6.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Adventure, Drama, Thriller • 2014 • 115 min • Adults (18+)
Black Sea (2014)
Black Sea (2014)
Overview
Black Sea follows a dismissed submarine captain, played by Jude Law, who assembles a desperate crew to salvage Nazi gold from the ocean floor. The confined space and mounting greed turn crewmates against each other. The film earns a Leans Progressive label primarily through its political framing. Corporate downsizing pushes the protagonist into a reckless mission, and the story treats working-class men as disposable casualties of institutional indifference. That critique of capitalism and class abandonment runs throughout the plot. Moderating signals include a broken-family subplot where a father's sense of duty carries a traditional undertone. No religious, identity, or diversity signals meaningfully shift the label in either direction.
Starring Cast
Jude Law • Scoot McNairy • Ben Mendelsohn
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
6.7
Overview
Black Sea follows a dismissed submarine captain, played by Jude Law, who assembles a desperate crew to salvage Nazi gold from the ocean floor. The confined space and mounting greed turn crewmates against each other. The film earns a Leans Progressive label primarily through its political framing. Corporate downsizing pushes the protagonist into a reckless mission, and the story treats working-class men as disposable casualties of institutional indifference. That critique of capitalism and class abandonment runs throughout the plot. Moderating signals include a broken-family subplot where a father's sense of duty carries a traditional undertone. No religious, identity, or diversity signals meaningfully shift the label in either direction.
Starring Cast
Jude Law • Scoot McNairy • Ben Mendelsohn
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
The film's central conflict is rooted in the economic exploitation and abandonment of working-class individuals by corporations, driving the characters' desperate and ultimately tragic pursuit of wealth. This framing aligns with progressive critiques of capitalism and class inequality.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium
The movie features a cast that includes visible diversity in terms of nationality, primarily among male characters, but does not demonstrate explicit race or gender swaps for DEI purposes. Its narrative focuses on a thriller plot involving a treasure hunt and survival, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its core message.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High
The film portrays a divorced father's desperate attempt to provide for his son, driven by regret over his past absence and the breakdown of his family. While the family unit is broken, the narrative implicitly values the importance of the biological family and a father's responsibility, without endorsing alternative structures.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film "Black Sea" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a submarine crew's high-stakes mission, focusing on themes of greed, survival, and human conflict within a confined space, without incorporating any LGBTQ+ representation.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film Black Sea, 2014, does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The story centers on a dismissed submarine captain and his crew undertaking a dangerous mission to find sunken gold, focusing on themes of greed and survival among the all-male team.
Female Combat: No
Confidence: High
The film Black Sea features a predominantly male cast. There are no female characters depicted participating in direct physical combat against any opponents, male or otherwise. Consequently, no instances of a female character defeating male opponents in close-quarters physical combat are present.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Black Sea is an original story with characters created specifically for the film. There are no pre-existing canonical or historical figures whose gender was altered for this portrayal.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Black Sea is an original film with no prior source material, historical figures, or previous installments establishing character races. All characters were created for this specific film, meaning no character could have been canonically or historically established as a different race before their portrayal.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
6.3
Critic Ratings
8.1
6.2
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