Movies: Sailor

1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again....

In this film, Hanne Krogh meets some of the women of the sea. From the Viking woman to the world's first and only submarine captain who is Norwegian....

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A young sailor inches towards an initiation and learns what it means to earn his first tattoo....

The son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka....

A young seaman who is being hit by various problems related to his rights as a worker in private shipping company....

Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out....

A castaway and an eccentric sailor hunt down an ancient creature that may or may not be real....

A homage to the French light comedy classics such as the works of Jacques Tati, An Afternoon at the Beach is short film that tells the tale of a French sailor visiting the beach during the 1920s and follows him through his various setbacks as he make...

An old sea captain struggles with the recent destruction of his ship....

Tian Soepangat joins the U.S. Navy out of a commitment to helping others. As a Muslim, Tian is uncertain of his shipmates' attitudes toward his religion, and so he hides it. Eventually discovering he doesn't have to hide his faith, he is free to expr...

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The story of a Russian sailor coming back home....

I Faresonen is a combination of a documentary and fictional approach to the problem of alcoholism -- or alcohol dependency. Tackling a problem common to other Nordic countries as well, director Bjoern Breigutu has focused on the life of sailors, amon...

A teenager adores his sailor friend. He dreams about the exotic countries, marvellous starry skies and the inevitable homesickness that would bring his friend back to him. In a colourful series of mythical referential images, his fragile dreams get s...

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