Here we've displayed a list of the best Waterfront films : The Red Shoes(1948), Amarcord(1973), The Gospel According to St. Matthew(1964), Pickup on South Street(1953), Speedy(1928), Atlantic City(1980), The War Zone(1999), The Mob(1951), Min and Bill(1930), A View From the Bridge(1961), Letter to Brezhnev(1985), Hypocrites(1915) ... ...
Romance, Drama
UK
1948
133 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Moira Shearer Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Robert Helpmann Leonide Massine Albert Basserman Ludmilla Tcherina Esmond Knight
dancer instructor composer emotional passionate spirited france waterfront stage ambition dance love romance forbidden love rivalry discovery rise sacrifice 1940s
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1973
125 Minutes
Magali Noël Bruno Zanin Pupella Maggio Armando Brancia Ciccio Ingrassia Nando Orfei Luigi Rossi Gianfilippo Carcano Josiane Tanzilli
son father mother amusing cheeky dreamy spirited italy small town waterfront fascism family sex small-town life growing up transformation 1930s
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Biography, Drama, History
Italy|France
1964
136 Minutes
Enrique Irazoqui Margherita Caruso Susanna Pasolini Marcello Morante Mario Socrate Settimo Di Porto Ferruccio Nuzzo
jesus mother disciple inspiring moving passionate israel desert waterfront the bible christianity rebellion religion quest discovery transformation temptation rise fall roman empire
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Richard Widmark Jean Peters Thelma Ritter Murvyn Vye Richard Kiley Willis Bouchey Milburn Stone Henry Slate George Eldredge Stuart Randall Maurice Samuels
prostitute pickpocket communist informant fbi agent dark suspenseful gripping new york city subway library waterfront espionage communism theft fbi murder pursuit mystery transformation
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Comedy
USA
1928
87 Minutes
Harold Lloyd Ann Christy Bert Woodruff Brooks Benedict Babe Ruth Byron Douglas Dan Wolheim
taxi driver girlfriend grandfather babe ruth police officer city official frenetic amusing charming new york city cab waterfront street yankee stadium modernization railroad horses unemployment theft corruption
Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
Drama
France|Canada
1980
104 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Susan Sarandon Kate Reid Michel Piccoli Hollis McLaren Robert Joy Al Waxman Robert Goulet Moses Znaimer Angus MacInnes Sean Sullivan
pretty woman mobster husband drug dealer criminal engaging spirited new jersey waterfront atlantic city, n.j. aspirations gambling drug trafficking crime romance aging quest underdog 1970s
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Drama
Italy|UK
1999
98 Minutes
Ray Winstone Tilda Swinton Lara Belmont Freddie Cunliffe Kate Ashfield Aisling O'Sullivan Colin Farrell Annabelle Apsion
father mother son daughter baby bleak disturbing intense england household waterfront incest child molestation family sex discovery growing up fall 1990s
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Broderick Crawford Betty Buehler Richard Kiley Otto Hulett Matt Crowley Neville Brand Ernest Borgnine Walter Klavun Lynne Baggett Jean Alexander Ralph Dumke
detective killer undercover cop thug mobster dark thrilling warehouse waterfront police station street new york city double-cross secret identity mob union investigation mystery transformation 1950s
Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line?
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Drama
France|Italy
1961
110 Minutes
Raf Vallone Maureen Stapleton Jean Sorel Carol Lawrence Raymond Pellegrin Morris Carnovsky Harvey Lembeck Mickey Knox Vincent Gardenia
dockworker wife niece cousin italian americans gripping passionate tense new york city waterfront apartment brooklyn, n.y. forbidden love jealousy unrequited love forbidden love rivalry 1960s
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two ... See full summary »
Romance
UK
1985
92 Minutes
Alexandra Pigg Peter Firth Alfred Molina Margi Clarke Neil Cunningham Ken Campbell Angela Clarke Tracy Lea
woman friend sailor charming passionate england liverpool, england waterfront shore leave romance culture clash working class friendship love 1980s
Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two ... See full summary »
Fantasy, Drama
USA
1915
60 Minutes
Courtenay Foote Elisabeth Risdon Charles Rock Myrtle Stedman Margaret Edwards Cyril Raymond Herbert Standing Douglas Munro Adele Farrington Dixie Carr Jane Darwell
monk pastor minister congregation members queen profound powerful church waterfront forest religion morality hypocrisy nudity murder society fall discovery wretched excess unknown era
The parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
70 Minutes
innocent woman lawyer mob boss fiancée police officer henchman engaging suspenseful crafty tense new york city car apartment road restaurant waterfront wrongful conviction fugitives mobsters frame-up
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another auto. Ann escapes and ends up in the vehicle of Tony Baxter, a lawyer who has eyes for her.
Drama
USA
2005
90 Minutes
Tara Devon Gallagher Shawn Hatosy Cherry Jones Sarah Paulson Robert Knott Michael Mosley Kate Goehring
girl father mother woman brother dense gutsy powerful maryland waterfront coast family history accident suicide sex working class alcoholism discovery growing up love
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon Ernest Torrence Hobart Cavanaugh Maurice Black Purnell Pratt Wilfred Lucas Harry Beresford
reporter smuggler daughter illegal immigrant police officer editor gritty melodramatic waterfront san diego ship apartment hideout news investigation deception smuggling illegal immigration pursuit mystery
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Drama
USA|UK
1981
89 Minutes
Judy Davis Bryan Brown Cathy Downes Baz Luhrmann Peter Mochrie Mervyn Drake Margie McCrae Mercia Deane-Johns Joy Hruby Kim Deacon Caz Lederman
prostitute drug addict classmate wife husband bookseller shocking melodramatic tense sydney waterfront apartment street bookstore australia reunion suicide drug addiction troubled marriage boredom
When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
Drama
Brazil
1987
100 Minutes
Carlos Alberto Riccelli Cássia Kiss Ney Latorraca Dira Paes Paulo Vinicius Ruy Polanah Maria Silvia Bebeto Bahia Lutero Luiz Vanja Orico Marcos Palmeira
man dolphin woman family member child creature creative passionate engaging village brazil waterfront pregnancy supernatural sex childbirth village life fishing metamorphosis love
A dolphin takes the form of a human man in order to seduce the women of a fishing village.
Drama
2001
103 Minutes
David Wenham Anthony LaPaglia Sibylla Budd Steve Rodgers Mitchell Butel Mandy McElhinney Greg Stone Kazuhiro Muroyama Andrew Bayly Stephen Leeder Bruce Myles
genius ceo executive love interest lawyer husband thrilling gripping australia bank waterfront office stock market banking vengeance greed corruption business revenge mystery
A computer genius (David Wenham) sells a program to a bank's CEO (Anthony LaPaglia) who cuts costs and increases profits by foreclosing on loans.