mdblist.com logo Movie Search


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (149 items)

Login to create a dynamic list


poster
Kanopy
86
8.0
/5270/
82
/149/
76
/135/
4.3
/30238/
96
/72/
88
/96/
86
/19/

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
poster
82
7.3
/29278/
72
/580/
68
/382/
3.9
/35123/
100
/42/
87
/674/
83
/17/
cc age 12+

Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
poster
82
7.6
/59535/
72
/1391/
73
/926/
4.0
/52036/
97
/146/
80
/321/
92
/34/

Leviathan (2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/23687/
75
/453/
71
/430/
4.0
/33990/
97
/33/
91
/812/
78
/18/
cc age 12+

Babette's Feast (1987)
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.6
/11735/
76
/305/
74
/270/
4.2
/66858/
94
/31/
84
/72/

The Green Ray (1986)
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
poster
Starz
79
7.4
/10608/
70
/193/
67
/92/
3.7
/8528/
95
/43/
86
/382/
80
/21/
cc age 8+

The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
poster
Fandor
79
78
8.2
/8427/
74
/523/
78
/192/
3.7
/2446/
82
/17/
83
/40/
81
/5/
cc age 13+

Racing Extinction (2015)
An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.
poster
77
7.2
/338962/
71
/8164/
70
/5121/
3.5
/331818/
92
/203/
77
/3961/
78
/37/
cc age 18+

Insomnia (2002)
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
73
7.7
/7581/
75
/158/
73
/125/
3.7
/4363/
88
/32/
90
/162/
76
/13/

Undertow (2009)
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
poster
Starz
73
7.3
/33324/
72
/753/
69
/390/
3.4
/6378/
83
/101/
80
/1113/
66
/28/
cc age 15+

City Island (2009)
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
poster
72
7.0
/5033/
67
/41/
66
/115/
3.7
/1938/
77
/83/
86
/104/
65
/26/

Respiro (2002)
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
poster
MUBI
72
71
7.0
/15433/
70
/366/
68
/312/
3.5
/16841/
83
/53/
80
/533/
67
/15/

XXY (2007)
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
poster
80
70
7.7
/5740/
75
/72/
68
/74/
3.7
/2819/
100
/12/
89
/87/

Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
poster
70
67
6.6
/9584/
65
/246/
65
/195/
3.3
/8669/
91
/22/
68
/174/

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
poster
Starz
70
67
7.1
/14891/
71
/312/
67
/242/
3.7
/14016/
65
/17/
72
/159/

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
poster
Netflix
66
6.8
/125304/
69
/4884/
65
/2382/
3.2
/99639/
73
/52/
69
/2106/
61
/14/
cc age 14+

You Only Live Twice (1967)
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.8
/23460/
67
/575/
64
/345/
3.3
/7378/
70
/103/
60
/709/
65
/21/
cc age 15+

Ondine (2010)
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.8
/90790/
68
/2613/
67
/1686/
3.5
/156719/
76
/71/
65
/1979/
55
/11/
cc age 15+

The Fog (1980)
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
poster
Netflix
71
64
6.4
/6203/
64
/504/
67
/308/
3.6
/18311/
85
/13/
76
/15/
cc age 16+

Coven (2020)
French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.
poster
Disney Plus
63
6.1
/453419/
62
/22647/
64
/8330/
2.4
/1457513/
63
/449/
76
/6572/
57
/64/
cc age 12+

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
7.0
/12680/
72
/588/
67
/182/
3.2
/9229/
69
/58/
74
/78/
45
/9/
cc age 14+

Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
poster
Kanopy
71
63
7.3
/5619/
74
/77/
69
/88/
3.5
/2447/
69
/62/
86
/234/
59
/24/

Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
62
6.2
/22974/
63
/745/
61
/456/
3.1
/25584/
71
/14/
57
/528/

Dagon (2001)
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
60
7.0
/2711/
67
/48/
66
/46/
3.6
/3210/
92
/12/
71
/44/

