Cinema about the sea: the list of the best films

The sea from time immemorial attracted a person with unfathomable depth and unknown mysteries. The treasure hunters were looking for gold from the drowned ships at its bottom, artists and writers imagined terrible monsters living in the sea depths, and inventors and innovators were building the drawings of the first submarines. About all this (and not only!) The amazing films were shot.

An interesting movie about the sea can relate to any genre: from melodrama to horror, from exciting adventures to documentary exact history. Children's and family films are also being removed about attracting water. Below is presented the top 205 best films about the sea according to the FlickChart project version.

1-10: The top ten most-most

• "Jaws" (1975).
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003).
• "The Submarine" (1981).
• "Lifeboat" (1944).
• "The Abyss" (1989).
• "Hunt for" Red October "" (1990).
• The Titanic (1997).
• "The Life of Pi" (2012).
• "The Adventures of Poseidon" (1972).
• "Mutiny on the" Bounty "(1935).

It would be strange if the first ten of the best films would not include the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-1." Opinions of experts and film enthusiasts about his numerous sequels remain contradictory, but it can not be denied: the very first film about the unusual pirate Jack Sparrow has forever entered the popular "tops".

11-20: Classics and the Present

• "20 000 leagues under the water" (1954).
• "Water Life" (2004).
• "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1989).
• "The Rebellion of Kane" (1954).
• The Navigator (1924).
• "The Crimson Tide" (1995).
• "Master of the Seas: At the End of the Earth" (2003).
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006).
• "Brave Captains" (1937).
• "Moby Dick" (1956).

Classical subjects, borrowed from the famous literary works (most often from the novels of Jules Verne), formed the basis of dozens and hundreds of films. The creation of directors on the sea theme was not an exception: every decade of the history of cinema was marked by new interpretations of the stories "Moby Dick", "The Old Man and the Sea", "20 000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Treasure Island". The second ten of the presented top includes the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-2".

21-30: Unforgettable sight

• "The Swiss family of Robinsons" (1960).
• "Big Blue" (1988).
• "The mutiny on the" Bounty "(1962).
• "Bounty" (1984).
• "The Sea Hawk" (1940).
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007).
• "The Treasure Island of the Muppets" (1996).
• The Titanic (1996).
• "Jaws 2" (1978).
• "The hope will not fade away" (2013).

The top 30 best films about the water element include relatively old paintings. The newest films here are "The hope will not fade away" and, of course, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-3".

31-40: Exciting adventures

• "Yu-571" (2000).
• "Treasure Island" (1950).
• "20 000 leagues under the water" (1916).
• "Atlantis: The Lost World" (2001).
• "The Perfect Storm" (2000).
• "The Abyss" (1977).
• "White squall" (1996).
• "Death among icebergs" (1977).
• "Pirates, a band of losers" (2012).
• "Water World" (1995).

It's strange that in the top 40 did not enter "Pirates of the Caribbean". Cinema about the water element here is represented by subjects in the genres of horror and action.

41-50: Undoubted hits

• "K-19" (2002).
• "Ghost Ship" (1943).
• "Sphere" (1998).
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011).
• "Pirates of Penzance" (1983).
• "Captain Ron" (1992).
• "The Sea Wolf" (1941).
• "The Love Nest" (1923).
• "The deep blue sea" (1999).
• "Journey to the bottom of the sea" (1961).

Continuation of films, as a rule, are perceived by critics and viewers much worse than the first pictures. So it happened with the legendary saga "Pirates of the Caribbean". The movie about the amazing Jack Sparrow and his amazing adventures is still popular, but the fourth part hit the top 50, but not in the top 10.

51-60: Splendor of the Water Spaces

• "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958).
• "Island of thugs" (1995).
• "Captain Horatio" (1951).
• "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (2010).
• "Young" (1994).
• "Welcome to Paradise!" (2005).
• "Against all enemies" (1952).
• "The Pirates" (1986).
• "The Black Swan" (1942).
• "Find the" Red Witch "" (1948).

Interestingly, in this top ten are mostly classic films. Children's fantasy epic "The Chronicles of Narnia" was also found here. The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-3", as well as other parts of the adventure saga, is already represented in the top version by FlickChart. Will the continuation of other films in this impressive list?

