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Plot Summary:
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Prince of the Seas (2009)
Plot Summary:
Amir is a reckless Naval Academy student trying so hard to impress the father of the girl he loves, who happens to be his academic professor and neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Noah's Castle (1979)
Plot Summary:
TV drama series set in a time of social and economic collapse where hyper-inflation has lead to food shortages and mass riots. A desperate husband and father, Norman Mortimer (David Neal), takes his family to a large house in the country where he reinforces the cellar in order to store food and keep his family safe. But as the situation worsens, the Mortimers arouse the suspicions of the starving locals and their sanctuary comes under threat as the news of their food store spreads.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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Bodger and Badger (1989)
Plot Summary:
Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Treasure Island (1977)
Plot Summary:
Treasure Island is a 1977 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel. It was filmed in 1977 on location in Plymouth and Dartford, and in Corsica, and also at BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane, London. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny. This four-episode adaptation by John Lucarotti, while particularly faithful to the original, adds an expanded narrative concerning the declining Daniel Hawkins, as well as clarifying Squire Trelawney's naiveté in trusting Blandly and Silver. This takes place in the first episode; Billy Bones tempts Jim's father into arranging a two-man treasure voyage, the corrupt shipping agent Ezra Blandly guesses their intentions and tips off Silver, who hoodwinks and then cruelly tortures the information out of a hapless alcoholic Mr Arrow. Billy Bones plans founder, and Hawkins snr catches pneumonia in the rain, which finishes him. Lucarotti's additions to the original provide useful backstory, and the pirate idiom is sufficiently well captured for these additions not to be too obvious.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 190 min
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Boundless (2022)
Plot Summary:
The First Circumvalation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, epic
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Swords: Life on the Line (2009)
Plot Summary:
For the fisherman of New England, braving the frigid, unpredictable waters of the North Atlantic is a tradition that has been in their families for generations. It is an unforgiving environment, where forty-five-foot vessels contend with fifty-foot waves and gale-force winds. Where one fish can earn you $50,000, and one mistake can cost you your life. Swords takes us out to sea in pursuit of massive blue-fin tuna and the elusive swordfish. Together with the fathers, sons, old salts and greenhorns for whom the ocean is more than just where they make a living: it's a way of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, captivating
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In Search for Captain Grant (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is known (37 degrees), but no longitude. The Glenarvans decide to find captain Grant.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, intense, exciting, light
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Adventurer of Tortuga (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
Plot Summary:
A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into a village on the British coast for repairs. The village is small and isolated and the Spanish convince the villagers that the English fleet has been defeated and that they, the Spanish, are now their masters. This results in the villagers' sullen cooperation, but rumors and unrest begin to spread and soon the Spanish pirates find themselves facing a revolt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Born Free (1974)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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Sandokan (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 286 min
Plot tags: retro, atmospheric, cult classic, vintage
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The Master of Ballantrae (1984)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, period drama
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Treasure Island (1966)
Plot Summary:
As a young boy finds an old map of a treasure island in the mid 1700s, he joins a sailing crew on an adventure to find the treasure island. He does not realize however that bloodthirsty pirates are amongst the crew, desperately wanting to claim the treasure for themselves and are secretly planning a mutiny... Beautifully created adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island', created for German/French television in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Storm Bound (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating
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Swallows and Amazons (1974)
Plot Summary:
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, happy, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Kidnapped (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck. Attempting to claim his rightful inheritance from his eccentric Uncle Ebenezer, young Davie Balfour is kidnapped and imprisoned in the hold of a slave ship bound for the New World. Soon, Davie joins forces with exiled Highland hero Alan Breck and together, the unlikely pair of outlaw and innocent embark on a treacherous quest across Scotland that will bring them foes too numerous to count, as well as unexpected friends. Among the plot deviations from novel to movie: ⁕The movie added a love interest for Davie in Catriona, the daughter of James of the Glen. This plot element is from the sequel novel, Catriona. ⁕In the novel, Breck and James of the Glen were never arrested by the British; but the movie showed James of the Glen being falsely arrested with the threat of being hanged to force Breck to give himself up. ⁕The movie added the "Long Mile Gang", expert trackers, to track Davie and Breck across Scotland, but the novel only had British troops.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating
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Sea Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting, serious
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Flipper (1964)
Plot Summary:
Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons, Sandy and Bud. The show has been dubbed an "aquatic Lassie", and a considerable amount of juvenile merchandise inspired by the show was produced during its first-run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, captivating, light, semi serious, sitcom, serious
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Leonardo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Leonardo is a British children's television series broadcast on CBBC. The show is an adventure programme featuring a teenage Leonardo da Vinci starring Jonathan Bailey. The series is set in 15th-century Florence. A second series premiered on CBBC on 20 September 2012, starting with episodes one and two being shown back to back. For Series 2, actor James Clyde replaced Alistair McGowan in the role of Piero de' Medici. It was announced on 21 January 2013 that Leonardo would not be recommissioned for a third series.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags:
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Shipwrecked (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway, Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action adventure, exciting, feel good, serious
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Kaptein Sabeltann-Drømmen om Kaptein Sabeltanns rike (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joachim, a preteen Norwegian boy, has an obsession with pirates. When his parents object, he takes their outboard rubber dinghy out and begins a dream of an exciting and dangerous adventure -- involving Captain Sabertooth's ship and treasure. But soon the dream seems more real than reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags:
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ONE PIECE (2023)
Plot Summary:
With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure in this live-action adaptation of the popular manga.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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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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Moby Dick (1998)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, epic, costume drama, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative
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Crossbones (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, historical drama, realistic, period drama
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Treasure Island (1972)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Treasure Island (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates, swashbuckling heroes, buried treasure and a young boy's amazing courage. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim out of his rightful share of the treasure and so Jim then teams up with Silver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, surprise ending, baroque
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Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama (2014)
Plot Summary:
Captain Sabertooths world sets the stage for stormy and magnificent adventures, in which the children demonstrate courage, shrewdness and vigour in their battle against evil. The audience will enter the pirate vessel The Black Lady and join the youngster Tiny and his girl friend Raven on an adventurous voyage from the pirate alleys in Abra Harbour to the colourful and exotic Lama Rama. Together with Captain Sabertooth and his crew, they brave towering waves and travel through deep jungles in their search for King Rufus fabled treasure. The film is a thrilling story, in which we follow a young boy in tireless search for the truth about his missing father. This voyage evolves into an adventure which will change Tinys life forever. Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure will be a magnificent and humorous live action feature film for the whole family.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, entertaining, intense, colorful, colourful
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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