The vastness of the ocean. There is something incredibly hypnotic about them. That primal energy, the rushing currents, the waves that lick the shore and then overthrow tons of water. The ocean can destroy, or it can bring an incredible sense of freedom. We offer you wonderful movies about the sea and the ocean, which will definitely not leave anyone indifferent.
Chasing Mavericks
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Drama, Biography, Sports
- Production: USA / 2012
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide box office receipts: $6,633,207
- Directed by: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
- Starring: Gerard Butler, Johnny Weston, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leaven Rambin, Greg Long, Peter Mal, Zack Warmhoudt, Devin Crittenden, Taylor Handley
Mavericks are a wave that can kill. Mavericks are a wave that can make you famous. Young Californian Jay is lucky – his neighbor turned out to be the famous Frosty Hasson, a retired surfer. After much persuasion, he agrees to prepare the guy to conquer a giant wave. What will Mavericks do with Jay – will he get glory or eternal rest?
A biopic about the life of famous American surfer James Michael Moriarty. At the age of 16, he was able to conquer Mavericks – a dangerous wave up to 20 meters high, which rises at Cape Pillar Point in Northern California. The day before his 23rd birthday, he died during a free dive in the Maldives.
The Finest Hours
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, History
- Production: USA / 2016
- Budget: $80,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $52,099,090
- Director: Craig Gillespie
- Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, Kyle Gallner, John Magaro, Graham McTavish, Michael Raymond-James
Sometimes rescue operations resemble suicide. But lifeguards risk their lives and go to great lengths to save lives. That’s how Coastguard CG 36500 Petty Officer Bernie Webber and three other volunteers rescued the crew of the tanker Pendleton.
The best disaster movie is based on a true story. In 1952, four volunteers under the command of Bernard Webber rescued 32 people, the crew of the Pendleton, which was torn in half by a storm off the New England coast.
Adrift
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Biography
- Production: USA, Hong Kong, Iceland / 2018
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Worldwide box office: $59,945,012
- Director: Balthasar Kormákur
- Starring: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Grace Palmer, Tami Ashcraft, Siale Tunoka
A vast horizon, just the wind, you and a boat. This is exactly the kind of romantic adventure dreamed of by a young couple, Richard and Tami. But the young people’s yacht gets caught in a storm, is half submerged and cast away to an area where ships and airplanes rarely appear. Richard is seriously injured. Now salvation is only in the hands of the young and fragile Tami.
The film is based on the events in the lives of Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp, whose yacht wrecked in the Pacific Ocean in the fall of 1983. The girl alone for more than a month had to fight for life against the elements on the half-submerged vessel.
Life of Pi
- IMDB Rating – 7.9
- Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
- Production: USA, Taiwan, UK, Mexico, Canada, France, India / 2012
- Budget: $120,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $609,016,565
- Director: Ang Lee
- Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Gautam Belur, Adil Hussain, Tabu, Ayaan Khan, Mohd Abbas Khalili, Vibish Shivakumar, Rafe Spall.
The Japanese ship on which the family of a young Indian man named Pi is transporting a zoo to Canada is shipwrecked in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Several animals (including a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker) and Pi end up alive in the same boat. Will Pi manage to make it to land alive?
The writer Ian Martell, on whose book the movie parable is based, deliberately chose the name Richard Parker for the tiger. It has a bad reputation among sailors. In Edgar Poe’s book, published in 1838, after the shipwreck, a sailor with this name was eaten by his shipmates. And in 1884, the story happened in reality. Young Richard Parker served as food for other rescued sailors after the shipwreck of the yacht Mignonette.
The Shallows
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Drama
- Production: USA / 2016
- Budget: $17,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $119,100,758
- Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
- Starring: Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Joseph Salas, Brett Cullen, Sedona Ledge, Pablo Calva, Diego Espejel, Janell Bailey, Ava Dean, Chelsea Moody
The story of a bloody and merciless confrontation between a young surfer Nancy Adams and a great white shark. The clever creature drives the girl to a small reef, where Nancy will have to repel the attacks of the bloodthirsty predator for more than two days.
“The Shallows” is one of the best shark movies ever made.
The filming was conducted on Lord Howe Island in Australia, which is a World Heritage Site. The permanent population of Lord Howe is 347 people, and another 400 tourists are allowed on the island. The film crew traveled around the island exclusively on bicycles.