61-70: Pages of History

• "Billy Bad" (1962).
• "Atlantic" (1913).
• "Flibuster" (1958).
• "Treasure Island" (1934).
• "The Rich and the Strange" (1931).
• "Underwater history" (2004).
• "The Port of Missing Girls" (1928).
• "The Sea of China" (1935).
• "Treasure Island" (1972).
• "The Gray Lady" goes to the depths "(1978).

The new ten accommodates two versions of the screen versions of the immortal literary work Treasure Island. Nothing surprising, because the movie about the sea in fact often turns out to be a film about the islands.

71-80: Epic Plots

• "Kon-Tiki" (2012).
• "The sea chase" (1955).
• "The owner of the island of O'Keefe" (1954).
• "Nate and Hayes" (1983).
• "Poseidon" (2006).
• "Gods of the Abyss" (1965).
• "Virus" (1999).
• "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawning Traveler" (1989).
• Prisoners of Poseidon (1979).
• The journey continues (1962).

As it turned out, the children's book "Chronicles of Narnia" also received several screen versions, filmed in different years. Some of them have the format of small serials. In general, directors prefer a "full meter": a movie about the sea is quite difficult to shoot in the form of a series, albeit with a small number of episodes.

81-90: Stories of the Twentieth Century

• "The Bloody Alley" (1955).
• "Spanish sea possessions" (1945).
• "Moby Dick" (1930).
• "The Wind" (1992).
• "Operation" Catastrophe "(1950).
• "The nuclear submarine" (1959).
• "Capture in the North Sea" (1979).
• "Captain Kidd" (1945).
• "Ruined in the sea" (1937).
• "Around the world under water" (1966).

The new top ten presents an interesting interpretation of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" - an original attempt to make a movie about the sea on the basis of combining two stories of one writer (see "20 000 leagues under the water").

91-100: Pirates and the Discoverers

• "Causing the Curse" (1962).
• "Captain Blood" (1950).
• "The captain hates the sea" (1934).
• "Pirates of the bloody river" (1962).
• "Behind the Seven Waves" (1957).
• "Keep it up ... Jack" (1963).
• "Hurricane over Jamaica" (1965).
• "Christopher Columbus" (1949).
• "The collapse of Mary Deere" (1959).
• "Bay of the Pirate" (1944).

Pirate adventures have long been of great interest: here and romance, and danger, and the struggle with the elements, and dashing freedom in indomitable waves. Not surprisingly, in the twentieth century, a lot of films were filmed about pirates. In modern times, the greatest recognition was given to the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-1".

101-110: The Brilliant Movies

• "Mara Maru" (1952).
• "Raise the Titanic" (1980).
• "Captain Pirate" (1952).
• "The Long John Silver" (1954).
• "Invaders of the Seven Seas" (1953).
• "Bounty" (1933).
• "Plymouth adventure" (1952).
• "The Fighter" (1943).
• "Generation of the North" (1938).
• "The sea tyrant" (1950).

It's no secret that the cinema about the sea was especially difficult to shoot in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, directors and cameramen brilliantly coped with the task, transferring to the dry part of the scenes on the deck. Quality of films from this did not suffer at all.

111-120: Famous Heroes

• "Alone Through the Pacific" (1963).
• "Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959).
• "The ship that died of shame" (1955).
• "On ships on the sea" (1949).
• "Pirate the Black Beard" (1952).
• "Riot on the hellish ship" (1957).
• "The goal is the underwater element" (1966).
• "Son of Captain Blood" (1962).
• "All the brothers were brave" (1953).
• "John Paul Jones" (1959).

Ten starts not with an English-language, but with a Japanese film. Unlike rather frivolous pictures like the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean-2", stories from the Land of the Rising Sun tell about the complexity and versatility of life, about the relationship of man and the elements and about what the personality is capable of in situations that seem hopeless.

121-130: New Adventures of Old Characters

• "Sanctum" (2010).
• "Indomitable Angelica" (1967).
• "The Sea Devil" (1946).
• "The rebellious spirit of Krakatoa" (1953).
• "The waves above us" (1955).
• "Shark-killer" (1950).
• "Operation Bikini" (1963).
• "Captain Kidd and slave girl" (1954).
• "The daughter of a pirate" (1950).
• "Pippi in the country of Taka-Tuk" (1970).

