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1) Ondine
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English
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Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
2) Bait
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English
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Martin Ward is a fisherman without a boat. His brother, Steven, has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between them. When Martin tries to restore the family to their traditional place, tragedy strikes.
3) Jaws
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English
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In the ocean surrounding Amity, a small tourist resort off the coast of New England, a 25-foot man-eating predator stalks any human foolish enough to get in the water. At first, the only believer in the shark's existence is the town's chief of police, Martin Brody. Brody enlists the help of scientist Matt Hooper and Quint, a crusty old seaman whose life is devoted to hunting sharks. The threesome sets off in Quint's boat to kill the leviathan. The...
4) Jaws
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English
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Intense shark attacks including some bloody images, language, brief partial nudity/sexual references and drug use.
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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English
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In October 1991, three raging weather fronts, one of them a powerful hurricane, combined in the North Atlantic to form the greatest storm in recorded history. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Billy Tyne is the sword-fishing boat captain of the Gail who is from Gloucester. Tyne is highly competitive, but has been stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even...
8) Jaws
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English
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The 30th anniversary edition of the classic 'I'm-Never-Going-In-The-Water-Again' story of a killer shark that has taken over the waters near a seaside community, and the three men who set out to kill it.
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Icelandic
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This is an incredible true story of survival and human endurance. As a sole survivor of a tragic shipwreck in the Icelandic Ocean in 1984, a local fisherman survives via his superhuman will to survive which made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
10) Out of the fog
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English
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Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.
11) Monster
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Gaeilge
Description
The Great Famine descends on a fisherman's community. Pushed to the brink, he is forced to go on the run for a crime he didn't commit.
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Tagalog
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A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn't been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest.
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English
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[Booby dupes] The Stooges decide to increase profits of their fish business by catching their own fish. [Crash goes the hash] The Stooges are mistaken for reporters and are sent to cover the patrician wedding of a beautiful socialite. [Dutiful but dumb] The Stooges are "expert" photographers on their way to the sinister Kingdom of Outer Vulgaria. [How high is up?] It's a life and death adventure when they decide to become "Jiffy Menders" and work...
14) Clash by night
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English
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Mae Doyle is a good-time girl, but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men, she returns to her girlhood home, where she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend.
16) Saala khadoos
Language
Hindi
Description
Adi Tomar is bitter because his dream to win the boxing gold for India was thwarted by his devious coach Dev Khatri who spiked his gloves during an all-important match. So when he spots talent in a Chennai fisher-woman Madhi he wants to see his dream fulfilled through his ward.
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English
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"In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks but is found by some kindly fisherman who take him in and raise him. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This upsets the orphan so much that he runs away. The fisherman launches a huge city-wide search, finds the sad lad, and finally brings him back home"--https://buy.tromamovies.com.
18) Gorgo
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English
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Enterprising Joe and Sam capture a 65-foot monster and bring it to London as a seaside carnival attraction. This proves to be a major mistake when Gorgo's mother comes in search of her baby and trashes London.
19) Jermal
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Indonesian
Description
After his mother's death, 12-year-old Jaya is sent to his father, Johar, who works as a supervisor on a jermal: a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea. Johar is shocked, as he never knew he had a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work at the jermal, Jaya gives up hope of being accepted and focuses on the skills and attitude needed...
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English
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Creature: When space explorers discover a strange container on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, They release a hideous creature that has been asleep for ages -- one that has a taste for human flesh.
Attack of the giant leeches: In a small swampland town, people are falling prey to a vicious breed of giant leeches.
The giant gila monster: A mammoth Gila monster terrorizes an unsuspecting town by stomping through the streets, crushing buildings and killing...
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