| The Fog (1980) | 6.8 | |
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| The Secret of the Grain (2007) | 7.4 | |
| Jaws (1975) | 8.1 | |
| Becket (1964) | 7.7 |
Fishing boat movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant fishing boat movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic and exciting films and TV shows about / with fishing boat, fisherman, boat, fishing, sea, water, ocean, danger, catastrophe and survival plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as fishing boat: Serenity (2019), The Perfect Storm (2000), Deadliest Sea (2009), Harbinger Down (2015), Bait (2019), The Finest Hours (2016), The Fog (1980), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Sea Beast (2008), Buoyancy (2019).
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List of fishing boat movies
49K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
fishing boat, father son relationship, ex wife, fisherman, abusive husband, tuna, wife plots to kill husband, skinny dipping, boat, domestic violence, nudism, island ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, nautical ...
Plot:
creature, infection, creature feature, ship, alien abduction, alien, winter, fishing boat, monster, body horror, sea, military ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
alaska
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6K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, thrilling, captivating, social ...
Plot:
fisherman, boat, fishing, brother brother relationship, fishing boat, brother brother conflict, family relations, tourism, surrealism, brothers, relationships, problem ...
Place:
cornwall
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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, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
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91K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lighthouse, ghost, revenge, supernatural horror, haunted house, small town, blood, radio station, sword, campfire story, murder, chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style:
scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
children, mermaid, island, seal the animal, celtic, selkie, friendship, fishing boat, legend, ancient mystery, pagan, magic ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1994, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, scotland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary ...
Plot:
fishing boat, creature feature, sea monster, monster, creature, survival, deadly creature, imaginary, danger, supernatural, rescue, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, suspense
Plot:
sea, slave, slavery, revenge, teenage boy, murder, fishing boat, human trafficking, bare chested male, gay, running away from home, child trafficking ...
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A drama that tells the adventure-filled life of the rebellious Ae-soon and cast-iron man Gwan-sik, both born in Jeju in the 1950s.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
fishing boat, poet, fisherman, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death of child, restaurant, couples, first love, bittersweet, family relations, poetry ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place:
jeju island
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204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style:
sexy, psychological, teen, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
deaf, deafness, sign language, coming of age, teenager, mute or deaf, musician, fishing boat, fisherman, disability, women, parents and children ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
persia, hawaii, massachusetts
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, culinary ...
Plot:
working class, immigrant, food, cooking, fish, fishing boat, shipyard, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, middle east, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story follows fisherman Ed Collier, who is highly protective over his family, which includes wife Claire and daughter Abbie. However, when a rich young man by the name of Ryan Wilson starts to take an interest in his daughter, Ed feels her ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot:
fisherman, fishing village, fishing boat, mistrust, domestic drama, relationship problems, family problems, kids and family, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
cornwall
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dewey Winfield is a lovable loser who wants nothing more than to beat the guy who has bullied him his whole life in a big fishing tournament. In order to win, Dewey will need the help of some eccentric senior citizens who are about to be evicted ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot:
fishing, loser, goofy hero, fishing boat, disorder, silly humor, win over, negligence, fisherman, man child, chess, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vancouver, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, disturbing, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian subtext, female pubic hair, self discovery, teenage life, lgbtq, human nature, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, betrayal, teenage love, lesbian ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany, france, europe
Is relevant?
730K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
suspense, scary, classic horror, natural horror, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, ocean, beach, fear, killer shark, boat, monster, dangerous animal, great white shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
boston, fictional island, persia, oceania, long island ...
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799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This menacing monster yarn stars James Van Der Beek as government scientist Dan Leland, who's sent to investigate reported sightings of a giant squidlike beast that's put the entire population of a fishing village on edge. Though Leland ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
giant squid, sea monster, fishing boat, creature feature, squid, obsessive quest, deadly creature, marine biologist, supernatural, danger, escapades, small town ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two friends accidentally drift from North Korea into South Korea after falling asleep during a fishing trip. Broke and unable to get home, they enter a singing contest whose grand prize is a trip to North Korea!
Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
singing competition, soldier, satire, inter-korean relations, friendship, fish out of water, culture clash, problem, escapades, contest, singer, border crossing ...
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fleeing her abusive ex, Jess hires a fishing boat captain to take her across Lake Superior to a new life in Canada. When an accident leaves her washed up on shore, she’s taken in by a reclusive lighthouse keeper. As Jess is nursed back to health, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, dark, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lighthouse, unsettling, trauma, isolation, domestic abuse, escape, survival, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, escape attempt ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best ...
Style:
feel good, 3d animation, humorous, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
friendship, food, inventor, scientist, island, animal, kids and family, creator, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, villain ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, fictional island
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, sexy, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
exploitation, rape, raped by monster, sea creature, sex, fisherman, female nudity, fishing village, humanoid, impregnation, creature feature, childbirth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california
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212K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, godzilla, giant monster, creature, experiment gone awry, giant, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lost world, military, disaster, human versus monster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, tahiti, manhattan new york city, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
211
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
Plot:
boat, fishing, fishing boat, fisherman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, troubled youth, dysfunctional family, tuna, young love, rebel, teenage girl, teenager ...
Time:
year 1967
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mermaid, small town, sea, mysterious stranger, daughter, longing, fisherman, self discovery, character study, secrets, solitude ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
ireland, europe, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Vicent. It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
love triangle, pregnant woman, female nudity, breast feeding, lovers reunited, lust, wedding, wedding ring, attraction, love at first sight, pregnancy, fall in love ...
Place:
valencia spain, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sexy, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marijuana, drug dealer, small town, weed, drug dealing, family problems, cannabis, female protagonist, farce, police investigation, twists and turns, drug ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, cornwall, london, europe
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
Style:
exciting, cult classic, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
summer vacation, friendship, childhood, animal, coming of age, teen angst, toxic waste, fisherman, uncle nephew relationship, teenage boy, fishing, boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
861K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation ...
Style:
satanic, visually stunning, exciting, serious, epic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, good versus evil, secret identity, vigilante, alien invasion, alien, superpower, alien superhero, earth, superman, alien civilization ...
Time:
year 2013, year 1988, future, year 1997, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, kansas, canada, north america
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