Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "shipboard-romance"

1. An Affair to Remember (1957)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson

Votes: 33,108

2. Ship of Fools (1965)

Not Rated | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin

Votes: 6,966

3. Now, Voyager (1942)

Passed | 117 min | Drama, Romance

A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 19,035

4. Dodsworth (1936)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor

Votes: 10,213

5. Love Affair (1939)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman

Votes: 6,434

6. The Lady Eve (1941)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 23,403

7. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley

Votes: 1,506

8. Titanic (1943)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History

Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.

Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Votes: 1,810

9. Britannic (2000 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Action, Drama, History

A fictional account of the sinking of the H.M.H.S. Britannic off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916. This explores the theory of a German Agent sabotaging the liner, a hospital ship.

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Edward Atterton, Amanda Ryan, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Daniels

Votes: 1,564

10. Susan Slade (1961)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 945

11. Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don DeFore

Votes: 2,741

12. Across the Pacific (1942)

Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton

Votes: 5,448

13. Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick

Votes: 3,055

14. East of Shanghai (1931)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann

Votes: 4,906

15. Back Street (1961)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Romance

In Lincoln, the ambitious aspirant-designer Rae Smith has an incident with a wolf department store businessman and is rescued by the Marine Paul Saxon. They immediately fall in love with ... See full summary »

Director: David Miller | Stars: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake

Votes: 1,297

16. Brides (2004)

128 min | Drama, Romance

Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Andréa Ferréol, Evi Saoulidou

Votes: 5,006

17. Anything Goes (1936)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino

Votes: 522

18. Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror

A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott

Votes: 1,784

19. Ship Ahoy (1942)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien

Votes: 717

20. Our Wife (1941)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

Jerry Marvin, a talented musician and composer, wallows in drunken self-pity after he is divorced by his wife Babe. Along comes new love Susan, who rescues Jerry and provides him with fresh... See full summary »

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey, Ellen Drew, Charles Coburn

Votes: 293

21. The Keyhole (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman (Kay Francis) with two husbands (Monroe Owsley, Henry Kolker) tries to divorce one of them by heading down to Havana where things get more complicated.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell, Monroe Owsley

Votes: 684

22. Chained (1934)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,124

23. No Greater Love (1995 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A woman (Kelly Rutherford) who loses her fiance and her parents in the Titanic disaster neglects her own needs to care for her brothers and sister.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Kelly Rutherford, Chris Sarandon, Nicholas Campbell, Daniel Hugh Kelly

Votes: 491

24. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Directors: Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan | Stars: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross

Votes: 1,090

25. 'Til We Meet Again (1940)

Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.

Directors: Edmund Goulding, William K. Howard, William Keighley, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Votes: 749

26. Three Daring Daughters (1948)

Approved | 115 min | Musical, Romance

It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drake's School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan, isn't ... See full summary »

Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold

Votes: 575

27. The Princess Comes Across (1936)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 1,238

28. Untamed (1929)

Passed | 86 min | Drama

When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert

Votes: 723 | Gross: $0.71M

29. Happiness Adjacent (2018)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Explores the romance between Hank, a nice Jewish boy who definitely isn't looking for love, and Kurt, a Midwestern guy who desperately needs someone to break up the monotony of his stale ... See full summary »

Director: Rob Williams | Stars: Adam Fried, Ian Dick, Rachel Alig, Jorgie Goico

Votes: 340

30. Cocktail Hour (1933)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood, and ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer, Muriel Kirkland

Votes: 186

31. It's a Date (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 670

32. Música, mujeres y amor (1952)

121 min | Musical, Comedy

Add a Plot

Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Ramón Armengod, Miroslava, Gloria Mestre, Jorge Reyes

Votes: 7

33. New Moon (1930)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Grace Moore, Adolphe Menjou, Roland Young

Votes: 207

34. Stolen Sweets (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness) on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, Jameson Thomas, Claude King

Votes: 32

35. Forever Yours (1936)

73 min | Drama, Romance

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner, Ivan Brandt, Jeanne Stuart

Votes: 153

36. Clear the Decks (1929)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

Add a Plot

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Reginald Denny, Olive Hasbrouck, Otis Harlan, Lucien Littlefield

37. The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode: A Woman's Privilege (1962)

29 min | Crime, Drama

A shipboard romance leads to a lawsuit for breach of promise.

Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Bernard Archard, Ann Lynn, Patrick Wymark

Votes: 38

38. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: Thou Still Unravished Bride (1965)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A man is greatly concerned for his fiancée's safety after she has taken a walk alone in the London fog while an elusive strangler is on the loose, potentially putting her life at risk if ... See full summary »

Director: David Friedkin | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Randell, David Carradine, Sally Kellerman

Votes: 364

39. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: James Coco and The Pointer Sisters (1974)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: a "Saturday Night Tearjerker" presentation of "One Way Ticket" with Carol as a terminally ill woman and guest James Coco as a condemned murderer with whom she falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, James Coco

Votes: 43

40. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: The Pointer Sisters: Strictly for the Birds/Fun in a Drugstore/The Cruise (1976)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: the first female clown with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus giving Carol a Doctorate in Clown Humanities during the open; Carol as a deranged bag lady feeding ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway

Votes: 85

41. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: China Cruise: The Pledge/East Meets West/Dear Roberta/My Two Dumplings: Part 2 (1983)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Conclusion. On a cruise to the Orient, a man with a past (John Forsythe) meets a woman with an uncertain future (Ursula Andress); Doc (Bernie Kopell) falls for a lady from Hong Kong (Susan ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 70

42. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: China Cruise: The Pledge/East Meets West/Dear Roberta/My Two Dumplings: Part 1 (1983)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Part 1 of 2. The crew goes to China to work on a cruise, there. Among the passengers is an ailing woman (Ursula Andress) who, while on shore, meets a man (John Forsythe) who tries to get on... See full summary »

Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 84

43. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: Japan Cruise: When Worlds Collide/The Captain and the Geisha/The Lottery Winners/The Emperor's Fortune: Part 1 (1983)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Photographer Lila falls for businessman Bud. Teacher Martha poses as a geisha. Barney and wife Gladys show off their lottery winnings and make the crew uncomfortable. Several people own silk artwork containing pieces of a treasure map.

Director: Jerome Courtland | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 78

44. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: Japan Cruise: When Worlds Collide/The Captain and the Geisha/The Lottery Winners/The Emperor's Fortune: Part 2 (1983)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Martha, a teacher of Asian history, impersonates a geisha to be near Merrill. Lottery winners Barney and Gladys continue showing off their lottery winnings.

Director: Jerome Courtland | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 65

45. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: Hong Kong Cruise: Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tails of a City: Part 1 (1984)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Part 1 of 2. On a Hong Kong cruise: a senator (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) romances a woman (Donna Reed), until he learns the nature of her visit; two brothers (Leigh McCloskey and Lee Majors II) ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 91

46. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
Episode: Hong Kong Cruise: Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tails of a City: Part 2 (1984)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Conclusion. On a Hong Kong cruise: a senator (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) romances a woman (Donna Reed), until he learns the nature of her visit; two brothers (Leigh McCloskey and Lee Majors II) ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange

Votes: 76

47. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986–1988)
Episode: The Abbey Grange (1986)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Paul Williamson, Conrad Phillips

Votes: 943

48. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: Disillusion (1975)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama

It's spring and Hudson's fancy wreaks havoc on the entire household.

Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Angela Baddeley, Lesley-Anne Down

Votes: 91

49. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Episode: Orphans of the Storm (1981)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Romance

With Celia seasick, Julia and Charles spend all of their free time together and soon begin an affair. He also learns from her that Sebastian has vanished completely. In London, Charles' new... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Ronald Fraser, Michael Haughey

Votes: 165

50. More Tales of the City (1998)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1998)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Romance

Mona is amazed to discover a recipe book at the brothel with the name Mona Ransay written inside it. She telephones Mrs. Madrigal and discovers that she is Mrs. Madrigal's daughter and that... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Gang | Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson, Billy Campbell

Votes: 65