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1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

PG-13 | 181 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth

Votes: 1,266,815 | Gross: $858.37M

2. 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: 76,594 | Gross: $58.85M

3. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

Votes: 253,768 | Gross: $74.70M

4. Life of Pi (2012)

PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu

Votes: 667,117 | Gross: $124.99M

5. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,487 | Gross: $8.60M

6. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason

Votes: 97,413 | Gross: $0.65M

7. Swept Away (2002)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood, Elizabeth Banks

Votes: 17,880 | Gross: $0.01M

8. 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: 60,111 | Gross: $12.55M

9. Pirates (1986)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs

Votes: 9,456 | Gross: $1.64M

10. Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.

Director: Stanley A. Long | Stars: Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors

Votes: 644

11. Against the Sun (2014)

PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, War

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

Director: Brian Peter Falk | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Nadia Parra

Votes: 6,476

12. The Parent Trap II (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Family

Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.

Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Hayley Mills, Tom Skerritt, Carrie Kei Heim, Bridgette Andersen

Votes: 2,309

13. Tiffany Jones (1973)

R | 90 min | Comedy

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.

Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Anouska Hempel, Ray Brooks, Susan Sheers, Damien Thomas

Votes: 319

14. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara

Votes: 2,940

15. Shout at the Devil (1976)

PG | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

During World War I, a British aristocrat, an American entrepreneur, and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battlecruiser, which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.

Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm

Votes: 3,356

16. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,042

17. Destination Moon (1950)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson

Votes: 4,695 | Gross: $5.00M

18. In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 3,456 | Gross: $21.75M

19. The Navigator (1924)

Unrated | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton

Votes: 11,069 | Gross: $1.48M

20. 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: 951

21. 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: 2,500

22. Limit (1931)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance

Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.

Director: Mario Peixoto | Stars: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira

Votes: 2,879

23. Asfixiados (2023)

97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A couple who have been married for twenty years decide to take a sailing trip to reignite the passion, accompanied by a friend and his new girlfriend. During the voyage, a storm breaks out and the sailboat is adrift.

Director: Luciano Podcaminsky | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Díaz, Marco Antonio Caponi, Zoe Hochbaum

Votes: 180

24. East of Shanghai (1931)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann

Votes: 4,901

25. Survive the Savage Sea (1992 TV Movie)

87 min | Adventure, Drama

Jack Carpenter and his wife, Claire, realize his life-long dream by selling the family farm and uprooting their four kids to buy the yacht ''Providence''. Thier sons, Gary, Brian, and Timmy... See full summary »

Director: Kevin James Dobson | Stars: Robert Urich, Ali MacGraw, Danielle von Zerneck, Mark Ballou

Votes: 313

26. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.

Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón

Votes: 1,201 | Gross: $0.79M

27. Oyster Farmer (2004)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Director: Anna Reeves | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Jim Norton, Diana Glenn, David Field

Votes: 1,304

28. 48 Angels (2007)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama

Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets... See full summary »

Director: Marion Comer | Stars: Shane Brolly, John Travers, Ciaran Flynn, Darragh Kelly

Votes: 399

29. The Silent One (1984)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A mythological children's tale about the friendship between a deaf mute boy, Jonasi, and a rare white turtle.

Director: Yvonne Mackay | Stars: George Henare, Pat Evison, Teraki Tokorangi, Turi Tama

Votes: 144

30. Naves ena (1971)

80 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A group of men fishing in the icy lake Peipus (Estonia) find themselves trapped when the ice breaks away carrying them with it. As the ice breaks into smaller and smaller pieces the behavior of the men gets more desperate and class-driven.

Director: Gunars Piesis | Stars: Eduards Pavuls, Gunars Cilinskis, Peteris Sogolovs, Alfreds Videnieks

Votes: 209

31. Ghost of the China Sea (1958)

Unrated | 79 min | Drama, War

A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, Harry Chang

Votes: 90

32. We're Not Dressing (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen

Votes: 854

33. The Ra Expeditions (1971)

G | 96 min | Documentary

Documentary of the Ra expedition organized by Thor Heyerdahl, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969 and 1970.

Directors: Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl | Stars: Norman Baker, Roscoe Lee Browne, Abdullah Dilbrine, Santiago Geneves

Votes: 298

34. Kung Fu Arts (1978)

88 min | Action

The emperor's right hand man frames the princess's fiancé, King Chi, who goes into hiding for ten years, vowing revenge. Meanwhile, the princess is married to King Chi's monkey.

