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1. You Only Live Twice (1967)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 117,632 | Gross: $43.08M
2. 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: 6,392
3. The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
R | 88 min | Horror
A young American family moves to a House in Kyoto, Japan. It turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and her lover, who were killed by the woman's husband, as well as the ghost of the husband, who killed himself afterward.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure, Amy Barrett
Votes: 1,389
4. Amphibian Man (1961)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed ... See full summary »
Directors: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Simonov
Votes: 2,812
5. Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure
To escape from an arranged marriage to Aquatania's pagan god, a desperate maiden ends up in Tarzan's fishing net. But soon, he, too, finds himself before a well-planned conspiracy. Can Tarzan save the mermaid from the barbaric idol's will?
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma
Votes: 2,172
6. Beyond the Reef (1979)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Romance
Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be ... See full summary »
Director: Frank C. Clarke | Stars: Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden
Votes: 228 | Gross: $0.55M
7. The Black Pearl (1977)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father agrees to let him experience this job. Ramon enters a forbidden cave, den of a giant skate ... See full summary »
Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: Carlos Estrada, Perla Cristal, Mario Custodio, Emilio Rodríguez
Votes: 76
8. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush
Votes: 965
9. Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
When some of his crew are captured by the Spaniards in Rio De La Hacha, pirate Captain Peter Blood enters the city in disguise in order to free his men from Marquis De Riconete's prison.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya
Votes: 383
10. In a Savage Land (1999)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Drama
Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Martin Donovan, Maya Stange, Max Cullen
Votes: 583
11. Avenger of the Seven Seas (1962)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway ... See full summary »
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Richard Harrison, Roldano Lupi, Marisa Belli
Votes: 171
12. My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look ... See full summary »
Director: Heung-sik Park | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Park Hae-il, Ko Du-shim, Kim Bu-seon
Votes: 400
13. Adventure's End (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Drama
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Montagu Love, Moroni Olsen
Votes: 128
14. Isle of Fury (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Romance
In the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are getting married when a ship goes down offshore. Val rescues Captain Deever and passenger Eric Blake. Later Eric saves Val from an ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, E.E. Clive
Votes: 750
15. Onna shinju-ô no fukushû (1956)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A story of sex and survival, Toshio Shimura's REVENGE OF THE PEARL QUEEN stars voluptuous Michiko Maeda as an office worker and future pearl diver trapped on a tropical beach with five lustful male castaways.
Director: Toshio Shimura | Stars: Susumu Fujita, Michiko Maeda, Ken Utsui, Shigeru Amachi
Votes: 20
16. Horny Diver: Tight Shellfish (1985)
69 min | Drama
A ruthless real-estate tycoon sets his sights on a small fishing village, which he believes he can buy cheaply and turn into a profitable tourist destination. He hires a handsome young ... See full summary »
Director: Atsushi Fujiura | Stars: Megumi Kiyosato, Asami Ogawa, Hiroko Fuji, Kumiko Itô
Votes: 46
17. What Price Decency (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman with a shady past goes to the tropics, where she winds up marrying a vicious and brutal pearl trader, then falls in love with another man.
Director: Arthur Gregor | Stars: Dorothy Burgess, Alan Hale, Walter Byron, Henry Durant
18. Badjao: The Sea Gypsies (1957)
TV-PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala-amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe.... See full summary »
Director: Lamberto V. Avellana | Stars: Rosa Rosal, Tony Santos, Leroy Salvador, Joseph De Cordova
Votes: 59
19. A Thief in Paradise (1925)
80 min | Drama
After years of failure, Maurice Blake becomes a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a risky living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater
Votes: 20
20. Haunted Cave (1959)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Yumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls of her ... See full summary »
Director: Morihei Magatani | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara, Reiko Seto, Kuniko Yamamura
Votes: 27
21. Ama no senritsu (1957)
73 min | Adventure
Director: Toshio Shimura | Stars: Michiko Maeda, Eiji Wakasugi, Utako Mitsuya, Masayo Banri
Votes: 15
22. Port of Hate (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young, Shia Jung
Votes: 43
23. Hitokui ama (1958)
74 min | Drama
Director: Yoshiki Onoda | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Ken Utsui, Kyôko Yashiro, Mamu Akita
24. Suppadaka no seishun (1958)
57 min
Director: Haruo Harada | Stars: Keizô Kawasaki, Junko Kanô, Tazuko Niki, Yuka Konno
25. Anokha Moti (2000)
86 min | Drama, Family
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Arjun Chakraborty, Nayab Aftab, Radhika Jajodia, Vishesh Marwaha
Votes: 21
27. Building the Dhow (2010)
3 min | Documentary, Short, History
About the construction of the Arab pearl diving dhow.
