The Shadow Line

Morituri

1965

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

Johnny Angel

1945

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

Blood Alley

1955

An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.

The Glass Menagerie

1966

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Explorer: Lost in the Arctic

2023

Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over the top of the world, when Franklin’s ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempts to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin’s route in search of his long-lost tomb.

Un reietto delle isole

1980

TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands".

The Glass Menagerie

1950

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Longitude

2000

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

The Albatross

1998

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

The Navy Comes Through

1942

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

Lord Jim

2002

The play depicts the circumstances of the crash of an old steamer carrying Mohammedan pilgrims and Jim's attempts to rehabilitate and atone for his guilt years ago.

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

El Corazón de las Tinieblas

1990

Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a contract to travel to Congo captaining a ship called Florida that is shipwrecked as soon as it reaches Congo forcing them to walk the Congolese forest in the heart of darkness

Klar zur Wende - Rückenwind für Frachtsegler

2014

Nosferatu

1922

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.