Kon-Tiki
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, Drama
- Production: Norway, UK, Denmark, Germany, Sweden / 2012
- Budget: $16,600,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $22,842,887
- Director: Joakim Ronning, Espen Sandberg
- Starring: Paul Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Zantelman, Gustaf Skarsgard, Odd Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen. Peter White, Amund Hellum Noraker, Eilif Hellum Noraker
A feature film about the legendary journey of Thor Heyerdahl from South America to Polynesia. For three months, a team of five people on a wooden raft, attacked by storms and sharks, traveled almost 7 thousand kilometers.
With his voyage, Thor Heyerdahl wanted to prove his own theory of the settlement of Polynesia. The raft, named after Kon-Tiki, the god of sun and storm, was made of balsa wood according to the methods of the indigenous peoples of the region. Freshly cut, resin-impregnated tree trunks were used to build it, preventing moisture from soaking into the wood.
In the Heart of the Sea
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Biography, History
- Production: USA, Australia, Spain / 2015
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $93,920,758
- Director: Ron Howard
- Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, Tom Holland, Paul Anderson, Frank Dillane, Joseph Maule
The story of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex. The schooner, which is in the Pacific Ocean, is suddenly attacked by a male sperm whale whose body is white with scars. The ship goes down and the crew is rescued by three velboats. A long struggle for survival begins. The whalers have scarce water and food, and the sperm whale is not going to leave the men alone.
The movie is based on the book of memoirs of the participant of the tragic events, senior mate O. Chase – “An account of the most unusual and terrible shipwreck that occurred with the whaling ship Essex. Later on, G. Melville, inspired by this story, wrote the famous “Moby Dick”.
Deepwater Horizon
- IMDB Rating – 7.1
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, History
- Production: USA, Hong Kong / 2016
- Budget: $110,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $121,790,373
- Director: Peter Berg
- Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien, Kate Hudson, Ethan Sapley, Henry Frost, Jeremy Sand, Douglas M. Griffin
Sometimes simple human negligence can cause a man-made disaster and loss of life. On the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, a methane release occurred due to poor safety practices, leading to an unprecedented explosion. Employees of the platform will have to do their best to save as many ordinary workers as possible.
The movie-catastrophe is based on real events that took place in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result of the explosion the oil platform sank, 115 out of 126 employees were rescued. The oil spill became the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States.
Captain Phillips
- IMDB Rating – 7.8
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action Movie
- Production: USA / 2013
- Budget: $55,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $218,791,811
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faisal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, Yul Vasquez, Max Martini, Catherine Keener, Chris Mulkey
It is not only strong currents, fearsome winds, huge waves and dangerous predators that threaten people at sea. A container ship passing close to the Somali coast was attacked by pirates. Thanks to the resolute and courageous actions of Captain Richard Phillips, the capture and death of the ship’s crew was avoided.
Eyewitnesses of real events, based on which the movie was filmed, claim that the heroic behavior of the captain in the picture is greatly exaggerated. The real hero was another member of the crew – senior mechanic Mike Perry, who personally hid the crew, de-energized the ship and captured the bandit leader.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Action, Drama, Melodrama, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2004
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $34,808,403
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Defoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seu Jorgi.
A movie-parody based on G. Melville’s book “Moby Dick”. Steve Zissou, an elderly explorer of the World Ocean who has lost his guiding star, gathers a team for another voyage. He intends to take revenge on the “jaguar shark”.
This rare marine predator killed his best friend and partner Esteban during Zissou’s last expedition. Ahead of the motley crew are incredible adventures: a robbery, a pirate attack and even an airplane crash.
An auteur movie by the famous director Wes Anderson. The movie contains many references to events from the life of the legendary submariner Jacques-Yves Cousteau, for example, the red knitted hats worn by the crew.
The Boat
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Detective
- Production: UK, Malta / 2018
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $98,559
- Director: Winston Azzopardi
- Starring: Joe Azzopardi
An ordinary Maltese fisherman went to sea, and a boat suddenly appeared out of the fog in front of him. When he boarded it, the young man found no one on board, and the boat on which he had come had disappeared without a trace.
Thus the man became a prisoner of the sailing vessel, which, apparently, does not wish him well. The doors on the ship close by themselves, the helm is not obeyed, the gear tries to push overboard.