Signs of Life (1968)
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
poster
65
60
6.9
/9212/
70
/169/
65
/159/
3.3
/3712/
75
/12/
67
/121/
49
/8/

The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
poster
MGM Plus
59
5.7
/6694/
66
/1413/
63
/256/
2.5
/8122/
52
/23/
69
/19/
cc age 15+

Weekend in Taipei (2024)
A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.
poster
Kanopy
59
5.4
/37271/
58
/1216/
55
/676/
2.9
/43071/
60
/43/
39
/1382/
64
/14/
cc age 6+

Popeye (1980)
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
58
7.0
/4787/
67
/107/
69
/122/
3.7
/22738/
71
/31/

La Pointe Courte (1956)
A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.
poster
Hoopla
58
6.7
/34672/
68
/541/
63
/403/
3.1
/7343/
53
/129/
61
/694/
47
/31/
cc age 17+

The Shipping News (2001)
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
poster
Kanopy
80
57
7.3
/2398/
70
/106/
75
/77/
3.6
/6278/
100
/10/
92
/8/

The Strong Ones (2020)
Lucas travels to visit his sister to a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain in a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their adulthood become immovable in front of the tide.
poster
73
57
7.0
/3484/
69
/181/
68
/183/
3.5
/5359/
93
/27/
73
/6/

A Girl at My Door (2014)
Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
56
6.2
/3605/
60
/84/
60
/84/
3.1
/3479/
92
/12/
45
/55/
63
/7/

The Manxman (1929)
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
6.2
/292835/
63
/10060/
61
/7513/
2.8
/350412/
35
/260/
46
/8015/
55
/42/
cc age 14+

Dark Shadows (2012)
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
poster
Kanopy
68
53
6.6
/1603/
66
/23/
58
/30/
3.5
/2234/
78
/9/
72
/57/
71
/7/

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
5.7
/12191/
58
/481/
58
/268/
3.0
/19692/
45
/11/
41
/176/
49
/6/

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
51
6.0
/15229/
60
/349/
59
/300/
2.9
/2630/
33
/6/
46
/409/

Half Light (2006)
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
poster
70
50
7.2
/3377/
70
/40/
61
/35/
3.5
/1311/
78
/521/

Edge of Darkness (1943)
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
poster
Kanopy
63
50
6.7
/3285/
64
/75/
67
/98/
3.3
/1808/
67
/24/
57
/18/
57
/9/

Terraferma (2011)
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
poster
Kanopy
70
49
6.3
/1321/
63
/43/
61
/30/
3.5
/1577/
88
/24/
68
/20/
79
/9/

For Those in Peril (2013)
Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames Aaron for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe that his brother has died, he sets out to recover him and the rest of men.
poster
The Roku Channel
49
6.0
/4697/
61
/77/
60
/67/
3.2
/2704/
33
/43/
59
/151/
36
/21/

No Such Thing (2002)
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
poster
69
47
6.9
/2084/
67
/33/
61
/24/
3.3
/988/
71
/48/
77
/25/
77
/4/

Porgy and Bess (1959)
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
poster
44
5.8
/14764/
63
/433/
62
/451/
3.0
/14407/
10
/39/
33
/388/
27
/6/

Orca (1977)
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
43
7.3
/2214/
68
/56/
71
/63/
3.8
/6574/
Popcorn
94
/5/

The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
poster
Kanopy
62
41
6.2
/1823/
59
/29/
65
/34/
3.2
/1364/
75
/8/
48
/25/

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
poster
63
36
6.5
/2315/
66
/42/
60
/37/
3.1
/1403/
65
/14/

Thunder Bay (1953)
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
poster
61
33
5.5
/576/
64
/65/
64
/55/
3.1
/1451/

Famous Five 3 (2014)
In their third cinema adventure the Famous Five are searching for a pirate treasure...
poster
60
32
5.9
/1856/
61
/27/
62
/32/
3.0
/364/
59
/119/

Deeply (2000)
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
poster
69
30
7.3
/1551/
68
/33/
69
/42/
3.6
/959/
64
/3/

Hunted (1952)
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API | Privacy Policy