The Wide Blue Road (1956), Billy Budd (1962), The Lighthouse (2019), Bait (2019), Son of Fury (1942), Mare Nostrum (1926), Anne of the Indies (1951), The Buccaneer (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sea movies.
Storyline: A provincial fisherman (Yves Montand) angers other villagers by using dynamite illegally to expedite his catch.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, italian cinema, poverty, survival, family, sea ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: adventure, drama, historical, morality, justice, innocence, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: psychological horror, surreal, black and white, isolation, descent into madness, mythology, folklore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father's vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, survival, shark, low budget, independent film, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, historical, action, romance, revenge, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: German spies, using Freya Talberg as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship to refuel German U-boats, telling him they would never fire on passenger ships. But one torpedoes the ship his son, Esteban, was on, killing him and many others. He sets out to punish the ones responsible.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, adventure, drama, romance, war, sea, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against other pirates, first of all Blackbeard and Providence. He works on some ships, crossing the Caribbean sea, with the intention of being enchained, when a pirate ship is in sight, to make them believe he's an enemy of the British. One day, his ship is conquered by Captain Providence. What nobody knew before, Providence is a (beautiful, of course) woman. She believes his story and so he joins her crew. But Blackbeard, her fatherly friend, doesn't believe him. Providence and LaRochelle fall in love, although he is married. When LaRochelle tries to deliver her to the British, she forebodes the trap, kidnaps his wife and escapes. As for revenge, she wants to sell his wife on a slave-market. LaRochell gets his ship and his crew back and follows her. ...—Christian Wenger <wenger@ls7.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Plot Keywords: adventure, swashbuckler, historical, action, drama, sea, 18th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the War of 1812, the British have sacked Washington and hope to capture New Orleans, where pirate Jean Lafitte romances blueblooded Annette de Remy and openly sells his loot in a pirates' market. But he never attacks American ships. Can the British bribe Lafitte to help them? Can Lafitte persuade American authorities of his loyalty? Will a love triangle between Annette and pretty Dutch girl Gretchen (survivor of a pirates' prize) bring about Lafitte's undoing?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, historical, war, action, drama, romance, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Story of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Plot Keywords: adventure, historical, drama, sea, 19th century, biographical, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, sea, monster, silent film, 1920s, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...—Igenlode Wordsmith
Plot Keywords: adventure, sea, war, history, military, british, navy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hank Smith, a brutish stoker on board a freighter, is appalled when Mildred Douglas, a society girl forced by circumstance to travel as a passenger, visits the stokehold and recoils at the filthy, sweating Hank. A powerhouse of a man with a primitive confidence, Hank has never been looked down on before nor suffered the insult "hairy ape" flung at him by the rich girl. At first he seeks vengeance for the insult, but broods over it until more than anything, he desires to understand it. When the ship reaches port, he seeks her out in her upper class surroundings, determined to grasp the meaning of the encounter.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, adaptation, theatre, working class, social class, identity crisis, film noir ...
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