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1. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror

A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian

Votes: 50,074

2. Death on the Nile (2022)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Brand

Votes: 189,188 | Gross: $45.63M

3. 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: 30,563 | Gross: $8.60M

4. Greyhound (2020)

PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Drama, History

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.

Director: Aaron Schneider | Stars: Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham, Matt Helm

Votes: 115,195

5. History Is Made at Night (1937)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive

Votes: 2,531

6. The North Water (2021)

TV-MA | 300 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A disgraced former military doctor embarks as a surgeon aboard a whaler bound for the Arctic, where his quest for redemption becomes a fight for survival.

Stars: Jack O'Connell, Colin Farrell, Sam Spruell, Roland Møller

Votes: 16,418

7. USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)

R | 128 min | Action, Drama, History

During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 890 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.

Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, Matt Lanter

Votes: 14,359

8. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror

The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Peter Cushing

Votes: 7,139

9. A Night to Remember (1958)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, History

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman

Votes: 17,201

10. The King and I (1956)

G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson

Votes: 27,949 | Gross: $21.30M

11. Strawberry Mansion (2021)

91 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.

Directors: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney | Stars: Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Linas Phillips

Votes: 2,301

12. Carousel (1956)

Approved | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick

Votes: 6,812

13. In Which We Serve (1942)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War

This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

Director: Noël Coward | Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson

Votes: 6,460 | Gross: $0.45M

14. Juggernaut (1974)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 6,330 | Gross: $1.56M

15. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War

A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond

Votes: 4,930

16. The Cruel Sea (1953)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, War

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 5,419

17. 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: 3,177 | Gross: $2.54M

18. The Hawaiians (1970)

R | 134 min | Adventure, Drama

Captain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako

Votes: 1,438 | Gross: $0.28M

19. On Board (1998)

102 min | Crime, Drama

Sailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.

Director: Serdar Akar | Stars: Erkan Can, Haldun Boysan, Yildiray Sahinler, Naci Tasdögen

Votes: 16,183

20. Battle Stations (1956)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, War

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone

Votes: 298

21. Golden Rendezvous (1977)

PG | 101 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

On a cargo ship converted into a cruise-liner, First Officer John Carter foils the plan of international hijackers to use his vessel as bait for a passing U.S. Treasury ship carrying gold bullion.

Directors: Ashley Lazarus, Freddie Francis | Stars: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon

Votes: 596

22. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell

Votes: 2,166

23. Pirates of Tortuga (1961)

Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure

An English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is ... See full summary »

Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Ken Scott, Letícia Román, Dave King, John Richardson

Votes: 427

24. Crunch Commercials (2017 Video)

Animation, Short

The cartoon historian Jerry Beck presents a collection of three 1960s commercials for Cap'n Crunch cereal.

Stars: Daws Butler, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Scott

25. April in Paris (1952)

Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller

Votes: 1,519

26. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Directors: Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan | Stars: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross

Votes: 1,090

27. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)

Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon

Votes: 1,159

28. The Deep Six (1958)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War

Called to active duty during World War II, U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant Alec Austin struggles to do his military duties while observing his Quaker beliefs, to the dismay of his comrades.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 531

29. Ironclads (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | War

A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White, Reed Diamond, Philip Casnoff

Votes: 311

30. The Saxon Charm (1948)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.

Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter

Votes: 315

31. Convoy (1940)

78 min | Drama, War

A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.

Director: Pen Tennyson | Stars: Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell

Votes: 442

32. The Sea Hawk (1924)

Passed | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery

Votes: 642 | Gross: $0.78M

33. Seven Seas to Calais (1962)

Approved | 102 min | Adventure

Sir Francis Drake goes on an expedition to the New World and steals gold from the Spaniards. After making a daring getaway, he returns to England where he protects Queen Elizabeth I from a ... See full summary »

Directors: Rudolph Maté, Primo Zeglio | Stars: Rod Taylor, Keith Michell, Edy Vessel, Terence Hill

Votes: 503

34. Bewitched (1945)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.

Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards

Votes: 673

35. Non-Stop New York (1937)

69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Cellier

Votes: 436

36. South of Pago Pago (1940)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The son of an island chieftain, young Kehane defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna

Votes: 163

37. It's a Date (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 671

38. Serpent Island (1954)

Not Rated | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

An office secretary from Scranton, Pennsylvania (Mary Munday) sets out to find her great-grandfather's hidden treasure. She enlists the aid of a former Marine Engineer turned harbor bum (... See full summary »

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Mary Munday, Tom Monroe, Rosalind Hayes

Votes: 124

39. Man Alive (1945)

70 min | Comedy

Michael McBride is declared dead after a car accident leaving his wife Connie grief stricken. When he reappears he has difficulty convincing people it's him due to the interference of Tolliver and a young Ignatius claiming to be his son.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Ellen Drew, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 275

40. Paddy O'Day (1936)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell

Votes: 282

41. Atlantic Ferry (1941)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance

After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (... See full summary »

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power

Votes: 151

42. King of Alcatraz (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Carey, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 115

43. Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)

7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 536

44. Captain Hareblower (1954)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 496

45. Son of the Navy (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. The sailor, not knowing ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Selmer Jackson

Votes: 129

46. Deadweight (2016)

90 min | Drama

A sea captain leads an international crew and has to face moral questions after a disturbing accident.

Director: Axel Koenzen | Stars: Tommi Korpela, Ema Vetean, Archie Alemania, Manuelito Acido

Votes: 148

47. Sea Salts (1949)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

An elderly beetle recalls his long partnership with sea captain Donald, beginning with their time shipwrecked on a desert island.

Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Clarence Nash, Dink Trout

Votes: 401

48. Good Noose (1962)

6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Daffy Duck is a stow-away on a ship commanded by a portly, Captain Bligh-like figure, who orders his First Mate, a parrot named Mr. Tristan, to locate any stowaways aboard his ship and to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 205

49. Mutiny Ain't Nice (1938)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Captain Popeye must hide Olive Oyl, an accidental stowaway on a ship filled with sailors who believe women are a jinx.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 226

50. Varsovan laulu (1953)

90 min | Crime, Drama

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Christina Paischeff, Åke Lindman, Matti Oravisto, Hannes Veivo

Votes: 85