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, 1h31Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Circus films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Rya Kihlstedt, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson, Fintan McKeown
Circa 1900, in Ireland, two carnies, Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his wife Lillian (Carla Gugino), abduct a mermaid (Rya Kihlstedt) and try to smuggle her into the United States. As their ship appears to lose its way, the mermaid begins to show a deadly, carnivorous side.
Pan (2015)
, 1h51Directed by Joe Wright
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Levi Miller, Rooney Mara, Amanda Seyfried, Nonso Anozie
Peter (Levi Miller) is a young boy who is left as a baby on the steps of an orphanage in London by his mother Mary (Amanda Seyfried), an establishment under the care of Mother Barnabas (Kathy Burke). Several years later, during World War II,The Cold War, upon learning that she is hoarding food for herself, Peter and his best friend Nibs try to steal it to distribute amongst themselves and the other orphans but they get caught. In the process, Peter finds a letter written by his mother, declaring her love and assuring Peter they will meet again "in this world or another".
Venus of the South Seas (1924)
, 55minutesOrigin USA
Genres Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Annette Kellerman
The daughter of a man who owns a South Seas pearl business falls in love with a wealthy traveler. Her father dies, leaving her the business, but a greedy ship captain schemes to take the business from her.
, 1h12Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Witches in film, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Tara Strong, Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett, Max Casella
Ariel and Eric celebrate the birth of their newborn daughter Melody on a ship at sea. Ariel's father King Triton presents Melody with a magic locket. The party is interrupted by Morgana, sister of the deceased Ursula, who threatens to cause Melody harm, using her as leverage to get Triton's trident. Ariel and Eric work together to foil Morgana's plan.
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (2004)
, 1h40Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Mermaids in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Sonim (ソニン), Shirō Sano
Shishioh, a popular and successful professional wrestler, builds a large mansion for his wife Asami and their kids. During the housewarming party, Ichijo, an angry competitor, causes a riot that destroys the house. Asami is hospitalized, where she contracts a rare virus that slowly transforms her into a mermaid. Desperate for money to finance his new house and find a cure for Asami, Shishioh agrees to a reality TV show in which he wrestles several competitors in a haunted house. His opponents turn out to be homicidal killers and include a zombie among them. Eventually, Shishioh learns that the television producer infected Asami with an experimental virus in order to get him to compete.
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
, 1h38Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Deborah Walley, Jody McCrea
A singer, Sugar Kane (Linda Evans), is unwittingly being used for publicity stunts for her latest album by her agent (Paul Lynde), for example, faking a skydiving stunt, actually performed by Bonnie (Deborah Walley). Meanwhile, Frankie (Frankie Avalon), (duped into thinking he rescued Sugar Kane), takes up skydiving at Bonnie's prompting; she secretly wants to make her boyfriend Steve (John Ashley) jealous. This, of course, prompts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) to also try free-falling. Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and his Malibu Rat Pack bikers also show up, with Von Zipper falling madly in love with Sugar Kane. To top all this, Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falls in love with a mermaid (Marta Kristen). Eventually, Von Zipper "puts the snatch" on Sugar Kane. The film takes a The Perils of Pauline-like twist, with the evil South Dakota Slim (Timothy Carey) kidnapping Sugar and tying her to a buzz-saw.
Aquamarine (2006)
, 1h44Directed by Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Emma Roberts, JoJo, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman, Arielle Kebbel, Claudia Karvan
Best friends Hailey Rogers (JoJo) and Claire Brown (Emma Roberts) are upset to know that they will be separated in five days as Hailey has to move to Australia because of her mother's (Claudia Karvan) job. Claire, senisible and slightly naive, looks up to Hailey as a mother figure in some ways, since her parents drowned in a boat accident years before. She now lives with her grandparents by the beach near Hailey, who is more daring and adventurous, in a small Florida town.
Sabrina, Down Under (1999)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Melissa Joan Hart, Tara Strong, Scott Michaelson, Lindsay Sloane, Nick Bakay, Peter O'Brien
Sabrina travels to Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Gwen, a fellow witch from England, for a week-long vacation where they try to help protect a hidden mermaid colony whose habitat is threatened by ocean pollution, and by local marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin, who is determined to find the colony as his claim to fame. While Sabrina finds a friendship with Barnaby, a "merman" from the mermaid colony, Salem the cat finds a possible romance with another witch-turned-into-a-cat named Hilary, but finds Sabrina's problems interfering with his plans. In order to prevent Julian from launching a search for the mermaid colony, she casts a spell to create a storm to keep him in port, which succeeds except that a lightning bolt knocks Sabrina unconscious, and when she comes to she learns she has lost her powers, at least temporarily.
