Best "captain" Movies of All Time

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides(2011)

PG-13

3.3/5 (with 6,620 votes)

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Directed by Rob Marshall - With Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Gemma Ward, ...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)

PG-13

| 2h 31min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action

3.7/5 (with 7,329 votes)

Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.

Directed by Gore Verbinski - With Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Lee Arenberg, ...

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The Adventures of Tintin(2011)

| 1h 47min | Adventure, Animation, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 2,411 votes)

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

Directed by Steven Spielberg

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Meet Dave(2008)

| 1h 30min | Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Kids & Family

2.6/5 (with 641 votes)

A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.

Directed by Brian Robbins - With Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Scott Caan, Kevin Hart, ...

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Street Kings(2008)

| 1h 49min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 617 votes)

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Directed by David Ayer - With Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, ...

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954)

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Action

3.5/5 (with 379 votes)

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Ted de Corsia, Robert J. Wilke, J. M. Kerrigan, Carleton Young, Percy Helton, Ted Cooper, ...

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Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)

| 3h 5min | Adventure, Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 122 votes)

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Directed by Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed - With Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Gordon Jackson, Richard Haydn, ...

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Captain America(1990)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, War

2.3/5 (with 185 votes)

During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.

Directed by Albert Pyun - With Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Scott Paulin, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Francesca Neri, ...

Fort Apache(1948)

| 2h 5min | Western

3.6/5 (with 144 votes)

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, ...

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Moby Dick(1956)

1h 56min | Adventure, Drama

3.5/5 (with 163 votes)

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

Directed by John Huston - With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, ...

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Mutiny on the Bounty(1935)

2h 12min | Adventure, Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 136 votes)

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

Directed by Frank Lloyd - With Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Movita Castaneda, Mamo Clark, Donald Crisp, ...

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The Pirates(2014)

2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, History, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 87 votes)

At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?

Directed by Lee Seok-hoon - With Son Ye-jin, Yoo Hai-Jin, Oh Dal-su, Kim Tae-Woo

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Black Sea(2014)

| 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 477 votes)

A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald - With Jude Law, Konstantin Khabensky, Scoot McNairy, Karl Davies, Jodie Whittaker, Daniel Ryan, ...

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Persuasion(1995)

| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 57 votes)

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.

Directed by Roger Michell - With Ciarán Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Sophie Thompson, Simon Russell Beale, Amanda Root, ...

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Persuasion(2007)

1h 33min | Romance / Love, Drama, TV Movie

3.7/5 (with 124 votes)

Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.

Directed by Adrian Shergold - With Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anthony Head, Julia Davis, Alice Maud Krige, Tobias Menzies, ...

Titanic(1943)

1h 25min | Action, Drama, History

3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.

Directed by Werner Klingler, Herbert Selpin - With Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Otto Wernicke, Claude Farell, Franz Schafheitlin, Kirsten Heiberg, ...

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)

| 1h 43min | Western

3.5/5 (with 139 votes)

After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Native Americans, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, ...

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947)

| 1h 44min | Fantasy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.8/5 (with 135 votes)

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom, ...

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Run Silent, Run Deep(1958)

1h 33min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 59 votes)

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat, ...

Captain Horatio Hornblower(1951)

| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baker, ...

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Home from the Hill(1960)

| 2h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Luana Patten, ...

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In Which We Serve(1942)

| 1h 55min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 35 votes)

The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

Directed by Noël Coward, David Lean - With John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Michael Wilding, James Donald, ...

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Murder Ahoy(1964)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Directed by George Pollock - With Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Lionel Jeffries, Bud Tingwell, Derek Nimmo, Francis Matthews, ...

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I Was a Male War Bride(1949)

1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love, War

3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Carl Jaffe, Edward Platt, Arthur Hill, ...

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Girls! Girls! Girls!(1962)

| 1h 46min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 26 votes)

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin, Robert Strauss, Beulah Quo, Benson Fong, ...

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Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)

| 2h 6min | Comedy, Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

Directed by David Miller - With Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin, ...

Chupacabra Terror(2005)

1h 29min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.

Directed by John Shepphird - With John Rhys-Davies, Dylan Neal, Chelan Simmons, Giancarlo Esposito