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 serious, exciting, cult classic, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films and TV shows about / with sailboat, ship, escapades, danger, heroes, pirate, rivalry, sea, sword and ocean plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sailing ship: To the Ends of the Earth (2005), Hornblower: Retribution (2001), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Longitude (2000), Storm Bound (2007), White Squall (1996), The North Water (2021), Musketeers of the Sea (1962), A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), Jason and the Argonauts (1963).

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To the Ends of the Earth (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 267 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: semi serious, sincere, epic, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: ship, sea voyage, sea captain, imperialism, fall in love, introspection, social differences, escapades, military, unlikely couple, teaching the ways of the world, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era
Place: australia, england
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Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
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, captivating, rough, suspenseful, period piece ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, sea battle, military, rebellion, war hero, military life, army investigation, rivalry, ship, ship captain, sailing, boat ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: west indies, jamaica
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
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, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, sea, military, leadership, friendship, naval battle, heroic mission, expedition ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
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: epic, psychological, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mutiny, ship, ocean, captain, brutality, betrayal, leadership, sea, tyrant, rebelliousness, military, sailing ...
Time: 18th century, year 1962, victorian era, 1780s, georgian era
Place: tahiti, england, persia, europe
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Longitude (2000)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
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, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot: inventor, sea, british navy, ocean, against the odds, military life, escapades, danger, sea disaster, sailing, father son relationship, nature ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century
Place: jamaica, england
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 6.3
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Storm Bound (2007)
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, heroes, survival, isolation, youth, escapades, danger, confined, ocean, fight ...
Time: 17th century
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 6.6
 25K
White Squall (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style: emotional, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, manly, teen drama
Plot: sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, mentor, life & death, danger ...
Time: 60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place: jamaica, south america, west indies, connecticut, cuba ...
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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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Musketeers of the Sea (1962)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
Plot: musketeer, peplum, swashbuckler, sea adventure, fencing, sailboat, conspiracy, dungeon, pirate, abduction, torture, identical twins ...
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A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Plot: pirate, pirate ship, sea battle, ocean, sailboat, child in peril, sword fight, pirate captain, kidnapping, danger, escapades, ship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, victorian era, 1870s
Place: jamaica, caribbean
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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
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, tense, talky, epic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: greek mythology, mythology, giant monster, monster, skeleton, prophecy, dragon, adventurer, ancient world, stop motion, kaiju, treasure hunt ...
Time: ancient times, year 1963
Place: greece, ancient greece, rome italy, hellas
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
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, claymation, cult classic, psychedelic, adult animation ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: giant bird, trippy, european, psychology, spacesuit, moon, palace, steampunk, baron, beauty, princess, turkish army ...
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
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The Man Without a Country (1973)
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: amnesty, patriot, rebellious youth, mercy, injustice, sword, friendship, translator, respect, cannon, naval battle, taboo subject ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: washington d.c.
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Princess Caraboo (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away ...
Style: sweet, witty, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: couples, love and romance, disorder, master and servant, hidden identity, rich and poor, cinderella story, village, village life, monarch, renaissance, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1994, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place: england, europe, london, fictional island
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1976)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate.
Style: adult animation, confusing, anime, cult classic, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: pirate, kidnapping, toys, camel, literary, little girl, sibling relationship, toy comes to life, rescue, friendship, mutiny, lechery ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Savage Islands (1983)
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: semi serious, exciting, bleak
Plot: pirate, naval battle, female warrior, treasure hunt, chivalry, piracy, courage, historical event, seafaring, sorcery, captain, treasure hunter ...
Time: 19th century, year 1983, 80s, 1800s
Place: spain, pacific ocean
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: island, pirate, giant lizard, treasure, castaway, stranded, survival, rivalry, danger, escapades, adventurer, rescue ...
Time: 1860s
Place: fictional island, thailand, virginia
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: wilderness, expedition, survival, british empire, betrayal, friendship, heroic mission, escapades, danger, gay, colonialism, exploration ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1850s
Place: africa, south africa, london, cairo egypt, brazil ...
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Minotaur (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the ...
Style: suspense, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: minotaur, legends and myths, monster, sword and sorcery, mythology, good versus evil, adventurer, supernatural ability, survival, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, creature ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece
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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A golden bullet has 007 engraved on it as it smashes into the secret service headquarters. The bullet came from the professional killer Scaramanga who has yet to miss a target and James Bond begins a mission to try and stop him.
Style: sexy, exciting, humorous, saga, slasher ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: james bond, 007, espionage, secret service, car chase, martial arts, bond girl, assassin, hitman, agent, female martial artist, villain ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand, fictional island, asia, england ...
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 5.2
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Lovespell (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Style: arthurian, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, medieval, love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, tragic love, couples, head of state, love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, rivalry ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 6th century, year 1981
Place: ireland, cornwall, europe, britain
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Morocco, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Style: epic, serious, exciting, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: knight, sword fight, war, medieval, battles, siege, crusade, warrior, christianity, muslim, crusader, sword and shield ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 2005 ...
Place: jerusalem, middle east, palestine, holy land, england ...
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 7.4
 16K
I'm Not Scared (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, kidnapping, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, captivity, children, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time: year 2003, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, venice, milan italy ...
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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)
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, exciting, witty, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: treasure hunt, ship, survival, pirate, fantasy world, heroic mission, rescue, friendship, race against time, danger, daring rescue, adventurer ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 60s, 1850s
Place: australia, south america, new zealand, latin america, chile ...
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
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, suspense, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cyclops, sinbad, medieval, good versus evil, mythology, supernatural, monster, giant monster, stop motion, magic, sword and sorcery, treasure hunt ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 8th century
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 3.7
 39K
The Fog (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, ghost, fog, supernatural, island, betrayal, death, justice, prophecy, danger, haunted by the past, disaster ...
Time: year 2005
Place: california, usa, oregon
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, gothic, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, magical, imaginary kingdom, transformation, teenage girl, dream, cat, imaginary, alice in wonderland, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1870s ...
Place: cornwall, england, london, china
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK, West Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Style: fairy tale, cult classic, visual, visually appealing, mind blowing ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot: surrealism, steampunk, rejuvenation, childhood, fantasy world, magic, satire, eccentricity, sword and sorcery, twists and turns, adventurer, siege ...
Time: 18th century, year 1988
Place: ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire, constantinople, turkey ...
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, New Zealand, UK, France, Australia, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of ...
Style: computer animated, exciting, motion capture, colorful, 3d animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, reporter, young heroes, adventurer, dog, captain, riddles and clues, pirate, journalist, journalism, ship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: morocco, ethiopia, iran, europe, north africa
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