OCEAN FEATURE FILMS

Since film making began, the ocean has been the setting or the subject of a number of feature films.  This section of OpenOceans Global’s portal is the place where the ocean community can link to some of the best ocean films of all-time, and maybe a healthy list of other ocean films, too!  Here are 20 great ocean films.  Do they all belong on the Top 20 list?  Only you can tell us!  At some point we will have an online poll to determine which movies really do belong in the top 20.

• Clicking on each title will link to the Internet Movie Data Base and a trailer for the film (if available)

The list of movies on this page is not considered comprehensive. If you have suggestions for ocean feature films that we should add to the list, please let us know by filling out the form at the bottom of this page!

A more comprehensive list of ocean feature films including those above and some suggested by our followers. Which of these should be in the Top 20?

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Aquamarine (2006)
• Atlantis (1991)
• Atomic Submarine (1959)
• Beaches
• The Big Blue (1988)
• Blue Crush (2002)
• Blue Lagoon
• Cabin Boy
• Captain Ron
• Cast Away
• Club Paradise
• Crimson Tide
• Cutthroat Island
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Deep (1977)
• Deep Rising (1998)
• Deep Star Six
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Down Periscope
• Earth (2007)
• Endless Summer
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Flipper (1996)
• Free Willy 3: the Rescue (1997)
• Free Willy (1993)
• Gidget
• Ghost Ship (2001)
• Going Overboard
• The Guardian (2006)
• Happy Feet (2005)
• Help, I’m a Fish (2000)
• Horatio Hornblower – The Complete Adventures
• Humanoids from the Deep
• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• Into the Blue
• Island
• Jaws I (1974)
• Jaws 2
• Jaws 3
• Jules and Jim (1961)
• Le Quai des brumes (1938)
• Leviathan
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• Life of Pi (2012)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• The Little Mermaid 2, Return to the Sea (2000)
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• March of the Penguins (2004)
• Master and Commander (2003)
• Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
• Miami Vice (2005)
• Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls
• Mr. Peabody and the Mermain
• Océans (2009)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
• Open Water (2003)
• Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
• Out to Sea
• Overboard
• Pauline at the Beach (1982)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean 2
• Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End (2007)
• Point Break (1991)
• Ponyo on the Cliff (2008)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• Raging Sharks
• Return to the Blue Lagoon
• Riding Giants (2004)
• Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
• Sea of Fear
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• The Shipping News
• Sinbad : Legend of the Seven Seas (2002)
• Solaris (1972)
• Sphere (1998)
• Splash
• Summer rental
• Surf’s Up (2007)
• Swept Away
• Titanic (1997)
• The Triangle
• The Weight of Water (2000)
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• U-571
• Under Siege
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• Weekend at Bernies
• Waterworld (1995)
• Whale Rider (2002)
• Yellowbeard

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