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

1. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Professional writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect, charm, and persistence to get to the bottom of every crime she encounters.

Stars: Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Ron Masak, Louis Herthum

Votes: 29,291

2. Tomb Raider (2018)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft disappeared.

Director: Roar Uthaug | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu

Votes: 227,198 | Gross: $58.25M

3. You Only Live Twice (1967)

PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba

Votes: 117,595 | Gross: $43.08M

4. Dark Shadows (2012)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 280,568 | Gross: $79.73M

5. The Cove (2009)

PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff

Votes: 51,457 | Gross: $0.87M

6. Cabin Boy (1994)

PG-13 | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A snobby finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

Director: Adam Resnick | Stars: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray

Votes: 9,184 | Gross: $3.66M

7. The Three Caballeros (1944)

Approved | 71 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Donald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).

Directors: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young | Stars: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 15,582

8. I Know What You Did Last Summer

Horror, Thriller | Announced

A group of friends are terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.

Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr.

9. Three Day Millionaire (2022)

92 min | Comedy

'A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime'.

Director: Jack Spring | Stars: Colm Meaney, Jonas Armstrong, Robbie Gee, James Burrows

Votes: 584

10. Wild Seas (2022)

93 min | Drama, Romance

Woman works alongside her fisherman husband on an Island off France's Atlantic coast but their happy existence is thrown into question by the arrival of a trainee.

Director: Héloïse Pelloquet | Stars: Cécile de France, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Félix Lefebvre, Imane Laurence

Votes: 295

11. The Slender Thread (1965)

Passed | 98 min | Drama

College volunteer Alan is working alone at the crisis center one evening when he receives a telephone call from suicidal caller Inga Dyson.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill

Votes: 2,481

12. Small Body (2021)

89 min | Drama

Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter's soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.

Director: Laura Samani | Stars: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri, Ivo Ban, Alessandro Barbacetto

Votes: 941

13. Irudhi Suttru (2016)

Not Rated | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sport

The story of a former boxer who quits boxing following a fallout with the authorities over the underlying politics but goes on to coach a fisherwoman to fulfill his dream through her.

Director: Sudha Kongara | Stars: Madhavan, Nassar, Radha Ravi, Kaali Venkat

Votes: 12,516 | Gross: $0.08M

14. Desire Me (1947)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War

Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans and seduces the grieving woman, but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.

Directors: Jack Conway, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Victor Saville | Stars: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 980

15. Frente Al Mar (1978)

85 min | Drama

A group of people, men and women gather to exchange views, theoretical and practical, on relationships and sex life.

Director: Gonzalo García Pelayo | Stars: Miguel Ángel Iglesias, Rosa Ávila, Javier García Pelayo, Ágata Martín

Votes: 69

16. Dogwood Tree (2010)

128 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

This is a love story of a couple over the span of 10 years. Kouhei fell in love with Sae at first sight and soon they became a couple. But they had to part as Sae aims to go to a college in Tokyo while Kouhei is an aspiring fisherman.

Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Yui Aragaki, Tôma Ikuta, Nichola Grant, Manatsu Hayashi

Votes: 1,305

17. True North (II) (2006)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.

Director: Steve Hudson | Stars: Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis, Steven Robertson

Votes: 1,122

18. The Turning Wind (1962)

78 min | Drama

In the State of Bahia, Brazil, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression.

Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Antonio Pitanga, Luiza Maranhão, Lucy de Carvalho, Aldo Teixeira

Votes: 850

19. Rivages

52 min | Sci-Fi | Filming

Following the inexplicable sinking of a trawler and its fishermen who remain untraceable, Abigail, an oceanographer, is sent by IFREMER on a mission to Fécamp, her hometown, which she left a few years earlier following a family tragedy.

Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Jonas Bloquet, Fleur Geffrier, Guillaume Labbé

20. Bamba (1949)

110 min | Drama

A man who is married to a wealthy woman, becomes enthusiastic about a humble woman who mends nets for fishing.

