Movies about the sea

Movies about the sea
List of the best movies about the sea, selected by visitors to our site: Adrift, The Big Blue, Chasing Mavericks, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Open Water, Jaws, Phantom Thread, Oceans Rising, White Squall, Aquaman.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration02:28
CharactersNewlyweds
PlotLove, On real events, Survival, Dancing, Travel
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean, Beach, Yachts
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Atmospheric, Makes me think, Disturbing

A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, adventure, sport
CountryFrance, Italy, USA
Duration02:12
CharactersDolphins
PlotAdventure, Friendship, Diving, Rivalry
PlaceSea, Ocean, Italy, Greece
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men (he even considers a school of dolphins as his extended family). As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:51
CharactersTeens, Friends, Trainers, Surfers
PlotOn real events, Obsession, Friendship, Surfing, Shipwreck
PlaceUSSR, Beach, Los Angeles
StyleExciting, Serious

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:18
CharactersPirates, Spy, Heroes, Military, Friends
PlotWar, Adventure, Sea battles, Expeditions, Rivalry
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
Time18th century
StyleExciting, Action, Serious

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:19
CharactersSharks
PlotOn real events, Survival, Loneliness, Diving, Missing people
PlaceSea, Ocean
StyleAction, Heavy, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:04
CharactersSharks, Monsters, Fish
PlotSurvival, Killer animals, Fear
PlaceSea, Ocean, Beach, Small cities
StyleAction, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing

An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:21
CharactersDogs, Models, Photographers
PlotLove, Dancing, Wedding, Obsession, Snow
PlaceSea
TimeNew Year
StylePsychological problems, To cry, Atmospheric, Vital signs, Tense

In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

Markimdb: 2.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
CharactersHeroes, Scientists
PlotLove, Apocalypse, End of the world, Friendship, Weapon
PlaceSea
TimeFuture
StyleExciting, Psychological problems, Action, Fascinating, Tense

A scientist readies a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. However, after the disasters reach a peak level of destruction those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, as he and other refugees look to save the world and stop the disaster using the two Supercolliders on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:09
CharactersFriends
PlotOn real events, Survival, Adventure, Friendship, Shipwreck
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
StyleFascinating, Heavy, Tense, Touching, Serious

Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration02:25
CharactersSharks, Superhero, Kings, Mermaids, Warriors
PlotWar, Martial Arts, Superpowers, Tsunami, Sea battles
PlaceIslands, Ocean, Underwater world, Atlantis
StyleExciting, DC, Twisted plot, Spectacular, Epic

Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Arthur Curry, Orm's half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:07
CharactersHeroes, Family
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Travel, Supernatural, Justice
PlaceSubmarines, Sea, Islands, Ocean, Atlantis
Time19th century
StyleExciting, Light, Soulful, Steampunk, By books

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19
CharactersAliens, Heroes, Investigators
PlotSurvival, Adventure, UFO, Investigation, Loneliness
PlaceSubmarines, Sea, Ocean
TimeCold War
StyleExciting, Psychological problems, Action, Depressive, Serious

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, history
CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia, Canada
Duration03:14
PlotLove, On real events, Survival, Disasters, Time travel
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean, Titanic
StylePopular, Romantic, Sad ones, To cry, Fascinating

84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:14
CharactersMutant, Heroes
PlotSurvival, Apocalypse, End of the world, Adventure, Tsunami
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
TimeFuture, Post apocalypse
StyleExciting, Serious

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland' – which is tattooed on Enola's back.

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:23
CharactersPirates, Immortals, Military, Alcoholics
PlotLove, Adventure, Magic, Sea battles, Mystery
PlacePrison, Sea, Islands, Ships, Ocean
Time18th century
StyleFor children, Popular, Exciting, Atmospheric, Good music

Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 17th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountryNorway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration01:49
CharactersFish
PlotLove, On real events, Survival, Adventure, Travel
PlaceSea, Islands, Ships, Nature, Ocean
StyleExciting, Action, Inspirational, Fascinating, Epic

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:59
CharactersPirates, Investigators, Fish, Accountant, Reporters
PlotTravel, Revenge, Friendship, Death, Jealousy
PlaceSubmarines, Sea, Ships, Ocean, Laboratory

Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:30
PlotLove, On real events, Survival, Dancing, Adventure
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
StyleUnexpected ending, Exciting, Action, Tense, Serious

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryGermany
Duration01:27
CharactersGangsters, Gangsters, Friends, Terminally ill, Partners
PlotFriendship, Chase
PlaceGermany
StylePopular, Exciting, Inspirational, Touching

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium
CharactersAliens, Monsters, Mutant
PlotSupernatural, Expeditions
PlaceSea, Ships
StyleSerious, Disturbing

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Mexico
CharactersGirlfriends, Friends
PlotAdventure, Rest, Obsession, Friendship, Vacation
PlaceSubmarines, USA
TimeHoneymoon
StyleLight, Womens in main roles, For relax

The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:14
CharactersPirates, Terrorists
PlotOn real events, Hostage
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
StyleExciting, Action, Fascinating, Tense, Serious

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography, history
CountryUSA, Australia, Spain
Duration02:10
CharactersWhale, Cannibals
PlotOn real events, Survival, Adventure, Death, Shipwreck
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean, Uninhabited island
Time19th century
StyleExciting, Inspirational, Fascinating, Tense, Serious

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  But that told only half the story.  “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.  Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:25
CharactersSharks, Whale, Fish, Turtles
PlotTravel
PlaceNature, Ocean
StyleFascinating, Serious

A 3-D documentary chronicling a sea turtle's journey across the oceans.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:41
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Travel, Loneliness, Water
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
StyleHeavy, Touching, Serious, Disturbing

During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:58
CharactersSharks, Sisters
PlotSurvival, Breakup, Water, Vacation, Diving
PlaceSea, Ocean, Mexico
StyleExciting, Tense, Disturbing

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
Duration02:07
CharactersAnimals, Tigers
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Adventure, Travel, Death
PlaceSea, Islands, Ships, Nature, Ocean
StyleBeautiful, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Vital signs

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
Duration02:16
CharactersHackers, Lifeguards, Bodyguards, Friends, Bodybuilders
PlotRacing, Dancing, Basketball, Motorcycles, Investigation
PlaceSea, Ocean, Party, Beach, Yachts
TimeSummer
StyleUnexpected ending, Light, Fascinating, For a group of friends

Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA, South Africa, Mexico
Duration01:45
CharactersSharks, Heroes, Scientists, Inventors
PlotSurvival, Killer animals, Shipwreck
PlaceSea, Laboratory
StyleExciting, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

On a remote former submarine refueling facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Susan McAlester genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so that they can harvest the tissue as a cure for Alzheimer's. Unfortunately, the increased brain capacity also makes the sharks smarter, faster, and more dangerous. Aquatica's financial backers are skeptical and nervous about the tests, and send a corporate executive to visit the facility.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:15
CharactersSharks, Monsters, Strong women, Tourists, Surfers
PlotSurvival, Death, Surfing, Hunting, Pursuit
PlaceSea, Islands, Ocean, Beach, USA
StyleTense

An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.





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