The Starfish

The Starfish 1952

5.00

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.

1952

Rice

Rice 1957

6.73

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.

1957

Petticoats

Petticoats 1970

1

In 19th-century Quebec, Claire, a kitchen hand for a group of fishermen, dreams of learning the men's trade. When she’s invited on a midnight fishing lesson, a nightmare unfolds, and Saule, a nurse, devotes herself to saving her. Together, the two women face their own wounds and join forces to survive.

1970

The Seaside Village

The Seaside Village 1965

6.00

A remote fishing island is home to a largely female-population. Men are frequently lost to the ocean as stubbornly going out to sea in the face of great danger. Young widows are made and quickly learn the hardships of life.

1965

Hawa

Hawa 2022

6.80

When eight sailors onboard their fishing trawler find a mysterious girl mid-sea, ill fortune falls upon the boat as they don't catch any fish the next few days. The fishermen try to make it back home, although the sea has other plans for them.

2022

Squid Jigging Fishing Boat

Squid Jigging Fishing Boat 2017

1

Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to work at Falkland Islands in the South West Atlantic. The sailing takes 35-40 days and crew members named it "waterway." January 1st, 2015, a 65 meter long, 11 meter wide fishing boat began its journey to Falkland island. This is a documentary about 60 crew members from south-east Asia to work far away from Taiwan.

2017

Drifters

Drifters 1929

5.88

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

1929

Booby Dupes

Booby Dupes 1945

4.80

The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.

1945

Maresia

Maresia 2024

1

The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean takes different shapes as it interacts with each member of a small family.

2024

Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal

Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal 1972

1

A biologist helps save a young seal who was caught in a fishing net, but the seal hides in a small boat, not knowing that it is about to be towed far from the bay. The seal causes all sorts of trouble, until the biologist takes him back to the bay.

1972

Seafighters

Seafighters 2017

1

Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and the sea. At the end of Europe, years after the Prestige oil spill disaster, these fishermen face an uncertain future.

2017

Tigullio minore

Tigullio minore 1947

5.00

In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman.

1947

Is the Crown at war with us?

Is the Crown at war with us? 2003

6.50

In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Alanis Obomsawin casts her nets into history to provide a context for the events on Miramichi Bay.

2003

Out with the Fishermen

Out with the Fishermen 1947

1

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

1947

Tuna Fishermen

Tuna Fishermen 1948

8.00

Film director Branko Belan follows the journey of fishermen as they set out to catch tuna around the Velebit Channel.

1948

Fisherman's Burden

Fisherman's Burden 2024

1

A father-and-son fishing duo find a briefcase of criminal money in a river and are chased by both the police and the criminals.

2024