Submarine Films

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1. Das Boot (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, War

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.

Stars: Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock

Votes: 9,906

2. Hunter Killer (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Thriller

43 Metascore

An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini

Votes: 73,590 | Gross: $15.77M

3. The Command (2018)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

55 Metascore

The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl

Votes: 21,445

4. Black Water (2018)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

16 Metascore

A deep-cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.

Director: Pasha Patriki | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Al Sapienza, Courtney Blythe Turk

Votes: 7,391

5. The Fitzroy (2017)

93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The Fitzroy is a live action black comedy set in an alternative post-apocalyptic 1950s. The world is covered in poisonous gas, and the last place for a traditional seaside holiday is The ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Harmer | Stars: Jan Anderson, Kenneth Collard, David Schaal, Stuart McGugan

Votes: 462

6. 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: 14,632

7. Hell Below (2016–2020)

TV-PG | Documentary, War

Hell Below is an event-based series charting the stealth game of sub sea warfare, tracking the dramatic narrative from contact to attack of the greatest submarine patrols of World War II. ... See full summary »

Stars: Mark Oliver, Jesse Irving, Tannar Gillespie, Liam Herring

Votes: 185

8. Subconscious (I) (2015)

R | 122 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

An investigation into a retired WWII sub plunges a research team into a supernatural journey across the dark abyss of time - with history hanging in the balance.

Director: Georgia Hilton | Stars: Tim Abell, Aleisha Force, Tom Stedham, Naomi Brockwell

Votes: 420

9. Black Sea (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

62 Metascore

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: 40,878 | Gross: $1.17M

10. The Imitation Game (2014)

PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

71 Metascore

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.

Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech

Votes: 825,069 | Gross: $91.13M

11. Phantom (I) (2013)

R | 98 min | Drama, History, Thriller

40 Metascore

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Director: Todd Robinson | Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny, William Fichtner

Votes: 15,162 | Gross: $0.49M

12. Last Resort (I) (2012–2013)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A U.S. sub picks up Navy SEALs and receives an order for a nuke launch. Due to the circumstances of the order, the Captain refuses to fire. After escaping an attack from another U.S. sub, the crew and SEALs take refuge on a small island.

Stars: Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Daisy Betts, Camille De Pazzis

Votes: 22,179

13. USS Seaviper (2012)

Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Drama, War

The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph A. Villani | Stars: Tim Large, Jeremy King, Robb Maus, Steve Roth

Votes: 976

15. The Sinking of the Laconia (2010– )

Drama, History, War

Dramatisation of the true story of the sinking of the liner Laconia by a German U-boat in 1942 through the eyes of six survivors.

Stars: Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 1,203

16. 2010: Moby Dick (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A modern-day adaptation of the classic novel featuring the captain of a high tech submarine and his obsessive quest to destroy the enormous prehistoric whale that maimed him.

Director: Trey Stokes | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Renée O'Connor, Matt Lagan, Adam Grimes

Votes: 2,966

17. Convoy: War for the Atlantic (2009– )

47 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic in which Nazi Germany's U-boat fleet attempted to strangle Allied naval shipping.

Stars: Jamie Lee, Andrew Lambert, Walter Wittig, Frank Scanlon

Votes: 63

18. Na vsekh shirotakh (2009)

360 min | Adventure, Romance, War

A love story of navy officer and young singer, who met after long separation.

Stars: Aleksandr Vasilevskiy, Anna Gorshkova, Vladimir Begma, Evgeniy Berezovskiy

19. The Land That Time Forgot (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.

Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsey McKeon, Darren Dalton

Votes: 2,198

20. Battle Under Orion (2009)

120 min | Action, War

World War II story alternates between the past and present, linked by a fateful song. Japanese sub I-77 battles an American destroyer off the coast of Okinawa. Before heading to war, the ... See full summary »

Director: Tetsuo Shinohara | Stars: Yoshikuni Dôchin, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Mutsutoshi Furuhata, Yûta Hiraoka

Votes: 517

21. Silent Venom (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An American submarine traveling through dangerous territorial waters is put in even more danger when two scientists bring venomous snakes on board.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Luke Perry, Krista Allen, Tom Berenger, Louis Mandylor

Votes: 1,160

22. Turning Point, Graf Zeppelin (2008)

67 min | Documentary, Action, Fantasy

We explore the very real possibility of how Hitler would have used the Carrier Graf Zeppelin during WW2. Through digital re-creations and re-enactments we attack the East coast of the United States.

