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1. Triangle of Sadness (2022)

R | 147 min | Comedy, Drama

A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.

Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Jiannis Moustos

Votes: 178,105

2. Triangle (2009)

R | 99 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.

Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman

Votes: 129,835

3. Overboard (1987)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 67,891 | Gross: $26.71M

4. Ladies in Lavender (2004)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.

Director: Charles Dance | Stars: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Freddie Jones

Votes: 12,691 | Gross: $6.76M

5. The Vanishing (II) (2018)

R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.

Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Emma King, Gary Lewis

Votes: 20,676

6. Rough Night (2017)

R | 101 min | Comedy

Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami.

Director: Lucia Aniello | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer

Votes: 55,834 | Gross: $22.11M

7. The Phantom (1996)

PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 35,820 | Gross: $17.30M

8. Overboard (2018)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

After a spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and loses his memory, a mistreated employee convinces him that he is her working-class husband.

Director: Rob Greenberg | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah

Votes: 41,186 | Gross: $50.32M

9. The Light Between Oceans (2016)

PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, Romance

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery

Votes: 60,103 | Gross: $12.55M

10. The Pirate Movie (1982)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

A 1980s take-off of The Pirates of Penzance which centers on a noble pirate who leaves his profession and falls in love with a fiery young maiden.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Richard Franklin | Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr

Votes: 4,802

11. The Red Turtle (2016)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.

Director: Michael Dudok de Wit | Stars: Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy, Axel Devillers

Votes: 38,779 | Gross: $0.92M

12. Robinson Crusoe (1997)

PG-13 | 105 min | Adventure, Drama

1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.

Directors: Rod Hardy, George Miller | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Polly Walker, Ian Hart

Votes: 13,217

13. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos

Votes: 6,432

14. Headshot (II) (2016)

Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.

Directors: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto | Stars: Iko Uwais, Chelsea Islan, Sunny Pang, Very Tri Yulisman

Votes: 16,133

15. Shipwrecked (1990)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Family

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch

Votes: 3,143

16. Retreat (I) (2011)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

Director: Carl Tibbetts | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Jimmy Yuill

Votes: 12,699

17. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)

PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A space alien is threatening to bring destruction on Earth, and the Power Rangers are enhanced with turbo powers in order to prevent her plan.

Directors: Shuki Levy, David Winning | Stars: Jason David Frank, Catherine Sutherland, Hilary Shepard, Jon Simanton

Votes: 9,763 | Gross: $8.36M

18. Swept from the Sea (1997)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,611 | Gross: $0.28M

19. The Next One (1984)

105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.

Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Keir Dullea, Adrienne Barbeau, Peter Hobbs, Jeremy Licht

Votes: 1,182

20. Boom! (1968)

M/PG | 110 min | Drama, Thriller

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus

Votes: 1,758

21. Benji the Hunted (1987)

G | 88 min | Adventure, Family

Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Can he survive?

Director: Joe Camp | Stars: Red Steagall, Frank Inn, Benjean, Nancy Francis

Votes: 3,378 | Gross: $22.26M

22. Five (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.

Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin

Votes: 1,569

23. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Directors: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch

Votes: 6,896

24. White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)

PG | 106 min | Adventure, Family

In order to rescue one of the last surviving Alaskan Native tribes, Fang joins in with a friend of his master to stop miners from destroying an ancient sacred land.

Director: Ken Olin | Stars: Scott Bairstow, Charmaine Craig, Al Harrington, Anthony Ruivivar

Votes: 2,534 | Gross: $8.88M

25. October Gale (2014)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.

Director: Ruba Nadda | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth, Aidan Devine

Votes: 2,501

26. Driftwood (1997)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A distant, desolate shore in a remote part of Ireland. Sarah, a lonely young sculptress, discovers a man washed-up on the water's edge. He is barely conscious but she manages to nurse him back to health and finds he suffers from amnesia.

Director: Ronan O'Leary | Stars: James Spader, Anne Brochet, Barry McGovern, Anna Massey

Votes: 601

27. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

Unrated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson

Votes: 3,302

28. The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Unrated | 54 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.

Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran

Votes: 899

29. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis.

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks

Votes: 1,547

30. 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

31. Three Heroes on Distant Shores (2012)

65 min | Animation

Who runs the world? Girls. And other adventures of knight's wives.

Director: Konstantin Feoktistov | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Konstantin Bronzit

Votes: 1,222

32. Nattseilere (1986)

113 min | Adventure, Drama

On the island of Senja in Northern Norway in 1877, Båremor, a 14-year-old girl is washed ashore almost dead. No-one knows her and she remembers nothing of her past. A poor family of ... See full summary »

Director: Tor M. Tørstad | Stars: Vera Holte, Helge Jordal, Per Oscarsson, Frode Rasmussen

Votes: 221

33. Sirens of the Sea (1917)

60 min | Fantasy

During a raging storm, a baby is washed up on shore on an island in Greece and is adopted by the wealthy Stanhopes, who name her Lorelei. Eighteen years later, Lorelei invites her school ... See full summary »

Director: Allen Holubar | Stars: Louise Lovely, Carmel Myers, Jack Mulhall, Sydney Deane

Votes: 30

34. Don't Panic Chaps (1959)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, War

Charming farce about British and German soldiers peacefully sharing a little island in the Adriatic in 1943 - that is until the beautiful Elsa is cast ashore.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Nadja Regin

Votes: 173

35. The Island (1998)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

The story about a young man who washes up on a deserted island and discovers that John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are alive and well and living in exile.

Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Michael Murphy, Sally Kirkland, Kai Lennox, Daniel Mandehr

Votes: 48

36. Aguila sa Puting Bato (1983)

Action, Drama, Fantasy

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Director: Mike Relon Makiling | Stars: Lito Lapid, Carmi Martin, Corrie Henson, Philip Gamboa

37. The Shell Collector (2016)

87 min | Drama

A blind conchologist who lives ion the island of Okinawa, Japan cures a rare disease afflicting Izumi who has washed up on the shore. having cured a rare disease through coincidence he is ... See full summary »

Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota | Stars: Masahiro Arakaki, Lily Franky, Akira Fukuhara, Ai Hashimoto

Votes: 52

38. Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Story set in a Baltic fishermen's settlement at the turn of the 20th century. The film's heroine keeps losing one husband after another, but there's always someone from the family to come and take care of her children and her house.

Director: Algimantas Puipa | Stars: Jurate Onaityte, Antanas Surna, Vidas Petkevicius, Saulius Balandis

Votes: 130

39. Treasure Island 2020 (2020 Podcast Series)

Drama

When a mysterious man washes up on the beach with a treasure map tattooed on his chest, James Hawkins discovers that Billy Bones is, in fact, a time traveling pirate from the 18th century.

Stars: Lisa Valentine Clark, Presley Ryan, Elise Jones, Graham Stevens

40. Through the Breakers (1928)

55 min | Drama

An American man on a South Pacific Island receives a dear John letter from his fiancee. A lovely native girl decides to console him. Then, fate washes a woman ashore from a sinking ship.

Director: Joseph Boyle | Stars: Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, Clyde Cook, Natalie Joyce

Votes: 32

41. A Pirate Bold (1917)

Short, Comedy

The Pirate Chief (Pat Rooney) and his Flunky (Kewpie Morgan) are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen (Mary Haines) and he... See full summary »

Director: Robert Dillon | Stars: Pat Rooney, Kewpie Morgan, Mary Haines, Julia Rooney

42. KoKo the Kop (1927)

6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Max makes Ko-Ko a policeman, charged with guarding a bone. When Fitz steals the bone under Ko-Ko's watch, a surreal foot chase ensues.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 41

43. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: Cougar! (1984)

TV-Y | 60 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Stranded on an island as a result of a flash flood, a boy and his sister gets saved by, among all things, a cougar--from kidnappers and a way of getting off the island.

Director: Stephen H. Foreman | Stars: Matthew Vipond, Kim Hauser, Angus MacInnes, Wayne Best

Votes: 42

44. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)
Episode: Voyage to the Bottom of the Forest (1994)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Rabies falls asleep, causing the outlaws to miss an ambush but, on waking, he sees a boat purchased by the king at a boat show. The merry men steal it and take it to Scarborough to push off... See full summary »

Director: David Bell | Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 18

45. Around the World in 80 Days (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2021)

PG | 47 min | Adventure, Comedy, History

After their latest set-back, Fogg, Abigail and Passepartout find themselves stranded on a desert island. Secrets are revealed and, with the clock ticking, they must learn to forgive and ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins

Votes: 611

46. Unexplained: Caught on Camera (2019– )
Episode: Spirits Unleashed (2021)

44 min | Documentary

In Great Yarmouth, the decomposed body of a mermaid-like creature washes up on the beach. And, a YouTuber has a spooky encounter with a dybbuk box.

Stars: Donald Pirie, Jayne Harris, Ciarán O'Keeffe, Barri Ghai

Votes: 11

47. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023– )
Episode: L'âme Perdue (2023)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror

Daryl Dixon's arrival to France sets off a violent chain of events that inadvertently puts a young boy at the heart of a growing religious movement in danger.

Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Norman Reedus, Clémence Poésy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Laïka Blanc-Francard

Votes: 4,612

48. Atlantis (2013–2015)
Episode: The Earth Bull (2013)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

While deep sea diving in search of his father, feared drowned, young Jason travels through a white light and ends up in the ancient city of Atlantis. Pursued by soldiers, he is rescued by ... See full summary »

Director: Justin Molotnikov | Stars: Jack Donnelly, Mark Lewis Jones, Robert Emms, Charlie De Selo

Votes: 437

49. The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode: Swear (2016)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Tara encounters a group of female survivors living near the coast after being separated from Heath during their two-week supply run.

Director: Michael E. Satrazemis | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs

Votes: 15,513

50. The Odyssey (1997)
Episode: Part II (1997)

PG-13 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

The greatest epic of the ancient world, Homer's Odyssey, is now magnificently recreated for television. Homer's tale recounts the journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca & mastermind of the ... See full summary »

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters

Votes: 170