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1. King Kong (1933)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Horror

A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.

Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher

Votes: 90,960 | Gross: $10.00M

2. Eaten Alive! (1980)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror

A young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer

Votes: 4,598

3. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

G | 126 min | Adventure, Family

A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro

Votes: 18,168 | Gross: $40.36M

4. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 17,886 | Gross: $13.68M

5. Blue Hawaii (1961)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical

After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Nancy Walters

Votes: 7,501 | Gross: $10.44M

6. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones

Votes: 651

7. Hawaii (1966)

Approved | 189 min | Drama

An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Directors: George Roy Hill, Arthur Hiller | Stars: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman

Votes: 3,554 | Gross: $34.56M

8. Bora Bora (1968)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical

A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.

Director: Ugo Liberatore | Stars: Haydée Politoff, Corrado Pani, Doris Kunstmann, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

Votes: 167 | Gross: $0.07M

9. 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: 13,216

10. 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: 3,143

11. The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998–1999)

30 min | Adventure, Family

Emmy-winner Richard Thomas (The Waltons) stars in this exciting family adventure based on Johann David Wyss's Timeless book. Join the shipwrecked Robinsons as they struggle together to make a new life on a remote desert island.

Stars: Gareth Howells, Kieren Hutchison, Richard Thomas, Mia Lux

Votes: 622

12. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge

Votes: 6,382

13. Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Musical

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin

Votes: 3,623

14. Up from the Depths (1979)

R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.

Director: Charles B. Griffith | Stars: Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye, Kedric Wolfe

Votes: 1,003

15. Nate and Hayes (1983)

PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A swashbuckling adventure which takes place in the mid-1800's on the South Pacific islands where bloody raids and battles were once the rule of the day.

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Max Phipps, Jenny Seagrove

Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $1.96M

16. Bird of Paradise (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 1,575

17. Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 362

18. The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though, the guide begins to ... See full summary »

Director: David Keith | Stars: David Keith, Kathy Shower, Brant von Hoffman, Sydney Lassick

Votes: 725

19. Tanna (2015)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

Directors: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean | Stars: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, Charlie Kahla

Votes: 4,682 | Gross: $0.01M

20. Brides of Blood (1968)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Natives of a tropical island have to contend with man-eating plants and animals, mutations caused by radioactivity. Virgin sacrifices become the norm. A small group of interlopers become caught up in the mayhem.

Directors: Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero | Stars: John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Mario Montenegro, Beverly Powers

Votes: 962

21. Demon of Paradise (1987)

R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Kathryn Witt, William Steis, Laura Banks, Frederick Bailey

Votes: 646

22. Deepsea Challenge (2014)

PG | 91 min | Documentary

As a boy, filmmaker James Cameron dreamed of a journey to the deepest part of the ocean. This film is the dramatic fulfillment of that dream.

Directors: John Bruno, Ray Quint, Andrew Wight | Stars: James Cameron, Suzy Amis, Frank Lotito, Paul Henri

Votes: 2,319 | Gross: $0.15M

23. She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)

Approved | 63 min | Adventure

Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell, Jeanne Gerson

Votes: 1,116

24. Return to Paradise (1953)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes, Moira Walker

Votes: 836

25. The Steel Claw (1961)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, War

A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a ... See full summary »

Director: George Montgomery | Stars: George Montgomery, Charito Luna, Mario Barri, Paul Sorensen

Votes: 195

26. The Longest Hundred Miles (1967 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, War

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Doug McClure, Katharine Ross, Ricardo Montalban, Ronald Remy

Votes: 229

27. The Gold and the Glory (1984)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Sport

A young Australian man sets out to prove himself, leaving behind his ballerina girlfriend to train for the Coolangatta Gold triathlon, a race once almost won by his father.

Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels, Josephine Smulders

Votes: 205

28. South of Pago Pago (1940)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The son of an island chieftain, young Kehane defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna

Votes: 163

29. Zamboanga (1937)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance

Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.

Director: Eduardo de Castro | Stars: Fernando Poe, Rosa Del Rosario

Votes: 26

30. Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

In Bali, a young woman falls in love with a musician, but he may have eyes for her half-sister.

Director: Henri de la Falaise | Stars: Poetoe Aloes Goesti, Bagus Mara Goesti, Saplak Njoman, Njong Njong Njoman

Votes: 264

31. Paradise Island (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Music

Ellen Bradford comes to the South Sea Island of Tonga to marry her fiancé and finds out that he is a drunk. She also finds out that she is the only white woman on the island and, as such, ... See full summary »

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Marceline Day, Tom Santschi, Paul Hurst

Votes: 147

32. Family of the Wa'a (2011)

81 min | Documentary

This is the story of a journey, both of a canoe and the men and women who paddled it 1,750 miles across the Hawaiian archipelago. It began with the kuleana, or sacred promise, of a young ... See full summary »

Director: Alyssa Fedele

33. Bougainville (1935)

38 min | Documentary, Short

The daily life, customs and traditions of the people of Bougainville Island filmed by Patrick O'Reilly, a Catholic priest, anthropologist and pioneer of Pacific studies.

