Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) A rogue sub captain seeks to shoot missiles at a radiation belt that threatens planet Earth. This results in a clash of egos, but the men mend their ways in the face of imminent danger. He gets the job instead of another capable captain, Burt Lancaster, who not only resents being passed over for the job-he thinks that Gable’s character is dangerously focused on only one Japanese ship. But a year later, he is given the opportunity to commandeer another submarine, and he makes it his singular obsession to track down and sink the Japanese ship that previously sank his sub. In one of his last screen appearances, legendary Hollywood star Clark Gable stars as a submarine commander whose sub was sunk by the Japanese during World War II, relegating him to a desk job in the Navy. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) A sub captain who is obsessed with attacking a Japanese ship alienates his crew. Gradually, they earn one another’s respect. Both ship commanders meet in the South Atlantic during the war and must find a way to outwit one another.

Captain Von Stolberg (Curd Jurgens) is a wily German submarine commander who questions his nation’s involvement in World War II. The Enemy Below (1957) Determined German and American captains square off during World War II.Īmerican Navy Captain Murell (Robert Mitchum) is a former merchant marine who witnessed his own wife being killed by Germans when they torpedoed Murell’s ship.

The doctor is at first under the impression that his stay on the submarine will only be temporary-but he is wrong, leading to massive tension. En route, one of the main passengers is heavily injured, so the submarine heads to France, where they kidnap a French doctor to attend to the wounded passenger. The plot involves a group of Nazis and sympathizers toward the end of the war who are trying to evade capture by taking a submarine from Norway to South America. Released in France as Les Maudits, this film was released shortly after the end of World War II.

Best Submarine Movies The Damned (1947) Nazis seek to escape capture at the end of World War II by fleeing to South America. What follows is a guide to some of the best submarine movies ever made. These movies typically take place during World War II or the Cold War, but also can just be purely fictional.

Combine the trauma of war with the terror of the deepest, darkest ocean, and you have submarine movies.

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