Movies about swimming

Movies about swimming
List of the best swimming movies selected by visitors to our site: Shock Waves, The Deep, The Thirteenth Year, The Finishers, Five, Aquarius, Lake Bodom, On a Clear Day, No Breathing, 150 Milligrams.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama
CountryIceland
Duration01:35

Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, sport
CountryFrance, Belgium

Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends at an apartment, ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills - only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryBrazil, France
Duration01:35

Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa Viagem Avenue. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryFinland, New Zealand, Estonia
Duration01:39

Every camper’s worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, it turns out that not all of them are there to play. Tonight… it’s girls against boys. Let the killing games begin.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom

After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, sport
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:58

Two very different restless youths join a swimming competition for love and friendship which is, in fact, a rite of passage to growing up.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance

In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, musical, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genredrama
CountryFinland
Duration01:48

Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryIndia

Siya appears to be the bone of contention between warring businessmen Aditya and Saurav. But this one runs deeper than your average love triangle.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryChina
Duration01:30

The film tells the story of an eight meter long crocodile on the rampage in Hangzhou. Xiao befriends Amao, a 36 foot crocodile, who lives on his fathers croc sanctuary. Soon his father is forced to sell the crocodiles to a gangster who plans to use them for high priced meals. The story begins.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:36

Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia

In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryFrance, Sweden

Tom (8) and Benjamin (11) travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father, whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who seems never to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted. But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration02:08

Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob, a wealthy and well-connected American couple, move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess discovers there are 13 guests. Panic-stricken, Anne insists her loyal maid Maria disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noble woman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful chat lead Maria to accidentally endear herself to a dandy British art broker. Their budding romance will have Anne chasing her maid around Paris and finally plotting to destroy this most unexpected and joyous love affair.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:56

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

    Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryAustralia

    Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:20

    The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, sport
    CountryUSA

    Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long marathon race in humid conditions. With lively music provided by Graham Gouldman, the film is very different to other cartoons, being more of a drama-comedy than cartoon.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    A high school student develops a crush on her gym teacher.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, France, Belgium
    Duration01:54

    HANNAH is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryMexico
    Duration02:20

    A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Argentina
    Duration01:34

    During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wander through the unfamiliar city.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryCuba

    Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Portugal

    About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryJapan, France, Spain

    Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his girlfriend to solve the mystery. The pair will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, family
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:15

    After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:16

    Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryCanada

    To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an ’80s-themed party at the old Wet Valley water park. Things turn gruesome when it's revealed that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into one of the water slides. The water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Japan
    Duration01:44

    The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:04

    A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountrySpain, Portugal
    Duration02:08

    Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Esclorosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:28

    A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers -- inextricably connected through personal heartbreak -- find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in -- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.

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