Director: Miguel Contreras Torres | Stars: Tito Junco, Carmen Montejo, Andrés Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Votes: 15

21. Valparaiso (1963)

27 min | Documentary, Short

A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular ... See full summary »

Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Roger Pigaut

Votes: 1,321

22. Pokémon Gold Version (1999 Video Game)

E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Role playing game for the Game Boy Advance, introducing the second generation of Pokémon, where you are on a quest to master Pokémon battling.

Director: Satoshi Tajiri

Votes: 1,831

23. Islands of Fire (1955)

9 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary centered on the volcanic eruptions that occurred north of Sicily in December of 1954.

Director: Vittorio De Seta

Votes: 475

24. Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963)

105 min | Documentary

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

Directors: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey

Votes: 710

25. The Viking (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Luke, a young sailor and fisherman, who thinks he is jinx-ridden, has to be persuaded, and taunted,before he will join a sealing-expedition in the Artic; first by his sweetheart, so he can ... See full summary »

Directors: Varick Frissell, George Melford | Stars: Charles Starrett, Louise Huntington, Arthur Vinton, Bob Bartlett

Votes: 186

26. Big Shrimpin' (2011– )

Reality-TV

This series follows the adventures, trials and tribulations of Dominic "The Dom", owner of a fleet of six shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico, and his crew of shrimpers from Alabama. They ... See full summary »

Stars: Redbone, Jeremy Schjott, Roy Wilkerson

Votes: 39

27. The Age of Swordfish (1955)

10 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary of Sicilian men spear fishing and women doing laundry.

Director: Vittorio De Seta

Votes: 416

28. Después de la tormenta (1955)

95 min | Drama

On an island two sisters are married to twin brothers.When there is a storm while the men have gone out to sea and only one brother returns, there is some uncertainty between the women as to whose husband he is.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Marga López, Lilia Prado, Ramón Gay, José Luis Jiménez

Votes: 20

29. Salvage (IV) (2015)

13 min | Short, Fantasy

SALVAGE is the second film of the KIN Fables Trilogy, a visual/musical journey into modern fairytale.

Directors: Ben McKinnon, Seb McKinnon | Stars: Rainer Andreesen, Rachel Bouchard, Robert Kemerer, James Parry

Votes: 45

30. Father, Mother, My Wife and I (1955)

105 min | Comedy

Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel

Votes: 189

31. Mammy Water (1953)

19 min | Short, Documentary

After experience a bad catch, the inhabitants of a fishing village hold a ceremony to honour Mammy Water and restore their fortunes.

Director: Jean Rouch

Votes: 134

32. River Dogs

Documentary | Completed

An independent investigation of the mysterious and evil events happening to California sea lions on the Columbia river over the past two decades.

Director: Ksenia Kartopoltseva | Stars: Veronica Montoya, Larry Montoya, Dave Densmore, Arline LaMear

33. Casper's Spree Under the Sea (1950)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Casper is kicked out of the Society of Ghosts when he admits he does not like scaring people. Dejected, desperate and friendless, he decides to drown himself. And, evidently, confused, also... See full summary »

Directors: Bill Tytla, George Germanetti | Stars: Sid Raymond, Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 51

34. Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa (2018 TV Movie)

47 min | Documentary

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Alastair Leithead, Ilungama Ayanda, Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho, Osambia-Kpwata Fyfy

Votes: 12

35. The Mender of Nets (1912)

16 min | Short, Romance

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles West, Marguerite Marsh, W. Chrystie Miller

Votes: 254

36. Chanson d'Armor (1934)

42 min | Short, Drama, Music

Ballad-type drama-documentary spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a fisherman and the lady of the manor.

Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Yvon Le Mar'hadour, Francis Gourvil, François Viguier, Georges Prieur

Votes: 164

37. La maison du pêcheur (2013)

97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story that traces the summer of the future Chénier FLQ cell, at Gaspé, one year before the October Crisis in 1970.

