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1. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
Votes: 255,473 | Gross: $0.43M
2. Aquaman (2018)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson
Votes: 521,145 | Gross: $335.06M
3. Sex and Lucía (2001)
R | 128 min | Drama, Romance
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Elena Anaya
Votes: 38,734 | Gross: $1.49M
4. Slumberland (2022)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jason Momoa, Marlow Barkley, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 33,074
5. The Vanishing (II) (2018)
R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Emma King, Gary Lewis
Votes: 20,702
6. Pete's Dragon (1977)
G | 128 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.
Directors: Don Chaffey, Don Bluth | Stars: Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 26,538 | Gross: $40.10M
7. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 75,972 | Gross: $6.17M
8. Song of the Sea (2014)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.
Director: Tomm Moore | Stars: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan
Votes: 63,165 | Gross: $0.86M
9. Cold Skin (2017)
TV-14 | 108 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A young man arrives at a remote island to take a post of weather observer only to find himself defending the watchtower from deadly creatures which live in the island shores.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Winslow M. Iwaki
Votes: 18,065
10. 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: 60,119 | Gross: $12.55M
11. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
R | 139 min | Drama, Romance
Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes
Votes: 24,136 | Gross: $4.61M
12. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 8,733 | Gross: $5.00M
13. The Lightkeepers (2009)
PG | 97 min | Comedy
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
Director: Daniel Adams | Stars: Mamie Gummer, Bruce Dern, Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner
Votes: 1,540
14. Half Light (2006)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.
Director: Craig Rosenberg | Stars: Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Gleaves, James Cosmo
Votes: 14,540
15. Red Riding Hood (2006)
PG | 82 min | Adventure, Family, Musical
Grandma is babysitting her two grandkids. The girl wants to go out, but grandma asks them to hear a story first. The kids accept if they can change aspects of the story such as replacing the wolf with a werewolf. Is there a catch?
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Lainie Kazan, Henry Cavill, Morgan Thompson, Sam Oz Stone
Votes: 1,340
16. The Lighthouse (I) (2016)
102 min | Thriller
Based on real events which saw two lighthouse keepers stranded for months at sea in a freak storm, the film tells a tale of death, madness and isolation; a desolate trip into the heart of human darkness.
Director: Chris Crow | Stars: Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo, Gerald Tyler
Votes: 1,154
17. Stromboli (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Votes: 7,974
18. Chewin' the Fat (1999–2005)
Comedy
Scottish sketch show which first appeared on radio. Featuring such characters as dodgy decorators Bish and Bosh, Ballistic Bob, The Lonely Shopkeeper, The Foulmouthed Fishermen and The Man From Kilmacolm. Mostly filmed in Glasgow.
Stars: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Karen Dunbar, Mark Cox
Votes: 1,439
19. The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Berwick | Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson
Votes: 1,161
20. Captain January (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,499
21. Le petit baigneur (1968)
96 min | Comedy
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires... See full summary »
Director: Robert Dhéry | Stars: Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Alexandre
Votes: 4,575
22. My Apologies (2023)
110 min | Comedy
Erkin, in his mid-30s, lives alone and is a lighthouse keeper. One day, Erkin, who is dealing with loan debts, receives the news of his grandfather's death, who lives in a nursing home. He ... See full summary »
Director: Ibrahim Büyükak | Stars: Ibrahim Büyükak, Oguzhan Koç, Gizem Karaca, Mert Turak
Votes: 1,385
23. Cruel and Unusual (2001)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Tom Berenger, Rachel Hayward, Tygh Runyan, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff
Votes: 824
24. Stonados (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a tornado appears in the waters south of Boston, former storm chaser Joe Randall is intrigued by the unusual weather. But as twisters begin to strike across the Boston shoreline, Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Paul Johansson, Sebastian Spence, Miranda Frigon, Jess McLeod
Votes: 1,021
25. Lighthouse (1999)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Members of a sunken prison ship take refuge at an old lighthouse, unaware one of their most notorious criminals has taken shelter there as well.
Director: Simon Hunter | Stars: James Purefoy, Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke
Votes: 1,317
26. South Solitary (2010)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1928, Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper.
Director: Shirley Barrett | Stars: Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Essie Davis, Rohan Nichol
Votes: 487
27. Foes (1977)
Not Rated | 90 min | Sci-Fi
The tranquil life of a lighthouse keeper and his family is disrupted when a flying saucer and its alien inhabitants invade.
Director: John Coats | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Jerry Hardin, Jane Wiley, Alan Blanchard
Votes: 184
28. To Keep the Light (2016)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama, History
Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine.
