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Plot Summary:
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious, retro, feel good, suspense, anamorphic, hilarious
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, intense, talky
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Pirates of Treasure Island (2006)
Plot Summary:
Starting as a prequel to the novel "Treasure Island", we see the infamous pirate treasure buried by Billy Bones and Long John Silver.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Long Ships (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them off the proper trail. However, Aly Mansuh (Sidney Poitier), the leader of a group of ambitious Moors, sees through Rolfe's story, and soon the two are in a breakneck race to be the first to capture the precious bell. The Long Ships also features Russ Tamblyn and Oscar Homolka.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: retro, semi serious, epic, saga, independent film
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The Daughter of D'Artagnan (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, historical drama, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Sea Wolf: The Pirate's Curse (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Danger, Sea of Desire.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious, suspenseful
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Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Plot Summary:
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, humorous, sweet, slasher, fantasy adventure, cute, light hearted, feel good, not serious
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Treasure Island (2012)
Plot Summary:
Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart Harcourt and it was produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, epic, costume drama, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, nautical
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Pirates (1986)
Plot Summary:
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: dramatic, spoof, grindhouse, action comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, campy
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Swashbuckler (1976)
Plot Summary:
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, slapstick comedy, exciting, semi serious, fast, slapstick
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Firewalker (1986)
Plot Summary:
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, buddy comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, one man show
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
Plot Summary:
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca to the ruins where he is chased by a group of mercenaries leaded by General Samir. They too want to find the location of King Solomon's mines. Flynn teams-up with Professor Emily Davenport working in the dig and they escape from General Samir and his men. While traveling to Gedi, they save the local Jomo from death and the trio faces a dangerous journey through the wild Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, mythical, parody, spoof
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, breathtaking, saga
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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Congo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, natural horror, humorous, entertaining
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The Phantom (1996)
Plot Summary:
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, humorous, entertaining, epic, saga, anamorphic, dieselpunk, cult classic, serious
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The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Plot Summary:
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico, Germany
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, entertaining, exciting, epic, sexy, light, breathtaking, humorous, tragicomedy
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Black Sails (2014)
Plot Summary:
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, suspense, historical drama, costume drama, erotic, epic, realistic, serious, rough
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Plot Summary:
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 217000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, stylized, action adventure, saga, captivating, sexy, funny, clever
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 754000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, entertaining, mystical, funny, saga, visually stunning, epic, mystic, costume drama
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Plot Summary:
Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 682000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, stylized, dark fantasy, humorous, surreal, semi serious, funny, saga, visually stunning
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, funny, retro, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, atmospheric
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious, saga, action adventure, witty, visual, humorous
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Plot Summary:
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, bad ending, harsh
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Fool's Gold (2008)
Plot Summary:
Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he drags Tess and her boss, billionaire Nigel Honeycutt, along on the hunt. But Finn is not the only one interested in the gold; his former mentor-turned-enemy Moe Fitch will stop at nothing to beat him to it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, exciting, entertaining, realistic, scenic, sexy, semi serious, humorous
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The Mummy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for all eternity as a punishment for a forbidden love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, entertaining, funny, suspense, semi serious, cult classic, horror comedy, dieselpunk, humorous
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 485000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, action packed, scenic, action adventure, humorous, suspenseful, saga, breathtaking, epic
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 554000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic, exciting, witty, humorous, semi serious, mystical, epic, saga, intense, confusing
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Plot Summary:
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 337000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, UK, Canada
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, absurd, witty, humorous, action packed, visually stunning
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 17th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, fairy tale, entertaining, dark fantasy, funny, visually stunning, mystical, suspense, colorful, saga
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Uncharted (2022)
Plot Summary:
A descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake uncovers the location of the legendary El Dorado. With the help of his mentor and an ambitious journalist he works to uncover its secrets while surviving on an island filled with pirates, mercenaries, and a mysterious enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 246000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, visually appealing, epic, cult classic, action adventure, ambiguous ending, feel good, suspenseful, buddy comedy