The Usual Suspects (1995), On the Waterfront (1954), Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Man Without a Past (2002), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), Death of a Scoundrel (1956), Moonfleet (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Port movies.
Storyline: Following a truck hijack in New York, five criminals are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze?
Plot Keywords: con artist, criminal, fbi agent, special agent, survivor, district attorney, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
Plot Keywords: dockworker, mobster, lawyer, priest, sister, brooding, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Plot Keywords: sailor, revolutionary, soldier, civilian, inspiring, brutal, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Plot Keywords: amnesiac, social worker, welder, homeless person, musician, love interest, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling expedition.The old captain wants to teach his spoiled grandson real life values such as honesty, courage, wisdom, fairness and hard work.At the same time, First Mate Dan Lunceford is entrusted with tutoring the boy in his schoolwork.A small competition and rivalry starts when both men,Captain Joy and First Mate Lunceford, strive to become young Jed's male role model.Captain Joy may have the wisdom dictated by his life's experiences but young Jed's imagination is rather captivated by Dan Lunceford's seafaring tales.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: captain, grandchild, first mate, ship owner, sailor, gripping, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted to Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: sea captain, woman, singer, expatriates, charming, sultry, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who knew him wanted him dead.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: murder victim, social climber, thief, lover, secretary, brother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 18th century, British youngster John Mohune is shipped off to live with Jeremy Fox, a gentleman who moonlights as a bootlegger, after his mother's death.
Plot Keywords: buccaneer, smuggler, orphan, nobleman, pirate, rousing, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Iranian college student (Janette Armand) and a gay businessman (Doug Fahl) join a band of townspeople to fight deadly walking corpses.
Plot Keywords: businessman, college student, suspenseful, gory, amusing, port, washington state ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cenerentola tries to escape from the evil schemes of her stepmother and stepsisters while living aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of Naples.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, crime boss, stepmother, tense, sultry, sad, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger boat, the fishermen agree to tow it into an isolated harbour.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: fisherman, woman, captain, spy, nazi, sailor, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: DOSSIER K. is the long anticipated successor to 'The Alzheimer Case' which won numerous awards and was sold to over 30 countries, among which the US (where it was released through Sony Picture Classics). This second film based on a novel by Jef Geeraerts is a dense European thriller about passion, betrayal, revenge, blind ambition and the inevitability of fate. Set against the realistic background of Albanian mafia in Antwerp, the story brings the main characters Erik Vincke and Freddy Verstuyft into a disastrous vortex from which no one seems to escape.—Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Plot Keywords: police detective, mob boss, murder suspect, partner, criminal, gangster, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married, has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay Briggs but then he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Plot Keywords: security guard, brother-in-law, drug lord, best friend, wife, smuggler, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sea captain, german, nazi, british officer, commander, suspenseful, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.
Plot Keywords: fisherman, captain, friend, beautiful woman, rescue worker, boat captain, dark ...
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