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1. King Kong (2005)
PG-13 | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 446,372 | Gross: $218.08M
2. The Pacific (2010)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.
Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ashton Holmes
Votes: 129,756
3. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 799,975 | Gross: $7.56M
4. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 454,216 | Gross: $59.74M
5. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 443,535 | Gross: $229.09M
6. 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: 437,022 | Gross: $193.60M
7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Madagascar animals fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African nature reserve in Kenya, where they meet others of their own kind, and Alex especially discovers his royal heritage as prince of a lion pride.
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 247,175 | Gross: $180.01M
8. Couples Retreat (2009)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy
A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.
Director: Peter Billingsley | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman
Votes: 114,780 | Gross: $109.21M
9. King Rat (1965)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, War
Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 5,075
10. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,199
11. The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Votes: 26,878 | Gross: $16.65M
12. Donovan's Reef (1963)
Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden
Votes: 9,821
13. The Wild (2006)
G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo
Votes: 27,639 | Gross: $37.38M
14. Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020 Video)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Richard Brake, Caroline Langrishe
Votes: 5,286
15. Che: Part One (2008)
Not Rated | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara
Votes: 47,928 | Gross: $1.80M
16. Last Resort (I) (2012–2013)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A U.S. sub picks up Navy SEALs and receives an order for a nuke launch. Due to the circumstances of the order, the Captain refuses to fire. After escaping an attack from another U.S. sub, the crew and SEALs take refuge on a small island.
Stars: Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Daisy Betts, Camille De Pazzis
Votes: 22,170
17. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
NC-17 | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is ... See full summary »
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York
Votes: 2,204 | Gross: $1.61M
18. Crossbones (2014)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set during the golden age of piracy in the 1700s and centering on legendary pirate Blackbeard.
Stars: John Malkovich, Richard Coyle, Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 7,126
19. Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962)
60 min | Adventure
The adventures of the Tiki III and crew as they sailed from island to island through the South Pacific, carrying cargo and the odd passenger from one drama to another.
Stars: Gardner McKay, James Holden, Lani Kai, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 403
20. 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: 2,938
21. The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998–1999)
30 min | Adventure, Family
Emmy-winner Richard Thomas (The Waltons) stars in this exciting family adventure based on Johann David Wyss's Timeless book. Join the shipwrecked Robinsons as they struggle together to make a new life on a remote desert island.
Stars: Gareth Howells, Kieren Hutchison, Richard Thomas, Mia Lux
Votes: 622
22. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Director: Lance Hool | Stars: Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta
Votes: 9,293 | Gross: $10.80M
23. Crypt of the Living Dead (1973)
R | 75 min | Horror
Two archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.
Directors: Julio Salvador, Ray Danton | Stars: Andrew Prine, Mark Damon, Patty Shepard, Teresa Gimpera
Votes: 1,020
24. Beyond Evil (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror
An architect and his wife move into a colonial mansion, where the demonic presence of the original owner's wife takes residence.
Director: Herb Freed | Stars: John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, Mario Milano
Votes: 1,035
25. Return to Paradise (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes, Moira Walker
Votes: 833
26. Victory (1996)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Peploe | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irène Jacob, Rufus Sewell
Votes: 536
27. Beyond the Reef (1979)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Romance
Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be ... See full summary »
Director: Frank C. Clarke | Stars: Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden
Votes: 228 | Gross: $0.55M
28. A Vacation in Hell (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Five tourists, four women and one man, escape from the group in a holiday camp at a tropical place and get lost. They have to find the way back, but problems are still to come.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Priscilla Barnes, Barbara Feldon, Andrea Marcovicci, Maureen McCormick
Votes: 158
29. The Presence (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Horror
Mixed assortment of people survive the crash of an airliner at sea; cast upon a shore of mysterious island they discover dangerous creatures, exploding bananas, mutations and a biological weapons research facility.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Lisa Banes, Richard Beymer, María Celedonio, Gary Graham
Votes: 461
30. East of Borneo (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar
Votes: 254
31. Dear Claudia (1999)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a blind a sailor, a street kid, a mistress, a miner, a butcher, two thieves and a ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Cudlipp | Stars: Bryan Brown, Aleksandra Vujcic, Deborah Mailman, Kim Hillas
Votes: 366
32. 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
33. Le sang des tropiques (1983)
80 min | Adventure
A medical student leaves for Ecuador to join Marianne, a volunteer for "Médecins sans frontières", who finds himself involved in blood trafficking, which the poor sell to survive.