Directors: Kuang Hui, Hsi-Chieh Lai, Ju-Shou Li | Stars: Carter Wong, Sing Chen, Chi-Min Chin, Chung-Kuei Chang

Votes: 137

35. Nishi Ginza Station (1958)

52 min | Comedy, Drama

While his wife and children are away on holiday, a henpecked, daydreaming pharmacist begins a flirtatious relationship with the pretty girl in the boutique opposite. Almost a Japanese screwball comedy.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Frank Nagai, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka, Masahiko Shimazu

Votes: 344

36. Playboy Number One (1937)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short

Professor Pierre Ginsberg, extraordinary French instructor, is sailing with a wealthy couple as their instructor and guide in France. But when his client tries out his French in the dining ... See full summary »

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Willie Howard, Janet Reade, Louis Sorin, Ruth Leavitt

Votes: 19

37. Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr. (1940)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short

Tom Thumb Jr. and his friend are cast ashore on an island where they are found by a lady who thinks Tom is a baby and puts him to sleep in a sewing basket. Left alone, Tom and his pal seek ... See full summary »

Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Harry Lang, Kent Rogers, Walter Tetley, Martha Wentworth

Votes: 37

38. Sommarnöje sökes (1957)

98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

Director: Hasse Ekman | Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Andersson, Birgitte Reimer

Votes: 114

39. Save the Ship (1923)

9 min | Short, Comedy

A man lives in a tent aboard a raft with his wife and in-laws. What could possibly go wrong?

Director: George Jeske | Stars: Stan Laurel, Marie Mosquini, Mark Jones, Sunshine Hart

Votes: 53

40. Flaket (2015)

44 min | Short, Drama

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Directors: Jens Klevje, Fabian Svensson | Stars: Iggy Malmborg, Lars-Erik Berenett, Reine Brynolfsson, Marika Lagercrantz

41. Beasts of Paradise (1923)

300 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Philip Grant attempts to reclaim five million dollars in gold stolen from his fathers' steamer by a submarine.

Director: William James Craft | Stars: William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick, William Gould, Ruth Royce

Votes: 23

42. The Raftman's Razor (2005)

Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy, Mystery

Two geeky teenage boys follow the story of a superhero who doesn't really do much.

Director: Keith Bearden | Stars: John Bader, Wynn Tingley, Chase Goldsmith, Mary Webber

Votes: 279

43. The Death Ship (1928)

10 min | Short, Drama

At sea during a storm, the ship's captain and first mate play a deadly game of poker to win the love of the only woman on board the ship.

Stars: Mitchell Lewis, Jason Robards Sr., Elizabeth Page

Votes: 16

44. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Flesh and Blood (2000)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Free from their pursuers, the leader of the holograms decides to continue the crusade against the organics in order to liberate all holograms, everywhere. The Doctor finally realises what he had done and comes up with a plan to redeem himself.

Directors: David Livingston, Michael Vejar | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,819

45. Land of the Lost (1974–1977)
Episode: Medusa (1976)

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

Holly is lured into the Garden of Eternity, where Medusa intends to make her a permanent resident.

Director: Rick Bennewitz | Stars: Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Phillip Paley, Ron Harper

Votes: 51

46. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: Devil's Planet (1977)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

After investigating a planet where all humanoid life had been eradicated, Koenig becomes trapped in a prison on one of the moons where no one knows that their planet has been wiped out.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt

Votes: 223

47. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: Ring Around the Moon (1976)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Maintenance technician Ted Clifford is possessed by an eerie yellow glow, which ultimately kills him. It transpires that it is coming from a planet called Triton, which captures the Alphans... See full summary »

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Prentis Hancock

Votes: 319

48. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: The Last Sunset (1976)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

As the Alphans are planning to explore the planet Ariel, a 'missile' attaches itself to the en route Eagle. Upon returning to Alpha, the 'missile' gives the Alphans a lunar atmosphere. But ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Prentis Hancock

Votes: 327

49. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Tholian Web (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.

Directors: Herb Wallerstein, Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 3,426

50. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Evolution (1989)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Wesley's latest science project escapes the lab, threatening the Enterprise and an eminent scientist's life-long project.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,469