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Pinocchio(1940)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 28min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 2,639 votes)

Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he's worthy as he sets off on an adventure with his whistling sidekick and conscience, Jiminy Cricket.

In the Heart of the Sea(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Action, History
3.4/5 (with 1,847 votes)

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

Moby Dick(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Science Fiction, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 622 votes)

It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy. A thrilling, action-packed Star Trek adventure!

Free Willy(1993)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 52min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 788 votes)

When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home(1995)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 255 votes)

Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

Big Miracle(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 215 votes)

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.

Blackfish(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 23min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 493 votes)

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite - With Tilikum, James Earl Jones, Dawn Brancheau, Whoopi Goldberg, Meredith Vieira, Jeffrey Ventre, ...

Free Willy 3: The Rescue(1997)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 26min | Kids & Family, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 149 votes)

Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse.

Orca(1977)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

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.

The Pirates(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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

Werckmeister Harmonies(2000)

2h 19min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 128 votes)

This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...

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Swinging Safari(2018)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
2.6/5 (with 22 votes)

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.

Oceans(2010)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 24min | Documentary, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 139 votes)

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove(2010)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 15min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy--and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.

Directed by Will Geiger - With Beau Bridges, Bindi Irwin, Matthew Kennedy, Bruce A. Young

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie(2002)

3.2/5 (with 44 votes)

Get ready as Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and the rest of the Veggies set sail on a whale of an adventure in Big Idea's first full-length, 3-D animated feature film. This is the story of Jonah and the Whale as you've never seen it before - a story where we learn that one of the best gifts you can give - or get - is a second chance.

Directed by Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki - With Jim Poole

Deep Blue(2003)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 23min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf(2015)

1.9/5 (with 25 votes)

When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.

The Snail and the Whale(2020)

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

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Directed by Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon - With Diana Rigg, Sally Hawkins, Rob Brydon, Cariad Lloyd, Emma Tate, Arnold Brown, ...

Fathom(2021)

1h 26min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects—deciphering the complex communication of whales. Dr. Michelle Fournet and Dr. Ellen Garland journey to opposite hemispheres to uncover a culture eons older than our own.

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

THE LONELIEST WHALE is a cinematic quest to find the “52 Hertz Whale,” which scientists believe has spent its entire life in solitude calling out at a frequency that is different from any other whale. As the film embarks on this engrossing journey, audiences will explore what this whale’s lonely plight can teach us — not just about our changing relationship to the oceans, but to each other. Executive Produced with Leonardo DiCaprio and Adrian Grenier.

Directed by Joshua Zeman

The Whale(2013)

1h 30min | Drama, History
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must decide whether to head for the nearest islands - a thousand miles downwind to the west - or set out on an epic journey of almost three thousand miles to reach the South American mainland. Fear of cannibals forces them to choose South America. Almost three months later, the first whaler is rescued by another whaleship. Only three men are still alive. A week later the captain's whaler is also rescued, with just two men aboard. The third whaler is never found. This is a story of human endurance and what men in extremis will do to survive.

Directed by Alrick Riley

OceanWorld 3D(2009)

1h 21min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

A 3-D documentary chronicling a sea turtle's journey across the oceans.

Pinocchio in Outer Space(1965)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Pinocchio tries to save the Earth from Astro the Space Whale.

Directed by Ray Goossens

The Silent World(1956)

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure. The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso. A team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, of which 2.5 kilometers were included in the finished documentary.

Directed by Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle - With Jacques Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques Ertaud

The Whale(2011)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

The true story of a young, wild killer whale - an orca - nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and turned up alone in a narrow stretch of sea between mountains, a place called Nootka Sound.

Directed by Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit

Namu, the Killer Whale(1966)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama, Kids & Family, Adventure
1.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously wholesome film" (Citizen-News) is heartwarming fun for the whole family. Like all close pals, Hank (Lansing) and Namu love spending time together. Whether sharing a morning swim or soaking up the afternoon sun, these two are virtually inseparable. Trouble is, the local fishermen mistakenly think that Namu is a threat. Racing against time, Hank must enlist the help of a young widow and her daughter to save Namu and prove that he's a gentle giant!

Willie the Operatic Whale(1946)

15min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in several voices simultaneously. A friend of his, a gull called Whitey, tells him about the searching ship, and Willie goes to audition, as it's been his ambition to perform on stage. Unfortunately, Professor Tetti Tatti from the Opera believes that one or more singers have been swallowed by the whale, and need to be rescued.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi

When the Whales Came(1989)

1h 40min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Goddess(2013)

1h 45min | Comedy, Music
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.

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