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1. Pi (1998)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart

Votes: 186,384 | Gross: $3.22M

2. Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy

The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde.

Director: James Fargo | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo

Votes: 30,023 | Gross: $106.00M

3. Local Hero (1983)

PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson

Votes: 26,687 | Gross: $5.90M

4. The Beach Girls (1982)

R | 91 min | Comedy

Two young women convince their reluctant friend to open up her rich uncle's beach house for the summer to party, and invite all their friends.

Director: Bud Townsend | Stars: Debra Blee, Val Kline, Jeana Keough, James Daughton

Votes: 1,799

5. The Beachcombers (1972–2004)

30 min | Adventure, Comedy

The adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in Gibsons, British Columbia.

Stars: Bruno Gerussi, Robert Clothier, Rae Brown, Pat John

Votes: 652

6. Bird of Paradise (1951)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane

Votes: 523

7. Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Romance

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes

Votes: 1,698

8. Female on the Beach (1955)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 1,416

9. 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: 305

10. The Riddle (2007 Video)

PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually he becomes obsessed with unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript. Only when he has done so, with the help of a mysterious beach-combing tramp who stalks the Thames foreshore, is he able to solve the modern ... See full summary »

Director: Brendan Foley | Stars: Mark Asante, Julie Cox, Vera Day, 'Long Bob' Elvin

Votes: 1,928

11. Bahama Passage (1941)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance

A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 143

12. Song of the Islands (1942)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 286

13. Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)

Passed | 79 min | Drama

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news-reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco,... See full summary »

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, C. Aubrey Smith, Karen Morley

Votes: 199

14. The Beachcomber (1938)

Passed | 92 min | Drama

In the Dutch islands, the sister of a pious missionary attempts to reform a womanizing, drunken beach bum.

Director: Erich Pommer | Stars: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie

Votes: 346

15. South Seas Adventure (1958)

Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Romance

The fifth in a series of Cinerama travelogues---and not a Documentary since the vast majority of the film, aside from the scenery, is comprised of fictional stories. The first one involves ... See full summary »

Directors: Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Francis D. Lyon, Walter Thompson, Basil Wrangell | Stars: Diane Beardmore, Marlene Lizzio, Tommy Zahn, Igor Allan

Votes: 171

16. Paradise Island (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Music

Ellen Bradford comes to the South Sea Island of Tonga to marry her fiancé and finds out that he is a drunk. She also finds out that she is the only white woman on the island and, as such, ... See full summary »

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Marceline Day, Tom Santschi, Paul Hurst

Votes: 147

17. Dragnet (1947)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Wilcoxon, a Scotland Yard inspector, travels to New York to investigate the activities of an international band of jewel thieves.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale

Votes: 49

18. Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936)

Approved | 256 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our ... See full summary »

Directors: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Mala, Rex, Buck the Dog, Mamo Clark

Votes: 120

19. Dischord (2001)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Music, Thriller

On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Wilkinson | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Richard Bakalyan, Andrew Borba

Votes: 91

20. Rhythm of the Islands (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

On the only Pacific island untouched by and unaware of World-War-Two, American beachcombers Tommy (Allan Jones) and Eddie Dolan (Andy Devine) sell off Paradise Island to American ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex

Votes: 41

21. Cable Beach (2004 TV Movie)

95 min | Mystery, Thriller

Ben Sheffield returns to his small hometown of Heatley Bay on the Canadian west coast as the new Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) officer. He and his mother - recently deceased - ... See full summary »

Director: James Head | Stars: Chris Kramer, Karin Konoval, Tygh Runyan, Nancy Sivak

Votes: 37

22. Port of Hate (1939)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.

Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young, Shia Jung

Votes: 43

23. Missing Daughters (1924)

Passed | 60 min | Drama

An agent from the Bureau of Missing Persons tells about a case of a young girl kidnapped by white slavers and forced into a life of prostitution.

Director: William H. Clifford | Stars: Eileen Percy, Pauline Starke, Claire Adams, Eva Novak

24. Man and Woman (II) (1920)

60 min | Drama

Bradley, an engineer, becomes a Tahiti beachcomber after the collapse of a bridge he built. Murdock, a former employer of Bradley, arrives on the island with his lovely daughter Diana, who ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Logue, B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Diana Allen, Joe King, Eddie Sturgis, John L. Shine

25. Jackpot (1996)

4 min | Comedy, Short

A beachcomber walks a beach with a metal detector. After some minor finds, he detects something big. Has he hit the jackpot?

