Highest-Rated Movies about 'Seaman', Sort by Popularity

Billy Budd (1962), Captain Phillips (2013), Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (2003), Dear Frankie (2004), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), The Bedford Incident (1965), Ghost Ship (1943), Operation Disaster (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Seaman movies.

#17. Sea Wife (1957)

Storyline: In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a flashback frame.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: nun, officer, seaman, racist, melodramatic, emotional, ship ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#18. Captain Hurricane (1935)

Storyline: Zenas Brewster (James Barton) is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland (Helen Westley), but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.—Bill Morrison

Plot Keywords: captain, seaman, first mate, housekeeper, daughter, thrilling, rousing ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#21. Submarine Seahawk (1958)

Storyline: For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: lieutenant commander, crew member, radio operator, captain, seaman, spirited, suspenseful ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#22. Operation Bikini (1963)

Storyline: With posters featuring a stylized-drawing of Eva Six in a bikini, a tagline reading..."Temptation in Paradise...neither hell nor high heels could stop them", and a Dream Sequence Technical Adviser credit for Bob Marcucci, American-International once again proved it had no peers when it came to sleight-of-hand advertising selling a war-movie when war movies weren't selling. This one starts in the Pacific in 1943 when an American submarine staffed by the likes of Scott Brady, Jim Backus and Michael Dante (the old guns to get the old folks in) has a rendezvous with a cruiser to pick up an underwater demolition team comprised of the likes of Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Gary Crosby and Jody McCrea (the young turks to get the kids in, which probably only worked in Southern California), and there is conflict right off as the sub crew feels like they are being denied a chance to revenge the sinking of a sister sub because they have to deliver Tab and Frankie to an island on a super-secret special mission guaranteed to affect the entire course of the war in the Pacific. These guys are landed on the Japanese-infested island and find their guerilla support consists of an old man, a teen-ager and three girls.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: captain, lieutenant, seaman, guerrilla fighter, interpreter, beautiful woman, thrilling ...

Movie Details Click Here!