a Chinese railroad laborer embarks on a romantic, but ultimately doomed, quest to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, atmospheric
Plot:
railway, train, racism, friends, escapades, obsession, society, ambition, self discovery, obsessive quest, americana, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
usa, california, new york, san francisco, pasadena california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style:
surreal, absurd, melancholic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, teenage love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of virginity, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, wooing, teenage life ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
california, canada, usa, oakland california, france
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills ...
Style:
political, surreal, captivating, experimental, breathtaking ...
Plot:
rebellion, propaganda, politics, political unrest, prostitution, state affairs, society, revolution, poverty, protest, power struggle, coup d'etat ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
cuba, tokyo, latin america, havana cuba, paris france
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114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sexy, sincere, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, depression, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, homosexuality, haunted by the past, tragic love, death, gay relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california, denver colorado ...
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108K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, tense, harsh, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, survival, pow, soldier, war, prison, jungle, camp, prison escape, violence, military, human spirit ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
vietnam, laos, asia
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338K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
world war two, war, love, love triangle, military, airplane, love and romance, fighter pilot, aviation, navy, aerial combats, warship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, tokyo ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, friendship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dignity, women, small town, coming of age, leaving home, parenthood, happy ending, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, bali
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, americana, family problems, society, introspection, human nature, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, california, kansas, paris france, poland ...
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7K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by ...
Style:
art house, feel good, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cabaret, true love, showgirl, women, love, girl, lost soul, single mother, love triangle, single parent, seaside town, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s, post world war two
Place:
france, europe, brittany, amsterdam, johannesburg south africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, gangsters, brutality, courage, eccentric family, redemption, aging, human nature, couples, single father, money, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, new york yankees ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, erotic, sexy, talky ...
Plot:
couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, brutality, justice, self destructing, tennis, writers, loss of child, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new england, massachusetts, new jersey, usa, oxford university
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style:
intense, realistic, emotional, sincere, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, military, battles, survival, guilt, propaganda, fame, political intrigue, suspense, wartime, loss of friend ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, pacific ocean, iraq, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, affectionate, visually appealing ...
Plot:
world war two, musician, politics, nazi, jewish, music, anti semitism, bittersweet, holocaust, radio, friendship, singer ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, budapest, bulgaria ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, romantic, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, interracial romance, forbidden love, love, racism, family relations, war, culture clash, holocaust, marriage, bomb, death ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1936 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, tokyo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue ...
Style:
neo noir, twist ending, stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, obsession, suspense, police corruption, lesbian, love triangle, gangsters, greed, hollywood ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, post world war two, year 1946
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, witty, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cold war, culture clash, hospital, writers, cousin cousin relationship, distopia, runaway, relationships, obsession, mentor, philosophy, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, madrid, pentagon ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
Style:
road movie, realistic, humorous, semi serious, campy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hitchhiking, on the road, police, love and romance, couples, hopes, male female relationship, prostitute, fight, survival, lost girl, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, alabama
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21K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon proves sub-standard ...
Style:
inspirational, intense, serious, feel good, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
boxing, military training, u.s. navy, sport, military, military academy, military life, bully, friendship, ambition, rivalry, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, new jersey
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178K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, psychological, stylized, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cult, right hand man, psychiatry, religion, religions or cults, mentor, brainwashing, society, drifter, mentor protege relationship, male orgasm, belief ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1950, future ...
Place:
usa, california, san francisco, alabama, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
naval officer, mccarthyism, love story, couples, love and romance, adultery, friendship, jewish, writers, politics, young lovers, college ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 70s, year 1944 ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, washington d.c., malibu california ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, stylized, witty, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
bad singing, heiress, music, opera singer, women, transformation, recording studio, classical music, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, world war two, manipulation ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1944
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa
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