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35 films tagged at sea
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
An oceanographer whose father was killed by a shark goes diving for sunken treasure off Thailand, and pirates take the boat. They send the divers back into the water to fetch what they came for.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
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Little-known
2025 · War
In 1942 a Japanese ship carrying British prisoners of war is torpedoed off the Chinese coast, and fishermen on a nearby occupied island start pulling survivors out of the sea. Taken from the real Lisbon Maru sinking, with the Japanese garrison right there.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A widow goes back to the reef in the Florida Keys where she used to dive with her husband, on the day two cartel divers are down there hunting a lost load of cocaine. Then the sharks arrive.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
Three saturation divers are working on a gas line 300 feet under the North Sea when the ship above them loses its position, dragging the diving bell away and stranding one of them on the bottom. It is a true story, and most of it is the rescue.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A journalist joins a billionaire's charity cruise, meets a woman in the cabin next door, and that night sees someone go over the side. Everyone on board is accounted for, and nobody believes her.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
After years in the Portuguese campaigns in Southeast Asia, Ferdinand Magellan takes his plan for a westward route to Spain and sails in 1519, with a Cebuano man he bought as a slave beside him. It is a long historical epic.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A fishing boat lost at sea thirty years ago sails back into the harbour of a declining Cornish village, and two men who need the money sign on to crew her. Slow and strange, with the village's old loss over all of it.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A fishing captain from a village near Srikakulam strays into Pakistani waters during a storm and is arrested with twenty-two of his crew. Back home, the woman he loves works to get them out.
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2026 · Fantasy
Twenty years after the Trojan War, Ithaca is still without its king, his wife besieged by suitors and his son gone to find out whether he is alive. It is a big film that cuts between journeys, with gods and mythical creatures in the way.
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2026 · Musical
The ocean picks a chief's daughter to sail past her island's reef and return a stolen stone to the goddess it was taken from, with the demigod who took it. A live-action version of the animated film, songs and all.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A billionaire's bodyguard, framed for his boss's murder, boards a cargo ship under a dead assassin's name and finds a hold full of trafficked people. Once he is aboard it is fights in corridors, at sea.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A fire in the hold brings a Los Angeles to Shanghai flight down in the Pacific, and the survivors end up split across three sections of wreckage with sharks circling. Most of it is in the water.
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Little-known
2026 · Action
A retired pirate raising her son on a quiet Caribbean island is found by the crew she robbed years ago, led by the man she once served under. She hides her family in the caves and goes back out alone.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A cellist recovering from a robbery that killed her friend is taken to Thailand, where a drunken break-in at a marine park ends with a captive orca loose in the sea. Two friends in the water, hunted.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A handful of young Berliners crowdfund a boat, fix up the old trawler themselves, and start pulling people out of the water between Libya and Europe. It is a true story, and the political pressure closes in as they go.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
Five friends on a diving holiday in Mexico find cartel cocaine on the sea floor, and two of them end up trapped in a shark cage, made to bring it up. Sharks below, armed men above, and the air running out.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A marine researcher is sent to a salmon farm deep in a Norwegian fjord, where the gear keeps getting wrecked, the fish behave oddly, and the old stories name what lives below. Cold, dark water.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
An industrial diver and his sister, who researches the seabed, are both badly short of money when they find cocaine hidden in a freighter's hull in a Spanish port. The work and the debts come first.
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2017 · War
Hundreds of thousands of British soldiers are trapped on a French beach with the sea behind them, followed here through a soldier, a small boat and a fighter pilot. Almost no dialogue, and the tension barely lets up.
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2003 · Animation
A clownfish whose son is scooped up by a diver swims the length of the ocean to get him back, with a fish who forgets everything for company. Bright and quick, and funny most of the way.
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2024 · Animation
A cat wakes to a rising flood and ends up sharing a boat with a dog, a lemur, a bird and a capybara. There is no dialogue at all, just animals, water and sound.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Science fiction
A pilot who came home from the war alive and ashamed is rebuilding a life in flattened Tokyo when something huge starts coming ashore. Half of it is a family drama, half is a city being wrecked.
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2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2003 · Adventure
During the Napoleonic wars a British captain is ordered to chase a faster French warship around the tip of South America, with the ship's doctor as his closest friend. Life aboard one ship, in detail.
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2016 · Animation
The daughter of a Pacific island chief sails past the reef her people never cross, looking for a demigod who can put right what he took. Bright, fast and full of songs, with a lot of open ocean.
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2003 · Adventure
A blacksmith's apprentice teams up with a pirate who has lost his ship to get the governor's daughter back from a crew that cannot be killed. Big, silly, and full of sword fights.
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2008 · Animation
A goldfish with a human face escapes her father's underwater kingdom, washes up in a jar, and decides she wants to be a little girl and stay with the boy who found her. Made for small children, hand-drawn, and full of water.
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2019 · Horror
Two keepers are left alone on a rock off the New England coast in the 1890s, and the boat that should collect them does not come. Black and white, a boxy old frame, two men and a lot of drink.
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2022 · Comedy
A model couple who argue over who pays for dinner are given free places on a cruise full of very rich passengers. Long, in three parts, and most of the comedy is about who has to be pleasant to whom.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2019 · Drama
In a Dakar suburb a girl promised to a rich man loves a builder who leaves by sea for Spain, and then strange things start happening at night. Half romance and half something else.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A young man with Down's syndrome escapes a care home to find a wrestling school, and falls in with a fisherman on the run. Warm, and it never patronises him.
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1997 · Romance
A third-class passenger and a first-class fiancee meet on the crossing, and then the ship hits the iceberg. Over three hours, and the second half is the sinking.
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2009 · Mystery
A group sailing off Florida are capsized by a squall and climb aboard an empty liner, where things start repeating. A puzzle box, and it plays fair.
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