Director: Kris Kachikis | Star: Peter Donahue

Votes: 24

26. The Sea Flower (1918)

50 min | Adventure, War

U.S. Secret Service agent Truxton Darnley attires himself as a sailor and boards a schooner owned by Gus Olsen, who has been employed by a German spy named Von Linterman to smuggle arms to ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Juanita Hansen, Gayne Whitman, Fred Huntley, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 19

27. The Reef (1977)

77 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

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Director: John Heyer | Stars: Prince Philip, James Dibble, Ralph Cotterill, Alistair Duncan

28. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: House Guest (1962)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young boy named Tony Mitchell is saved from drowning by an unwelcome guest.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Macdonald Carey, Robert Sterling, Peggy McCay

Votes: 487

29. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: Howard's New Life (1967)

TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Family

After seeing a travelogue about island life on TV, Howard quits his job to become a beachcomber in the Caribbean.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Jack Dodson

Votes: 239

30. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Beachcomber/The Last Whodunnit (1978)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Under tremendous pressure from his job and family, Charles Preston chucks it all to be a beachcomber; and devoted fan Mabel Jarvis of a mystery writer tries to find out who killed her, acting out the writer's final unfinished manuscript.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, John Astin, Jack Carter

Votes: 84

31. Follow the Sun (1961–1962)
Episode: Chalk One Up for Johnny (1962)

60 min | Adventure

Gentleman Johnny Pace, once a famous mayor of a major American city, decides to move to Kauai and open a hotel with his wife.

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Barry Coe, Brett Halsey, Gigi Perreau, Gary Lockwood

32. Follow the Sun (1961–1962)
Episode: Not Aunt Charlotte! (1962)

60 min | Adventure

Eighteen-year-old Penny Baxter is excited about visiting Hawaii until she discovers her maiden aunt will travel with her as a chaperone. It's the older woman, however, who finds romance in the islands when she meets a handsome beachcomber.

Stars: Barry Coe, Brett Halsey, Gigi Perreau, Gary Lockwood

33. Follow the Sun (1961–1962)
Episode: The Last of the Big Spenders (1962)

60 min | Adventure

A beachcomber reveals to Templin his past as the former mayor of a major American city and tells the reporter he fears for his life.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Barry Coe, Brett Halsey, Gigi Perreau, Gary Lockwood

34. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: The Firefly Cage (1986)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A firefly cage, beautifully carved from coal leads Lovejoy to a gang of antique thieves and their cache of loot.

Director: David Reynolds | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Tierney

Votes: 156

35. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Negligent Nymph (1957)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason and Paul Drake pull a beautiful woman out of the ocean. In her possession is a note she retrieved from her employer, accusing him of killing his rich aunt during a storm on their yacht.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 457

36. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: From Here to Molokai (1956)

30 min | Drama

Blake learns that a suspect in a Reno murder might be living as a beachcomber on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Jorja Curtright, Walter Coy, Herbert Ellis

Votes: 13

37. We gaan nog niet naar huis (2008–2010)
Episode: De juttende jatter (2008)

Comedy

Flip has been arrested for petty 'theft' although he believed it was just beach-combing. Sem seizes his change to imposes as 'work punishment' helping him to repair the leaky barn roof. ... See full summary »

Director: Hans de Korte | Stars: Victor Löw, Jasper Oldenhof, Saskia Elise, Mary-Lou van Steenis

38. The Bureau of Magical Things (2018–2021)
Episode: A Dangerous Secret (2021)

TV-G | 24 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Kyra forces Darra to explain why he was in the Bangkok warehouse and they agree to join forces to find the Three Keys to the legendary, mythical Temple of the Purple Lotus.

Director: Evan Clarry | Stars: Kimie Tsukakoshi, Elizabeth Cullen, Mia Milnes, Julian Cullen

Votes: 50

39. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: Cape May (2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mysterious beauty on the run from unknown assailants accidentally crosses paths with Reddington and enlists his help to fight back against her attackers.

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold

Votes: 2,419