Seafaring
by Bobby Briggs Briganza | created - 28 Aug 2014 | updated - 01 Jan 2023 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Bounty (1984)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox
Votes: 30,487 | Gross: $8.60M
2. Treasure Island (1934)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Family
Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger
Votes: 3,169 | Gross: $2.54M
3. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Passed | 132 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 24,867
4. Treasure Island (1950)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald
Votes: 9,474
5. The Ghost Ship (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard
Votes: 3,790
6. Phantom Ship (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard
Votes: 1,054
7. White Squall (1996)
PG-13 | 129 min | Adventure, Drama
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf
Votes: 25,462 | Gross: $10.30M
8. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons
Votes: 49,257 | Gross: $84.56M
9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy
Votes: 238,043 | Gross: $93.93M
10. Pirates (1986)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs
Votes: 9,456 | Gross: $1.64M
11. The White Dawn (1974)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie
Votes: 894 | Gross: $0.40M
12. Frisco Kid (1935)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita
Votes: 691
13. Bahama Passage (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 145
14. Tall Ship Chronicles (2002– )
Adventure
It follows the training of Canadian journalist and actor Andrew Younghusband on an 18-month sail training voyage around the World, on the barque Picton Castle.
Star: Andrew Younghusband
Votes: 40
15. Captain Ron (1992)
PG-13 | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy
A Chicagoan inherits an old yacht. He, his wife, daughter and son fly to a Caribbean island and hire a dubious Captain Ron to sail them on an adventure to Miami.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury
Votes: 22,947 | Gross: $22.52M
16. Maidentrip (2013)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.
Director: Jillian Schlesinger | Stars: Dick Dekker, Kim Dekker, Laura Dekker, Barbara Mueller
Votes: 3,989 | Gross: $0.07M
17. All Is Lost (2013)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
Director: J.C. Chandor | Star: Robert Redford
Votes: 83,836 | Gross: $6.26M
18. Twilight for the Gods (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama
The sailing vessel Cannibal has a leaking hull. The captain (Rock Hudson) reluctantly changes course for Honolulu, where one passenger (Cyd Charisse) is wanted by the law. The water rising, everyone struggles against nature to survive.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson
Votes: 306
19.
The Great Ships (1996– )
Episode:
The Pirate Ships
(1997)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History
A history brief of piracy through eighteen centuries, with emphasis on ship building and maneuvering in the eighteenth century.
Director: Monte Markham | Stars: Monte Markham, Stuart Frank, David Cordingly, Richard Luckett
Votes: 17
20. Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 3,165
21. The Ship That Died (1938)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
In this entry from the John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series, the "Mary Celeste" sails from New York on November 7, 1872, with a full crew, including the captain's wife, which was cause ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Leonard Penn, Rhea Mitchell, Harry Allen
Votes: 227
22. Abandoned (VI) (2015)
TV-14 | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Director: John Laing | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Peter Feeney, Owen Black, Greg Johnson
Votes: 3,331
23. 12 Days of Terror (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
For twelve days in July, 1916, a shark patrolled the waterways of northern New Jersey. This docudrama is based on Richard Fernicola's account of those days.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,845
24. Herring Hunt (1953)
11 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
The operations of a herring boat, and of her crew, are typical of the ships and crews that dot the coastal waters of British Columbia. This film goes out to sea to tell the story of the ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Biggs | Star: Bruno Gerussi
Votes: 51
25. The Bermuda Triangle (1978)
G | 112 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
The passengers and crew of a ship on a scuba diving trip in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious and deadly things start happening.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: John Huston, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Gloria Guida
Votes: 1,665
26. Tai-Pan (1986)
R | 127 min | Adventure
Historical fiction set against the backdrop of Hong Kong in its early years of British rule.
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee
Votes: 1,896 | Gross: $4.01M
27. Shogun (1980 TV Movie)
159 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 5,062
28.
The Great Ships (1996– )
Episode:
The Windjammers
(1998)
Documentary, History
History and sea stories of the tall ships of the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
29. Death Cruise (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Mystery
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson
Votes: 345
30.
World of Discovery (1990– )
Episode:
Tall Ship
(1992)
47 min | Documentary
World of Discovery - Tall Ship: High Sea Adventure Come aboard The Danmark, one of the world's foremost sailing ships and the pride of Copenhagen, for a remarkable journey across the stormy... See full summary »
31. Summer Rental (1985)
PG | 87 min | Comedy
An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: John Candy, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, Karen Austin
Votes: 18,366 | Gross: $24.69M
32. The Admiral (2015)
TV-PG | 151 min | Action, Biography, Drama
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France, and Germany, and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the country's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.
Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Barry Atsma, Lieke van Lexmond
Votes: 10,429
33. Kill Cruise (1990)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A washed-out German sailor, in a drunken state, agrees to take two British women from Gibraltar to the West Indies in his sail boat. Early into the voyage, they realise that it's not going to be plain sailing.
Director: Peter Keglevic | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 900
34. Moby Dick (1998)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his Captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Stars: Henry Thomas, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Piripi Waretini
Votes: 4,175
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