Movies set at sea that made a big splash

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Movies set at sea that made a big splash​

The wide open sea has provided a magnificent and sometimes terrifying movie backdrop since the early days of cinema. In fact, some of the best films to come out of Hollywood are set off dry land, where the action on the ocean is guaranteed to make a big splash.

 

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'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World' (2003)​

Russel Crowe stars as Captain Jack Aubrey of HMS Surprise, who ends up playing cat and mouse with the French privateer Acheron during the Napoleonic Wars. Paul Bettany costars as the exasperated Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon.

 

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'Jaws' (1975)​

Steven Spielberg's classic tale about a killer great white shark was the first major motion picture to be shot almost entirely on the ocean.

 

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'The Perfect Storm' (2000)​

Based on a real-life event, 'The Perfect Storm' tells the story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea, along with its crew, after being caught in the "perfect storm" of 1991. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg head the cast.

 

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'Life of Pi' (2012)​

Ang Lee's enchanting tale of an Indian teenager named "Pi" Patel telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, was a critical and commercial success.

 

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Movie that is set at sea that made a big flop.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Fuck the white trash indeed all their script was a crisis actor in fake crisis situation heroship worshipping a crisis actor in fantasy outfit....

Go make cheap products than make dirty money create fake crisis...

 

[blackmondy]

Fuck the white trash indeed all their script was a crisis actor in fake crisis situation heroship worshipping a crisis actor in fantasy outfit....

Go make cheap products than make dirty money create fake crisis...

 

[tanwahtiu]

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That's white trash behaved like a thug when lose an argument.... woof woof..

 

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'20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' (1954)​

Captain Nemo (James Mason), master of the Nautilus submarine, takes on board Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre in a quest to find a mysterious sea monster that is attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean.

 

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'Titanic' (1997)​

"Does this mean size matters?" asked director James Cameron after 'Titanic' won 11 Oscars. Pictured are the film's stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, sailing in style.

 

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

The first in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, this fantasy swashbuckler picture introduced cinema audiences to pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).

 

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'Soul Surfer' (2011)​

The biographical drama centers on professional surfer Bethany Hamilton (portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb), who despite losing an arm in a shark attack returned to surfing just one month after the incident.

 

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'Moana' (2016)​

Much of this delightful computer-animated musical adventure film takes place at sea and follows the adventures of Moana, the daughter of a Polynesian village chief who sets out on a daring mission to save her people.

 

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'Captain Phillips' (2013)​

Inspired by the hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama and the taking hostage of its commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips, this movie is as much an examination of how the eponymous character deals with his crew as is it about his relationship with his captors.

 

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'Mutiny on the Bounty' (1935)​

Charles Laughton and Clark Gable star in this definitive film version of the 1932 novel of the same name. It went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

 

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'The Abyss' (1989)​

Director James Cameron's fascination with the deep began with 'The Abyss,' which stars Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, who are drafted in to assist with the recovery of a sunken American nuclear submarine. However, once submerged, they and everyone else encounter something completely unexpected.

 

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'Finding Nemo' (2003)​

Marlin the clownfish and a regal blue tang named Dory face all sorts of dangers as they search the depths for Marlin's missing son, Nemo. A computer-animated classic.

 

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'The Hunt For Red October' (1990)​

Adapted from Tom Clancy's novel of the same name, 'The Hunt for Red October' stars Sean Connery as renegade Soviet submarine captain captain Marko Ramius, who wishes to defect to the United States with his officers and his country's newest and most technically advanced nuclear armed submarine.