Sinking ship movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sinking ship movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, realistic and captivating films and TV shows about / with sinking ship, ship, danger, boat, sea, ocean, survival, escapades, shipwreck and water plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sinking ship: Poseidon (2006), The Finest Hours (2016), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), Triangle of Sadness (2022), The Sinking of the Laconia (2010), Titanic (2012), Final Voyage (1999), The Triangle (2001), Titanic II (2010), The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

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 5.7
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Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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The Finest Hours (2016)
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, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place: new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, survival, ship, ocean liner, rescue, natural disaster, cruise, race against time, plutonium, sinking ship, shipwreck, shootout ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style: dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cruise ship, shipwreck, rich, class differences, yacht, cruise, model, fashion model, social satire, stranded on an island, jealousy, disability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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The Sinking of the Laconia (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany
TV show
Story: Two-part drama based on the true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
Style: touching, suspenseful, serious, realistic, nautical
Plot: submarine, world war two, rescue, military, pow, ship, sinking ship, danger, ocean, bomber, boat, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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 6.0
 4K
Titanic (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 190 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, tragedy, sea disaster, drowning, ocean, ship, sinking ship, ghost ship, cruise ship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century, year 1912
Place: england
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 3.7
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Final Voyage (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Restored to former glory, a nostalgic cruise ship repeats a tragic past...
Style: independent film, suspense, christian film
Plot: cruise ship, die hard, ship, boat, cruise, sinking ship, blood, pistol, terrorism, hijacking, terrorist group, tough girl ...
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 4.7
 2K
The Triangle (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Barbados
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This made-for-TV movie follows a group of friends as they try to find a boat lost for 50 years in the Bermuda Triangle.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, serious, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bermuda triangle, ghost ship, supernatural, ghost, uncover truth, escapades, investigation, danger, missing person, coast guard, confined, ship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, caribbean
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 1.6
 13K
Titanic II (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ship, titanic, ocean liner, disaster, sea, survival, forces of nature, iceberg, race against time, escapades, danger, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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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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 3.3
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Deep Water (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: cruise ship, one against many, hostage, survival, conspiracy, terrorist group, kidnapping, fight, betrayal, ocean, teenage girl, disaster ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: san francisco, pentagon, san diego california
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 6.6
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Styx (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Malta
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, existential
Audience: adult
Plot: storm at sea, sailboat, sinking ship, rescue, dehydration, yacht, car crash, holiday, moral dilemma, female protagonist, map, danger ...
Place: germany
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 5.7
 206K
The Meg (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, slasher, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot: shark, animal attack, giant monster, underwater, sea monster, ocean, giant creature, giant animal, killer shark, professor, survival, mission ...
Time: 2010s, jurassic, prehistory, 21st century
Place: shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
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The Crossing 2 (2015)
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: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: historical event, chinese civil war, struggle for survival, sea disaster, shipwreck, sinking ship, couple relations, relationship problems, ship, sailor, crash, relationships ...
Time: 1940s
Place: taiwan, ancient china
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 3.8
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Tar (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot: creature, creature feature, survival, underground, construction, evil, survival horror, blood, swimming, drowning, escape attempt, twists and turns ...
Place: los angeles
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The Sinking of Van Der Wijck (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 164 min.
Story: When a young man leaves home to fulfill the wishes of his late father, he meets and falls in love with a woman from a very different background.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, social ...
Plot: ship, problem, love story, male female relationship, sinking ship, shipwreck, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, relationships, love interest, chaos ...
Time: 1930s
Place: indonesia
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 5.4
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Survivors (2022)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Italy, France, Germany
TV show
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: boat, castaway, shipwreck, undercover, investigation, sinking ship, ship, problem, secret, female nudity, catastrophe, female full frontal nudity
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The Island of Lies (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: shipwreck, castaway, ship, secret, island life, rescue, saving a life, problem, sinking ship, investigative reporter, island
Time: 1920s
Place: galicia
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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 ...
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 6.4
 2K
Yamato (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, touching
Plot: world war two, navy, battleship, warship, kamikaze, military, war, battles, heroes, danger, japanese history, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2005, year 1945 ...
Place: japan
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S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful, black and white
Audience: boys' night
Plot: titanic, disaster, ocean, ship, sinking ship, iceberg, shipwreck, survival, rescue, race against time, older man younger woman marriage, accident ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place: england, atlantic ocean, newfoundland
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 6.5
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Ghostboat (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, mind bending, rough ...
Plot: submarine, supernatural, world war two, british navy, ghost ship, supernatural ability, heroes, danger, escapades, ghost, memory loss, ocean ...
Time: 80s
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Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in exotic South American ports where he visited opium dens ...
Style: psychedelic, postmodern, serious, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot: ghost, surrealism, trippy, ship, ocean, nudity, sailor, escapades, mysterious character, adventurer, imaginary, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1983, year 1958
Place: france, chile, singapore, warsaw poland, south america ...
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Assignment to Kill (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Style: detective, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, private detective, insurance fraud, private investigator, insurance company, ship, insurance investigator, notary, bluff, sinking ship, investigation, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: switzerland, europe, swiss alps, zurich switzerland
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 5.2
 2K
Britannic (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ship, titanic, world war one, disaster, espionage, betrayal, military, cruise, escapades, survival, secret agent, undercover ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916
Place: mediterranean sea, greece, europe, balkan
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 5.6
 71K
Dolittle (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, China, UK, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.
Style: light, funny, not serious, humorous, happy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: veterinarian, animal human communication, animal, dragon, doctor, victorian england, journey, friendship, duck, talking animal, human animal friendship, children ...
Time: victorian era, 2020s, future, 19th century, 1800s
Place: buckingham palace, usa
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 6.0
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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
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 6.5
 3K
Shipwrecked (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway, Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
Style: action adventure, exciting, serious, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: pirate, boy, ocean, shipwreck, island, ship, coming of age, youth, historical event, child, water, treasure hunter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s
Place: england, europe
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, alien invasion, transforming robot, battles, shapeshifting, artificial intelligence, giant robot, evil robot, transformation, androids ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, near future, 18th century, stone age ...
Place: egypt, new york, washington d.c., virginia, philadelphia ...
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Mysterious Island (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: stranded, giant bird, american civil war, island, submarine, survival, civil war, castaway, ocean, monster, balloon, giant monster ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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