Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sinking"

1. Titanic (1997)

PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

Votes: 1,280,115 | Gross: $659.33M

2. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang

Votes: 494,092 | Gross: $659.68M

3. Under the Skin (I) (2013)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell

Votes: 158,173 | Gross: $2.61M

4. Dunkirk (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy

Votes: 739,922 | Gross: $188.37M

5. Battleship (2012)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna

Votes: 257,326 | Gross: $65.42M

6. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock

Votes: 168,811 | Gross: $130.17M

7. Aquaman (2018)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.

Director: James Wan | Stars: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson

Votes: 520,623 | Gross: $335.06M

8. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,300 | Gross: $11.49M

9. The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Fantasy

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron

Votes: 7,022

10. The Ghazi Attack (2017)

Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Thriller, War

A Pakistani submarine, Ghazi plans to secretly attack Vizag port. For doing so, it has to get past Indian submarine S21.

Director: Sankalp Reddy | Stars: Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri

Votes: 14,628

11. 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: 83,816 | Gross: $6.26M

12. Great White (2021)

91 min | Horror, Thriller

A fun filled flight to a remote atoll turns into a nightmare for five passengers when their seaplane is destroyed in a freak accident and they are trapped on a raft, 100 miles from shore with man-eating sharks lurking beneath the surface.

Director: Martin Wilson | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Aaron Jakubenko, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Tim Kano

Votes: 8,828

13. Black Sea (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall

Votes: 40,866 | Gross: $1.17M

14. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 TV Movie)

TV-G | 47 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young reindeer Rudolph lives at the North Pole. His father is one of Santa's reindeer and it is expected that Rudolph will eventually be one too. However, he has a feature which is a setback and causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.

Director: Larry Roemer | Stars: Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles

Votes: 37,466

15. Airport '77 (1977)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Votes: 12,311 | Gross: $30.00M

16. Ice Station Zebra (1968)

G | 148 min | Adventure, Thriller

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown

Votes: 11,872

17. Post Mortem (I) (2020)

Not Rated | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.

Director: Péter Bergendy | Stars: Viktor Klem, Fruzsina Hais, Judit Schell, Zsolt Anger

Votes: 3,396

18. The Curse (1987)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 3,877 | Gross: $1.93M

19. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Two years after the death of Solid Snake, a rookie FOX-HOUND agent, on his first mission, infiltrates an offshore decontamination facility to rescue the President.

Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: David Hayter, Quinton Flynn, Christopher Randolph, Lara Cody

Votes: 9,225

20. Morituri (1965)

Approved | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.

Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard

Votes: 4,493

21. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History

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

Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley

Votes: 1,503

22. The Isle (2000)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Thriller

Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.

Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Jung Suh, Kim Yu-seok, Cho Jae-hyun, Jang Hang-seon

Votes: 14,715 | Gross: $0.02M

23. The Great Flood

Action, Adventure, Drama | Post-production

A disastrous great flood sweeps the planet. On what may be the last day on Earth, a desperate fight ensues to save a child from a flooding apartment.

Director: Byung-woo Kim | Stars: Kim Da-mi, Park Hae-soo, Kim Kyu-na

24. Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998 TV Movie)

93 min | Adventure, Drama, War

While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson, Ian McNeice

Votes: 4,535

25. Dangerous Passage (1944)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack La Rue

Votes: 388

26. Seven Days from Now (1957)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A ship's officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd

Votes: 1,928

27. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Approved | 16 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Lou Fleischer, Gus Wicke

Votes: 4,024

28. Above Us the Waves (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, War

The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice

Votes: 1,630

29. Submarine Command (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, War

Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor

Votes: 683

30. Under Ten Flags (1960)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War

German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.

Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson

Votes: 553

31. No Greater Love (1995 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A woman (Kelly Rutherford) who loses her fiance and her parents in the Titanic disaster neglects her own needs to care for her brothers and sister.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Kelly Rutherford, Chris Sarandon, Nicholas Campbell, Daniel Hugh Kelly

Votes: 489

32. Dark Waters (2003 Video)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Moneyless, ocean-exploring gigolo and his worldly lady-friend are forced to take part in looking into the possibility that aggression - utilizing marine life - is being planned.

Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Simmone Mackinnon, Jeffrey Gorman, Ross Manarchy

Votes: 854

33. The Boat (1921)

Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely

Votes: 3,637

34. Southern Comfort (1997)

57 min | Drama, Family

Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, ... See full summary »

Director: Jesper W. Nielsen | Stars: Stephania Potalivo, Birgitte Federspiel, Maurice Blinkenberg-Thrane, Birgitte Simonsen

Votes: 97

35. 72 metra (2004)

115 min | Drama, Action, Thriller

Every second is precious for a Russian submarine crew, as they are stranded 72 meters below the ocean's surface.

Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Marat Basharov, Andrey Krasko, Dmitriy Ulyanov

Votes: 1,773

36. Remember the Sultana (2018)

96 min | Documentary, History

The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.

Directors: Mark Marshall, Mike Marshall | Stars: Ray Appleton, Mackenzie Astin, Sean Astin, Jim Beaver

Votes: 215

37. Ghostboat (2006 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A British Sub goes missing at the end of WWII, leaving only one survivor. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, then 40 years later it reappears without a crew. The ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: David Jason, Ian Puleston-Davies, Tony Haygarth, Julian Wadham

Votes: 486

38. Empress of Ireland (2012)

70 min | Documentary, History

After his disappearance on May 29, 1914, the Empress of Ireland still arouses passionate curiosity of crowds. Shipwreck disaster (there are more than twelve thousand victims), this ... See full summary »

Director: Stephan Parent | Stars: Gabrielle Alicot, Marilyn Bali, Alexis Barbe, David Batani

Votes: 34

39. The Last Survivors (1975 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

After a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Martin Sheen, Diane Baker, Tom Bosley, Bruce Davison

Votes: 148

40. U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958)

91 min | Drama, War

In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships.

Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Dieter Eppler, Sabine Sesselmann, Joachim Fuchsberger, Harald Juhnke

Votes: 211

41. The Sinking of the 'Lusitania' (1918)

TV-PG | 12 min | Animation, Short, War

An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.

Director: Winsor McCay | Star: Winsor McCay

Votes: 1,269

42. SOS Coast Guard (1937)

Approved | 224 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance

A mad scientist tries to sell his formula for a dist integrating gas to foreign powers.

Directors: Alan James, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Richard Alexander

Votes: 272

43. The Last Signals (2012)

43 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Junior telegraphist Harold Bride boards the RMS Titanic expecting his career to be a breeze from here on, yet he never expects he and his Chief, John Phillips, to be at the center of saving... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Lynskey | Stars: Jake Swing, Thomas Lynskey, Robert Bagdon, Richard Myers

Votes: 59

44. The Ra Expeditions (1971)

G | 96 min | Documentary

Documentary of the Ra expedition organized by Thor Heyerdahl, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969 and 1970.

Directors: Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl | Stars: Norman Baker, Roscoe Lee Browne, Abdullah Dilbrine, Santiago Geneves

Votes: 298

45. Quest (1996)

12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In the desolate landscapes of an unforgiving desert, a desperate for water wanderer summons up the strength to follow the muffled sound of dripping liquid, only to pay the high price of pursuing a dream. Is all hope lost?

Director: Tyron Montgomery

Votes: 792

46. Stranger in the Dunes (2016)

Unrated | 93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A troubled married couple and their long-lost friend become ensnared in a supernatural phenomena while vacationing at an isolated beach house.

Director: Nicholas Bushman | Stars: Delphine Chanéac, Andrew Hovelson, Mike Dwyer

Votes: 37

47. What a Circus! (2017)

74 min | Adventure, Family, Musical

Circus director Kaj and daughter Ramona love life with their circus family, both inside and outside the manege. But then several mysterious things happen, and now the circus girl has to ... See full summary »

Director: Lotte Svendsen | Stars: Marco Almind, Lysser Kirstine Andersen, Baloo, Ella Bjerg

Votes: 71

48. The Wheelhouse (2006)

15 min | Short, Drama, Horror

In the still dawn hush of a May morn two lovers push out to sea on a weather-beaten fishing trawler off the coast of Cornwall to wait out the repercussions of an illicit love affair whilst ... See full summary »

Director: Sean Garland | Stars: Megan Hall, Angus Lindsay, Brian Heard

Votes: 20

49. Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960)

99 min | Drama, War

In 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann, Brigitte Horney

Votes: 207

50. Multo in the City (1994)

106 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A teacher accidentally picked up a skeleton with a curse in the school yard.

Director: Don Escudero | Stars: Mon Confiado, Melvin Bonnin, Tanya Iwakawa, Jaclyn Jose

Votes: 21