Billy Budd (1962), The Big Blue (1988), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Catch-22 (1970), Bitter Moon (1992), Old Ironsides (1926), Bitter Moon (1992), Backfire (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mediterranean Sea movies.
Storyline: H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere (Sir Peter Ustinov). He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master-at-Arms John Claggert (Robert Ryan) to maintain what he believes to be tenuous order and discipline aboard the ship. When a new seaman, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), is pressed into service from a passing merchantman, his innocent, happy-go-lucky attitude quickly endears him to his messmates as well as the ship's officers. However, his charismatic naivete seems to bother Claggert, whose perverse depravity makes him resent Billy's good-natured purity, especially after the teenager's promotion to fore-top Captain. The mean-spirited Claggert unfairly plots to put him on report and ultimately perjures himself when he accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: captain, seaman, military officer, assistant, lieutenant, young man, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in an insurance office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who is being studied by a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin than human. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later back in her office, she finds out that Jacques will be competing in a diving championship that takes place in Taormina, Sicily. In order to see Jacques again she ...
Plot Keywords: friend, diver, champion, investigator, scientist, calm, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for one wild expedition.
Plot Keywords: oceanographer, wife, son, crew member, journalist, pirate, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality", and of a bureaucratic society in general.
Plot Keywords: captain, pilot, soldier, lieutenant, doctor, witty, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin.
Plot Keywords: couple, man, woman, husband, frenchwoman, lover, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Early in the 19th century, the USS Constitution is launched as part of an effort to stop piracy in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, a young man determined to go to sea is befriended by the bos'n of the merchant ship Esther, and he joins her crew. When the Esther reaches the Mediterranean, she too, along with the Constitution, becomes involved in the battle against the pirates.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: young man, sea captain, crew member, pirate, lieutenant, love interest, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An alcoholic writer (Peter Coyote) in a wheelchair recalls his sexy wife (Emmanuelle Seigner) for an English aristocrat (Hugh Grant) on an ocean liner.
Plot Keywords: couple, man, woman, husband, frenchwoman, lover, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout in this thrilling adventure.
Plot Keywords: thief, smuggler, young woman, thrill seeker, lover, mysterious woman, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: pilot, naval officer, nazi, british soldier, brash, tense, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While rescuing an American air crew captured by Mid-Eastern terrorists, Lieutenant Curran and his team of Navy SEALs discover evidence that the terrorists have come into possession of dangerous high-tech weapons.
Plot Keywords: naval officer, navy seal, reporter, hostage, terrorist, politician, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state's air defenses.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, father, pilot, arab, colonel, campy, melodramatic ...
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