Topic: Whales

Direction Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Synopsis Blackfish (2013) is a gripping documentary that explores the life of Tilikum, a captive orca involved in the deaths of several people. Through interviews with former trainers and experts, the film delves into the ethical and psychological consequences of keeping...

Direction Jacques Audiard

Cast Marion Cotillard · Matthias Schoenaerts · Céline Sallette · Bouli Lanners

Synopsis Rust & Bone (2012) follows Ali, a struggling single father, and Stéphanie, a killer whale trainer, as their lives intersect in unexpected ways. After a tragic accident leaves Stéphanie permanently changed, she forms an unlikely bond with Ali, who is...

Direction Jean-Albert Lièvre

Synopsis A humpback whale is beached on a remote shore. During the fight to save its life, we will discover the story of these extraordinary creatures, denizens of the world's oceans. Inspired by Heathcote William's bestselling book, 'Les Gardiennes de la...

Direction Joan Bover

Cast Albert López

Direction Gerardo Olivares

Cast Maribel Verdú · Joaquín Furriel · Joaquín Rapalini Olivella · Ana Celentano

Synopsis Beto is a lonely man who works as Ranger of the isolated Peninsula Valdes' National Park (Chubut, Argentina). Lover of the nature and animals, the peace of his days watching orcas, seals and sea lions in the sea ends after...

Direction Neus Ballús

Synopsis Documentary that explores the unknown and mysterious world of the whales that appear for a few weeks a year off the Catalan coast. Mar dreams of being able to record the sound of the whales, which appear in the Mediterranean...

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Harris · Charlotte Rampling · Bo Derek · Will Sampson

Synopsis The killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt...

Direction Simon Wincer

Cast Jason James Richter · Lori Petty · Michael Madsen · Jayne Atkinson

Synopsis When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.

Direction Christine Dallaire-Dupont · Nicola Lemay

Cast Alexandre Bacon · Émilie Josset · Yves Jacques · Ginette Reno

Synopsis While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, Katak departs on a perilous journey to the Great North.

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Robert Lansing · John Anderson · Robin Mattson · Richard Erdman

Direction Dwight H. Little

Cast Jason James Richter · Jon Tenney · Michael Madsen · Jayne Atkinson

Synopsis Two years ago the boy Jesse helped the whale Willy to jump into freedom. Jesse enjoys the life with his adoptive parents, when his half-brother Elvis arrives because of the death of their mother. During a camping trip Jesse meets...

Direction Sam Pillsbury

Cast Jason James Richter · Patrick Kilpatrick · Vincent Berry · August Schellenberg

Synopsis Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship...

Direction Will Geiger

Cast Bindi Irwin · Beau Bridges · Mike Falkow · Darron Meyer

Synopsis After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely...

Direction Patrick Loubert

Synopsis In this animated series, Jesse gets a job at the marina where he reunites with Willy and Jesse finds he has the power to talk with animals by relaxing his mind. They team up with both human and animal friends...

Cast Tom Selleck

Synopsis Supported by the National Geographic Society, the world's eminent blue whale scientists embark on a revolutionary mission: to follow migrating blue whales all the way to the long-sought, unknown location where they give birth.

Direction Suzanne Chisholm · Michael Parfit

Cast Ryan Reynolds

Synopsis The true story of a young killer whale, an orca nicknamed Luna, who makes friends with people after he gets separated from his family on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. As rambunctious and surprising as a...

Direction Jeanne Bressand · Calixte Chateau · Pauline Gautschi · Constantijn Van Zwet

Synopsis Don't go near a beached whale is a common warning. Their heart is too heavy to remain on the mainland for long. You could be swept by emotions.

Direction Anders Henrikson · Tancred Ibsen

Cast Allan Bohlin · Tutta Rolf · Oscar Egede-Nissen · Hauk Aabel

Synopsis A filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of World War 2.

Direction Richard Sidey

Cast Richard Sidey

Synopsis Wildlife photographer Richard Sidey joins an international team of whale research scientists in Antarctica to document their work on how Humpback Whales are adapting to a changing ocean.

Direction Ben Wallis

Synopsis With the gradual melting of Arctic glaciers are opening new routes that allow new predators have access to other hunting areas and different prey . This is the case of the orcas , which are decimating the population of narwhals...