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Plot Summary:
After the death of her father, the viceroy of a small Caribean island, the beautiful young Isabella is in a big danger. The crafty duke of Burt wants to grab the power on the isle so he decides to eliminate her. Fortunately then comes a group of pirates stranded after a shipwreck. Their leader is the brave and bold Alan Drake. The pirates are hired to protect Isabella and the adventure begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 102 min
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The Minority (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young African American, Jake Jackson, is a happy, honest, law-abiding citizen who through many unfortunate events, experiences a full array of prejudices until he captures single-handedly the serial killer, David Fletcher, and his luck changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Lost World of Sinbad (1963)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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For Y'ur Height Only (1981)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Giant has kidnapped the brilliant Dr. Van Kohler and is planning to use the Doctor's invention, the N-bomb, to hold the world hostage. The only one who can foil Mr. Giant's evil scheme is Agent 00, a 3-foot-tall filipino martial arts master, expert marksman, top-class romancer and all-around superspy. Can Agent 00 rescue Dr. Kohler before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: experimental, disturbing, mockbuster, action thriller, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, cult film
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The Bod Squad (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Goose Boxer (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mortal combat erupts when two martial arts masters are killed by a gray haired master of the Crane Style. The deadly battle has a profound effect on a young student of Crane Style, whose stall was destroyed in the fight. However, his master pushes his training so ruthlessly that he rebels and seeks out his own style, the Firing Goose, which he plans to use in retaliation for his stall being wrecked. A new dimension in Kung Fu with wicked and unique forms.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Carlito's Angels (2003)
Plot Summary:
The only thing angelic about them is the name.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: parody, post modern
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Si Prinsipe Abante at ang lihim ng Ibong Adarna (1990)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful and evil witch puts Prinsipe Abante's (Rene Requiestas) loving father in a deep coma-and the only cure to the king's strange illness is the sweet song of the legendary Ibong Adarna.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Beach of the War Gods (1973)
Plot Summary:
A sort of re-telling of Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai”. This time the protagonists are a group of Chinese villagers who must band together to recruit outside help to defend themselves against marauding Japanese pirates demanding protection money. Set in year 1556, it’s supposedly based on true events occurring during the twilight of the Ming Dynasty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974)
Plot Summary:
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, independent film, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody
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The Ten Gladiators (1963)
Plot Summary:
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: campy
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Sandokan the Great (1963)
Plot Summary:
After the capture of the Sultan of Muluder, Sandokan, the sultan's son, leads a guerilla army through treacherous jungles to free his father and defeat Queen Victoria's army of invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Queen of the Seas (1961)
Plot Summary:
Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Son of Captain Blood (1962)
Plot Summary:
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Spain, Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min
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The Black Corsair (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van Gould. The Black Pirate is out for revenge on his brothers' killers. He has a blood-planned way to go, and he trusts only to his own rap sword.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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National Theatre Live: Treasure Island (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's a theatre adaptation of well known story of Jim Hawkins and his adventures in search of treasure of Treasure Island.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Pirate's Heart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Black Tulip (1964)
Plot Summary:
In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: 70mm film, period drama
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Savage Islands (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nathaniel Williamsen (O'Keefe) is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie (Seagrove). Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes (Jones), who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease (Phipps) "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, semi serious
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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Yellowbeard (1983)
Plot Summary:
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, humorous, colorful, exciting, saga, not serious, independent film, funny, light
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13 Assassins (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: epic, jidai geki, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Project A (1983)
Plot Summary:
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: perverse, cult classic, slapstick comedy, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, slapstick
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Blackie the Pirate (1971)
Plot Summary:
Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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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 Pirates (2014)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the founding of the Joseon Dynasty, a whale swallows the Emperor's Seal of State being brought to Joseon by envoys from China. With a big reward on whoever brings back the royal seal, mountain bandits led by Jang Sa-jung go out to sea to hunt down the whale. But he soon clashes with Yeo-wol, a female captain of pirates, and unexpected adventure unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, humorous, captivating, tense, epic, realistic, stylized, period drama
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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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Cutthroat Island (1995)
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