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Explore the High Seas: Top Movies and TV Shows about Ships

Get ready to set sail on a cinematic journey like no other. From epic battles at sea to heartwarming tales of love and adventure, the world of ship-related movies and TV shows has something for everyone. In this article, we'll dive into the best films and series that feature ships as a central theme, highlighting the most iconic vessels, memorable characters, and unforgettable storylines.

Cast

Mayumi Tanaka

Kazuya Nakai

Mari Yaguchi

Akemi Okamura

One Piece (1999) TV Show

8.7 5.4K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 23

Episodes: 1170

Audience: TV-14

Story: Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new King of the Pirates.Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed a "Devil Fruit," decides to follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and that he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way.Luffy will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!

Plot: ocean, sea, boat, treasure, fight, liberation, ship, friendship, ...

Cast

Soma Saito

Takuya Sato

Chiaki Kobayashi

Makoto Furukawa

Moriarty the Patriot (2020) TV Show

8.3 241 votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It’s time for crime to revolutionize the world!

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, anti hero, revenge, mafia, tragedy, bromance, based on manga, historical, ...

Cast

Tim Roth

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Mu00e9lanie Thierry

Bill Nunn

The Legend of 1900 (1998)

8.2 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Italy, Ukraine

Duration: 170 min.

Audience: R

Story: Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

Plot: ship, ocean, musical, ocean liner, child prodigy, pianist, foundling

Cast

Iu00f1aki Godoy

Emily Rudd

Mackenyu

Jacob Gibson

ONE PIECE (2023) TV Show

8.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, South Africa

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 17

Audience: TV-14

Story: With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.

Plot: ocean, sea, ship, friendship, based on comic, pirate, fighting, super power

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Winslet

Billy Zane

Kathy Bates

Titanic (1997)

7.9 27.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 194 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Plot: ship, soulmates, shipwreck, atlantic ocean, evacuation, iceberg, titanic, forbidden love, ...

Time: 1910s

A Place Further than the Universe (2018) TV Show

7.9 136 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Story: Scenery that we have never seen. Sounds that we have never heard. Scent that we have never smelled. Food that we have never tasted. And the surge of emotion that we have never experienced. This is the expedition of recollecting the pieces torn apart and sensation left alone. When we reach that place, what will we think? Howling, 40 degree angle. Raging, 50 degree angle. Shouting, 60 degree angle. A wilderness beyond the heavy sea. The furthest south, far from civilization. At the top of the Earth. We will find lights through the girls' eyes to live tomorrow.

Plot: dreams, ship, friendship, high school, coming of age, antarctica, journey, seinen, ...

Cast

Jay Baruchel

Gerard Butler

Craig Ferguson

America Ferrera

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

7.9 14.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

Style: lighthearted, intimate, witty, romantic, whimsical

Plot: friendship, ship, blacksmith, island, based on novel or book, flying, arena, village, ...

Cast

Juanjo Artero

Mario Casas

Blanca Suu00e1rez

Irene Montalu00e0

The Boat (2011) TV Show

7.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: Spain

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 43

Audience: TV-14

Story: A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.

Plot: ship, struggle for survival, particle accelerator, end of world, nautical

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Cast

Johnny Depp

Geoffrey Rush

Orlando Bloom

Keira Knightley

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

7.8 22.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.

Plot: ship, blacksmith, gold, exotic island, governor, skeleton, british empire, pirate, ...

Time: 18th century

Place: jamaica

Cast

Dylan Sprouse

Cole Sprouse

Debby Ryan

Brenda Song

The Suite Life on Deck (2008) TV Show

7.8 528 votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 73

Audience: TV-G

Story: Zack and Cody Martin are aboard the SS Tipton, a luxury passenger cruise liner owned by London's father. The ship cruises the world with tourists and students who attend classes at Seven Seas High, the one high school that London's dad thinks will make his daughter a better student. While out at sea, Zack and Cody still have their compass pointed towards mischief, and London learns to live a "fabu-less" lifestyle, including sharing a small room with Bailey, a country girl from Kansas.

Plot: ship, twin brother, cruise ship

Cast

Ramy Youssef

7.6 5.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Plot: ship, london, england, experiment, paris, france, based on novel or book, obsession, ...

Cast

Kenneth More

Ronald Allen

Robert Ayres

Honor Blackman

A Night to Remember (1958)

7.6 295 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Plot: ship, atlantic ocean, iceberg, titanic, based on true story, survival, tragedy, disaster, ...

Time: 1910s

Cast

Tom Hanks

Barkhad Abdi

Barkhad Abdirahman

Faysal Ahmed

Captain Phillips (2013)

7.5 7.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Plot: ship, africa, fisherman, hijacking, somalia, based on true story, poverty, pirate, ...

Cast

Daisuke Ono

Maaya Sakamoto

Yukari Tamura

Junichi Suwabe

Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (2017)

7.5 106 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Ciel learns of a "Aurora Society", that is rumored to be researching how to bring the dead back to life. Their next meeting is scheduled to be conducted on the ship Campania, voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean. Much to Ciel's dismay, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford, is taking the same ship, thus leaving him with no choice but to get aboard as well.

Plot: ship, butler, supernatural, gore, victorian england, sequel, zombie, based on manga, ...

Cast

Emily Beecham

Andreas Pietschmann

Aneurin Barnard

Isabella Wei

1899 (2022) TV Show

7.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When mysterious events change the course of an immigrant ship headed for New York in 1899, a mind-bending riddle unfolds for its bewildered passengers.

Style: psychological

Plot: sea, immigration, atlantic ocean, ship, dystopia, bermuda triangle, triangle, mind game, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Max von Sydow

Liv Ullmann

Eddie Axberg

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Sven-Olof Bern

The Emigrants (1971)

7.4 128 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Western

Country: Sweden

Duration: 191 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

Plot: ship, husband wife relationship, minnesota, american dream, farm worker, the new world, hardship, sailing ship, ...

Time: 19th century

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Cast

Johnny Depp

Orlando Bloom

Keira Knightley

Jack Davenport

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

7.4 17.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.

Style: witty

Plot: witch, daughter, ship, exotic island, monster, fortune teller, compass, sequel, ...

Cast

Karl Urban

Zaris-Angel Hator

Jared Harris

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The Sea Beast (2022)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: ship, orphan, sea monster, sea adventure, 3d animation, awestruck, cheerful

Time: 17th century

Drifting Dragons (2020) TV Show

7.3 57 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Dragons, the rulers of the sky. To many people on the surface, they are a dire threat, but at the same time, a valuable source of medicine, oil, and food. There are those who hunt the dragons. They travel the skies in dragon-hunting airships. This is the story of one of those ships, the “Quin Zaza,” and its crew.

Plot: ship, friends, travel, food, search, dragon, creature, based on manga, ...