Herman Melville

Filmed primarily at sea onboard an active fishing trawler, Ishmael is a blending of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with a personal story of a battle with terminal illness.

An unassuming Wall Street lawyer finds himself beset by a new employee, Bartleby, who refuses to work--in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply 'prefers not to.' A quiet, dogged battle of the wills ensues in this stop-motion reimagining of a Melville classic.

2010: Moby Dick, como o próprio título já deixa claro, trás a clássica história para o presente. O Capitão Ahab, interpretado por Barry Bostwick, desta vez comanda um submarino nuclear. Renée O´Connor (a Gabrielle de Xena: A Princesa Guerreira) vive a segunda em comando, que é também uma biologista. A própria baleia foi atualizada, se tornando um enorme e monstruoso ser.

When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade later the growing boy strives to become a hunter like his old man. Later, after Ahab warms to his father's lover Louise, the old man dies and the boy is sent back to his God-fearing aunt. Rejecting Rose and her abusive husband Henry's unforginv brand of discipline and infuriated that his aunt confiscated the locket given to him by Louise, young Ahab boldly stages his own kidnapping as an ingenious escape plan.

Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".

The film follows a young Achab and the events that inspire his eventual journey to the sea.

Machine shop entrepreneur Partanen has severe work pressures and his life is messed up. The foundation of Partanen's life is work. Due to rather unfit subordinates and increasing production pressure, he decides to hire a new employee.

An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.

Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of The Other Side of the Wind. There is some ambiguity about what Welles intended to do with the footage, and how he was going to compile it. It remained unedited in his lifetime.

Em um campo de treinamento da Legião Francesa, no nordeste da costa africana, vemos a história de devoção do sargento Galoup ao enigmático comandante Bruno. Enquanto tentar entender seus conflituosos sentimentos, Galoup tem sua vida virada de cabeça para baixo com a chegada do novo recruta Guilles Sentain.

Pierre é um jovem escritor bem sucedido que vive com a mãe num castelo na Normandia, perto das margens do rio Sena. O passado da família vem a tona através de uma misteriosa mulher. Este é o ponto de partida para uma reviravolta cheia de ambiguidades e revelações surpreendentes.

Pierre é um jovem escritor bem sucedido que vive com a mãe num castelo na Normandia, perto das margens do rio Sena. O passado da família vem a tona através de uma misteriosa mulher. Este é o ponto de partida para uma reviravolta cheia de ambiguidades e revelações surpreendentes.

Animated feature about a young whale named Moby Dick.

In 1841 young Ishmael signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the strict, one-legged Capt. Ahab. Ishmael soon finds out that Ahab is searching for the legendary while whale Moby Dick, who cost Ahab his leg, and he will let nothing stand in the way of his getting his revenge on the beast.

Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.

An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.

French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal. Some time later, he finds his employer.

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?

No passado século XIX, em ilha deserta do Atlântico, dá-se o encontro entre Pierre Duchemin, jovem marinheiro dum barco francês, e Hunila, solitária desde a morte do marido, Filipe, e do irmão, que exploravam os parcos recursos da pesca à tartaruga. Esta relação paradisíaca terá, porém, um fim e, recolhida por um veleiro português, em 1830, Hunila conta a sua história.

Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) é um marinheiro inocente e ingênuo da Marinha Britânica em 1797. Quando o sádico mestre de armas do navio é assassinado, Billy é acusado e julgado. O H.M.S. Vingador está indo para a batalha contra a frota francesa durante as Guerras Napoleônicas, e a sombra escura de dois recentes motins na frota inglesa preocupa o capitão Vere (Sir Peter Ustinov). Ele confia em seu cruel e muitas vezes sádico mestre de armas John Claggert (Robert Ryan) para manter o que ele acredita ser ordem e disciplina a bordo do navio. Quando um novo marinheiro, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), é pressionado a prestar serviço, sua atitude inocente e feliz rapidamente conquista seus companheiros e os oficiais. No entanto, isso parece incomodar Claggert, que fica ressentido, especialmente após a promoção de Billy ao posto de Capitão do Cesto de Gávea. Então Claggert planeja injustamente denunciá-lo e, por fim, mente quando acusa Billy de conspirar com motim. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.

Consumido por uma raiva completamente insana, Capitão Ahab (Gregory Peck) tem apenas um objetivo na vida: Vingar-se de Moby Dick, a grande baleia branca que o feriu e desfigurou. O obcecado capitão de um baleeiro usa seu poder de comando como uma desculpa para navegar pelos Sete Mares em uma busca sem fim pelo seu objeto de ódio. Lutando contra uma tripulação amotinada, o calor tropical e tormentas violentas, Ahab finalmente encontra com sua inimiga e começa um confronto que irá culminar em uma luta épica de uma fúria sem fim…

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. Welles used minimal stage design. The stage was bare, the actors appeared in contemporary street clothes, and the props were minimal. For example, brooms were used for oars, and a stick was used for a telescope. The actors provided the action, and the audience's imagination provided the ocean, costumes, and the whale. Welles filmed approximately 75 minutes of the production, with the original cast, at the Hackney Empire and Scala Theatres in London. He hoped to sell the film to Omnibus, the United States television series which had presented his live performance of King Lear in 1953; but Welles stopped shooting when he was disappointed in the results. The film is considered lost.

The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.

The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.

Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."