Movies Like Sailor Beware!

If you liked Sailor Beware! (1955), a comedy and tv movie movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Moana (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
2
Sea Legs (1930)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to…
3
Popeye (1980)
★ 5.6/10Also comedy
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he…
4
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
★ 7/10Also comedy
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to…
5
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movie
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his…
6
Calling All Tars (1936)
★ 8/10Also comedy
This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged back to a Navy ship by the shore patrol. Though not much plot, the…
7
Follow the Fleet (1936)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not…
8
We're Not Dressing (1934)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend…
9
In the Navy (1941)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing…
10
The Last Detail (1973)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
11
On the Town (1949)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
12
The Dance (1998)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when…
13
Follow the Boys (1963)
★ 4.6/10Also comedy
Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.
14
The Cock-Eyed World (1929)
★ 4.8/10Also comedy
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
15
Sailor's Lady (1940)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
16
How to Be a Sailor (1944)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Goofy provides a history of ships and sailing.
17
Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a verse! The penultimate verse ends as follows: "...there were 39 sailors and one girl, and that's why the censors…
18
The Immortal Story (1968)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
19
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
20
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
★ 4.8/10Also comedy
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more…