Princess (2009)
, 2hDirected by Mark Rosman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Nora Zehetner, Kip Pardue, Nicole Anderson, Mayko Nguyen, Rebecca Northan, Jasmine Richards
William Humphries (Kip Pardue) is at the end of his trust fund after several failed career-attempts. Louis Baxter (Matthew Edison), William's friend, takes him along to the annual endangered animals benefit in L.A. This year, to raise more money, Princess Ithaca (Nora Zehetner) auctions a single dinner, which William bids the last of his money on believing that knowing the princess will open business opportunities for him. He wins the auction, but finds himself enchanted by Ithaca, who believes he is the seeker, a long-awaited champion who will help save a secret realm of mythological creatures.
Mermaids (2003)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Erika Heynatz, Sarah Laine, Holly Brisley, Brittany Byrnes, Lara Cox, Gyton Grantley
Unscrupulous fisherman John Mallick and his assistant Carlo are fishing with soda bombs in open water to harvest coral reefs when they notice a large creature thrashing in the water, Mallick shoots it and discovers that it's a merman. They attempt to collect the body but the vessel is knocked by a powerful force. Mallick sees a figure in the water, pointing a trident at him an he and Carlo escape, without the body of the merman.
The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979)
, 1h25Origin Thailande
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Poésie, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Adaptation d'un poème
Sudsakorn, the son of a mermaid and a minstrel prince, fights on different occasions, an elephant, shark, and dragon horse, and encounters in his meanderings a king, a hermit, a yogi, a magic wand, and ghosts.
Fantasia 3 (1966)
, 1h25Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia
Genres Fantasy
Themes Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Maribel Martín, Antonio Casas, Tomás Blanco, José Bódalo, Eloy de la Iglesia
The film is an adaptation of three fairy tales classics of children literature.
The Little Mermaid (1992)
, 49minutesDirected by Diane Eskenazi
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, Scott Menville, Cam Clarke, Tress MacNeille, Betty Jean Ward
Lena is a princess mermaid, sea king's daughter who dreams of someday marrying a wonderful human prince. After disobeying her father, Lena visits the sea surface (after being yanked by a whirlpool) and first sees the Prince Stephan, falling madly in love. Soon after, the ship that sails the Prince Stephan sinks and the youth's life in danger until Lena manages to save him and bring him to a beach near the school where he studied. Lena comes to the aid of the witch Cassandra and exchanges her voice for legs to walk on land and meet her prince. Cassandra gives Lena what she asks for with the warning that if Lena fails to win the heart of Stephan, she will become sea foam for the rest of her life. Lena drinks the potion, loses her voice, and goes to the surface. Above, she walks on shore naked (except for her shawl, flower necklace and the wreath of pearls her sister Tris gave her for her birthday). She is later helped at the palace by two doves, Cecil and Claudia. Things are going well, but Lena is dumb. Prince Stephan takes a fondness to her, as he feels he should show her the same kindness that the person who had saved him from the wreck showed him. Over time, Stephan falls in love with Lena and wants to marry her, but then comes Anna, the young princess who earlier found Stephan and Cosgrove on the beach and brought them to the medical care they needed. Stephan agrees to marry Anna, but Anna is in love with Maxwell. Vink, the dolphin pet friend of Lena, intervenes and tells the king of the sea what happened. His intervention fixes things, King Malcolm agrees to make Maxwell his son-in-law, and Lena finally marries Stephan, saving her life.
Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
, 1h30Genres Science fiction, Documentary
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Sean Michael, David Soul
Follows three former National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration scientists and an ex-Government employee, after investigating mass stranding of whales, claim to have recorded mysterious underwater noises coming from an unknown source. This sound resembled a sound previously recorded in 1997, called the "bloop". They recovered 30% of the remains of an unknown creature from inside a great white shark which was said to possess attributes of the human body. They alleged that the marine creature had hands, not fins, and the hip structure of an upright animal. These findings, along with many others led the team to determine that this unknown animal was very closely related to humans — a mermaid.
Fishtales (2007)
, 1h34Directed by Alki David
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Kelly Brook, Billy Zane, Alki David, Amber Savva, Olivia Grant, John Nettleton
Widowed Classics Professor Thomas Bradley (Billy Zane) is about to lose his research grant studying ancient love spells at Oxford University. He knows he is close to a major academic breakthrough and desperately needs more time to complete his research. Thomas is given one last chance to finish his work, and goes to the Greek island of Spetses, where he has been invited to stay at the home of a supportive Oxford don Professor Coulter. Thomas brings along his 12-year-old daughter, Serena (Amber Savva). The house is in tolerable condition, and Serena finds a book about merpeople that has an ancient Greek inscription on the cover.