Whaling movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant whaling movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric, interesting, stylized and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with whaling, whale, survival, ship, sea, harpoon, creature, animal, ocean and water plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 9 movies tagged as whaling: In the Heart of the Sea (2015), The North Water (2021), Moby Dick (1998), Samson & Sally (1984), King of Devil's Island (2010), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), Big Miracle (2012), Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Men Vs Women (2010).

List of whaling movies

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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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The North Water (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: arctic, expedition, north pole, whaling, scientific expedition, struggle for survival, psycho killer, sea, ship, sailor, psychopath, irishman ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, victorian era
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 6.4
 4K
Moby Dick (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, sea, ocean, captain, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, whale, friendship, danger, water, shipwreck, creature ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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 7.0
 859
Samson & Sally (1984)
Genre: Animation, Family, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.
Style: anime, dark
Audience: kids
Plot: moby dick, creature, animal, whale, whaling, journey, talking animal, contamination, surrealism, blood, death, male female relationship ...
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King of Devil's Island (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style: bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punishment, sexual abuse, prison life, island, juvenile detention, prison, rebellion, child abuse, protest, isolation, survival, coming of age ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Twelve years after exploring Pandora and joining the Na’vi, Jake Sully has since raised a family with Neytiri and established himself within the clans of the new world. Of course, peace can only last so long. Especially when the military ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, breathtaking, epic, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, date night, adult
Plot: fantasy world, fight, underwater, good versus evil, planet, ocean, alien, mother son relationship, escapades, hopes, water, alien civilization ...
Time: future, 2020s, 20th century, distant future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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 6.5
 20K
Big Miracle (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big Miracle’ is ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, adult
Plot: animal rescue, journalism, rescue, volunteer, media, animal, ocean, whale, environmentalism, danger, ecology, sailing ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, year 1988, 80s
Place: alaska, los angeles, new york
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style: surreal, stylized, atmospheric, experimental, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, couples, religions or cults, couple relations, society, human nature, art, theory, disintegration, ship, nudity, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
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 5.7
 2K
Men Vs Women (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A confrontation starts between a young man Diego and his beautiful neighbor Chiara.
Style: sexy, erotic
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian sex, sex scene, making love, erotica, public nudity, nudity, nudism, whale, erectile dysfunction, gigolo, beach party, coach ...
Place: antarctica
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