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1. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,256,977 | Gross: $330.25M

2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness

Votes: 1,449,591 | Gross: $322.74M

3. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror

A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian

Votes: 49,028

4. Gilligan's Island (1964–1992)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Four men and three women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 16,875

5. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

During an adventure in the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebel Alliance.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover

Votes: 379,177 | Gross: $213.77M

6. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng

Votes: 183,963 | Gross: $66.47M

7. Treasure Planet (2002)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Jim Hawkins is a teenager who finds the map of a great treasure hidden by a space pirate. Together with some friends, he sets off in a large spaceship, shaped like a caravel, on his quest.

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 133,041 | Gross: $38.18M

8. Nosferatu (1922)

Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder

Votes: 105,434

9. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

PG | 130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 95,184 | Gross: $171.96M

10. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw

Votes: 148,757 | Gross: $25.02M

11. The North Water (2021)

TV-MA | 300 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A disgraced former military doctor embarks as a surgeon aboard a whaler bound for the Arctic, where his quest for redemption becomes a fight for survival.

Stars: Jack O'Connell, Colin Farrell, Sam Spruell, Roland Møller

Votes: 16,341

12. A Picture of Her (2023 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Romance

Beth becomes the subject of an award-winning magazine's cover and goes on a quest to find the photographer who snapped her photo.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Tyler Hynes, Rhiannon Fish, Samantha Ferris, Robert Wisden

Votes: 1,171

13. Bend of the River (1952)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams

Votes: 9,898

14. The Onedin Line (1971–1980)

TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.

Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Mary Webster

Votes: 1,117

15. Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)

G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry reluctantly work together to save a young girl from her evil aunt.

Director: Phil Roman | Stars: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Tony Jay

Votes: 12,087 | Gross: $3.56M

16. Moby Dick (2011)

PG | 184 min | Adventure, Drama

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Stars: William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 2,215

17. Shipwrecked (1990)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Family

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch

Votes: 3,143

18. Anne of the Indies (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 1,493

19. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,041

20. Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

G | 105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.

Director: James Hill | Stars: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi

Votes: 1,806

21. Gemide (1998)

102 min | Crime, Drama

Sailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.

Director: Serdar Akar | Stars: Erkan Can, Haldun Boysan, Yildiray Sahinler, Naci Tasdögen

Votes: 16,144

22. Madam Satan (1930)

Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young

Votes: 1,244 | Gross: $0.50M

23. Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Romance

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes

Votes: 1,699

24. Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)

Approved | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling trip to teach him core life values while First Mate Dan Lunceford is tasked with tutoring Jed.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 1,107

25. Golden Rendezvous (1977)

PG | 101 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

On a cargo ship converted into a cruise-liner, First Officer John Carter foils the plan of international hijackers to use his vessel as bait for a passing U.S. Treasury ship carrying gold bullion.

Directors: Ashley Lazarus, Freddie Francis | Stars: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon

Votes: 594

26. The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.

Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Bull, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson

Votes: 1,811

27. I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh

Votes: 774

28. The Pirates of Blood River (1962)

Approved | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A group of ruthless pirates attack a seventeenth century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne

Votes: 1,198

29. Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A New Orleans entertainer falls for a pirate who has another identity.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 689

30. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)

Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon

Votes: 1,155

31. The Adventures of Captain Pugwash (1998–2001)

12 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Set sail with Captain Pugwash and his madcap crew of misfits who have been delighting readers for over 40 years. New animation, original stories and a wider array of characters provide the ... See full summary »

Stars: Nigel Davenport, David Rintoul, Colin McFarlane, Brian Bowles

Votes: 38

32. The King's Pirate (1967)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure

A Royal Navy officer, posing as a deserter, joins a crew of pirates in an effort to infiltrate and destroy from within the notorious pirate stronghold of Diego Suarez.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell, Mary Ann Mobley

Votes: 218

33. Hatred (1938)

67 min | Drama

Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gina Manès

Votes: 330

34. Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)

Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short

The Merry Maiden's tough captain sets his sights on the love-smitten Willie Brisling's charming fiancée and kidnaps her. Now, she is a prisoner of love. Will the adulterous sea captain get away with cheating?

Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Viola Richard, Anita Garvin

Votes: 551

35. Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)

99 min | Adventure, Comedy

A semi-autobiographical story about an adventurer whose journeys take him from Harlem to the high seas and back again.

Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Seth Austin, Shelley R. Bonus, Caktuz, Paul Krasner

Votes: 49 | Gross: $0.00M

36. Don Juan Quilligan (1945)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

In Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Anne Revere

Votes: 120

37. Two Men in a Tinnie (2006)

132 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

John and Tim have been taking boating trips together but until now their expeditions have been confined to exploring the nooks and crannies of the Hawkesbury River aboard the Bismarck, Tim's 3-metre aluminium 'tinnie' .

Stars: John Doyle, Tim Flannery

38. Good Noose (1962)

6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Daffy Duck is a stow-away on a ship commanded by a portly, Captain Bligh-like figure, who orders his First Mate, a parrot named Mr. Tristan, to locate any stowaways aboard his ship and to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 205

39. Kolmastoista koputus (1945)

80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Thriller

Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war.

Director: Ilmari Unho | Stars: Joel Rinne, Tauno Palo, Hilkka Helinä, Eine Laine

Votes: 62

40. Liebe mit 16 (1974)

79 min | Romance

Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real relationship. Their parents are upset ... See full summary »

Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Simone von Zglinicki, Heinz-Peter Linse, Axel Gärtner, Lars Herrmann

Votes: 54

41. Varsovan laulu (1953)

90 min | Crime, Drama

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Christina Paischeff, Åke Lindman, Matti Oravisto, Hannes Veivo

Votes: 85

42. Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä (1955)

64 min | Comedy

Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. They meet and offer to shelter an orphan boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.

Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Risto Jussila

Votes: 362

43. Kapetanios gia... klamata (1961)

79 min | Comedy, Romance

A mildly inebriated second mate promises to marry an unknown woman; however, when he sobers up, he sends a jovial midshipman to get him off the hook, convinced that she is unattractive. But, what happens if she is truly ravishing instead?

Directors: Kostas Hatzihristos, Apostolos Tegopoulos | Stars: Kostas Hatzihristos, Giorgos Kabanellis, Martha Karagianni, Mayia Melayia

Votes: 34

44. Kalle Aaltosen morsian (1948)

91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

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Director: Ossi Elstelä | Stars: Helge Ranin, Hillevi Lagerstam, Laila Rihte, Ossi Elstelä

Votes: 49

45. Risky Business: Iron Boat, Iron Men (1989 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

Follows Great Lakes iron oar freighter Benson Ford from Detroit to Marquette.

Stars: Mort Crim, Pat Owens, Henry Ford, Harry Castle

46. The Mate of the 'John M' (1911)

Drama, Short

Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Captain Dale's daughter Mandy. Before she leaves for boarding school, she hurries to the ship to say goodbye to it, her father, and Jim.... See full summary »

Stars: Tefft Johnson, James Young, William R. Dunn, Zena Keefe

47. Benson (1979–1986)
Episode: Death in a Funny Position: Part 1 (1982)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

The Governor is invited by a businessman to join him on his yacht. So he brings the whole staff. They discover that he has invited some other people. When they're out to sea, the host is ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold

Votes: 41

48. Benson (1979–1986)
Episode: Death in a Funny Position: Part 2 (1982)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

After the owner of the yacht is killed on board, the Governor and all the guests start being suspicious of each other as the likely killer. Benson begins talking to people and finds out what really happened.

Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold

Votes: 38

49. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: Elizabeth, My Love (1961)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon

Votes: 147

50. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: Chico (1970)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The IMF must rely on a trained terrier, named Chico, to retrieve a list of undercover agents from a drug lord's underground vault.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 169