Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sunken-submarine"

1. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

PG-13 | 163 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.

Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg

Votes: 246,966 | Gross: $172.14M

2. Finding Nemo (2003)

G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 1,113,453 | Gross: $380.84M

3. The Abyss (1989)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester

Votes: 193,348 | Gross: $54.46M

4. The Meg (2018)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 207,567 | Gross: $143.01M

5. Hunter Killer (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Thriller

An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini

Votes: 73,590 | Gross: $15.77M

6. Black Sea (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall

Votes: 40,880 | Gross: $1.17M

7. Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015 Video)

PG-13 | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Atlantian troops assault Metropolis as revenge for the death of their king, the Queen seeks help from the Justice League to find her son who has gone missing during the madness.

Director: Ethan Spaulding | Stars: Sean Astin, Rosario Dawson, Nathan Fillion, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 25,088

8. Into the Deep (2020)

TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

When journalist Kim Wall disappears after boarding inventor Peter Madsen's submarine, his changing story about her fate masks a terrifying truth.

Director: Emma Sullivan | Star: Peter Madsen

Votes: 4,139

9. Operation Pacific (1951)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War

During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes

Votes: 3,891

10. U-Boat 29 (1939)

77 min | Thriller, War

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring

Votes: 2,458

11. Dark Journey (1937)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 1,455

12. Submarine D-1 (1937)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Drama

Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh

Votes: 318

13. Azorian: The Raising of the K-129 (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 105 min | Documentary

In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. The CIA crafted a secret program to raise the submarine in 1974.

Director: Michael White | Stars: Nick Jackson, Peter Beil, Vance Bolding, William Colby

Votes: 321

14. Submarine Patrol (1938)

Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster, George Bancroft

Votes: 287

15. Dykkerne (2000)

91 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

2 Danish teen brothers visit their grandpa on his old fishing boat and scuba dive. Some men hire an old minesweeper to find the sunk German sub U-461 from WW2 but the brothers find it. A lot of strange things start happening.

Director: Åke Sandgren | Stars: Robert Hansen, Ralf J. Hollander, Otto Brandenburg, Baard Owe

Votes: 742

16. Devil's Playground (1937)

Approved | 74 min | Drama, Romance

Submarine officers Dorgan and Mason battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen. She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Richard Dix, Dolores Del Río, Chester Morris, George McKay

Votes: 170

17. Batman Beyond (1999–2001)
Episode: Ascension (1999)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

As Derek Powers' medical condition as Blight worsens, he calls his estranged son home for help. However, an enemy hidden in plain sight has other plans for him that eventually involve Batman as well.

Director: Yukio Suzuki | Stars: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Sherman Howard, Cary Elwes

Votes: 603

18. Iron Man (1994–1996)
Episode: And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead (1994)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Hypnotia sinks a Russian nuclear submarine with all hands on board. A year later, the submarine surfaces near Scotland with its entire crew transformed into radioactive zombies loyal to the Mandarin.

Stars: Robert Hays, James Avery, Ed Gilbert, Jim Cummings

Votes: 170

19. Masquerade (1983–1984)
Episode: Five Days (1984)

60 min | Adventure, Thriller

Casey goes undercover in a women's prison to help free an agent carrying a microchip necessary for the rescue of 120 seamen aboard a sunken submarine. Lavender plays the power-mad prison commissioner as a pawn in the mission.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Rod Taylor, Kirstie Alley, Greg Evigan, Joe Santos

20. Joe 90 (1968–1969)
Episode: Big Fish (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A U85 two-man atomic submarine is grounded inside Porto Guavan territorial waters and its discovery by Juan Chaves' military dictatorship could jeopardise free elections in the police state.

Director: Leo Eaton | Stars: Keith Alexander, Sylvia Anderson, Rupert Davies, Gary Files

Votes: 29

21. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Chimera (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An officer dies aboard a Naval research vessel at sea; the Gibbs team investigates; they find the body but initially nobody else. Ducky announces the cause of death and a gloomy outlook. The gang figure it out and leave in a borrowed boat.

Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 956

22. Das Boot (2018– )
Episode: Kopf an Kopf (2020)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, War

Wrangel and von Reinhartz have a dramatic battle on the Atlantic. Margot is horrified by a betrayal. The seriously injured Hoffmann asks Cassandra to leave the city with him.

Director: Rick Ostermann | Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Rochelle Neil, Clemens Schick, Rick Okon

Votes: 245

23. Voyages of Discovery (2006)
Episode: Hanging by a Thread (2006)

58 min | Documentary

May 1939. The USS Squalus was a stricken submarine on a test dive when it started taking in water and sunk to the bottom of the sea off Portsmouth New Hampshire. This is the story of the attempted rescue of the submariners.

Director: Sean Smith | Stars: Paul Rose, Qarie Marshall, Carl Bryson, Helen Hart Momsen

Votes: 8

24. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: 10 Fascinating Facts About Nuclear Submarines (2022)

10 min | Documentary

Nuclear submarines sound like a novelty weapon but there are hundreds operated by about a dozen nations hiding out there under the water. To hide successfully they have to have some unusual... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

25. State of Affairs (2014–2015)
Episode: Secrets & Lies (2014)

TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Thriller

A stranded Russian submarine contains stolen U.S. secrets. Charlie receives an incriminating picture. President Payton selects a new CIA director.

Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Alfre Woodard, Adam Kaufman, Sheila Vand

Votes: 271