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Jaws(1975)

3.8/5 (with 4,828 votes)

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

CODA(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 881 votes)

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Big Fish(2003)

2h 5min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 3,224 votes)

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

A River Runs Through It(1992)

2h 3min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 449 votes)

A River Runs Through It is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920s.

Every Which Way but Loose(1978)

3.1/5 (with 192 votes)

Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.

Vixen!(1968)

1h 11min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Erica Gavin, Russ Meyer, Harrison Page, Jon Evans

Grumpier Old Men(1995)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 162 votes)

A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.

Land(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.

In the Bedroom(2001)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

The Thirteenth Year(1999)

3.3/5 (with 95 votes)

A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.

Directed by Duwayne Dunham - With Chez Starbuck, Justin Jon Ross, Courtnee Draper, Brent Briscoe, Timothy Redwine, Dave Coulier, ...

Short Cuts(1993)

R
| 3h 7min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 262 votes)

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

To Have and Have Not(1945)

NR
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

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Nanook of the North(1922)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 122 votes)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Blue Miracle(2021)

3.8/5 (with 117 votes)

To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.

The Shipping News(2001)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 161 votes)

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Gone Fishin'(1997)

PG
| 1h 34min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 67 votes)

Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

Captains Courageous(1937)

G
| 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 64 votes)

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

Cat Fishin'(1947)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Spike is guarding a private fishing hole - in his sleep. Tom sneaks in to do some fishing - with Jerry as bait. But one particularly vicious fish turns out to be more than Tom or Jerry bargained for, particularly when he wakes up Spike.

Directed by Joseph Barbera

Neither Seen Nor Recognized(1958)

1h 35min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

Bait(2019)

1h 29min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.

Directed by Mark Jenkin

Seaspiracy(2021)

1h 29min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 170 votes)

Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global conspiracy.

Directed by Ali Tabrizi - With Ric O'Barry, Michael Greger, Michael A. Klaper, Richard Oppenlander, Paul Watson, George Monbiot, ...

Libeled Lady(1936)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Beyond Loch Ness(2008)

2.4/5 (with 18 votes)

James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.

Man's Favorite Sport?(1964)

3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.

Brain Dead(2007)

1h 35min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A sleepy fishing port town is consumed with terror when a small crater crash-lands nearby and releases a slimy parasitic agent that transforms the residents into brain-eating zombies. Cornered in an abandoned fishing lodge, six strangers are forced to band together to stave off the blood-sucking monsters clawing the walls outside.

Directed by Kevin S. Tenney

Leviathan(2012)

NR
| 1h 27min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.

The Book of Fish(2021)

2h 6min | History, Drama
3.8/5 (with 13 votes)

In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea.

The Simple Things(1953)

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

Mickey and Pluto go fishing. Pluto has a run-in with a clam, who eventually lodges in Pluto's mouth; Mickey thinks the clam is Pluto's tongue and can't understand why Pluto keeps begging for more food. After they get rid of the clam, Mickey's attempts to use his minnows as bait are thwarted by a hungry seagull; he brings his friends, and they chase our heroes away.

The Last Challenge(1967)

NR
| 1h 45min | Western
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross(1961)

14min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.

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