The length of the largest yacht in the world is 180 meters, which is comparable to two soccer fields. The yacht is called “Azzam”, which translates from Arabic as “resolute”. The owner is the royal family of the UAE.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- IMDB Rating – 7.4
- Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Military, History
- Production: USA / 2003
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $210,327,920
- Director: Peter Weare
- Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin, Max Pirkis, Jack Randall, Max Benitz, Lee Ingleby, Richard Pates.
The movie describes the confrontation of two ships during the Napoleonic Wars: the British frigate “Surprise” and the French battleship “Ahern”. “Surprise” is smaller in size and inferior in terms of artillery armament. But the irrepressible Captain Jack Aubrey, nicknamed “Lucky”, decides to pursue the powerful enemy, because his honor is at stake.
The first motion picture shot in the Galapagos Islands. Winner of two Oscars: Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing.
All Is Lost
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Adventure, Drama
- Production: USA / 2013
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $13,627,519
- Director: JC Chandor
- Starring: Robert Redford
All disasters simultaneously fall on a young experienced sailor, who is traveling alone on a small yacht. A container falls from a container ship and the yacht goes down. Having transferred to a small raft, the hero will face hunger, cold, heat, thirst and a pack of bloodthirsty sharks. Will he be able to overcome these obstacles and return to his family?
Three identical ten-meter yachts were used to shoot the drama: one was used for exterior shots in the ocean, the second for interior scenes, and the third for visual effects. Robert Redforth, who played the lead role, described the project as “a bloody adventure with bloody injuries”.
Open Water
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2003
- Budget: $500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $54,667,954
- Director: Chris Kentis
- Starring: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson, Christina Zenarro, John Charles, Estelle Lau, Steve Lemmy
A feature film that is insanely frightening by the authenticity of the events that take place. Diving spouses find themselves alone with the water element when they are forgotten in the open sea by the organizers of a diving tour.
The movie is based on real events. The bodies of the spouses Tony and Eileen Lonergan, who found themselves in a similar situation, were never found. Since the budget of the movie was small, in the filming used real sharks, which are constantly fed. Thriller cost the creators of 120 thousand dollars, and later was resold for 2.5 million dollars.
The Mercy
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Drama, Detective, Adventure, Biography
- Production: UK, France, USA / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $4,230,143
- Director: James Marsh
- Starring: Colin Firth, Elinor Stagg, Rachel Weisz, Oliver Maltman, Mark Gatiss, Simon McBurney, Sam Hoare, Evie Leventis, Finn Elliot
Life itself sometimes throws up such plots that would not have occurred to any writer in the world. Adventurer and businessman-loser Donald Crowhurst once again decided to try his luck. He applied to participate in the largest round-the-world regatta. But the yachtsman has practically no money and no experience of navigation. So Donald decides to cheat.
The movie describes the events of the life of the Englishman Donald Crowhurst. In Soviet cinematography, his sea epic was also the subject of a feature film called… “The Race of the Century” (1986).
Into the Blue
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2005
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $44,434,439
- Director: John Stokwell
- Starring: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin, James Frain, Tyson Beckford, Dwayne Adway, Javon Fraser, Chris Taloa.
Loving couple Jared and Samantha are young and happy. Jared works as a diving instructor, but is obsessed with finding shipwrecks. And one day, diving for a lost watch, the guy stumbles upon the remains of the legendary “Zephyr” – a French ship that sank during the Civil War. But next to the Zephyr is something else. At the bottom lies an airplane full of cocaine.
To make the action movie more liked by the conservative American audience, Jessica Alba’s swimsuit with the help of computer graphics made more closed.
Baywatch
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
- Production: USA, UK, China / 2017
- Budget: $69,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $177,856,751
- Director: Seth Gordon
- Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jon Bass, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Hannibal Burress, Rob Huebel
Drugs, murder, a dead body on the beach – it all started with the arrival of Emerald Bay’s new nightclub owner, the beautiful Victoria Leeds. But the elite Malibu Lifeguards unit, led by Lt. Mitch Buchannon, is not slumbering and will not let crime take control of the beaches of Emerald Bay.
A comedy movie version of the Baywatch TV series. The series entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the most watched TV show of all time.
The Perfect Storm
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2000
- Budget: $140,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $328,718,434
- Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes, Allen Payne, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Karen Allen, Cherry Jones.