Director: Peter Ringgaard
28. Bahrain: Pearl of the Gulf (2010 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
A visually stunning in-depth look at the Middle East island nation of Bahrain. From pearl divers going about their traditional business to some of the world's most amazing architecture, this is Bahrain as you have never seen it before.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Stars: Sooud Kanoo, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Shermeen Al-Shirawi, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
29. Bahrain Videoscape: Three Screen Pearl Dive (2010)
2 min | Documentary, Short
Short film about pearl divers diving from their Arab dhow to the bottom of the sea to pick up oysters.
Director: Peter Ringgaard
30. The Pearl Driver's Tale (2020)
11 min | Short, Fantasy
The pearl diver journeys deep into the sea to retrieve the precious tide jewels from the Dragon King to ensure her infant son's future. On the way, she is seduced and entrapped by an octopus.
Director: Yokna Hasegawa | Stars: Mai Kubota, Miwa Okuno
31. Pearl Diver (2010 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
Long before the oil industry transformed the Gulf region, pearl diving was the biggest industry in Bahrain. Only a few of the old captains and crew members are still alive to tell their ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Stars: Brian Patterson, Mikimoto Kokichi, Loubna Abargh, Yassine Ahajjam
32. Bahrain Ambient Film: Pearl Drilling (2010)
2 min | Documentary, Short
Short film about the pearl drilling business in Bahrain.
Director: Peter Ringgaard
33. The Bahraini Flag Film (2010)
14 min | Documentary, Short
A nation comes together.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Star: Roqaya Al-Gassra
34. Bahrain Ambient Film: Pearl Trading (2010)
2 min | Documentary, Short
Short film about the pearl trading business in Bahrain.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Star: Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Isa Al Manaei
35. Sharing a New Bahrain: Art and Culture (2010)
3 min | Documentary, Short
Short film about the art and culture of Bahrain.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Stars: Mohammed Al Humran, Malika Poulsen
36. Seaman Dan & Friends: Welcome to the Torres Strait (2005)
Not Rated | 26 min | Documentary, Short
Seaman Dan and his friends have lived and worked in the maritime industry in Torres Strait, particularly on pearling luggers. Seaman Dan was a hard-hat diver in the 40s and 50s and his songs document the work and lifestyles of that time.
Director: Fiona Cochrane
37. Life on Board the Pearling Boat (2010)
4 min | Documentary, Short, History
Short film about the craft of pearl diving, assembled from unique archive footage.
Director: Peter Ringgaard
38. Bahrain People Stories (2010)
Documentary
Bahrain stories told by Bahrainis.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Stars: Wafa Ahmad Abul, Sayed Agha, Salman Jaafar Hassan Al-Aradi, Jalil Ebrahim Al-Arrayed
39. King's Pearl Diving Speech (2010)
4 min | Documentary, Short, History
Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa speaks to hundreds of pearl divers, sailing on their Arab dhows.
Director: Peter Ringgaard | Star: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
40. Bahrain Ambient Film: Men and Women Singing (2010)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Former Bahraini pearl divers, the men on their Arab dhow, and the women on the shore, reenact traditional pearl diving songs.
Director: Peter Ringgaard
41.
Whicker's World (1959–1994)
Episode:
The World of James Bond
(1967)
55 min | Documentary
Alan Whicker examines the success of the James Bond films, and reports from the set of the 007 movie You Only Live Twice (1967).
Director: Fred Burnley | Stars: Alan Whicker, Ken Adam, Albert R. Broccoli, Dana Broccoli
42.
Airs de France (1955–1963)
Episode:
Les pêcheurs de perles
(1960)
95 min | Musical, Romance
Director: Guy Lessertisseur | Stars: Léna Pastor, Michel Cadiou, André Jonqueres, Charles Daguerressar