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

1. The Little Mermaid (I) (2023)

PG | 135 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem

Votes: 155,926 | Gross: $298.17M

2. The Little Mermaid (1989)

G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes

Votes: 291,000 | Gross: $111.54M

3. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

PG-13 | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.

Directors: John Frankenheimer, Richard Stanley | Stars: David Thewlis, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk

Votes: 35,489 | Gross: $27.66M

4. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

G | 126 min | Adventure, Family

A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro

Votes: 18,170 | Gross: $40.36M

5. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Votes: 21,259 | Gross: $45.90M

6. The Long Ships (1964)

Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino

Votes: 3,119

7. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 12,027

8. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera

Votes: 7,157 | Gross: $8.72M

9. Princess Caraboo (1994)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline

Votes: 2,978 | Gross: $3.02M

10. Estonia (2023– )

42 min | Drama

The sinking of the MS Estonia, the deadliest civil maritime disaster in European waters, and its aftermath are chronicled in this powerful drama series.

Stars: Jussi Nikkilä, Claes Hartelius, Kaspar Velberg, Pertti Sveholm

Votes: 831

11. Dead in the Water (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The members of a ship's all female crew are forced to fight for their lives against an unknown enemy while stranded in the middle of a massive storm 600 miles from shore.

Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Nikohl Boosheri, Christia Visser, Tanya van Graan, Bianca Simone Mannie

Votes: 645

12. The Legend of Sea Wolf (1975)

PG | 92 min | Adventure

A tale of the brutal sea captain of the Ghost who is ruthless with his crew. It becomes more than they can tolerate.

Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Chuck Connors, Giuseppe Pambieri, Barbara Bach, Rik Battaglia

Votes: 161

13. Isle of Fury (1936)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Romance

In the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are getting married when a ship goes down offshore. Val rescues Captain Deever and passenger Eric Blake. Later Eric saves Val from an ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, E.E. Clive

Votes: 749

14. Cairo (1942)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen

Votes: 503

15. The Black Pirates (1954)

74 min | Adventure

Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the ... See full summary »

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Anthony Dexter, Martha Roth, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Clarke

Votes: 77

16. Kidnapped (1948)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In Scotland in 1752, the 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O'Herlihy, Roland Winters

Votes: 269

17. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance

Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones

Votes: 103

18. Captain Salvation (1927)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A returning seminary student goes up against a small New England town when he comes to the aid of a prostitute who has been injured, despite the townspeople's calls for her to be run out of... See full summary »

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Pauline Starke, Ernest Torrence

Votes: 338

19. Atlantis Untold (2019)

124 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Atlantis Untold is the story of an unexpected journey by brother and sister Jack and Skye Noble, who are forced by circumstances to try to conquer the opposing forces of an inner world. ... See full summary »

Directors: Margie Galliver, Nigel Galliver | Stars: Matthew David, Kylie Dibben, Aiden Galliver, Charlotte Galliver

Votes: 34

20. Island Captives (1937)

Approved | 53 min | Adventure

A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.

Director: Paul Kerschner | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Joan Barclay, Henry Brandon, Charles King

Votes: 59

21. Strange Journey (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote ... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Paul Kelly, Osa Massen, Hillary Brooke, Lee Patrick

Votes: 45

22. Atlantic Ferry (1941)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance

After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (... See full summary »

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power

Votes: 151

23. The Wreck of the Admella (2009 Video)

54 min | Documentary, Drama, History

This docudrama tells the true story of one of Australia's worst maritime disasters in history which saw more than a hundred people marooned on a shallow reef off the coast of South East ... See full summary »

Director: Brenton Manser | Stars: Paul Barry, Emily Abbott, Lachlan Abbott, Peter Abbott

24. Wings of the Morning (1919)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In Singapore, Captain Robert Anstruthers attempts to protect his friend Colonel Costabel from scandal since the colonel's wife is having an affair with Lord Ventnor. When Costabel travels ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Herschel Mayall, Frank Elliott, G. Raymond Nye

Votes: 20

25. The Hell Ship (1920)

50 min | Drama

"Satan" Humphrey is the captain of the tramp steamer Glory Ann, is killed during a mutiny. His daughter Paula, brandishing a pistol, holds the mutineers at bay. Not long afterwards the ship... See full summary »

Director: Scott R. Dunlap | Stars: Madlaine Traverse, Alan Roscoe, Betty Bouton, Dick La Reno

26. Nancy Drew (2019–2023)
Episode: The Phantom of Bonny Scot (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When Nancy's quest to clear Carson's name clashes with Owen's pursuit of Justice for the victims of the Bonny Scot, she'll have to decide just how far she's willing to go to get her dad out of jail.

Director: Ramsey Nickell | Stars: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim

Votes: 321

27. Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (1985)

Drama, Crime

After Esther recovers from her illness, Jarndyce proposes marriage to her. Later, Lady Dedlock confesses to Esther and asks for forgiveness. Young Jo expires, and Tulkinghorn is surprised and shot in his study.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Samantha Holland, Suzanne Burden

Votes: 11

28. Taboo (2017)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2017)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After being presumed dead, James Delaney resurfaces in London seeking revenge for the death of his father and inheriting the family shipping empire, which threatens the ambitions of his half-sister and the East India Company.

Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Tom Hardy, Edward Fox, Martin Wimbush, Larrington Walker

Votes: 6,715

29. Gulliver's Travels (1996)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1996)

Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Returning home after nine years lost at sea, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver obsessively relives his experiences among the tiny people of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag. As a result, he is admitted to the insane asylum Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty

Votes: 71