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Exploring the Depths of Cinema: Uncovering the Best Submarine Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to dive into the world of underwater adventure and suspense with our curated list of the best submarine movies and TV shows. From thrilling tales of naval battles to heart-pumping explorations of the ocean's depths, we've got you covered. Whether you're a film buff or a fan of high-stakes drama, our collection has something for everyone.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Cast

Chiharu Niiyama

Ryudo Uzaki

Masahiro Kobayashi

Shiro Sano

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

7.5 286 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.

Plot: monster, submarine, giant monster, revenge, gojira, kaiju, king ghidorah, godzilla, ...

Place: japan

Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova (2013) TV Show

7.5 52 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: By 2039, global warming had caused sea levels to rise and large amount of territory to be lost. As though in response, a mysterious group of warships clad in mist, “the Fleet of Mist,” appeared in every corner of the ocean, and began attacking human ships. In spite of humanity mustering all their strength, they were utterly defeated by the Mist's overwhelming force. All of humanity's trade routes were blockaded by the Fleet of Mist, their political economy was destroyed, and the human race was steadily beaten down. Seven years later, the Fleet of Mist's submarine I-401 appears before cadet Gunzo Chihaya. The humanoid life form that pilots the sub, who should be their enemy, is instead offering her services to mankind.

Plot: submarine, based on manga, trade embargo, naval warfare, blockade, anime, war

Cast

Tom Hanks

Stephen Graham

Rob Morgan

Josh Wiggins

Greyhound (2020)

7.4 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Canada, China

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

Style: tense

Plot: submarine, allies, atlantic ocean, based on true story, biting, convoy, battleship, naval warfare, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Sean Connery

Alec Baldwin

Scott Glenn

Sam Neill

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

7.4 3.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, submarine, intelligence, u.s. navy, defection, jack ryan, ex military, political thriller, ...

Time: cold war, 1980s

Cast

Ed Harris

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Michael Biehn

Leo Burmester

The Abyss (1989)

7.4 3.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

Plot: sea, flying saucer, submarine, ocean, diving suit, secret mission, insanity, nuclear missile, ...

Cast

Cary Grant

Tony Curtis

Joan O'Brien

Dina Merrill

Operation Petticoat (1959)

7.3 419 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Plot: ship, navy, casino, tattoo, submarine, pig, date, flirt, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: philippines

Cast

Paul Angelis

John Clive

Dick Emery

Geoffrey Hughes

Yellow Submarine (1968)

7.2 556 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: G

Story: The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.

Style: surreal, absurd

Plot: submarine, musical, liverpool, england, blase, admiral, apple, phantasmagoria, ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Cast

Tom Cruise

Hayley Atwell

Ving Rhames

Simon Pegg

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

7.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 170 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Plot: mask, artificial intelligence (a.i.), diving, submarine, espionage, spy, nuclear missile, fake identity, ...

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)

7.2 210 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla has survived to menace Japan leaving Kiryu as the nation's only defense.

Plot: submarine, fairy, mechagodzilla, giant robot, tokyo, japan, miniature people, ejector seat, ...

Place: japan

Crimson Tide (1995)

7.2 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: mutiny, submarine, missile, embassy, nuclear missile, battle for power, u.s. navy, terrorism, ...

Cast

Robert Mitchum

Curd Ju00fcrgens

David Hedison

Theodore Bikel

The Enemy Below (1957)

7.1 214 votes

Genre: War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

Plot: submarine, u.s. navy, battle of the atlantic

Time: world war ii

Cast

Kirk Douglas

James Mason

Paul Lukas

Peter Lorre

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

7.1 988 votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: G

Story: A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Plot: ship, diving, submarine, ocean, atlantis, deep sea, war ship, diving suit, ...

Cast

Kay Kay Menon

Rana Daggubati

Atul Kulkarni

Taapsee Pannu

The Ghazi Attack (2017)

7.1 104 votes

Genre: Action, History, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 126 min.

Story: India’s first underwater war film tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.

Plot: submarine, india pakistan war, indian navy

Time: 1970s

Cast

Michael J. Fox

Cree Summer

James Garner

Claudia Christian

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

7.0 5.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

Plot: sea, submarine, atlantis, expedition, museum, cartoon, villain, steampunk, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: mediterranean

Cast

Minami Takayama

Wakana Yamazaki

Rikiya Koyama

Megumi Hayashibara

Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)

7.0 142 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Story: While visiting Hachijo-jima, Conan sneaks aboard a security boat heading to the Pacific Buoy, an off-shore facility constructed near the coasts built to connect surveillance cameras used by police forces around the world. However, an engineer gets abducted! An eerie sound of a propeller hums underwater as a dark figure begins to creep toward Ai Haibara... When the forbidden Black Box is opened, the sealed-away past will surface above the treacherous waves!

Plot: submarine, detective, anime, suspense, mystery, cross‑border crime

Cast

Mark Fischbach

Caroline Kaplan

Troy Baker

Elsie Lovelock

Iron Lung (2026)

7.0 333 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

Style: claustrophobic, slow burn, intimate, suspenseful, tense, ...

Plot: moon, submarine, expedition, post-apocalyptic future, hallucination, gore, space, underwater, ...

Time: future

Das Boot (2018) TV Show

7.0 155 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Style: tense

Plot: submarine, europe, nazi, underwater, anti-nazi resistance, curious, german navy

Time: world war ii

Cast

Clark Gable

Burt Lancaster

Jack Warden

Brad Dexter

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

7.0 188 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Plot: submarine, pacific war, black and white, pacific theater, naval warfare

Time: world war ii

Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water

Cast

Nick Stahl

Jason Francisco Blue

Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water (2022) TV Show

6.9 40 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Riley is serving as a weapons officer aboard the USS Pennsylvania near the Gulf of Mexico when a mysterious outbreak forces the crew to strategize a way off the sub before it becomes their tomb, in this prequel to Fear the Walking Dead.

Plot: submarine, survival, zombie apocalypse, walking dead, horror

Cast

Vin Diesel

Jason Statham

Dwayne Johnson

Michelle Rodriguez

The Fate of the Furious (2017)

6.9 10.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.

Plot: new york city, submarine, rescue mission, sequel, street race, betrayal, criminal mastermind, mysterious woman, ...

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