Message in a bottle movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant message in a bottle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, light, feel good, semi serious, entertaining and exciting films and TV shows about / with message in a bottle, friendship, danger, family, chase, family relations, gun, kiss, betrayal and father daughter relationship plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as message in a bottle: Message in a Bottle (1999), The Rescuers (1977), Bottled with Love (2019), The Highwaymen (2019), 30 Girls 30 Days (2012), Undertow (2004), A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010), The Land That Time Forgot (1974), Animal Crossing: The Movie (2006), Young Woman and the Sea (2024).
Best films
List of message in a bottle movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, sea voyage, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style:
light, touching, cute, crying, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot:
childhood, mouse, friendship, good versus evil, orphan, rescue, kidnapping, chase, little girl, anxiety, talking animal, treasure hunt ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, madagascar, new york, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After being stood up, Abbey gets inspired to open her heart in a letter, put it in a bottle and toss it out to sea. Months later, a man fishing discovers it and opts to reach out.
Style:
touching, realistic, tear jerker, light, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dating, message in a bottle, relationships, love, love and romance, couples, love letter, anonymous letter, bittersweet, workplace intrigue, unfulfillment, fall in love ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has travelled across the ocean for a long time. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigators from Section Q receive it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
cold case, religion, child abduction, missing child, police protagonist, serial killer, cop, hardcore, message in a bottle, letter, farm, secretary ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless ...
Style:
suspense, road movie, period piece, neo noir, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
texas ranger, modern western, bank robber, organized crime, great depression, killing spree, criminal gang, fighting crime, fbi, police, gangster, hunt down ...
Time:
1930s, year 1934
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A virgin named Fred must win a bet by sleeping with 30 Girls in 30 Days for one million dollars to save his parents business.
Style:
humorous, captivating, funny, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stripper, erotica, female nudity, strip club, loss of virginity, virgin, defloration, male virgin, wager, dispute, money, humour ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style:
harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, curse, juvenile delinquency, murder, homelessness, tragedy, lifestyle, danger, parents and children, single father, violence, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, world war one, adventurer, ancient mystery, prehistoric creature, submarine, time travel, lost world, prehistoric animal, pterodactyl, iceberg, good versus evil ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, year 1916, 1940s
Place:
antarctica, fictional island
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is the story of a young self-reliant girl called Ai, who one day, moves into the Animal Village. While working at Tom Nook's shop "Nook's Cranny" she begins living her life away from her family. To begin with, she ...
Style:
anime, feel good, semi serious, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
anthropomorphic animal, cartoon wolf, slice of life, human animal relationship, anthropomorphism, raccoon, female protagonist, message in a bottle, animal life, animal, animal human communication, animal that acts human ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal ...
Style:
motivational, powerful, inspirational
Plot:
sister, swimming, skinny dipping, competition, male nudity, based on real people, swimmer, women in sport, biopic, pride, wedding, new york yankees ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
english channel, new jersey, paris france, england, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, semi serious, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
sailor, abandoned baby, bully, childhood, rescue, twists and turns, family relations, kidnapping, love triangle, love and romance, eccentric family, escapades ...
Time:
80s
Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is ...
Style:
sincere, intense, light, exciting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
travel, sea, adventurer, ship captain, journey, obsessive quest, ship, summer, sea adventure, youth, avalanche, scientist ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
fictional island, ussr, patagonia, australia, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After he loses his high-paying job, Dory takes a gig as a night janitor in order to pay rent. Alone late at night inside a market research firm, he soon discovers the company is experimenting on their other janitors ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, talky, feel good, light ...
Plot:
society, youth, experimenting, social misfits, disorder, misfit, freak accident, muslim, nudity, flirting, sex scene, tattooed woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind ...
Style:
surreal, visually stunning, stylized, atmospheric, expressionism ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, surrealism, love, magic realism, bathhouse, father son relationship, swimming, swimmer, swimming pool, family relations, dark humor, couples ...
