Movies and TV shows set in pacific ocean – page 2

List of movies set in pacific ocean

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SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, Australia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a ...
Style: humorous, adult cartoon, not serious, slapstick comedy, anime ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: friendship, optimism, underwater, fast food, imaginary, best friend, escapades, disorder, goofy hero, boat, surrealism, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2020s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: pacific ocean
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War and Remembrance (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min.
TV show
Story: War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style: historical drama, saga, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, war, holocaust, nazi germany, military, world war, submarine, nazi, wartime, conservative, cavalry, winston churchill ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, japan, europe, pacific ocean, pearl harbor ...
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
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, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had ...
Style: epic, factual, intense, talky, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, war, navy, fighter plane, u.s. navy, aviation, battles, military life, military, world war, wartime, air raid ...
Time: year 1970, 1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place: hawaii, japan, pearl harbor, washington d.c., asia ...
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style: serious, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, greed, character study, ambition, capitalism, money, rise to the top, rivalry, visceral, psychopath, religion, business ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, los angeles, america, persia ...
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The Sea Wolf (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story: The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: ship, ocean, survival, castaway, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, storm at sea, violence, sea, social differences ...
Time: year 2008, 1920s, 1900s
Place: pacific ocean
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Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine, tribes… Three years later, only one made it back. An ...
Style: anime
Plot: journey, betrayal, mutiny, captain, odyssey, riot, sailor, historical event, trip, boat, ship, battles ...
Time: 16th century
Place: pacific ocean, portugal, spain, atlantic ocean
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Flight 29 Down (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale. The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: teenager, stranded on an island, isolation, island, escapades, youth, danger, siblings relations, teenage life, desert island, interracial relations, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean, hawaii, oceania
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Skull Island (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Shipwrecked in the South Pacific, a group of explorers encounter a menagerie of fearsome creatures — including the giant ape who rules the island: Kong.
Style: captivating, 2d animation
Plot: king kong, gorilla, giant, adventurer, shipwreck, ship, monster, godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, island, escape
Place: pacific ocean
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, initially antagonists, fall in love, air disaster, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: hawaii, fictional island, tahiti, pacific ocean, usa ...
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Killing Romance (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hwang Yeo-rae is a popular actress, but she is often mocked due to her poor acting skills. She goes on a trip to an island in the South Pacific Ocean and meets Johnathan Na, who is extremely rich. She eventually marries Johnathan Na and announces ...
Style: thrilling, satirical, psychological, captivating
Plot: actress, relationship problems, relationships, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, lifestyle, family relations, couple relations, satire, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, attempted murder
Place: pacific ocean
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style: epic, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, visually appealing ...
Plot: war, sergeant, jungle, soldier, world war two, infantry, anti war, pacific war, pacific island, existentialism, survival, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998
Place: asia, america, japan, pacific ocean
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Women of Valor (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: TV movie, first shown by CBS in 1986. A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942. They are put in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan, where they spend three years of their lives. The story focuses on Lt Margaret Ann ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, prisoner, woman in jeopardy, corporal punishment, pow, loss of husband, prisoner of war camp, female bonding, military officer, tomboy, hunger ...
Time: year 1941
Place: pacific ocean, the philippines
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The Silent One (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A baby is washed up on a Pacific Island and is adopted by a childless woman. The tribal priest takes an instant dislike to the child, proclaiming him a demon. The child is deaf and mute and therefore excluded from hunting with the other young ...
Style: independent film
Plot: pacific islander, swimming, island, turtle, foundling, village, baby, little boy, south seas, adrift
Place: pacific ocean, new zealand
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Unbroken (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Style: motivational, uplifting, inspirational, epic, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, survival, torture, biopic, soldier, human spirit, prison, olympics, prisoners of war, lone hero, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, asia, pacific ocean, germany, berlin germany
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Virus (1999)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: virus, alien, robot, alien invasion, deadly creature, cyborgs, survival, ship, ghost ship, ocean, rescue, natural disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean
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None But the Brave (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, island, military, escapades, survival, danger, war, soldier, anti war, world war, u.s. army, us military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: pacific ocean
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Morituri (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so ...
Style: black and white, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, submarine, nazi, spy, sabotage, world war, mutiny, secret mission, military, soldier, war, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: japan, europe, asia, germany, england ...
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McHale's Navy (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, military, u.s. navy, war, sea, submarine, boat, japanese navy, beach, gambling, frenchwoman, sailor ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: pacific ocean
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PT 109 (1963)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and ...
Style: historical drama, rough, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, president, john f. kennedy, world war, ship, island, leadership, usa president, sea, usa history, fictional history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, year 1943
Place: oceania, pacific ocean
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The Final Countdown (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1980, the US Navy's most powerful warship, the USS Nimitz, is caught in a storm during routine manoeuvres in the Pacific. Enveloped by a strange green light, the ship passes through a vortex and when they emerge, their communications have ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, manly
Plot: time travel, world war two, military, catastrophe, military life, changing the past or future, heroic mission, battles, aircraft carrier, airplane, alternate history, time traveler ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place: pearl harbor, japan, pacific ocean
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And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s ...
Plot: island, hippie, murder, serial killer, pacific island, court, flashback, murder trial, courtroom, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sailboat, marijuana ...
Place: pacific ocean, hawaii, san francisco
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In Harm's Way (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Style: realistic, tense, factual, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: war, world war two, naval battle, military, wartime, naval officer, father son relationship, u.s. navy, military life, suicide, marital infidelity, navy ...
Time: year 1941, year 1965, 1940s, year 1942
Place: pearl harbor, hawaii, pacific ocean, san francisco, polynesia
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The Seawolf (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Plot: ocean, sea captain, strength, brutality, strong man, tough guy, ship, male bonding, violence, sadism, revenge, sailboat ...
Time: 1900s
Place: pacific ocean, san francisco
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, surprise ending
Plot: rescue, marooned, ocean, silly humor, disaster, innocence lost, survival, heroes, race against time, actor's life, misfit, espionage ...
Time: 70s
Place: hawaii, fictional island, usa, pacific ocean, california ...
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The Dove (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: sailing, ocean, sea voyage, boy, nature, survival, sea, coming of age, escapades, fall in love, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 70s
Place: pacific ocean, atlantic ocean
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 13K
The Love Boat (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977, until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain. It was part of ABC's popular ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: cruise ship, looking for love, love and romance, love affair, tour guide, family relations, workplace, fall in love, parents and children, passenger, father daughter relationship, sailing ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: pacific ocean
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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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Lord of the Flies (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wilderness, island, survival, bullying, innocence lost, children, coming of age, isolation, youth, desert island, childhood, human nature ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, future, near future
Place: britain, fictional island, pacific ocean
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Lone Star State of Mind (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: stupidity, debt, misfit, partner, babies and infants, small town life, heist, friends, male female relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bowling ...
Place: texas, los angeles, usa, las vegas, pacific ocean
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