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1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Votes: 1,211,047 | Gross: $305.41M
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,980,094 | Gross: $377.85M
3. A Quiet Place (2018)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
Votes: 583,874 | Gross: $188.02M
4. The Blue Lagoon (1980)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels
Votes: 76,590 | Gross: $58.85M
5. Madagascar (2005)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 437,742 | Gross: $193.60M
6. The Edge (1997)
R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 79,062 | Gross: $27.78M
7. Rescue Dawn (2006)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, War
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier
Votes: 110,826 | Gross: $5.49M
8. Lord of the Flies (1963)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin
Votes: 20,420
9. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 75,078 | Gross: $16.29M
10. Island of Terror (1966)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An isolated remote island community is threatened by an attack by tentacled silicates which liquefy and digest bone and tissue.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 3,962
11. The Blue Lagoon (1949)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones
Votes: 651
12. Welcome to the Jungle (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
Director: Rob Meltzer | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adam Brody, Rob Huebel, Megan Boone
Votes: 14,044
13. Paisan (1946)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon
Votes: 9,559
14. Killdozer (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Clint Walker, Robert Urich, Carl Betz, Neville Brand
Votes: 1,991
15. Back from Eternity (1956)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk
Votes: 1,636
16. The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, War
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,420
17. Track of the Cat (1954)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Western
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter
Votes: 2,469
18. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 6,703
19. High Voltage (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Drama
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley
Votes: 432
20. Cry of the Hunted (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad
Votes: 531
21. Miss Robin Crusoe (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy
A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues a female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday.
Director: Eugene Frenke | Stars: Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes
Votes: 252
22. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush
Votes: 964
23. Jungle Bride (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Borden
Votes: 234
24. Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, History
This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Gordon Mitchell, Tony Kendall, Ursula Davis, Massimo Serato
Votes: 103
25. Heroes Die Young (1960)
Approved | 76 min | Action, War
Eight American soldiers, commanded by Lt. Eason, are chosen to infiltrate the Ploesti oil field in order to set signal fires to guide Allied bombers to Germany's most closely guarded target... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Shepard | Stars: Erika Peters, Scott Borland, Robert Getz, Roger Browne
Votes: 33
26. Flying Blind (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson
Votes: 140
27. The Quest (I) (1915)
Passed | Action, Adventure, Drama
John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising to avoid the upcoming social season, he ... See full summary »
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Harry A. Pollard, Lucille Ward, Joseph Singleton, Nan Christy
Votes: 33
28. The Love Flower (1920)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A man murders his wife's lovers, escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, George MacQuarrie, Anders Randolf
Votes: 185
29. The Flaming Signal (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Drama
A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
Directors: George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Flash the Dog, John David Horsley, Marceline Day, Noah Beery
Votes: 68
30. A Mother's Devotion; or, the Firing of the Patchwork Quilt (1912)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home when she discovers that a railroad trestle he must pass over has been washed out. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.
Stars: Mary Maurice, Robert Gaillard
Votes: 45
32.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Escape to Sonoita
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton, Venetia Stevenson
Votes: 628
33.
Gilligan's Island (1964–1992)
Episode:
The Friendly Physician
(1966)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A mad scientist invites the castaways to his island, where he hopes to conduct strange experiments on them.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 272
34.
I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode:
No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise
(1965)
60 min | Action, Adventure
Scotty and Kelly search for an escaped prisoner, a Chinese agent scheduled for exchange with an American held by the Chinese.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Sue Randall, Mako
Votes: 72
35.
ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode:
Mayday! Mayday!
(1981)
TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mayday! Mayday! is the distress call given by pilot Lou Parker just before the small plane carrying Lou and his family is forced to make a crash landing in the high Sierras. With Lou ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Chenault | Stars: Brad Savage, Heather McAdam, Don Fenwick, Hersha Parady
Votes: 27
36.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
Jungle
(2007)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Bear joins a group of natives in a blow gun hunt in the Panamanian rain forest and manages to bag an iguana himself. Then, as he climbs into the mountains, he demonstrates some beneficial plants and a fishing technique.
Director: Justin Kelly | Star: Bear Grylls
Votes: 80
37.
The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1994)
Episode:
The Jubilee
(1993)
TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Valiant, Arn, and Rowanne accompany Queen Guinevere to her best friend Queen Eleonora's silver jubilee. But the trip soon becomes unpleasant as they learn that Elenora, still mourning her ... See full summary »
Stars: Robby Benson, Michael Horton, Noelle North, Alan Oppenheimer
Votes: 13
38.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
Zambia
(2008)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Bear hazards the treacherous rapids and terrain surrounding the Zambezi river not wanting to risk still water for fear of crocodiles. But the bush contains it's own dangers.
Director: Chris Richards | Star: Bear Grylls
Votes: 81
39.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
Man vs. Wild: The Will Ferrell Special
(2009)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Will Farrell suffers along with Bear in the bitter cold of the arctic and participates in Bear's crazy dangerous time saving methods and exotic cuisine.
Director: David O'Neill | Stars: Bear Grylls, Will Ferrell
Votes: 259
40.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
Pacific Island
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Bear demonstrates island survival but still decides to head to sea on a makeshift raft after gathering supplies. He ends up island hopping until he finds an inhabited island.
Director: Stephen Shearman | Star: Bear Grylls
Votes: 57
41.
Man, Woman, Wild (2010– )
Episode:
Tasmania
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Shipwrecked on the remote coastline of Tasmania, Mykel and Ruth battle hypothermia, dehydration and hunger in the face of an approaching storm that threatens to make a bad situation, deadly.
Star: Mykel Hawke
42.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
Malaysian Archipelago
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Bear Grylls is dropped into a remote archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. From the moment he swims ashore Bear is fighting impenetrable jungle, scaling escarpments and navigating... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Ballantyne | Star: Bear Grylls
Votes: 47
43.
Arrow (2012–2020)
Episode:
Pilot
(2012)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Billionaire playboy, Oliver Queen, has been considered dead for five years. Now, he has returned. But something, during those five years, has changed him into a mysterious green hooded archer.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Colin Donnell, David Ramsey
Votes: 8,550
44.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
The Watchers on the Wall
(2014)
R | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The battle between the Night's Watch and the wildlings has come.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Kit Harington, John Bradley, Hannah Murray, Rose Leslie
Votes: 53,170