Baltic sea movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant baltic sea movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating and bleak films and TV shows about / with baltic sea, sea, beach, ship, ocean, world war two, danger, escapades, military and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres shot in Germany, Finland, Sweden and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as baltic sea: Baltic Storm (2003), 4 Days in May (2011), M/S Gustloff (2008), The Pagan King (2018), M/S Romantic (2019), Estonia (2023), Coast Guard (1997), Super Furball (2018), Heweliusz (2025), Forgotten (2012).
Best films
New films
| The Reckoning (2021) | 6.7 | |
| The Amateur (2025) | 6.5 | |
| Dreamfish (2016) | 6.1 | |
| Estonia (2023) | 6.5 | |
| The Pagan King (2018) | 6.0 |
List of baltic sea movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, interesting
Plot:
terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, state affairs, escapades, ocean, uncover truth, fighting the system, politics, journalism, dishonesty, media ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, russia, estonia, pentagon
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot:
holocaust, battles, military, military life, love affair, wartime life, friendship, basic training, world war two, hiding, wound, russian soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
ukraine, germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
torpedo, ship, world war two, escapades, wartime life, downfall, ocean, evacuation, military, danger, confined, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Latvia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, brutal, costume drama
Plot:
crusade, medieval, paganism, barbarian, freedom fighter, sword fight, lone hero, culture clash, revolution, crusader, love hate relationship, king ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century
Place:
latvia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 254 min.
TV show
Story:
One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.
Style:
humorous, exciting, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot:
cruise ship, wedding ceremony, singer, child, ferry, bride and groom, cruise, wedding party, talent show, tourist, anger, womanizer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
finland, stockholm sweden, helsinki finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
catastrophe, shipwreck, disaster, loss, grief, problem, life is a bitch, flooding, water, survivor, haunting, mourning ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
estonia, europe, finland
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.
Style:
action drama, realistic, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coast guard, search and rescue, seafaring, duty, teamwork, camaraderie, heroism, law enforcement, crime investigation, smuggling, boat, underwater ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day Emilia’s pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret superpower to transform into Super Furball, ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, light, visually appealing, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
schoolboy, talking animal, school, superhero, teacher, hamster, guinea pig, best friend, flying car, schoolgirl, bullying, boy girl relationship ...
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1993, the Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz capsizes off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
ferry, shipwreck, tragedy, disaster, trauma, loss, survival, realism, investigation, isolation, investigative journalism, bureaucracy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
777
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, little girl, island, promise, danger, friends, life is a bitch, impostor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.
Style:
tension, suspense, period piece, intercultural
Plot:
escape, fear, world war two, escape attempt, survival, imprisonment, pow, military, occupation, oppression, desperation, friendship ...
Place:
lithuania, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portrayed do not seem far away. At the start of the film Lars Erik and his wife Sonja are doing well ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
family drama, island life, family bonds, marriage crisis, working class, social realism, machismo, nostalgia, resilience, social change, intimate, survival ...
Time:
80s
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman and a man walk down a beach dragging a sled filled with luggage looking like polar explorers. After another row and an attempt to divorce, Janek and his wife give themselves an ultimatum and decide to go on a 400-kilometer hike along the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, existential, art house
Plot:
relationships, marital crisis, marriage, winter, reconciliation, journey, commitment, hiking, ultimatum, personal growth, introspection, character study ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to ...
Style:
tense, dramatic, serious, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, air force, air raid, heroism, aerial bombardment, warplane, colonel, war hero, war, military, bombing, world war ...
Time:
1940s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Roman is a born proofreader from a family of proofreaders, a real intellectual from St. Petersburg who comes to Narva-Jõesuu, a small Estonian spa town, to find inspiration, tranquility, and silence. He does proofreading of the encyclopedia of the ...
Style:
art house, intellectual, atmospheric, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
sea, self discovery, transformation, solitude, inspiration, isolation, longing, creative block, literary, small town, identity, obsession ...
Place:
estonia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jan, an accountant at pre-retirement age, is on holiday at the Baltic Sea with his wife. He doesn’t enjoy her company. He doesn’t enjoy other people’s company either. The resort’s atmosphere makes him sick. One day he meets a mysterious girl ...
Style:
contemplative, existential, reflective, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
aging, beach, solitude, loneliness, holiday, alienation, character study, seaside, bittersweet, intimate, marital discord, minimalism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poetic realism
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
doctor, escape, stasi, cold war, fascism, lovers apart, iron curtain, communism, introspection, character study, power relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1980
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, northern germany, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coma, life is a bitch, problem, troubled past, deception, confronting the past, police investigation, police officer, cold case, investigation, guilt, family drama ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled ...
Plot:
nude beach, inheritance, nude boy, bare chested male, best friend, children, boy, waitress, father son relationship, boy dog relationship, owner dog relationship, ruby ...
Place:
berlin germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Rederiet was a long-running Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between 1992 and 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors, and the show has often been referred to as Sweden's version of Dynasty.
The ...
Style:
soap opera
Plot:
family relations, management, family business, boat, captain, ceo, power struggle, cruise ship, office, crew, love, ferry ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style:
political thriller, psychotronic, suspense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, cold war era, russian spy, secret service agent, martial arts, woman with a gun, revolt ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, russia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style:
realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
This harrowing war film is an epic dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The Battle of Westerplatte that began on 1 September 1939 will forever be remembered as the one that announced the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
world war two, beach, soldier, military, danger, battles, battle zone, against the odds, heroic mission, battleship, world war, holocaust ...
Time:
20th century, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
hostage, captive, terrorist, hostage negotiator, subway, hijacking, hijacker, nordic, gang, terrorism, terrorist attack, bandit ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, atlantic ocean, copenhagen
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives on an isolated island in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, bleak
Plot:
lighthouse keeper, isolation, family relations, discipline, teenage life, bullying, friendship, family in crisis, youth, family problems, parents and children, favoritism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
alcohol abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, troublemaker, actor's life, aging, artists and showbiz, drinking, drunk, actor, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
Plot:
spy, yacht, military, sailing, ocean, espionage, state affairs, danger, undercover, conquering, heroes, ship ...
Time:
1900s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
germany, britain, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pirate, pirate ship, medieval, treasure hunt, rivalry, danger, ocean, escapades, criminal, execution, moral dilemma, sailing ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
Plot:
patriarch, cottage, two brothers, fisherman, tragic event, celebration, death, neighbor, prison, brother brother relationship, beach, wedding ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
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