Director: Christian Bricout | Stars: Nicole Calfan, Laura Castro, Rita Duarte, Vicky Hernández
Votes: 12
34. Hinterland (2009)
49 min | Documentary
70 km away from Berlin, located in a former Soviet military airfield stands a spaceship-like metal dome. What the huge hangar houses is hard to guess. Enter it and you will discover - a ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Voignier | Stars: Ernst-Günter Heide, Patrick Kastner, Rudi Kuckei, Siegfried Lehmann
35. Ashanti: Rock wit U (Awww Baby) (2003 Music Video)
Not Rated | 4 min | Music
Director: Paul Hunter | Star: Ashanti
Votes: 67
37. Bag om Robinson ekspeditionen (2003 TV Special)
63 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
A look behind the scenes of the 6th season of the Danish "Robinson ekspeditionen" from 2003. Expedition leader Thomas Mygind, executive producer Jeppe Juhl and editor Niels Lyster explain ... See full summary »
Stars: Thomas Mygind, Jane Nejst, Anders Pedersen, Lisbet Rosenstand
38. Isle of Fortune (2011)
17 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
When two American friends win a treasure map during a game of chance at a bar in Honduras, they must outrun the previous owners if they want to find the gold in time.
Director: J. Monty Nyahay | Stars: Luca Rodrigues, Johnny M. Faulkner, Horacio F. Lazo, Oscar Avila
39. Thunder on the Mountain (2010)
G | 27 min | Documentary, Short
The the generally dormant volcanic mountain chain which lies between North and south America is filled with beauty and life. In the 1400's wooden ships were seen approaching and the changes... See full summary »
Director: Cap Averill II
Votes: 7
40. Adventures in Paradise (2001)
Short, Drama
The adventures of two friends in Jamaica.
Director: Stephen Geoffreys
Votes: 8
41. A She Going Sailor (1928)
Short, Comedy
Director: William Watson | Stars: Billy Dooley, Vera Steadman, Glen Cavender, Harry Martell
42. Peppy (1987)
1 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A pineapple named Peppy plays Moonlight Swim by Anthony Perkins until a huge wave washes him away.
Directors: Art Durinski, Takashi Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Michiko Suzuki
Votes: 14
43. Global Gardener (1991– )
28 min | Documentary
Stars: Bill Mollison, Sam Bullock, Anne Schwartz, Robert Hart
Votes: 19
44. Gallero Tropical (2009)
73 min | Documentary
Miguel Delgadillo lives with his wife Berta Chavez and their four children in a small fishing village in the natural park Lagunas de Chacahua, Oaxaca, Mexico. His passion in life is ... See full summary »
Director: Andrés Cota
45. Robinson VIP (2005– )
86 min | Reality-TV
Scandinavian championship of the desert island-based reality TV show "Survivor", featuring celebrities from Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Stars: Mikkel Beha Erichsen, Christer Falck, Robert Aschberg, Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis
Votes: 33
47.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
Affair in Sumatra
(1956)
30 min | Drama
A woman of mixed parentage must choose between her people and the man she loves.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Rita Gam, Basil Rathbone, Greta Granstedt
Votes: 29
48.
Ouran High School Host Club (2006)
Episode:
Janguru puuru SOS
(2006)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
Enjoyment at a family-owned indoor tropical pool park turns into a Jurassic Park-like disaster for Host Club members due to discarded banana peels and live alligators from the tropical exhibit.
Director: Takuya Igarashi | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Mamoru Miyano, Masaya Matsukaze, Ken'ichi Suzumura
Votes: 125
49.
Globe Trekker (1994– )
Episode:
Galleons, Pirates and Treasure
(2007)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Adventure
The traveler follows historical routs that Spaniards had used for transporting gold from Americas to Spain until the late 16th century, as well as the routs of most famous pirates that raided the shipments and the colonies' ports.
Director: Dominic Allan | Star: Megan McCormick
Votes: 7
50.
Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015)
Episode:
The Sun and the Moon
(2014)
TV-MA | 54 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Leonardo reunites with Riario and Nico in the New World. Lorenzo attempts to save Florence with the help of an old flame. Clarice struggles to retain control of the Medici Bank.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Tom Riley, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Lara Pulver
Votes: 979