Director: Mike Phillips | Stars: Geary Alan, Chandler Bolt, Don Brown, Markus Brunner

Votes: 11

23. Depth Charge (2008 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Thriller

On his final voyage a commandeer aboard a nuclear submarine is making a shocking bid for world peace. With the help of mercenaries he takes over the sub in order to hold Washington D.C. and the world hostage.

Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Jason Gedrick, Eric Roberts, Barry Bostwick, Chris Warren

Votes: 557

24. Die Gustloff (2008 TV Movie)

188 min | Drama, History, War

German film loosely based on the sinking, by a Soviet submarine, of a Nazi troop-transport ship in the Baltic Sea on January 30th 1945.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Valerie Niehaus, Heiner Lauterbach, Dana Vávrová

Votes: 572

25. 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.

Director: Gabriel Bologna | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Sean Lawlor, Natalie Stone, Kim Little

Votes: 1,788

27. Operación Úrsula (El misterio del submarino C-3) (2006)

105 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

A missing submarine in Spanish Civil War leads to the first German Navy operation before WW2. Republican submarine C-3 was the victim of international secrecy and intrigues, after a torpedo from U-34 sunk it on December 12th 1936.

Director: José Antonio Hergueta | Stars: Jose Coronado, Willard C. Frank, Antonio Checa, Ángel Viñas

28. 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

29. Pervyy posle Boga (2005)

99 min | Action, Drama, War

The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain... See full summary »

Director: Vasiliy Chiginskiy | Stars: Dmitriy Orlov, Mikheil Gomiashvili, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Irina Björklund

Votes: 361

30. Tides of War (2005 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine.

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Adrian Paul, Catherine Dent, Kent McCord, Mike Doyle

Votes: 774

31. Lorelei (2005)

128 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Directors: Shinji Higuchi, Cellin Gluck | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yû Kashii

Votes: 762

32. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

62 Metascore

With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett

Votes: 210,946 | Gross: $24.01M

33. Konvoy PQ-17 (2004)

416 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

On June 27, 1942, a caravan of ships, codenamed PQ-17, left Reykjavik for Arkhangelsk. The way of the ships with cargo for Russia lay across the North Atlantic, where they were waiting for ... See full summary »

Stars: Andrey Merzlikin, Mariya Bekker, Sergey Tsepov, Aleksey Devotchenko

Votes: 91

34. In Enemy Hands (2004)

R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller, War

When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U-boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard.

Director: Tony Giglio | Stars: William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Thomas Kretschmann, Clark Gregg

Votes: 4,553

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. Submarines (2003 Video)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Having seized a Soviet nuclear submarine, the terrorist group's general Sajid Khan sail to the coasts of California decided to raze Los Angeles with a rain of nuclear missiles. American ... See full summary »

Director: David Douglas | Stars: Stephen Ramsey, Robert Miano, Jim Davidson, Jodi Bianca Wise

Votes: 279

37. Submarine 707R (2003–2004)

100 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

To combat the terrorist organization known as "USR", eleven countries combine their naval forces to form the Peace-Keeping Navy (PKN). However, all hell breaks loose when Admiral Red and ... See full summary »

Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Barbara Goodson, Jamieson Price, Karen Strassman

Votes: 74

38. Battle of the Atlantic (2002– )

146 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of the World War II effort by Nazi Germany to disrupt Allied shipping with U-boat attacks and the Allied efforts to prevent it.

Stars: Chris Broyles, Bill Paterson

Votes: 138

39. Below (2002)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

55 Metascore

Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, David Crow, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany

Votes: 24,131 | Gross: $0.61M

40. Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines (2002)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary history of the development and deployment of the Cold War's ultimate weapon: the nuclear missile submarine. Features interviews with Navy veterans and footage never-before-seen by the public.

Director: Nick Spark | Star: Roy Scheider

Votes: 41

41. Danger Beneath the Sea (2001 TV Movie)

92 min | Thriller

An American submarine commander (Casper Van Dien) questions his superiors when they order a nuclear attack.

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Gerald McRaney, Stewart Bick, Tammy Isbell

Votes: 540

42. Submerged (2001 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.

Director: James Keach | Stars: Sam Neill, Shea Whigham, Emily Procter, Hugh O'Conor

Votes: 500

43. Enigma (2001)

R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

64 Metascore

A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam

Votes: 21,919 | Gross: $4.30M

44. Agent Red (2000)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Captain Matt Hendricks and Dr. Linda Christian are locked in a submarine with Russian terrorists that threaten to launch a chemical virus on US territory.

