Inside Llewyn Davis speelt zich af in de folkscene van de New Yorkse hippiewijk Greenwich Village in de jaren zestig. Llewyn Davis is een ongelukkige singer-songwriter. De film volgt een week in het leven van Llewyn, waarbij hij een kans krijgt om zowel zijn acteer- als zijn gitaartalent te laten zien, in de hoop het te maken in de muziekwereld.
De bevolking van een Chinees dorp, moe van het tirannieke regime van de communistische regering, besluit massaal naar Hong Kong te emigreren. In de riskante onderneming wordt de bevolking geholpen door een Amerikaanse kapitein, een voormalig gevangene, die de met mensen overladen veerboot door de gevaren van de zee en... van de kustwacht loodst.
The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
De 12-jarige Gillie wordt ontvoerd door de sympathieke gelegenheidsmoordenaar Korchinsky. Gillie is getuige geweest van de moord, die de Poolse zeeman Korchinsky pleegde op zijn vriendin. Gillie is in het bezit van het moordwapen.
Een in ongenade gevallen koopvaardijofficier besluit aan boord van zijn zinkende vrachtschip te blijven om te bewijzen dat het schip opzettelijk tot zinken is gebracht en als gevolg daarvan zijn goede naam te rechtvaardigen.
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.