Director: Patrick O'Reilly | Star: Genu

34. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 75 (1917)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: "Going to Sea in the Heart of New York", "Unmasking the Mediums, No. 3", "Water Sports in Beautiful Hawaii", and Bobby Bumps' Fourth (1917).

Director: P.D. Hugon | Star: Hereward Carrington

35. Gilligan's Island (1964–1992)
Episode: Gilligan, the Goddess (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

A king from a nearby island comes to the island in search of a "White Goddess" to sacrifice to a volcano, but the castaways offer Gilligan to him instead to protect the women.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 230

36. Land of the Lost (1974–1977)
Episode: Medusa (1976)

TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Holly is lured into the Garden of Eternity, where Medusa intends to make her a permanent resident.

Director: Rick Bennewitz | Stars: Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Phillip Paley, Ron Harper

Votes: 51

37. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: The Hawaiian Connection: Part 1 (1976)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Luring Fred and Lamont to Hawaii, a trio of jewel thieves plot to make Fred their mule for smuggling stolen diamonds to California.

Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley

Votes: 140

38. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Dogfight Over Guadalcanal (2006)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

Barrett Tillman, an author and historian who appears in the film "Dogfight Over Guadalcanal," discusses the art of the dogfight and the Guadalcanal campaign.

Director: Michael Barnes | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Duncan Bulling, Bruno Nana, David Richardson

Votes: 28

39. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: The Beginning of the End (2008)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Charlie's dying message casts doubt on the intentions of the people that Jack believes to be their rescuers. A power struggle ensues between Jack, who wants to leave the island, and Locke, who thinks that they're supposed to stay.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 6,928

40. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: The Little Prince (2009)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

In Los Angeles, Kate tries to find out who is trying to take Aaron away from her. Back on the island, Locke convinces everyone that they have to go to The Orchid.

Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Michael Emerson

Votes: 5,077

41. Time Team (1994– )
Episode: Knockdhu, Co Antrim (2009)

Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History

In Ireland a series of strange ditch like constructions are investigated to identify who may have built one of the largest promontory fort in Ireland. The Time team become almost ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Warner | Stars: Tony Robinson, Francis Pryor, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth

Votes: 21

42. The White Lotus (2021–2025)
Episode: Recentering (2021)

TV-MA | 58 min | Comedy, Drama

After Shane shoots down her latest career plans, Rachel is blindsided by an unexpected arrival; Tanya's attention turns to an intriguing hotel guest; Armond's renewed commitment to sobriety is put to the test.

Director: Mike White | Stars: Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario

Votes: 4,354

43. The White Lotus (2021–2025)
Episode: The Lotus-Eaters (2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

As Armond attempts to do damage control, Belinda tries to redirect Tanya's focus to her business proposal; a sidelined Rachel begins to question her future; Nicole rebuffs Mark for airing their dirty laundry to Quinn.

Director: Mike White | Stars: Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario

Votes: 4,270

44. The White Lotus (2021–2025)
Episode: Departures (2021)

TV-MA | 66 min | Comedy, Drama

Rachel reveals stark truths. The Mossbachers turn the page on a traumatic event. Belinda gets bad news, and Armond exacts revenge.

Director: Mike White | Stars: Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario

Votes: 4,665

45. Warriors (2008– )
Episode: Islands of Blood (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | History, Reality-TV, War

This episode explores the bloody history of the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Terry Schappert learns about the bloody hand to hand combat techniques and vicious weaponry (like shark tooth ... See full summary »

Star: Terry Schappert

46. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: Recon (2010)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Locke sends Sawyer on a recon mission to the other island, where he runs into Charles Widmore and his submarine crew. In Los Angeles, Sawyer works as a police officer obsessed with finding the conman who destroyed his family.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Henry Ian Cusick, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 4,760

47. Trip Flip (2012– )
Episode: Oahu (2012)

TV-PG | Reality-TV

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Director: Laurie Brian | Stars: Bert Kreischer, Jake Kaplan

48. The Amazing Race (2001– )
Episode: Business in the Front, Party in the Back (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Family, Reality-TV

Eleven new teams of 2 travel from Los Angeles, California to Bora Bora, French Polynesia. The game changes when it is revealed that the first team to check in at the Pit Stop will receive ... See full summary »

Director: Bertram van Munster | Stars: Phil Keoghan, Caroline Cutbirth, Jennifer Wayne, Bates Battaglia

Votes: 74

49. Dr. Polaris (2019– )
Episode: The Giant Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar (2023)

15 min | Documentary

Lemurs have a diverse ancestry despite being limited to Madagascar. Here is a survey of the known lemurs of the past.

50. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Great Human Odyssey (2016)

TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary

Scientists are using archaeological and cultural findings to map humans' exodus from Africa and identify the adaptive skills required for the journey.

Director: Niobe Thompson | Stars: Sarah Anzick, Berhane Asfaw, Kalepa Baybayan, Yonas Beyene

Votes: 87