Time:
year 1999
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
It's not easy being Ho Goo, a low-key guy who can neither score a date nor score high enough on his civil service exams, which he's failed 7 years running. But when he has a chance reunion with national swimming champion Do Hee, the most ...
Style:
romantic, dorama, light, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
fall in love, first love, love and romance, love story, swimming, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, athlete's life, female athlete, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, friendship ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Style:
humorous, disturbing, captivating, sincere, educational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
grandparent grandchild relationship, kids and family, immigration, immigrant, family relations, lifestyle, immigrant family, turk, third world, world war one, funeral, greek ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
crete, turkey
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, action adventure, epic, saga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, underwater, super powers, superhuman powers, atlantis, creature, ocean, princess, half breed, avenger, water, muscleman ...
Time:
year 1985, year 1986, year 2002, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
maine, boston, sicily, atlantic ocean, italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life of 14-year-old Lilith is similar to that of a normal teenager, but there is a peculiarity: she is the daughter of the devil and lives with him in hell. Because she is totally bored there and also wants to have fun and explore the world, she ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, touching, light, sincere
Plot:
teenager in love, hell, high school, teenage love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, love and romance, small town, high school life, first date, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, ambiguous ending, crying ...
Plot:
hitchhiking, tree, rescue, canyon, woman in danger, love triangle, rivalry, danger, television reporter, bribery, trapped in a car, cycling ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, riviera
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Neky and Eppo are best friends. They spend their time the best way they know -- watching B-movies and commenting on them for their video blog: Eppo en Neky's Cultcorner. But life as a teenager is far from easy. Especially for Neky, his mother ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, father son relationship, family relations, friendship, teenage boy, divorced parents, depression, friendship between boys, best friend, friends, relationship problems, humour ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. ...
Style:
lighthearted, slapstick, sex comedy, independent film
Plot:
rivalry, exotic locale, misadventure, romantic rivalry, mutiny, sailing, fish out of water, message in a bottle, party, sailboat, jail, race ...
Place:
tahiti, pacific ocean, hawaii, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, touching, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
oedipus complex, dysfunctional family, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, childhood, troubled teen, teenage boy, mother love, mother son relationship, teenager, adhd ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, near future, year 2015, year 1982 ...
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Pippi in the South Seas (original title is Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series. Pippi, with friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, exciting
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
pirate, monkey, youth, kidnapping, best friend, pirate ship, fortress, redhead girl, bird, women, fictional country, nordic ...
Time:
70s
Place:
fictional island, eastern europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
ocean, robinson crusoe, lost at sea, nature, stranded, chimpanzee, desert island, survival, navy, disorder, human spirit, misfit ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Dueling cat-and-mouse team Tom and Jerry hit the high seas on a hunt for buried treasure in this pirate adventure. The tale begins when crew member Tom sets sail with an infamous pirate and finds a treasure map along with stowaway Jerry. The furry ...
Style:
feel good, not serious, exciting, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
pirate, tom and jerry, cartoon mouse, anthropomorphism, chase, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, disorder, obsessive quest, daring rescue, treasure hunt ...
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by ...
Style:
scenic, entertaining, witty, sweet, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
treasure hunt, ship, survival, fantasy world, heroic mission, rescue, friendship, adventurer, race against time, danger, daring rescue, young heroes ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 60s, 1850s
Place:
australia, south america, new zealand, latin america, chile ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
They can't see, but they really must... Because they love each other!
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, medical drama, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
blindness, hospital, empathy, tenderness, young love, disability, coming of age, intimate, hockey, secret meeting, cheating on boyfriend, blind girl ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Russia, USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Style:
suspenseful, heroic
Plot:
rescue mission, exploration, remote island, sea voyage, courage, bravery, father daughter relationship, teamwork, storm, shipwreck, friendship, mountain climbing ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
martial arts, friendship, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, love affair, looking for love, fight, combat, wuxia, homosexual, kung fu ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, taiwan, hong kong, asia
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