Movies Similar to Green Sails

Mutiny Ahead(1935)

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

Lord Jim(1965)

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.

The Manxman(1929)

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

The Seafarers(1953)

Stanley Kubrick’s first color film, commissioned by the Seafarers International Union to promote the benefits of union membership. Shot inside the union’s Atlantic and Gulf Coast District facilities, it features scenes of ships, machinery, cafeteria life, and meetings, highlighting the daily routines and camaraderie of seafarers. Thought lost for decades, the film was rediscovered in 1973 and preserved by the Library of Congress.

Turbulent Waters(2015)

Most of the goods we consume are transported by sea on ships where working conditions recall those of the galley ships of another age. Turbulent Waters tells the story of these seafarers – equivalent to 21st century galley slaves – and of the turbulent seas they inhabit in a world of corporate globalisation.

Die Pharaonin und das Goldland - Hatschepsuts Reise nach Punt(2010)

A Man There Was(1917)

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Hell-Ship Morgan(1936)

A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

Angels on the Water(2024)

Rays of light shimmer on a phantasmagoria of darkness.

O Táxi Nº 9297(1927)

The story of this film is based on actual facts, the murder of actress Maria Alves, and the investigation that ensued, covered by Reinaldo Ferreira himself. Ferreira also wrote a novel based on the same facts.

Bloody Night(2010)

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…

Utta Danella - Prager Geheimnis(2012)

Ein Vater zum Verlieben(2001)

The Berlin businessman and family man Richard Brosche is amazed when he learns that he has a second illegitimate teenage daughter in Mallorca. In his search for traces in the Balearic Islands, a series of mix-ups and surprising revelations arise that completely change Richard's life. - Dieter Pfaff plays the leading role in this quick-witted comedy about the strange paths that not only the male libido sometimes goes.

The Bulgarian Pursuit(2001)

Two Bulgarian intelligence agents arrive in Warsaw on a secret mission. Their task is to recover a microfilm containing compromising material on the Bulgarian intelligence service. They must face the ambassador's Siamese twin, who is a traitor. Danger lurks at every turn.

Der Venusmörder(1996)

A serial killer kills redheaded women and drapes them like Venus from Sandro Botticellis artwork.

The Brutalization of Franz Blum(1974)

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...