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, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with fishing boat, boat, sea, fishing, fisherman, beach, ocean, water, ship and danger 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), Deadliest Sea (2009), The Perfect Storm (2000), Harbinger Down (2015), Bait (2019), The Fog (1980), Buoyancy (2019), The Whaler Boy (2020), Dunkirk (2017), The Finest Hours (2016).

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 5.4
 45K
Serenity (2019)
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: father son relationship, fishing boat, ex wife, husband, fisherman, abusive husband, fishing, tuna, domestic violence, wife plots to kill husband, boat, video game ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida
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 4.8
 259
Deadliest Sea (2009)
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, suspenseful, rough, serious
Plot: ship, survival, coast guard, escapades, danger, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, sea, boat, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, storm at sea, storm, ocean, shipwreck, forces of nature, fish, sea, fishing ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, boston, nova scotia, atlantic ocean, portugal
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Harbinger Down (2015)
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, scary ...
Plot: alien, creature, creature feature, infection, ship, winter, scientist, fishing boat, monster, body horror, snow, military ...
Time: year 1982
Place: alaska
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 7.1
 5K
Bait (2019)
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: psychological, captivating, thrilling, independent film, suspense ...
Plot: fisherman, brother brother relationship, fishing, family relations, dysfunctional family, problem, brothers, money problems, family business, life is a bitch, relationships, business ...
Place: cornwall
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 6.8
 82K
The Fog (1980)
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: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, lighthouse, small town, revenge, ship, blood, radio station, sword, monster, ghost ship, supernatural horror, murder ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
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 7.3
 1K
Buoyancy (2019)
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: serious, rough, disturbing, suspense
Plot: slave, slavery, sea, revenge, teenage boy, murder, fishing boat, human trafficking, gay, bare chested male, running away from home, punched in the face ...
Place: cambodia
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The Whaler Boy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in ...
Style: captivating, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: sea voyage, village life, coming of age, journey, animal, escapades, road trip, fishing, fall in love, fishing boat, weather, life ...
Place: russia, alaska
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 7.8
 733K
Dunkirk (2017)
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: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
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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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Assisted Fishing (2012)
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: semi serious, realistic, 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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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
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, island, mermaid, seal the animal, friendship, legend, celtic, ancient mystery, magic, young heroes, magic realism, social relations ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 1940s, year 1946
Place: ireland, europe
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 4.2
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Sea Beast (2008)
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, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: sea monster, creature feature, killer animal, monster, fishing boat, creature, survival, imaginary, rescue, supernatural, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.8
 870
The Catch (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, captivating, psychological
Plot: domestic drama, mistrust, fishing village, fisherman, fishing boat, relationships, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, kids and family, relationship problems, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 2020s
Place: cornwall
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Zombie Tidal Wave (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fisherman contends with an ocean-borne outbreak that threatens his seaside island community.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie attack, hospital, fishing boat, bomb, survival, survivor, danger, dystopian future, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Eye of the Beast (2007)
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, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: giant squid, sea monster, fishing boat, creature feature, obsessive quest, deadly creature, marine biologist, supernatural, escapades, danger, small town, social relations ...
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Love in Sampan (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Love in Sampan is the tale of an unfortunate young woman named Kiu. As she explains in the opening narration, she has known three men: Wah (a boy who worked in her family's shop), Chuen Wang (a local gang boss whom she is compelled to marry) ...
Plot: erotica, fishing boat, female fight, alcoholism, female pubic hair, standing sex, voice over narration, lesbian cunnilingus, male full rear nudity, cheating wife, neglected wife, bare breasts ...
Place: hong kong
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 8.1
 655K
Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, 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: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
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 8.0
 162K
CODA (2021)
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: psychological, teen, sad, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, musician, coming of age, family relations, disability, teenager, deafness, fisherman, women, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: persia, hawaii, massachusetts
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
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, exciting, humorous, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: food, inventor, friendship, scientist, island, kids and family, animal, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, creator, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, fictional island
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
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: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, raped by monster, rape, monster, impregnation, survival, creature feature, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, fisherman, humanoid ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california
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 6.8
 517K
Aquaman (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
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, epic, action adventure, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: superhero, underwater, super powers, atlantis, ocean, princess, creature, half breed, muscleman, warrior, mermaid, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s, year 1985, 90s, 80s
Place: maine, boston, sicily, atlantic ocean, italy
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 6.3
 30K
Risen (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in ...
Style: biblical, christian film, atmospheric, historical drama, tense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christianity, roman empire, apostle, investigation, jesus christ, easter, resurrection, messiah, religion, jesus, religious, christian ...
Time: 1st century, biblical epic, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, china
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
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Little Sweetheart (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A criminal couple, hiding out in a remote property become the unwitting victims of a plot to blackmail them by the most unlikely of conspirators.
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: photograph, blackmail, youth, nymphet, embezzlement, evil child, stalking, bad kids, creepy kid, photography, surprise twist, extortion ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida
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Sound of the Sea (2001)
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: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious, erotic ...
Plot: lovers reunited, erotica, pregnant woman, breast feeding, nudity, female nudity, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, sabotage, couple relations, betrayal ...
Place: spain, valencia spain
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 6.9
 19K
Saving Grace (2000)
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, humorous, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marijuana, drug dealer, small town, weed, drug dealing, family problems, farce, police investigation, twists and turns, female protagonist, drug, cannabis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, cornwall, london, europe
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Islands in the Stream (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, sculptor, world war, father son relationship, fishing, art, hidden treasure, estranged father, fishing boat, island, sibling relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: bahamas
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The Secret of the Grain (2007)
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, touching, realistic, culinary ...
Plot: working class, immigrant, father in law daughter in law relationship, cooking, food, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, follow your dream, hopes, family life ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, africa, middle east, europe
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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
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
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, lesbian subtext, teenage life, lifestyle, human nature, dysfunctional family, betrayal, teenage love, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france, brittany
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