The captain of the Andrea Gale has had bad luck with his catch lately. Despite the fact that it is already dangerous to fish away from the shore at this time, the fishing vessel goes out to sea. At Flamish Cap Bank, the crew was finally waiting for a long-awaited good catch. But on the way back, instead of waiting out the weather, the fishermen decide to take a risk and get caught in a perfect storm.
One of the sea movies based on a tragedy that happened in real life, during the Halloween storm of 1991, .
The Odyssey
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Production: France, Belgium / 2016
- Budget: €20,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $9,722,918
- Director: Jerome Salle
- Starring: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Ninet, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Luca, Benjamin Lavergne, Vincent Henin, Thibault de Montalembert, Roger Van Hal, Chloe Hirschman, Adam Neill
Underwater, weightlessness reigns and there is a whole world waiting to be discovered. The discoverer of this new universe – the World Ocean – was the legendary Jacques-Yves Cousteau. An artistic biographical film about the life of oceanographer, director, inventor, writer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
The biopic was based on a book written by Cousteau’s son and one of his team members. The movie was the first in the history of cinematography to be filmed in Antarctica.
Pressure
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- Production: UK / 2015
- Russian box office receipts: $214,173
- Director: Ron Scalpello
- Starring: Danny Huston, Matthew Goode, Joe Cole, Alan McKenna, Ian Pirie, Daisy Lowe, Gemita Samarra
Four divers were trapped on the ocean floor near the Kenyan coast. The team of professional divers was supposed to patch a hole in an oil pipeline. But the small capsule they were in broke away from the submarine and fell to the ocean floor. To save themselves, the divers will have to take the most desperate step.
The most important danger for a person underwater is caisson disease, which occurs in swimmers during rapid surfacing from a depth of more than 10 meters. The gas composition of the blood changes and gas bubbles clog the blood vessels, causing circulatory disorders.
Against the Sun
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, Military, Biography
- Production: USA / 2014
- US box office receipts: $4,646
- Director: Brian Peter Falk
- Starring: Garrett Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Nadia Parra, Quinton Flynn
An incredible thirst for life and a desire to save themselves is all that three American pilots have when they crash-land in the South Pacific. They have no oars, no map, no water or food. The ocean is all around them and they want to live.
This war drama is based on real events that took place in 1942. A three-man airplane crew wandered the Pacific Ocean for 34 days until a life raft docked at Puka-Puka Island in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia).
Open Water 2: Adrift
- IMDB Rating – 5.2
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
- Production: Germany, USA / 2006
- Budget: €1,200,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $6,813,052
- Director: Hans Horn
- Starring: Susan May Pratt, Richard Speight Jr., Nicklaus Lange, Ali Hillis, Cameron Richardson, Eric Dane, Wolfgang Raah, Alexandra Raah, Alfred Kushiri, Kelly Wagner.
A company of school friends decided to celebrate the anniversary of one of them on a yacht. One day, when the merry company decided to swim in the open sea, all six people jumped overboard at the same time. And none of them paid attention to the fact that the boat gangway was not lowered. Now the seafaring grief-stricken travelers cannot get back in, because the sides of the yacht are quite high.
The German thriller is a sequel to the 2003 low-budget thriller “The Open Sea”. The creators of the movie claim that it is based on real events.
Aquaman
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
- Production: USA, Australia / 2018
- Budget: $160,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $1,148,461,807
- Director: James Wan
- Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Defoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Ludi Lin, Michael Beech
Young lad Arthur Curry, son of a simple lighthouse worker, was unaware of his great destiny because the young man’s mother is the Queen of Atlantis.
But Arthur is not the only one who claims the royal throne. His brother Orm wishes to subjugate all the kingdoms of the Seven Seas and receive the ancient title of “Lord of the Oceans”. To end the war, Arthur must find the Trident of Atlas.
The sixth motion picture in the DC Extended Universe after Justice League.
La croisière
- IMDB Rating – 4.2
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: France / 2011
- Director: Pascal Pouzadou
- Starring: Charlotte de Türkheim, Lin Renault, Marilou Berry, Antoine Dulery, Nora Arneseder, Armel, Stéphane Debac, Jean Benguigui, Camille Japy, Nicolas Vaud.
Four women strangers to each other find themselves on a cruise aboard a luxury liner. A farmer, a businesswoman, a thief and a four-time widow who adores her dog would never have met on land. But unexpected acquaintances, the ocean and a liner with numerous entertainments will change their habits and make them look at life from a different perspective.
For American retirees, living on a cruise ship is much cheaper than living in a nursing home.