Directors: Damian Lee, Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Meilani Paul, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Natalie Radford

Votes: 1,315

45. On the Beach (2000 TV Movie)

195 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Armand Assante, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Jacqueline McKenzie

Votes: 4,152

46. U-571 (2000)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, War

62 Metascore

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi

Votes: 87,401 | Gross: $77.09M

47. Phantom: The Submarine (1999)

110 min | Action, Thriller

Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.

Director: Byung-chun Min | Stars: Choi Min-soo, Jung Woo-sung, Sol Kyung-gu, Byeon-chul Min

Votes: 497

48. The Hunley (1999 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Drama, History

During the siege of Charleston of 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submersible to sink an enemy warship in wartime.

Director: John Gray | Stars: Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Chris Bauer

Votes: 1,307

49. Ghazi Shaheed (1998 TV Movie)

120 min | War

The film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.

Director: Kazim Pasha | Stars: Mobina Dossal, Shabbir Jan, Adnan Jilani, Ghalib Kamal

Votes: 14

50. Counter Measures (1998 Video)

R | 93 min | Action, Thriller, Drama

When an elite Russian Nuclear Submarine carrying a doomsday weapon is hijacked, a submarine demolitions expert and the USS Springfield are deployed to obliterate the terrorists' plan, and the sub, in a frantic race against time.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, James Horan, Alexander Keith, Scott Marlowe

Votes: 513

51. Sphere (1998)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

35 Metascore

A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote

Votes: 112,515 | Gross: $37.02M

53. Sub Down (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama

A team of scientists are accompanying the crew of a nuclear submarine in the arctic. When a disaster at sea sinks the nuclear sub, these scientists (and their mini submersible) become the crew's only hope for survival.

Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabrielle Anwar, Tom Conti, Chris Mulkey

Votes: 762

54. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

58 Metascore

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo

Votes: 67,406 | Gross: $35.17M

55. Time Under Fire (1997)

R | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.

Directors: Scott P. Levy, Tripp Reed | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Richard Tyson, Jack Coleman, Bryan Cranston

Votes: 555

56. Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode: Hostile Waters (1997)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In October 1986, a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear missles collides with an American nuclear submarine off the coast of Bermuda.

Director: David Drury | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Colm Feore

Votes: 2,179

57. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)

TV-PG | 158 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi

In 1886, a French marine biologist aboard an American warship is scouring the Atlantic Ocean in search of a sea monster that routinely attacks and sinks passing ships.

Stars: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Votes: 1,679

58. Steel Sharks (1997)

R | 94 min | Action

In this undersea thriller, a United States chemist is captured by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals goes wrong when they are captured. Now they must wage a silent war beneath the waves.

Director: Rodney McDonald | Stars: Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams, Billy Warlock, Shaun Toub

Votes: 489

59. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox, Paul Gross

Votes: 1,044

60. Crash Dive (1996 Video)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, who turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL can save the day by sliding aboard while the sub is underwater.

Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Frederic Forrest, Reiner Schöne, Jay Acovone

Votes: 977

61. Down Periscope (1996)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy

39 Metascore

Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days.

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 26,687 | Gross: $25.79M

62. Silent Service (1995–1998)

96 min | Animation, Action, War

The crew of Japan's first nuclear submarine mutinies and deliberately creates an international incident with the United States.

Stars: Akio Ôtsuka, Masane Tsukayama, Kan Tokumaru, Osamu Saka

Votes: 125

63. War at Sea: The Black Pit (1995)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

A film about the later years of Canada's World War II naval effort, focusing on the most dangerous Atlantic ocean region, nicknamed the Black Pit.

Director: Brian McKenna | Stars: Terence McKenna, Carl Marotte, Mathew Mackay, Martin Neufeld

Votes: 12

64. Crimson Tide (1995)

R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

66 Metascore

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza

Votes: 123,324 | Gross: $91.40M

65. Submarines: Sharks of Steel (1993)

240 min | Documentary, War

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Director: Scott Hicks

Votes: 48

66. SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Family

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin, Ted Raimi, Darwin

Votes: 7,780

67. The Last U-Boat (1993 TV Movie)

99 min | Drama, War

In 1945 an advanced type of German U-boat loaded with atomic technology en route for Japan and escorted by Japanese naval officers receives news that Germany has capitulated.

Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Kaoru Kobayashi, Gorô Ôhashi

Votes: 309

68. Under Siege (1992)

R | 103 min | Action, Thriller

58 Metascore

An ex-Navy Seal turned cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak

Votes: 95,506 | Gross: $83.36M

69. Buried on Sunday (1992)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

A fishing village responds to government cutbacks by declaring independence and uses the arsenal of a Soviet missile sub to back it up.

Director: Paul Donovan | Stars: Nancy Marshall, Michael Gencher, Jeremy Akerman, Tommy Sexton

Votes: 171

70. Mediterraneo (1991)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio

Votes: 16,419 | Gross: $4.53M

71. Full Fathom Five (1990)

PG | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Adapted from the best-selling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear submarine Kirov is stolen and the weapons are aimed at the United States.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Maria Rangel, Todd Field, Michael Cavanaugh

Votes: 163 | Gross: $0.31M

72. The Rift (1990)

R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Siren II, a submarine under the command of Capt. Phillips, ventures into the deep on a mission to recover the missing Siren I. Their quest is hindered when the submarine becomes entangled in a patch of toxic seaweed.

Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair

Votes: 2,767

73. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

58 Metascore

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 214,749 | Gross: $122.01M

74. Torpedo (2019)

102 min | Action, Adventure, History

Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.

Director: Sven Huybrechts | Stars: Koen De Bouw, Thure Riefenstein, Ella-June Henrard, Joren Seldeslachts

Votes: 2,937

75. The Wolf's Call (2019)

TV-14 | 115 min | Action, Thriller

In the near future, a French submarine finds itself in a crisis situation.

Director: Antonin Baudry | Stars: François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb

Votes: 21,102

76. The Abyss (1989)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

62 Metascore

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester

Votes: 193,339 | Gross: $54.46M

77. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War

The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant

Votes: 3,127

78. U-Boats: The Wolfpack (1987 Video)

30 min | Documentary, Short, War

This documentary looks at the Nazi submarine threat, their fleet known as the "Wolf Pack," and how it almost helped to defeat the Allies in World War II.

Star: Edward Mulhare

Votes: 11

79. Russkies (1987)

PG | 99 min | Drama

43 Metascore

A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends during the Cold War.

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle

Votes: 1,627 | Gross: $2.19M

81. Sekretny farvater (1986 TV Movie)

Action, Adventure, War

Scene of film action takes place in Baltic Sea during WWII in 1944-45.

Director: Vadim Kostromenko | Stars: Anatoliy Kotenyov, Sergey Bystritskiy, Larisa Guzeeva, Vyacheslav Bogatyrev

Votes: 98

82. The Fifth Missile (1986 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Thriller

The crew of a Trident missile submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate... See full summary »

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston, Richard Roundtree, Jonathan Banks

Votes: 163

85. Das Boot (1985)

TV-MA | 293 min | Drama, War

A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 33,413

86. Never Say Never Again (1983)

PG | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

68 Metascore

A S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow

Votes: 73,138 | Gross: $55.50M

87. Sluchay v kvadrate '36-80' (1982)

69 min | Action, Drama

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Boris Shcherbakov, Mihai Volontir, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vladimir Sedov

Votes: 160

89. Goliath Awaits (1981)

PG | 200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.

Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine

Votes: 1,199

90. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

85 Metascore

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: 264,346 | Gross: $11.49M

91. Eye of the Needle (1981)

R | 112 min | Romance, Thriller, War

61 Metascore

A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown

Votes: 11,832 | Gross: $17.58M

92. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure

86 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,036,879 | Gross: $248.16M

93. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Unrated | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.

Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras

Votes: 5,923

94. Raise the Titanic (1980)

PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer

Votes: 5,441 | Gross: $14.82M

95. The Sea Wolves (1980)

PG | 120 min | Action, History, War

During World War II, British Intelligence brings a crew of ex-soldiers out of retirement, using their age as cover, to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission in neutral Goa.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard

Votes: 5,279

96. Virus (1980)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba

Votes: 3,041

98. 1941 (1979)

PG | 118 min | Action, Comedy, War

34 Metascore

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen

Votes: 36,267 | Gross: $31.76M

99. Bear Island (1979)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee

Votes: 2,733

100. Space Carrier Blue Noah (1979–1980)

25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Year 2052. The Gothams, an alien race, attack Earth. Most of the human population is destroyed. The Gotham's moon, a military battle station, becomes Earth's second moon. A submarine, Blue ... See full summary »

Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Tôru Furuya, Toshio Furukawa, Masatô Ibu

Votes: 123



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