Captain Kidd, Angelica, Pippi Longstocking, Lieutenant Hornblower (see below) are all well-known characters to the whole world, many of which are written and removed. About the captains, of course, only the cinema about the sea narrates. Angelica and Peppy briefly adorned this genre with their presence - the sea became for them only one episode from a long history.

131-140: Dangerous and beautiful ocean

• "Under the water!" (1955).
• "Bermuda Depths" (1978).
• "Clear the Territory" (1956).
• "Aim: The Albatross" (1965).
• "The Dove" (1974).
• "Seven Seas to Calais" (1962).
• "The Incredible World" (1957).
• "Waiting for the Goliath" (1981).
• "Revenge of the Vikings" (1965).
• "The Incredible Captain Nemo" (1978).

What just did not make films: the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Bermuda Triangle, Pas-de-Calais, Java and Jamaica, the Baltic and the British Isles. In this dozen there are movies and fictional geography - they are no less fascinating than the stories about the real seas, oceans and islands. Lovers of science fiction will be especially interested in stories about unprecedented monsters - the inhabitants of the sea depths, as well as the technologies of the future embodied in incredible models of warships and submarines.

141-150: Towards the sea winds

• "Shipwreck" (1990).
• "Treasures of the Jamaican Reef" (1975).
• "The Treasure of the Sharks" (1975).
• "Kara Murat: Lord of the Seas" (1977).
• "Samson and Sally: A Song of Whales" (1984).
• "The Black Pearl" (1977).
• "The Old Man and the Sea" (1999).
• "Gulliver's Travels" (2010).
• "Sea Devils" (1982).
• "The Black Sea" (2014).

Cinema "Black Sea" closes an impressive top-150 best films about the water element. In this list you can find stories of any genres and for every taste. For the most ardent film enthusiasts below is an additional list - only 205 amazing films about the seas and oceans.

151-205: Unattainable horizons

• "Floating lighthouse" (1985).
• "Nostos: The Return" (1990).
• "Evil from the Abyss" (1989).
• "20 000 leagues under the water" (1997).
• "Journey" (1993).
• "Lords of the depths" (1989).
• "Deep Immersion" (1990).
• "The Shark Hunter" (1979).
• "Odyssey of Captain Blood" (1991).
• "Cyclone" (1978).
• "Longitude" (2000).
• "The Adventures of Poseidon" (2005).
• "Blue Water, White Death" (1971).
• The Ogre (1969).
• "Steel sharks" (1997).
• "Lieutenant Hornblower: The Riot" (2001).
• "Beyond the Edge" (2000).
• "The Creation of Peter Benchley" (1998).
• "Tentacles" (2000).
• "The Baltic Storm" (2003).
• "Triangle" (2001).
• "The Jaws of Death" (1983).
• "The Open Sea" (2003).
• "Horror from the abyss" (2001).
• "2010: Moby Dick" (2010).
• "U-429: Underwater prison" (2003).
• "Journey to the Edge of the Earth" (2005).
• "The Legend of the Titanic" (1999).
• "Moby Dick" (1998).
• "Treasure Island" (2012).
• "Valor" (2008).
• "The Black Beard" (2006).
• "Captain Ahab" (2007).
• "Welcome to Paradise! - 2: Reef" (2009).
• "Legendary Journey of Captain Drake" (2009).
• "Titanic-2" (2010).
• "The Shark Whaler" (2012).
• "Moby Dick" (2011).
• The Whale (2013).
• "Dead water" (2003).
• "Sharks" (2006).
• "Mad Sharks" (2005).
• "Jaws" (1996).
• "12 days of fear" (2005).
• "Instinct of the Predator" (2004).
• "The Gidget" (1959).
• "Back to the beach" (1987).
• "Separation" (1989).
• "Picnic by the Sea" (1967).
• "Where the guys are" (1960).
• "From Justin to Kelly" (2003).
• "Horror on the beach for feasts" (1964).
• "Hot summer" (1968).
• "On the Last Bank" (2000).

Try to allocate time for viewing at least a few pictures, and we are sure you will be satisfied!