| The Little Mermaid (1989) | 7.6 | |
| The Pagemaster (1994) | 6.2 | |
| Moby Dick (2011) | 6.2 | |
| Orca (1977) | 5.8 | |
| Flow (2024) | 7.9 |
Whale movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant whale movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, captivating and melancholic films and TV shows about / with whale, ocean, danger, water, animal, escapades, survival, boat, death and ship plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Family genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as whale: In the Heart of the Sea (2015), The Whale (2013), Moby Dick (2011), Whale Rider (2002), Big Miracle (2012), Orca (1977), Free Willy (1993), Flow (2024), The Tadpole and the Whale (1988), The Pagemaster (1994).
Best films
New films
| Survive (2024) | 4.6 | |
| Nowhere (2023) | 6.3 | |
| Dolittle (2020) | 5.6 | |
| Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) | 7.5 | |
| Zootopia 2 (2025) | 7.5 |
List of whale movies
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: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
whale, lost at sea, shipwreck, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, rescue, isolation, hunting ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style:
realistic, exciting, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, whale, ship, obsessive quest, hunt down, rivalry, dangerous animal, danger, lost at sea, ocean, self destructing, escapades ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
nova scotia
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, ...
Style:
touching, emotional, thought provoking, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
whale, tradition, coming of age, sexism, childhood, female protagonist, culture clash, girl, legend, empowerment, youth, loss of son ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand, oceania, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.
Style:
scary, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, ship, survival, escapades, confined, gory, danger, whale, murder, death, nordic, guts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, iceland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big Miracle’ is ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, touching, serious, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, adult
Plot:
animal rescue, rescue, journalism, volunteer, media, whale, ocean, animal, environmentalism, danger, diving, winter ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, 80s, year 1988
Place:
alaska, new york, los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, sweet, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot:
killer whale, whale, childhood, friendship, human animal relationship, animal, foster home, orphan, half brother half brother relationship, fire, teenage boy, boy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
astoria oregon, oregon, usa, washington state, new york
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer whale, whale, survival, ocean, killer animal, animal attack, sea, vengeance, ship, revenge, fish, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
newfoundland, antarctica
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
animal, human animal relationship, friendship, killer whale, animal training, rescue, whale, animal life, freedom, coming of age, boy, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, portland oregon, usa
Is relevant?
122K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Latvia, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.
Style:
3d animation, independent film, computer animated, ambiguous ending, complex ...
Plot:
cat, dog, flood, lemur, boat, water, whale, rescue from drowning, rabbit, fish, bird, animal ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Style:
surreal, bilingual
Plot:
whale, dolphins, marine life, friendship, children, innocence, coming of age, melancholy, magic realism, environmentalism, grandfather, getting home ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tyler knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, surprise ending, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama, horror for children
Plot:
parallel universe, magic, book, imagination, dragon, fantasy world, librarian, rain, magic wand, child, pirate, island ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life ...
Style:
atmospheric, poignant, melancholic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
whale, world war one, friendship, children, isolation, fishing village, secrets, coming of age, village life, folklore, moral dilemma, empathy ...
Time:
1910s, year 1989
Place:
cornwall
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54K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style:
harsh, visually stunning, epic, sexy, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ocean, survival, sea voyage, boat, raft, expedition, shark, adventurer, sailing, lost at sea, fish, travel ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place:
pacific ocean, peru, polynesia, usa, south america ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
Style:
anime, feel good, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
transformation, supernatural, children, friendship, alternate reality, whale, changing lives, friends, families, magic, flying, parallel world ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, sea, ocean, captain, whale, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, danger, friendship, water, shipwreck, creature ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Pinocchio tries to save the Earth from Astro the Space Whale
Style:
fairy tale, retro, lighthearted, anime, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
space, giant lizard, whale, outer space, pinocchio, mars, redemption, rescue mission, children, alien creature, coming of age, good versus evil ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
226K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, light, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
shark, giant monster, giant animal, underwater, sea monster, giant creature, killer shark, animal attack, ocean, professor, killer animal, survival ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, prehistory, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched ...
Style:
retro, prehistoric, colorful, lighthearted, anime ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
whale, caveman, sword and sorcery, moby dick, transformation, teamwork, young heroes, secret identity, anthropomorphic animal, pirate, superpower, dodo ...
Time:
stone age, 60s, prehistoric times
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Dot and her Dolphin friends are playing along the shore one day. Soon they come across a very sad Whale named Tonga, who has washed up onto the beach. Tonga is in danger of being harmed by evil Whale-hunters and a cruel fish shop owner! Seeing that ...
Style:
educational, cute, uplifting, independent film
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
whale, dolphins, ocean, children, marine life, sea, beach, friendship, animal rescue, rescue mission, conservation, empathy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
antarctica, south pole
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
eskimo indian, village, survival, wilderness, murder, on the run, danger, shaman, winter, family life, village life, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of art thieves and a group of college students on an abandoned island
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, natural horror ...
Plot:
monster, giant monster, creature feature, killer shark, animal attack, eaten alive, lake, sea creature, giant animal, kaiju, water, creature ...
Time:
jurassic
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Voracious sharks use human bodies to build dams.
Style:
natural horror, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
shark, monster, shark attack, animal attack, killer animal, creature feature, creature, killer shark, giant animal, dam, sharksploitation, murder ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental illness, uncover truth, false accusation, missing person, life is a bitch, vengeance, social relations, small town, grief, loss, revenge, family feud ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Is relevant?
51K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions ...
Style:
dark comedy, intense, romantic comedy, modern day adaptation
Plot:
architect, cooking, building collapse, drunkenness, twins, waiter, lawyer, flirting, storm, divorce lawyer, marriage, rottweiler ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
california, london, big ben london, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Star and Brandon, estranged brother and sister, are brought together after their mother's recent death and her absurd final request to dispose of her ashes in the body of a whale. With no choice or face losing their much-needed inheritance - ...
Style:
independent film, crying
Plot:
gay bashing, gay brother, gay, brother sister relationship, gay interest, repressed homosexual, sexual repression, whale, sexual orientation, sexual attraction, drunkenness, republican ...
Place:
iowa, missouri, oklahoma, texas
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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:
village life, sea voyage, coming of age, journey, animal, escapades, fishing, road trip, fall in love, weather, life, in love ...
Place:
russia, alaska
Is relevant?
211K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and ...
Style:
entertaining, computer animated, feel good, buddy comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
fish, underwater, shark, gangster, talking animal, anthropomorphism, loss of son, vegetarian, lie, animal, anthropomorphic animal, mobster ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, sexual, art house, erotic ...
Plot:
ancient rome, surrealism, roman, gay, gay interest, hermaphrodite, big breasts, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction, sex, decadence ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, year 1969, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, sicily, ancient greece, europe ...
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