Watermarks (2004), Tuvalu (1999), The Tunnel (2001), Swimming Upstream (2002), The Guardian (2006), Water Lilies (2007), The Monster That Challenged the World (1957), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Swimmer movies.
Storyline: Taking its name from the Hebrew word for strength, the Hakoah Vienna sports club produced a host of talented female swimmers, who thrived in opposition to anti-Semitic trends that began to color Austrian society in the early 20th century. The club was a casualty of Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, but several of the women who were team members went on to live long, colorful lives. Now senior citizens, they're reunited in this documentary about sports, survival and bravery.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, young woman, nazi, elderly woman, teammate, holocaust survivor, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful Eva, who comes to bathe with her father. When Eva and her father lose their home, they come to the bathhouse to stay, but bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Eva blames Anton, and she seems to seek the arms of the brute Gregor. Can Anton win back her heart, get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection, and help keep his parents employed? Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: swimming instructor, attendant, blind man, beautiful woman, swimmer, love interest, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of capturing him with the help of an experienced Native Australian (The Tracker). So they start their quest in the outback, not knowing that their inner wrestles against and for racism will be more dangerous that the actual hunting for the accused.—Bruno Benton
Plot Keywords: swimmer, friend, sister, police officer, little boy, young woman, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.—Crusader Entertainment
Plot Keywords: swimmer, son, father, mother, brother, inspiring, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ben Randall is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants Randall to go to the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer "A" School to train other rescue swimmers. He encounters a guy named Jake who's a little cocky because he was once a swim champion. So Ben puts him through the wringer to see if he can handle it.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, rescue worker, teacher, captain, wife, seaman, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: swimmer, teen girl, friend, sultry, emotional, uneasy, swimming pool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An earthquake doesn't just shake up Southern California -- it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country. Humanity's only hope rests on a crew of intrepid scientists and Lt. Cmdr. John Twillinger (Tim Holt).
Plot Keywords: creature, swimmer, scientist, lieutenant commander, chilling, tense, california ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian swimming sensation Annette Kellerman, who overcame childhood polio to go on and achieve fame as a professional swimmer and film star in the early decades of the 20th century. At the same time, she scandalized the world by wearing a one-piece bathing suit on public beaches long before the style was accepted in polite company, and made waves in other ways as well. The story was a perfect vehicle decades later to showcase the star quality of Esther Williams in the 1950s, and Kellerman's moniker was picked up by Life Magazine when it named Ms. Williams the "Million Dollar Mermaid" herself.—Tedosan
Plot Keywords: dancer, swimmer, father, charming, gutsy, inspiring, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: salesman, swimmer, frenchman, farmer, beautiful woman, amusing, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, friend, gripping, emotional, hudson river, boat, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Avery (Richard T. Jones) has finally gotten his life back on track. A competitive swimmer, he had to drop out of college to support his girlfriend, Krista (Melissa De Sousa), and their son, Jordan. He's back on the swim-meet circuit, and starting to have some success. When he's approached by a college scout after winning his latest race, he goes out to celebrate with his friends, Cashmere (Gabriel Casseus) and Dre. In an instant, Avery's luck is about to run out.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, girlfriend, drug dealer, cop, inmate, brutal, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Claire Carpenter's dad sends her to Australia to coach an elite boys swim team, Claire finds herself face to face with long-time rival Mikayla Michaels, and the news that the camp will close if the team loses the next meet. To save the camp, Claire must overcome a secret fear, put aside her differences with Mikayla and rediscover her passion.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, coach, young woman, amusing, confident, inspiring, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In sun-kissed Emerald Bay, the vigorous Lieutenant Mitch Buchannon and Baywatch, his elite team of hand-picked and perfectly tanned lifeguards, protect the bay, keeping both sunbathers and beach lovers safe. However, this summer, two new eager trainees will join the demanding life-saving program, as well as an insubordinate former Olympic swimmer, who are all called to prove their worth on the lifeguard towers just on time when a new synthetic street drug begins to infest the Emerald Bay: the flakka. Without a doubt, this calls for some serious undercover teamwork action, as the badgeless heroes in spandex comb the beach for shady newcomers and nefarious entrepreneurs with hidden agendas of their own. Can Mitch's band save the bay?
Plot Keywords: swimmer, lifeguard, business owner, nerd, beach bum, beautiful woman, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mathieu, a man who does business abroad, is under great pressure from his rich wife's family to take care of offspring. However, his wife, Françoise is infertile, so he arranges for a surrogate mother. Little by little, his curiosity about the woman in question turns into an obsession and he travels all over the world to meet her. Without ever having met her, he falls in love with her and puts everything at risk for that one true love.
Plot Keywords: young woman, swimmer, exchange student, brother, japanese man, restaurant employee, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New Jersey high school senior Ben Cronin is a former juvenile delinquent, whose past criminal behavior was fueled by and for drug use. He credits the support of his now long time girlfriend Amy Miller and getting into competitive swimming as the primary reasons for turning his life around, which includes working part-time at the hospital where his single mother works. He has become the star swimmer of his high school team, so much so that scouts from Stanford University are coming in a week's time to watch Ben swim. Ben has a new swim fan in Madison Bell, a recent transfer student to Ben's high school. Despite Ben making it clear that he is in a committed relationship, Madison seduces him, the seduction to which he succumbs. They agree afterward that their encounter was a one-time only event, but Ben slowly comes to the realization that despite Madison's assertions to the contrary, she has more in mind with him. He feels her constant unspoken threats to expose their tryst and ...
Plot Keywords: high-school student, swimmer, girlfriend, transfer student, coach, friend, suspenseful ...
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