Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Deep Water (2006), Tugboat Annie (1933), Strange Cargo (1940), Tammy Tell Me True (1961), Anna Christie (1930), Stage Struck (1925), The River Rat (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Boats movies.
Storyline: Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.
Plot Keywords: college graduate, girlfriend, rival, first mate, amusing, madcap, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Confronted by a perilous sea, bad weather, an unfinished boat and painfully slow progress, sailor Donald Crowhurst faces an impossible dilemma - to continue into the open ocean on his 1968 solo round-the-world race with a leaking boat or return home defeated and bankrupt. Using original 16mm footage, tape recordings and interviews, this film reconstructs one man's extraordinary physical and psychological journey.
Plot Keywords: englishman, sailor, contestant, engaging, gripping, intense, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business. Dressler dotes on his son and his snooty girlfriend.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: ship captain, drunk, son, fiancée, boss, mother, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he piggybacks on the escape of six other convicts and runs into Julie again in the process. One of the convicts is a spiritual figure who seems to know what will happen before anyone else. The group attempts to travel through the jungle, board a boat, and make it to the mainland.—JeanneArmintrout@juno.com
Plot Keywords: prisoner, prostitute, killer, religious person, captor, cynic, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tammy (Sandra Dee) leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Mrs. Call (Beulah Bondi) ultimately moves in with Tammy at the Ellen B., she who would be a catalyst for events in Tammy's future.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: student, boyfriend, professor, wealthy woman, dean, niece, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna fifteen years ago to the countryside to be raised by relatives in a farm in St. Paul and he has never visited his daughter. Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea. Soon Anna and Matt fall in love with each other and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and also haunted by her past. Matt insists and Anna opens her heart to Matt and to her father disclosing the darks secrets of her past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: daughter, love interest, father, sailor, tender, somber, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Plot Keywords: waitress, cook, actress, manager, actor, love interest, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After serving time for a murder he didn't commit, all Billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. However, some loose ends, like the whereabouts of the stolen loot, just won't let him go.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, daughter, psychiatrist, sheriff, young boy, innocent man, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Plot Keywords: guest, crew member, ship captain, inspiring, intricate, striking, boat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France with no fuel and supplies and must resort to desperate actions to return home.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Plot Keywords: newlywed, husband, wife, friend, girlfriend, police officer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pretty but scatterbrained Barbara Olmstead arrives in Mexico City to marry her soldier fiance, learns he's been delayed, and runs off to find a place to stay. Meanwhile, fiance Phil arrives after all, just misses Barbara, and goes off in quest of her. As further complications ensue, American consul David Flanner (who has an impatient fiancee of his own) is caught in the middle and driven nearly frantic...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, corporal, consul, fiancée, doctor, judge, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The annual winter fisheries are about to start, but the great catch never seems to come their way. It turns out that large industrial trawlers have emptied the ocean of fish, and it looks like ordinary little fishing boats will have a hard time surviving. The trawlers belong to a new, super-modern fishing enterprise owned and run by the tough business vessel The Arctic Queen. Elias discovers what's going on, and gathers all his power in order to save the future of his tiny coastal community. He succeeds, of course, but first we will take part in a story both thrilling and funny, including a hidden Viking treasure, the most sinister villain boat of the year, a coup involving sending all the Cozy Cove fishing boats as scrap iron to China, and the cute mini-sub Dippy, which becomes a new and important acquaintance for Elias.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: boat captain, thrilling, playful, underwater, boats, community, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The menacing John Clive has the Indians clenched in his fist. Leading to a revolution by the righteous Azaad (Amitabh Bachchan) Captain James Powell, Clive's second in command contracts the sly thug Firangi (Aamir Khan) to get them Azaad. As destined he finds himself amid Azaad, his rebels and the beautiful warrior Zafira (Fatima Sana Shaikh). Will he forgo his selfish desire for nation's freedom?
Plot Keywords: thug, thief, warrior, daughter, petty criminal, intense, brutal ...
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