Highest-Rated Movies about 'Ship Captain', Sort by Popularity

Antarctica (1984), The Ghazi Attack (2017), Kairo (2001), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Morituri (1965), Tugboat Annie (1933), The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ship Captain movies.

#16. Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)

Storyline: Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: playboy, beautiful woman, ship captain, sailor, thrilling, melodramatic, ship ...

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#17. Thunder Rock (1942)

Storyline: Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: journalist, ship captain, daughter, immigrant, passenger, ghost, dreamy ...

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#18. Deep Rising (1998)

Storyline: When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one!

Plot Keywords: ship captain, thief, beautiful woman, mercenary, passenger, engaging, tense ...

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#19. Cold Skin (2017)

Storyline: In 1914, just after of Franz Ferdinand's assassination that eventually caused World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, where a young nameless man is poised to take the post of weather observer, to live in solitude at the ends of the earth for an entire year until the arrival of his replacement. For the next twelve months, his entire world will consist of a deserted cabin, the surrounding sea, and dangerous strange beings that he discovers are sharing the island.—Darkwalker173

Plot Keywords: lighthouse keeper, monster, creature, ship captain, weatherman, castaway, bleak ...

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#20. The Captain's Table (1960)

Storyline: A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: ship captain, passenger, amusing, sultry, cruise ship, responsibility, rise ...

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#21. King Kong (1976)

Storyline: When a research ship is sent to explore an island thought to be rich in oil, paleontologist Jack Prescott sneaks aboard, having heard strange rumors about the island. En route, the crew rescues Dwan, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. When they arrive, they find native people living in fear of a monster called Kong. The natives kidnap Dwan and sacrifice her to what turns out to be an enormous ape. Dwan is eventually rescued, and the ape captured for a gala exhibit.

Plot Keywords: paleontologist, actress, oil baron, ship captain, native, king kong, incredible ...

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#23. Hell Below Zero (1954)

Storyline: Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: ship captain, businessman, woman, whaler, suspenseful, rousing, antarctica ...

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#24. Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Storyline: A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...

Plot Keywords: shark expert, scientist, cook, executive, captain, ship captain, shocking ...

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#25. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)

Storyline: Based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel of the famed English adventuress Moll Flanders (Kim Novak). Moll is first engaged as a maid by an eighteenth-century English family chiefly composed of sex-starved males. She marries the imbecilic second son, who prefers booze to copulation. Too embarrassed to speak the truth of him, she demurely tells friends, "Modesty forbids me to reveal the secrets of the marriage bed." She then meets a rich banker (George Sanders), becomes maid-companion to a Count (Vittorio De Sica) and his Lady, and finally weds the banker, but leaves him on their first night together. She then joins a group of thieves, falls in love with James "Jemmy" Seagrave (Richard Johnson), and becomes their number one asset before she is sent to prison. After she is released, she finds Jemmy, and, in the end, everyone is on an America-bound boat except the banker, who fortuitously dies of a heart attack before he has had an opportunity to alter his will.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: orphan, young woman, mayor, son, lady, husband, banker ...

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#27. Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)

Storyline: The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to her late husband, a shipwreck concealing a cargo of rare pearls. A diver and a diving bell are aboard ship. But a government agent coerces Hanson into accepting a shipment of convicts for the ship's hold. The wreck lies dangerously close to the erupting volcano on the island of Krakatoa, where Laura's young son attends the convent school...—David Woodfield

Plot Keywords: captain, boat captain, ship captain, adventurer, man, thrilling, engaging ...

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#28. Isle of Fury (1936)

Storyline: In the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are getting married when a ship goes down offshore. Val rescues Captain Deever and passenger Eric Blacke. Later Eric saves Val from an octopus. Unknown as their friendship develops is the fact that Val is a fugitive and Eric is the detective sent to arrest him.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, detective, fugitive, doctor, ship captain, shocking ...

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#29. Serenity (2019)

Storyline: Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down with a desperate plea for help. She begs Dill to save her - and their young son - from her new, violent husband (Jason Clarke) by taking him out to sea on a fishing excursion, only to throw him to the sharks and leave him for dead. Karen's appearance thrusts Dill back into a life he'd tried to forget, and as he struggles between right and wrong, his world is plunged into a new reality that may not be all that it seems.

Plot Keywords: fisherman, boat captain, ex-wife, son, husband, ship captain, dark ...

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#30. The Venetian Affair (1967)

Storyline: After an American diplomat inexplicably explodes a bomb during an international peace conference in Venice, killing himself and everyone in the room, CIA boss Frank Rosenfeld calls ex-agent Bill Fenner in on the case. Fenner is forced to find his ex-wife and save her from the clutches of both the good guys and the bad guys, while still obtaining the Vaugiroud report and uncovering the bombing conspiracy.—Daniel Bolton

Plot Keywords: inspector, doctor, ship captain, villain, enemy, police chief, chilling ...

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