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

1. Spaceballs (1987)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman

Votes: 206,961 | Gross: $38.12M

2. Labyrinth (1986)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.

Director: Jim Henson | Stars: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson

Votes: 149,884 | Gross: $12.73M

3. The Terror (2018–2025)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.

Stars: Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane

Votes: 51,564

4. 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: 17,199

5. 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: 83,879 | Gross: $6.26M

6. Awareness (2023)

112 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. Things get complicated when his powers get out of control in public.

Director: Daniel Benmayor | Stars: Carlos Scholz, Pedro Alonso, Enzo Calleja, Jesús Castells

Votes: 2,827

7. The Enemy Below (1957)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.

Director: Dick Powell | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel

Votes: 12,286

8. Womb (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Director: Benedek Fliegauf | Stars: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight

Votes: 15,201

9. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones

Votes: 653

10. Beat the Devil (1953)

Approved | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley

Votes: 10,425

11. 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: 6,458 | Gross: $0.45M

12. 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: 4,506

13. PT 109 (1963)

Approved | 140 min | Biography, Drama, War

President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin, James Gregory

Votes: 2,996

14. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Fantasy

Mario must find all the seven crystal stars to enter the Thousand-Year-Door and save Princess Peach.

Director: Ryota Kawade | Stars: Charles Martinet, Jen Taylor, Scott Burns

Votes: 1,278

15. 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: 1,632

16. The Decks Ran Red (1958)

84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A band of dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, Stuart Whitman

Votes: 605

17. The Regeneration (1915)

Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh

Votes: 1,432

18. Jungle Bride (1933)

Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the ... See full summary »

Directors: Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Borden

Votes: 235

19. 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

20. Who Scent You? (1960)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A female cat wants to board a French cruise ship. Prior to the ship's departure, she crawls under a freshly-painted, white metal gate and sneaks aboard. The paint from the gate has given ... See full summary »

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 371

21. Get 'Em Young (1926)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy

Returning from Europe to get a million dollars by fulfilling the provisions in a will, a young man falls in love and is married on the boat. As he has to be married in the presence of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Fred Guiol, Stan Laurel | Stars: Stan Laurel, Harry Myers, Eugenia Gilbert, Max Davidson

Votes: 96

22. Through the Breakers (1928)

55 min | Drama

An American man on a South Pacific Island receives a dear John letter from his fiancee. A lovely native girl decides to console him. Then, fate washes a woman ashore from a sinking ship.

Director: Joseph Boyle | Stars: Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, Clyde Cook, Natalie Joyce

Votes: 32

23. Red Dwarf (1988– )
Episode: Bodyswap (1989)

TV-14 | 27 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Red Dwarf becomes a booby-trap when Lister activates the self-destruct, which turns out to be the vending machine and Lister is implanted with the mind of one of the dead crew members and ... See full summary »

Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge

Votes: 939

24. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: The Serpent's Lair (1998)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As the Goa'uld attack fleet approaches Earth, all four members of the SG-1 team are taken prisoner. They get help from an unexpected source when Bra'tac, Teal'c's mentor, reveals that he is... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Glassner | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Votes: 1,517

25. The Investigators (2000– )
Episode: Fire and Ice (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

In June 1996, the Coast Guard in Sitka, Alaska receives a distraught 911 call from a prominent local whose yacht caught fire while he and his family were spending the night at sea. In a ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Tiffany | Stars: Gene Galusha, James Pollit, Sarah Steere, Laura Steere

26. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Abandoning the Titanic (2020)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War

Investigators search for the identity of the captain of a "mystery ship" that turned away from Titanic the night it sank in 1912.

Director: Gregory Hall | Stars: Tim Plewman, Marc Isaacs, Stephen W. Hines, Jean Legg

Votes: 53

27. The Mandalorian (2019– )
Episode: Chapter 23: The Spies (2023)

TV-14 | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Survivors come out of hiding.

Director: Rick Famuyiwa | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Katy O'Brian, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 17,505

28. Internet Historian (2017– )
Episode: The Cost of Concordia (2021)

TV-MA | 47 min | Documentary, Comedy, History

The story of the wreck of the passenger liner, Costa Concordia, and the cowardice and incompetence involved.

Director: Internet Historian | Star: Internet Historian

Votes: 59

29. Expedition Week (2011– )
Episode: Return of the Ghost Ship (2011)

Drama, History

A team of ocean surveyors strives to identify a century's old shipwreck. Since it's 400 feet down in the frigid Baltic Sea all the exploration will need to be performed robotically.

Director: Malcolm Dixelius | Star: Michael Izquierdo

Votes: 8

30. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Why Ships Sink (2012)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary

NOVA looks at questions about cruise ship safety and the science of the ships' buoyancy

Directors: Jonathan Challis, Brian Leckey | Stars: Eric Meyers, Jim Walker, Michael Bruno, Rick Comeau

Votes: 97

31. Black Sails (2014–2017)
Episode: XXXVII. (2017)

TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Silver and his crew travel to Skeleton Island in pursuit of Flint; Madi is presented with a proposition; Rogers struggles to hear Eleanor; Billy commits himself to the group.

Director: Steve Boyum | Stars: Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Tom Hopper

Votes: 1,851