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1. Baywatch (1989–2001)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
At a Los Angeles beach, a team of lifeguards led by Lieutenant Mitch Buchannon save lives, deal with personal dramas, fight crime and participate in over the top adventures on a daily basis.
Stars: David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Jeremy Jackson
Votes: 30,346
2. Godzilla (2014)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 441,236 | Gross: $200.68M
3. Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
Director: Steven S. DeKnight | Stars: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Burn Gorman
Votes: 127,392 | Gross: $59.87M
4. Midway (2019)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans
Votes: 94,532 | Gross: $56.85M
5. Under Siege (1992)
R | 103 min | Action, Thriller
An ex-Navy Seal turned cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak
Votes: 95,564 | Gross: $83.36M
6. Death Wish (1974)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Votes: 44,073 | Gross: $22.00M
7. Snakes on a Plane (2006)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.
Director: David R. Ellis | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard
Votes: 144,682 | Gross: $34.02M
8. Big Eyes (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter
Votes: 99,147 | Gross: $14.48M
9. Blue Hawaii (1961)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical
After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Nancy Walters
Votes: 7,506 | Gross: $10.44M
10. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 37,242 | Gross: $29.55M
11. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond
Votes: 5,374
12. Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009 Video)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A pair of professional divers are hired to find Columbus' hidden treasure.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Chris Carmack, Laura Vandervoort, Marsha Thomason, Michael Graziadei
Votes: 5,478
13. Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.
Stars: Poncie Ponce, Connie Stevens, Douglas Mossman, Robert Conrad
Votes: 688
14. Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter
Votes: 5,524
15. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
R | 103 min | Drama
A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson
Votes: 6,082
16. Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style (1992 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy
Kelly's grandfather Harry invites the gang for a vacation at The Hawaiian Hideaway, his hotel in Honolulu, but they soon discover that a rival is threatening to put him out of business, so they scheme to help save the Hideaway.
Director: Don Barnhart | Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen, Lark Voorhies, Mario Lopez
Votes: 3,134
17. Guns (1990)
R | 96 min | Action
After a failed assassination attempt on her partner, DEA agent Donna Hamilton discovers that the crime lord responsible for her father's death is coming after her and her associates.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Erik Estrada, Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez, Bruce Penhall
Votes: 1,512
18. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
G | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
In Hong Kong, an ambassador returning to America meets a Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren
Votes: 6,970
19. Amelia (2009)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 13,627 | Gross: $14.24M
20. Princess Kaiulani (2009)
PG | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
The true story of a Hawaiian princess' attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.
Director: Marc Forby | Stars: Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Shaun Evans, Jimmy Yuill
Votes: 1,903 | Gross: $0.88M
21. Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical
Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii -- along the way he makes some friends, including a young Hawaiian girl and her father, romances Judy Hudson, and sings a few songs.
Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth
Votes: 2,468 | Gross: $2.50M
22. Diamond Head (1962)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
In 1950s Hawaii, a bigoted and ruthless land baron, with political ambitions, bans his sister from marrying a native even though he himself has secretly impregnated a native woman.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen
Votes: 1,017
23. Silk (1986)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Cec Verrell, Bill McLaughlin, Joe Mari Avellana, Frederick Bailey
Votes: 496
24. Sons of the Desert (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch
Votes: 9,589
25. Follow the Sun (1961–1962)
60 min | Adventure
The show follows the adventures of two free-lance magazine writers based in Hawaii.
Stars: Barry Coe, Brett Halsey, Jay Lanin, Gary Lockwood
Votes: 81
26. Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
98 min | Action, Adventure, History
Actual events as written by carrier pilots at the time of the battle of Midway, Computer-generated imagery but it's so good you have a hard time telling it!
Director: Mike Phillips | Stars: Jade Willey, John Enick, Judd Nelson, C. Thomas Howell
Votes: 952
27. Silk 2 (1989)
R | 85 min | Action, Thriller
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Monique Gabrielle, Peter Nelson, Jan Merlin, Maria Claire
Votes: 242
28. The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Approved | 131 min | Drama, War
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Lili St. Cyr
Votes: 1,787
29. Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii (1973 TV Special)
87 min | Documentary, Music
A 1973 concert by Elvis Presley taped at the Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. This was the first program to ever be beamed around the world by satellite.
Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Elvis Presley, James Burton, Jerry Scheff, Charlie Hodge
Votes: 1,658
30. Kiss Them for Me (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
In 1944, three Navy pilots stationed in Hawaii and a P.R. officer go on a 4-day leave to San Francisco where they party with a good crowd in the executive suite of a busy hotel.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker
Votes: 2,179
31. Hawaii (2004)
60 min | Action, Crime
Drama about a fictional elite crime unit of the Honolulu Police Department headed by veteran detective and local legend Sean Harrison and John Declan, a former Chicago Police Department detective transferred to Hawaii for his talents.
Stars: Michael Biehn, Sharif Atkins, Eric Balfour, Ivan Sergei
Votes: 140
32. One Way Passage (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 4,448
33. The Black Camel (1931)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 1,655
34. Torpedo Run (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, War
A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese ship with prisoners.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones
Votes: 2,541
35. Hell's Half Acre (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor
Votes: 627
36. Task Force (1949)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, War
As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,189
37. Flirtation Walk (1934)
Passed | 97 min | Musical
Musical-romance with Powell as private in Hawaii involved with general's daughter Keeler. Break up to avoid scandal but reunite years later when he produces play at West Point starring her.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander
Votes: 872
38. Sinners in Paradise (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A seaplane departs for China. On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, a woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a wealthy heiress trying to distance ... See full summary »
Director: James Whale | Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin
Votes: 544
39. Honolulu (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 760
40. Hawaiian Heat (1984)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After leaving their jobs in Chicago, two former police officers relocate to Hawaii for new positions with the Honolulu Police Department.
Stars: Robert Ginty, Jeff McCracken, Tracy Scoggins, Branscombe Richmond
Votes: 43
41. 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Directors: Edmund Goulding, William K. Howard, William Keighley, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 749
42. Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Mystery
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck
Votes: 1,601
43. Million Dollar Weekend (1948)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
2 people - a middle-aged stockbroker and a young widow are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they've both fled the state with secrets. Neither ... See full summary »
Director: Gene Raymond | Stars: Gene Raymond, Osa Massen, Francis Lederer, Robert Warwick
Votes: 386
44. Twilight for the Gods (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama
The sailing vessel Cannibal has a leaking hull. The captain (Rock Hudson) reluctantly changes course for Honolulu, where one passenger (Cyd Charisse) is wanted by the law. The water rising, everyone struggles against nature to survive.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson
Votes: 306
45. The House Without a Key (1926)
Passed | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Allene Ray, Walter Miller, E.H. Calvert, John Webb Dillion
Votes: 46
46. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Family
The Three Stooges play servants to an ancestor of Phileas Fogg and embark on a trip around the world.
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Jay Sheffield
Votes: 824 | Gross: $2.18M
47. Waikiki Wedding (1937)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross
Votes: 403
48. The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus
Votes: 456
49. The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
Approved | 293 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel, Keye Luke
Votes: 426
50. Kona Coast (1968)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
To avenge the death of his murdered daughter, charter boat captain Sam Moran becomes a one-man vigilante squad taking on the wealthy, drugged-up punk that killed her.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat
Votes: 270