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Piranha 3D (2010)
, 1h29Directed by Joe Dante, Alexandre Aja
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Natural horror films, Comedy horror films, Disaster films, Film de catastrophe animalière
Actors Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Jessica Szohr, Steven R. McQueen
Fisherman Matt Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) is fishing in Lake Victoria when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool. Boyd falls in, and is ripped apart by a shoal of piranhas that emerge from the chasm.
Jamaican Gold (1979)
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Jeremy Kemp, Keenan Wynn
Two former football players re-unite to search for the lost treasures of the Seventeenth century pirate Henry Morgan...
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
, 1h23Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Robert Ryan, Anthony Quinn, Mala Powers, Karel Štěpánek, George Mathews, Woody Strode
Les plongeurs Brad et Tony arrivent en Jamaïque pour tenter de sauver la cargaison du Lady Luck, qui a coulé avec son équipage et un million de dollars en or. Ils affrètent un bateau, American Beauty, skippé par la très attrayante Terry McBride, mais ils ne peuvent trouver le navire...
Submarine X-1 (1968)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Graham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors James Caan, Norman Bowler, Paul Young, Brian Grellis, George Pravda, William Dysart
The film begins with Commander Bolton and a few surviving crew members of his 50-man submarine Gauntlet swimming ashore after unsuccessfully attacking German battleship Lindendorf. After a review, Captain Bolton is cleared of any wrongdoing and placed in charge of a small group of experimental X class submarines. His mission is to quickly train crews to man the submarines and sink the Lindendorf while it is hidden away in a Norwegian fiord.
Underwater! (1955)
, 1h39Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Pirate films
Actors Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan, Joseph Calleia, Lori Nelson, Robert Keith
Quelque part dans les Caraïbes, Dominique Quesada (Gilbert Roland) part, accompagné d'un ami Johnny Gray (Richard Egan), de l'épouse de celui-ci Thérésa (Jane Russell), d'un prêtre le père Cannon (Robert Keith) et de Gloria (Lorie Nelson), à la recherche de l'épave d'un galion espagnol. Échoué par les fonds depuis trois siècles, le bateau contient un fabuleux butin. Les trois aventuriers vont rencontrer bien des obstacles dans leur périlleuse chasse au trésor...
DeepStar Six (1989)
, 1h39Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Natural horror films
Actors Greg Evigan, Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Cindy Pickett, Miguel Ferrer, Matt McCoy
DeepStar Six is a prototype deep-sea colony funded by the United States Navy with a collection of 11 military and civilian crew members in the last week of their six month tour. The brainchild of Dr. Van Gelder, the base is allowed to conduct its experiment on underwater colonization provided that he also oversee the installation of a nuclear missile storage platform nearby. Nearing the last days of his deadline, Van Gelder's plans are threatened when geologist Burciaga (Elya Baskin) discovers a massive cavern system at the installation site. Van Gelder orders the submarine crew to use depth charges to collapse the cavern, to the dismay of Dr. Scarpelli (Nia Peeples), who wants to preserve the cavern to study the potentially primordial ecosystem she suspects lies inside.
Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
, 1h35Directed by John Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Pat Priest, Elsa Lanchester, Frank McHugh, Pat Harrington, Jr., Sandy Kenyon
Lieutenant Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) is a former U.S. Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue it with the help of go-go dancing yoga expert Jo Symington (Dodie Marshall) and friend Judd Whitman (Pat Harrington, Jr.). Gil Carey (Skip Ward), however, is also after the treasure and uses his girlfriend Dina Bishop (Pat Priest) to foil Ted's plans.
Underwater Warrior (1958)
Directed by Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dan Dailey, James Gregory, Ross Martin, Claire Kelly, Raymond Bailey, Alex Gerry
The Shark Hunter (1979)
, 1h37Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Films about sharks
Actors Franco Nero, Werner Pochath, Jorge Luke, Mirta Miller, Michael Forest, Eduardo Fajardo
Mike Di Donato, an Italian-American man with a mysterious past, leads a solitary life in an anonymous sea island. His unusual work is the hunting of sharks, from which his partner derives handicrafts for the local market.
September Storm (1960)
, 1h39Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Véra Valmont
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
Wet Gold (1984)
, 1h31Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Thomas Byrd, Brian Kerwin, William Bronder
Wet Gold is the story of Laura, a young café waitress dreaming of owning a piano. Laura stumbles across Sampson, a drunk elderly man who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that sank with millions of dollars in gold. Although Chris Barnes, Laura's boyfriend, keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds on old a newspaper article that matches up the events he described.
Sharks' Treasure (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Yaphet Kotto, Cornel Wilde, Cliff Osmond, David Canary, Carmen Argenziano, Dale Ishimoto
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan (Wilde) and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure off the coast of Honduras.
Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009)
, 1h32Directed by Stephen Herek
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Chris Carmack, Laura Vandervoort, Michael Graziadei, David Anders, Mircea Monroe, Marsha Thomason
The film begins in Honolulu, Hawaii, with someone dumping large containers into the ocean and then going to meet with a few guys in suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed.
Sector 7 (2011)
, 1h44Directed by Kim Ji-hoon, Kim Ji-hoon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Ha Ji-won, Oh Ji-ho, Ahn Sung-ki, Song Sae-byeok, Park Chul-min, Cha Ye-ryun
A small team of oil rig workers are searching for undiscovered oil at the oil rig Sector 7, off the coast of Jeju Island. After the tension builds from countless failures, the main character Hae-joon's uncle returns with the hope of finding the untapped wells of oil. What they don't realize is that he has a much different motive. Working together with a researcher on board the rig, he plans to breed a newly discovered life-form whose bodily fluids can burn for longer than 30 hours, as a new form of fuel instead of oil.
Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
, 1h18Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton (Moran), Veda Ann Borg, Rita Quigley
Somewhere on one of the English-speaking South Sea Islands, at an indefinite present time, with no mention of the fact that it is the middle of World War II, Marge (Gale Sondergaard) is the proprietress of a nightclub/restaurant/gambling hall/brothel called "Isle of Forgotten Sins". In the morning, she knocks on the doors of the individual rooms of her sleeping hostesses, Olga (Betty Amann), Bobbie (Patti McCarty), Mimi (Marian Colby) and Christine (Tala Birell) announcing, "get up, the Southern Queen is here". Riding in a launch from the ship is an inspector from the "Criminal Investigation Bureau" who compares a fingerprint card with a photograph of "Betty Nelson" to one with a photo of a somewhat older "Marge Williams", shows it to the commissioner (unbilled C. Montague Shaw) and tells him, "we'll go there tonight". Marge, surrounded by eight hostesses, is asked by one, "what can we do to please him?" and answers, "he doesn't want to be pleased, he's looking for an excuse to close us up". As the sarong-clad girls leave, one of them, Diane (Rita Quigley) tells Marge, "oh, I suppose it's silly of me but I feel so self-conscious in this costume" and Marge responds, "I know how it is when your modesty's taking a beating, don't let it get you down".