Director: Alain Chartrand | Stars: Mikhaïl Ahooja, Benoît Langlais, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Charles-Alexandre Dubé

Votes: 96

38. Ein Sommer in der Bretagne (2022 TV Movie)

88 min | Romance

Der Fischer kann vom Fischfang nicht mehr leben und möchte sich über Ferienwohnungen ein zweites Standbein aufbauen. Das Nachbarhaus eignet sich perfekt für seine Pläne. Er setzt alles ... See full summary »

Director: Britta Keils | Stars: Karim Cherif, Nicolas Garin, Katharina Heyer, André Jung

Votes: 22

39. Big Fish (2007)

Documentary, Adventure, Sport

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Stars: Mark Vincent, Rolf Czabayaski, Graham 'Dexter' Kennedy, Shane Bertram

40. Pigen fra Palls (1916)

67 min | Drama

Young Elly lives in the fishing town of Whitley as the foster daughter of the greedy merchant Brown. When Brown suddenly raises gasoline prices, the local fishermen revolt. The events ... See full summary »

Director: Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen | Stars: Alf Blütecher, Karen Caspersen, Emil Helsengreen, Frederik Jacobsen

41. Life by Lobster (2009)

56 min | Documentary, Drama

STONINGTON, ME: Contrasting the stark beauty of the Downeast Maine seacoast with the stark reality of earning a living there, Life by Lobster, a new hour-long documentary by independent ... See full summary »

Director: Iain McCray Martin | Stars: Mac Hardy, Ben Weed, Josh Eaton, Lance Ciomei

42. Tanzanie, de Zanzibar à Kilwa (2018 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary

Beginning of the journey in Stone Town, Zanzibar: this place of Africa has been famous because its spice trade and the slavery.In the old the Indian house doors are quite famous (there were... See full summary »

Director: Eric Bacos

43. Blood Dolphins (2010– )

Documentary

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Stars: Richard O'Barry, Lincoln O'Barry, Kate Tomlinson, Peter Zuccarini

Votes: 44

44. Pirates of the Indian Ocean (2012 TV Movie)

PG | 35 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

People may think that pirates belong only to stories and movies... but we hear the news of their attack and holding sailors as hostages for ransom everyday. This is a documentary about modern day pirates, their requests and their roots.

Director: Hesam Dehghani | Stars: Soheil Mehr, Mohsen Mehdi-Behesht, Farid Asgharzadeh, Jamal Mayahi

Votes: 40

45. L'enfant et l'amarre

19 min | Short, Drama | Completed

Since his mother's death, Erwan, 10 years old, lives alone with his father on a small island in Brittany. One day, Erwann decides he doesn't want to become a fisherman no more. His father defies him to dig out an old mooring.

Director: Valentin O'Quin | Stars: Victor Belmondo, Noah Nève, Olivier Luppens

46. Lady at Number 16 (2022)

9 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

After two sailors help a young lady reenter her home, they return later to find out that their evening was not all it had seemed.

Director: James Newhook | Stars: Gavin J. Snow, James Squires, Ashley Dingwell, Fred Cluett

47. Of the Sea: Fishermen, Seafood & Sustainability

82 min | Documentary

OF THE SEA tells the story of California fishing communities and presents a compelling story of the future of sustainable seafood. What can we learn from fishermen about the ocean and our relationship to it?

Director: Mischa Hedges

48. El Leyton (2002)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A womanizer returns to his hometown and confesses his sins to an angry crowd.

Director: Gonzalo Justiniano | Stars: Juan Pablo Sáez, Siboney Lo, Luis Wigdorsky, Gabriela Hernández

Votes: 180

49. Yu guang qu (1934)

56 min | Drama

About the trials and tribulations of the family of a poor fisherman.

Director: Chusheng Cai | Stars: Renmei Wang, Langen Han, Peng Luo, Congmei Yuan

Votes: 143

50. Rosa de Alfama (1953)

86 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy

Rosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.

Director: Henrique Campos | Stars: Alberto Ribeiro, Mariana Villar, Alves da Cunha, Henrique Campos

Votes: 31