Fool’s Gold
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Melodrama, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2008
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $111,231,041
- Director: Andy Tennant
- Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Zena, Ewan Bremner, Ray Winston, Kevin Hart, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Brian Hooks, David Roberts.
Ben Finnegan and his wife Tess have been searching for the sunken Spanish galleon Aurelia with a cargo of gold on board for eight years. They are very close, Ben found a piece of gold plate with the symbol of the captain of the galleon. But in their hunt for the treasures of sunken ships spouses are not alone …
The prototype of one of the main characters was an American Mel Fisher, who at the age of 40 quit his boring job and started looking for treasures buried at the bottom of the sea. After 20 years of searching, in 1985 Mel found the Spanish galleon “Atochi” and lifted from its board jewelry for 450 million dollars.
Sea Fever
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi
- Production: Ireland, USA, UK, Sweden, Belgium / 2019
- Worldwide Box Office: $331,655
- Director: Nisa Hardiman
- Starring: Hermione Corfield, Doug Malmberg, Jack Hickey, Olwen Fouere, Dugray Scott, Connie Nielsen, Ardalan Esmaili, Elie Bouakaze
Maybe the red-haired intern Siobhan was to blame, or maybe she shouldn’t have entered the forbidden waters. We can speculate for a long time. But the fishing vessel Niamh Golden-Haired encountered an unknown creature. Diving down, Siobhan discovers that a giant creature has attached itself to the ship’s hull with a multitude of tentacles.
The nautical-themed thriller is made with the participation of a whole alliance of countries: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium and Sweden.
Poseidon
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2006
- Budget: $160,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $181,674,817
- Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Starring: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Mia Maestro, Mike Vogel, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodriguez, Jimmy Bennett.
The posh cruise liner “Poseidon” could not escape the giant killer wave and capsized. All areas of the ship, except for the dance hall, are flooded. The liner’s crew is urging survivors to stay put until rescuers arrive. But a group of passengers, led by con man Dylan John, decide to find their own way to escape and leave the dance hall.
A remake of the famous American disaster movie “The Adventures of Poseidon” from 1972. Both films are based on the book by American writer Paul Gallico.
The Beach
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Melodrama, Adventure
- Production: USA, UK / 2000
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $144,056,873
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Paterson Joseph, Zelda Tinska, Peter Youngblood Hills, Danielle Caltagirone, Daniel York
Adventurers pass down the legend of a mysterious paradise island by word of mouth. Richard, a simple American guy, traveling in Thailand, becomes the owner of a map indicating the location of a mysterious island. Upon reaching it, Richard discovers a commune of hippies who have escaped from civilization. But will the piece of land turn out to be a paradise on earth?
Originally the role of Richard was supposed to go to Ewan McGregor, but the director preferred the candidacy of Leonardo DiCaprio, who at that time was at the peak of popularity after the release of “Titanic”.
Point Break
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
- Production: USA, Japan / 1991
- Budget: $24,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $83,531,958
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Starring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros, John Philbin, Bodgessie Christopher, Julian Reyes, Daniel Beer.
FBI special agent Johnny Utah is embedded in a gang of surfers who commit bank robberies wearing masks of US presidents. The leader of the gang, Bodhi, exposes Johnny, but during the next robbery he escapes from the police. But Johnny knows where to look for him. A year from now, in Australia, a “fifty-year storm” is looming and Bodhi can’t miss it.
Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Lori Petty learned to surf for two months under the tutelage of Dennis Jarvis, a world-class surfer.
The Deep
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Action, Drama
- Production: Iceland / 2012
- Budget: €2,000,000
- Director: Balthasar Kormakur
- Starring: Oulavur Darri Oulafsson, Joi Johannsson, Stefan Hallur Stefansson, Trostur Leo Gunnarsson, Björn Thors, Walter Grimsson, Tora Bjorg Helga, Gudjon Pedersen, Theodore Juliusson, Maria Sigurtardottir.
A grim story about the strength of the human spirit. A fishing boat sank off the coast of Iceland and only one man managed to escape – the fisherman Gulli. He spent six hours in icy water until he reached the volcanic island. Overcoming pain, cold and fatigue, Gulli managed to get to a settlement.
One of the movies about the sea based on real events. The drama is directed by the most famous Icelandic director Balthasar Kormákur, who besides Iceland has made successful movies in Hollywood.