Director: Erica Fae | Stars: Antti Reini, Erica Fae, David Patrick Kelly, Meagen Fay
Votes: 269
29. The Exorcism of Hugh (1972)
R | 110 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a pilot there and they quickly become lovers. Together they ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Burnley | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Michael Petrovitch, Michael Craze
Votes: 407
30. Behind the Wall (II) (2007)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
Maine coastal town Harrison Bay is broke, so deputy mayor Drew Cabot arranges a deal with a contractor to develop the abandoned lighthouse for tourism. Father Hendry fails to convince the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Lindy Booth, Lawrence Dane, James Thomas, Andy Jones
Votes: 654
31. The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 1,282
32. Ujed andjela (1984)
97 min | Drama, Romance
On the isolated island of Saint, a lighthouse keeper and his wife receive a message that a mysterious sailor is raping and killing women on lonely islands. The lighthouse keeper and his ... See full summary »
Director: Lordan Zafranovic | Stars: Katalin Ladik, Boris Kralj, Marina Nemet, Charles Millot
Votes: 91
33. Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt (2016)
106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Robbi and Tobbi are friends--unusual friends, because Robbi is a little robot. For their adventure travel they construct a perfect vehicle for air, water, and earth: the Fliewatüüt.
Director: Wolfgang Groos | Stars: Arsseni Bultmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Friedrich Mücke
Votes: 248
34. Rakkauden risti (1946)
99 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she finds herself selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.
Director: Teuvo Tulio | Stars: Regina Linnanheimo, Oscar Tengström, Ville Salminen, Rauli Tuomi
Votes: 234
35. Spring Reunion (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
The class of 1941 at Carson High School is holding its 15th reunion. "Boy Most Likely To Succeed" Fred Davis is in town to sell his house before taking a job in San Francisco; he's been ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Pirosh | Stars: Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Robert F. Simon
Votes: 304
36. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
37. Somnambulance (2003)
129 min | Drama
1944, Estonia. An impending Russian invasion forces thousands to flee. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of autumn, she returns to the lighthouse manned by her father Gottfrid.
Director: Sulev Keedus | Stars: Katariina Unt, Evald Aavik, Ivo Uukkivi, Jan Uuspõld
Votes: 294
38. Lighthouse (1947)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Older Hank Armitage and younger Sam Wells lead a combined lonely existence in their relative seclusion as a lighthouse keeper and his assistant, respectively, their lighthouse built on what... See full summary »
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel, Marion Martin
Votes: 195
39. Kaukainen planeetta (2023)
16 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Jaana Paananen, Aku-Petteri Pahkamäki, Pulla, Tomi Alatalo
Votes: 36
40. Finis terrae (1929)
80 min | Drama
On an island off the coast of Brittany four isolated men collect seaweed. Two young best friends have a quarrel and when one's thumb becomes infected his friend must risk his life on the ocean to bring him to the doctor.
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Gibois, Jean-Marie Laot, Malgorn, François Morin
Votes: 661
41. Captain January (1924)
64 min | Drama, Family
A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Baby Peggy, Irene Rich, Lincoln Stedman
Votes: 259
42. The Disciple (2013)
93 min | Drama
In 1939 the 13-year-old Carl arrives at the lighthouse Lågskär in the Åland Islands, for a position as lighthouse disciple. He is trained by the demanding lighthouse keeper.
Director: Ulrika Bengts | Stars: Erik Enge, Patrik Kumpulainen, Niklas Groundstroem, Amanda Ooms
Votes: 468
43. Krakatoa (2008 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Drama
The greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history, the Krakatoa explosion of August 27 1883.
Directors: Jeremy Hall, Stuart Everett | Stars: John Shrapnel, Michael Bernardin, Sasha Waddell, Nick Ewans
Votes: 126
44. Sea Racketeers (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Step back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Weldon Heyburn, Jeanne Madden, Warren Hymer, Penny Singleton
Votes: 79
45. Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: James Craig, Bonita Granville, Frank Jenks, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 325
46. Lighthouse Mouse (1955)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A sleep deprived mouse and Hippity Hopper battle Sylvester to keep the beacon light of a lighthouse off.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 206
47. The Lighthouse (1957)
162 min | Drama
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Shiro and his wife Kiyoko.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura, Katsuo Nakamura
Votes: 153
48. Das Feuerschiff (1963)
84 min | Crime, Drama
Religiously principled Captain Freytag must choose between his morals and the safety of his crew and his young son, when three ruthless criminals on the run take over his lighthouse.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Helmut Wildt, Dieter Borsche, Pinkas Braun
Votes: 26
49. Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)
130 min | Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Gô Katô, Hitoshi Ueki, Reiko Ôhara, Yoko Shinoyama
Votes: 79
50. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (1918)
63 min | Drama
The wealthy Frank Helmer travels to the seafront to forget a bitter love story. There he meets Awa, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, whom he falls in love with.
Director: Georg af Klercker | Stars: Manne Göthson, Agnes Önergsson, Carl Barcklind, Nils Lundell
Votes: 37