Sailing ship movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sailing ship movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, period piece, period drama, exciting and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with sailboat, ship, betrayal, pirate, sea, island, danger, escapades, mentor and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sailing ship: To the Ends of the Earth (2005), Hornblower: Retribution (2001), Storm Bound (2007), Longitude (2000), The North Water (2021), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), White Squall (1996), Treasure Island (1966), Treasure Island (1973), Treasure Island (1987).
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to ...
Style:
period piece, semi serious, sincere, epic, captivating ...
Plot:
sea voyage, ship, sea captain, fall in love, imperialism, introspection, social differences, unlikely couple, escapades, military, teaching the ways of the world, wooing ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, georgian era, regency period
Place:
australia, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sea battle, military, rebellion, war hero, ship captain, military life, army investigation, rivalry, ship, sailing, chivalry ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
Style:
exciting, serious, atmospheric, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
island, ship, fall in love, survival, heroes, isolation, danger, confined, escapades, youth, ocean, fight ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, period piece, epic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, naval battle, sea battle, battles, sailing, warship, heroic mission, royal navy, british navy, sea ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place:
britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
TV show
Story:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
inventor, sea, british navy, ocean, against the odds, military life, escapades, danger, sea disaster, sailing, father son relationship, sea voyage ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, jamaica
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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:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
arctic, expedition, north pole, struggle for survival, whaling, sea, scientific expedition, psycho killer, sailor, ship, irishman, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutiny, ship, ocean, brutality, corporal punishment, betrayal, captain, native tribe, language barrier, discipline, leadership, tyrant ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, victorian era, year 1962, georgian era ...
Place:
tahiti, england, persia, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
inspirational, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, survival, mentor, life & death ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, south america, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
As a young boy finds an old map of a treasure island in the mid 1700s, he joins a sailing crew on an adventure to find the treasure island. He does not realize however that bloodthirsty pirates are amongst the crew, desperately wanting to claim the ...
Style:
suspense, costume drama, dramatic, period piece, period drama
Plot:
pirate, treasure, treasure hunt, mutiny, sailboat, coming of age, literary, seafaring, betrayal, map, sea voyage, danger ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean, scotland
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins, a pirate mouse named Hiccup, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney hire a ship to find the legendary treasure of notorious late pirate Captain Flint. However, Flint's former crewmates plan to take over the ship.
Style:
nautical, tension, suspense, anime
Plot:
pirate, island, treasure hunt, buried treasure, sea voyage, deception, betrayal, mutiny, sailboat, map, captain, coming of age ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Style:
lighthearted, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
pirate, treasure hunt, buried treasure, children, mutiny, map, sea voyage, sailboat, island, treasure map, parrot, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, sexy, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, macabre, female vampire, blood, nobleman, vampire human love, countryside, gangster, betrayal, greed ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 1910s, year 1979, 1800s ...
Place:
cornwall, europe, united kingdom, england, yorkshire
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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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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta, India, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, period piece, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural horror, ship, supernatural, doctor, ship captain, vampirism, danger, ocean, survival, sea voyage ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london, transylvania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nathaniel Williamsen (O'Keefe) is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie (Seagrove). Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes (Jones), who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, bleak
Plot:
female warrior, naval battle, pirate, pirate ship, chivalry, rescue, island, kidnapping, treasure hunt, steamship, male female relationship, village ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
pacific ocean, spain
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught ...
Style:
exciting, epic fantasy, tense, epic, talky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
greek mythology, giant monster, monster, skeleton, dragon, mythology, adventurer, sword and sorcery, prophecy, ancient world, stop motion, giant ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1963
Place:
ancient greece, greece, rome italy, hellas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After the death of her father, the viceroy of a small Caribean island, the beautiful young Isabella is in a big danger. The crafty duke of Burt wants to grab the power on the isle so he decides to eliminate her. Fortunately then comes a group of ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, period piece, tension, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pirate, danger, bravery, swashbuckler, protection, rescue mission, female protagonist, power, sea voyage, seafaring, sword fight, power struggle ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by ...
Style:
experimental, adult animation, psychedelic, cult classic, claymation ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
giant bird, trippy, european, nobleman, giant fish, psychology, spacesuit, moon landing, moon, palace, baron, beauty ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil. nor ...
Plot:
patriot, amnesty, rebellious youth, bravery, naval battle, taboo subject, respect, cannon, sword, friendship, mercy, translator ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the ...
Plot:
american revolution, revolution, freedom, american revolutionary war, revolutionary war, ancient, usa history, revolutionary, struggle, time machine, illegitimate son, fencing ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
america, england, france, philadelphia, boston
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
With Hawaii's four kingdoms divided by war, the ferocious warrior Kaʻiana embarks on an epic mission to unite his people—as an existential threat approaches their shores.
Style:
intense, biting, epic war, polynesian, tragic ...
Plot:
male star appears nude, male nudity, brother in law sister in law relationship, power struggle, island, massacre, epic battle, tattoo on face, female nudity, bare chested male, blood, filicide ...
Time:
1790s, 18th century
Place:
hawaii, polynesia, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, romantic, stylized, sex comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, marriage proposal, love, betrayal, victorian england, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, gilded age, american history, couple relations, love and romance, marriage ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1997, 1870s ...
Place:
alps, geneva switzerland, manhattan new york city, america, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, medical horror, costume drama ...
Plot:
frankenstein, experiment gone awry, death, mad scientist, monster, vengeance, supernatural, frankenstein's monster, obsession, hanged woman, experiment, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, georgian era, 1790s, 1900s ...
Place:
central europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland, swiss alps
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Style:
witty, philosophical, talky, cult classic, funny ...
Plot:
shakespeare, renaissance, dialogue, existentialism, writers, hamlet, destiny, tragedy, melancholy, heir, sword and shield, royal court ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times
Place:
england, europe, denmark
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293K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, humorous, black comedy, gothic horror ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
vampire, witch, eccentric family, immortality, dark humor, witchcraft, curse, vengeance, lost love, old mansion, supernatural, werewolf ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 70s, 19th century ...
Place:
new england, usa, liverpool, england, maine ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time...
Style:
period piece, dramatic, costume drama
Plot:
pirate, swashbuckler, captain, pirate ship, peplum, female protagonist, gender disguise, cross dressing, seafaring, heroine, escape, female empowerment ...
Time:
18th century, 60s
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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, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the ...
Style:
exciting, epic fantasy, light, suspense, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
cyclops, sinbad, mythology, treasure hunt, arabian nights, medieval, sword and sorcery, adventurer, supernatural, monster, giant monster, stop motion ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 8th century
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