Kon-Tiki

Aug 24, 2012

1h 58m

★ 6.9

Overview

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Genres

Adventure

History

Production Companies

Stunt Bros

Recorded Picture Company

Roenbergfilm

DCM Pictures

Film i Väst

Nordisk Film Denmark

Kon-Tiki Trailers

Cast

Thor Heyerdahl

Pål Sverre Hagen

Herman Watzinger

Anders Baasmo Christiansen

Knut Haugland

Tobias Santelmann

Bengt Danielsson

Gustaf Skarsgård

Erik Hesselberg

Odd-Magnus Williamson

Torstein Raaby

Jakob Oftebro

Liv Heyerdahl

Agnes Kittelsen

Jose Bustamente

Manuel Cauchi

Løytnant Lewis

Richard Trinder

Freuchen

Søren Pilmark

Spinden

Peter Wight

Journalist

Jo Adrian Haavind

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.

7.6

King Kong

Apr 7, 1933

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

5.5

Titans of the Deep

Oct 28, 1938

Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off of the shores of Bermuda to study and film sea creatures seen and filmed at that depth for the first time. A sometimes staged semi-documentary that was often sold and advertised as an exploitation/horror picture.

7.2

The Poseidon Adventure

Dec 1, 1972

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

4.3

Shark

Oct 8, 1969

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

6.1

The Blue Lagoon

Jul 5, 1980

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

6.5

Two Years Before the Mast

Nov 22, 1946

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

6.2

Waterworld

Jul 28, 1995

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

6.4

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Dec 2, 2010

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.

6.5

The River Wild

Sep 30, 1994

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

7.2

Journey to the Beginning of Time

Aug 5, 1955

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

6.5

Benji the Hunted

Jun 5, 1987

Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.

6.9

The Chipmunk Adventure

May 22, 1987

The Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $100,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is actually a diamond smuggling ring!

0.0

Enemy at the Beach

Oct 30, 2022

Most of ocean is yet to be discovered, there are things down there that no human has seen. One day, the sea brings something to the surface which is far from normal. Two friends go to the beach to shoot an action film, but what they get on camera is far from what they anticipated.

6.7

Pokémon the Movie 2000

Jul 17, 1999

When Lawrence III's scheme to capture the Legendary Pokémon Lugia upsets the balance of nature, it is up to Ash Ketchum and his friends to save the world.

6.6

Help! I'm a Fish

Oct 6, 2000

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

7.4

The Abyss

Aug 9, 1989

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

4.7

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

Nov 26, 2002

When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. Now they must hunt the fierce killer and destroy it... before there is no one left to stop it

4.4

Dinosaur Island

Mar 23, 1994

Welcome to lush Dinosaur Island, where a tribe of gorgeous cavedwelling warrior women satisfy the exotic fantasies of five downed military airmen. Fearsome battles with the island's ferocious maneating dinosaurs are the only disruption of their seductive pleasures on this island paradise. Narrowly surviving with their lives, the rugged men fall under the seductive spell of their lovely captors and soon find their every dream fulfilled.