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1. 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: 59,340 | Gross: $26.71M

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: 114,245

3. 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: 56,443 | Gross: $12.55M

4. 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: 38,325 | Gross: $50.32M

5. 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: 51,804 | Gross: $22.06M

6. 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: 5,682

7. 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: 11,910 | Gross: $6.76M

8. The Pirate Movie (1982)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship ends up having to save his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr

Votes: 4,432

9. 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: 12,015

10. 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: 12,550

11. The Red Turtle (2016)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

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

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

Votes: 34,797 | Gross: $0.92M

12. 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 his plan.

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

Votes: 8,941 | Gross: $8.36M

13. 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: 2,835

14. 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: 3,000

15. 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: 3,079 | Gross: $22.26M

16. 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: 1,597

17. 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: 3,449 | Gross: $0.28M

18. 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: 2,334 | Gross: $8.88M

19. October Gale (2014)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

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: 2,330

20. 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: 1,325

21. 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: 1,122

22. Driftwood (1997)

R | 100 min | Thriller

When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name ... See full summary »

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

Votes: 567

23. 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: 803

24. 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: 243

25. 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: 43

26. 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: 978

27. 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: 154

28. 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: 42

29. Zhenshchina i chetvero yeyo muzhchin (1983)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A balladic story from a Baltic fishermen's settlement set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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

Votes: 115

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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: 36

33. A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode: Baignade Interdite (2006)

Animation, Family

A tempest forces the Cow and the Cat to seek refuge at the nearest island; however, they get separated from each other, as a swift shark patrols the waters, ready to take action. How will the friends reunite, when swimming is not allowed?

Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux

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

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

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: 39

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

PG | Adventure, Comedy

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: 439

36. A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode: La Vache à la Plancha (2006)

Animation, Family

As always, the Cow is very tired from the endless hours of swimming, and when she and the Cat stumble upon a flat piece of wood, a new surfing star is born. Now, a pair of twin brothers want to make her famous; but, what is their motive?

Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux

37. 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: 6

38. 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: 13,687

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

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

Whilst 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: 416

40. 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: 15