I caught some people on Facebook listing their favourite sailing movies.
Time to copy their lists here; for posterity.
Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N.
Michiel de Ruyter
Time Bandits
Charlie St. Cloud
Following Seas
Master & Commander
Captain Ron
Captain's Courageous
Chasing Bubbles
Maiden Trip
The Bounty
All Is Lost
Dead Calm
The Mercy
Maiden
Adrift
Kon-Tiki
Styx
Wind
Carabeean pirates
RoboCop
Popeye the Sailor Man
One Crazy Summer
Riddle of the Sands
Still Calm
Windjammer
Doco Shackleton's Captain
Yellowbeard
Abandoned
Donkeypunch
White Squall
Message in a Bottle
Nosferatu
Old Man and the Sea
The Boat
In the Heart of the Sea
What about Bob?
Deep Water
Down to the Sea in Ships
En Solitaire
Captain's Table
Down Periscope
Sooooomething tells me not all entries are equally serious.
But definitely some goodies in there too.
And for some reason, most of them I never bothered to watch.
Time to copy their lists here; for posterity.

Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N.
Michiel de Ruyter
Time Bandits
Charlie St. Cloud
Following Seas
Master & Commander
Captain Ron
Captain's Courageous
Chasing Bubbles
Maiden Trip
The Bounty
All Is Lost
Dead Calm
The Mercy
Maiden
Adrift
Kon-Tiki
Styx
Wind
Carabeean pirates

RoboCop
Popeye the Sailor Man
One Crazy Summer
Riddle of the Sands
Still Calm
Windjammer
Doco Shackleton's Captain
Yellowbeard
Abandoned
Donkeypunch
White Squall
Message in a Bottle
Nosferatu
Old Man and the Sea
The Boat
In the Heart of the Sea
What about Bob?
Deep Water
Down to the Sea in Ships
En Solitaire
Captain's Table
Down Periscope
Sooooomething tells me not all entries are equally serious.
But definitely some goodies in there too.
And for some reason, most of them I never bothered to watch.