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1. Green Mansions (1959)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.

Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 2,603

2. 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: 91,213 | Gross: $10.00M

3. The Road to El Dorado (2000)

PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.

Directors: Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul, Jeffrey Katzenberg | Stars: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante

Votes: 107,790 | Gross: $50.86M

4. Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.

Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack

Votes: 39,878 | Gross: $39.40M

5. The Air Up There (1994)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

A basketball coach travels to Africa to recruit a new star.

Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Charles Gitonga Maina, Yolanda Vazquez, Winston Ntshona

Votes: 9,514 | Gross: $21.01M

6. Son of Kong (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

The showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength.

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston

Votes: 5,318 | Gross: $1.34M

7. Seven Cities of Gold (1955)

Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, History

In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.

Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter

Votes: 588

8. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,048

9. The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd

Votes: 556

10. Old Shatterhand (1964)

89 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison

Votes: 1,815

11. Hurricane (1979)

PG | 120 min | Adventure, Drama

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard

Votes: 701

12. Tarzan Escapes (1936)

Passed | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Family

An expedition seeking to bring Jane back to civilization, and Tarzan into captivity, gets more than it's bargained for.

Directors: Richard Thorpe, John Farrow, James C. McKay, George B. Seitz, William A. Wellman | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler, Benita Hume

Votes: 3,610

13. King of the Zombies (1941)

Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor

Votes: 2,512

14. Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure

Tarzan acts as a guide for two British government agents recently arrived in Africa to secure a great cache of diamonds for the English military. However, the agents are not what they seem.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles, Charles Korvin

Votes: 524

15. Mamba (1930)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming

Votes: 108

16. Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne

Votes: 161

17. Zanzibar (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Lola Lane, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Tom Fadden

Votes: 45

18. The Beachcomber (1954)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.

Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers

Votes: 371

19. Gallant Bess (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

An orphaned young man, Tex, has loved and trained his loyal horse, keeping alive his father's dream of starting a ranch. He decides to put his life on hold to serve the United States during... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Marshall Thompson, George Tobias, Clem Bevans, Donald Curtis

Votes: 219

20. Walk Into Hell (1956)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure

Steve MacAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native ... See full summary »

Directors: Lee Robinson, Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Françoise Christophe, Reg Lye, Pierre Cressoy

Votes: 102

21. Tembo (1952)

Passed | 80 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

This is an expedition/travelogue, disguised as a documentary with a plot. The 'plot' is that this Howard Hill expedition has come to Africa in search of a legendary tribe of "Leopard Men' (... See full summary »

Director: Howard Hill | Stars: Howard Hill, Westbrook Van Voorhis

Votes: 24

22. Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the natives under their cruel ... See full summary »

Directors: Lee Sholem, Elmo Williams | Stars: Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Roberta Haynes

Votes: 131

23. African Treasure (1952)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure

Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Martin Garralaga, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 219

24. Jungle Manhunt (1951)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Robert Waterfield, Sheila Ryan, Rick Vallin

Votes: 392

25. Jungle Siren (1942)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure

A woman who was raised in the jungle helps a man fight Nazis who are trying to start a native uprising.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl, Paul Bryar

Votes: 221

26. Rhythm of the Islands (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

On the only Pacific island untouched by and unaware of World-War-Two, American beachcombers Tommy (Allan Jones) and Eddie Dolan (Andy Devine) sell off Paradise Island to American ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex

Votes: 42

27. The Girl from Mandalay (1936)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John Foster (Conrad Nagel) and Kenneth Grainger (Donald Cook) are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor (Esther Ralston), writes him that ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook, Esther Ralston

Votes: 25

28. Hell on Devil's Island (1957)

Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Corrupt prison authorities use convict labor to run mines.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Helmut Dantine, William Talman, Donna Martell, Jean Willes

Votes: 34

29. Perils of the Jungle (1927)

Passed | 200 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young woman and her father search for hidden treasure in the African jungle.

Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Eugenia Gilbert, Frank Merrill, Bobby Nelson, Milburn Morante

Votes: 21

30. The Man Hunter (1930)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A dramatic story of love and intrigue in Darkest Africa along the Ivory Coast, where all the dangers of the tropics beset the white man and the white man's dog. Once Rinty gets acclimated ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Charles Delaney, Nora Lane, John Loder

Votes: 40

31. Insel der Dämonen (1933)

60 min | Drama

Wajan, the son of Nudonk,a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's ... See full summary »

Director: Friedrich Dalsheim | Stars: Lombos, Sari, Nodonk, Wajan

Votes: 21

32. Wings Over the Pacific (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Drama

An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has been discovered.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Inez Cooper, Edward Norris, Montagu Love, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 84

33. Danger in the Pacific (1942)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

British Intelligence agent Leo Marzell (Leo Carrillo) persuades scientist-explorer David Lynd (Don Terry) to postpone his wedding to wealthy sportswoman Jane Claymore (Louise Allbritton) to... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Don Terry, Louise Allbritton

Votes: 49

34. Isle of Paradise (1932)

Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History

Shot over a period of six months in the island of Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, the film put together by Charles T. Trego, sets out to show that the scenic splendor and the beauty of the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles T. Trego | Star: David Ross

35. Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #60 (1938)

Approved | 9 min | Short

Lowell Thomas visits the former head-hunters among the Malay natives on the west coast of Sumatra and learns they now only do so via dance ritual that does not cost anyone the loss of their... See full summary »

Director: Charles E. Ford | Star: Lowell Thomas

36. Adventures of the Seaspray (1966– )
Episode: Mutiny on the Seaspray (1967)

Adventure, Family

Noah is confined to his room after breaking a valuable radio part. Bored, he puts a message in a bottle claiming that he's being held against his will on the Seaspray and tosses it ... See full summary »

Director: Joe McCormick | Stars: Joe McCormick, Gary Gray, Susanne Haworth, Rodney Pearlman

37. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Love Doctor/The Pleasure Palace/Possessed (1980)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Film star Kim Holland wants a weekend of anonymity; stuffy lawyer Gordon Hughes traces his roots and is disillusioned; and Lorna Hendricks needs help in finding out why her daughter Stephanie is acting so oddly.

Directors: Earl Bellamy, Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Loni Anderson, Barbi Benton

Votes: 70

38. Tales of the South Seas (1998–2000)
Episode: Trent in Love (2000)

Adventure

Grief and Lavinia work to keep their relationship on track. However, Lavinia becomes doubtful when Grief is given the daughter of a tribal chief in a trade transaction. Luckily, the Reverend Trent takes a liking to her.

Director: Ian Barry | Stars: William Snow, Rene Naufahu, Rachel Blakely, Rowena King

Votes: 9

39. Adventures of the Seaspray (1966– )
Episode: The Power of Davu (1966)

Adventure, Family

The native chief of a remote Fijian island warns Captain Wells that the tribe's witch doctor has fallen under the influence of a crook who plans to plunder the island's mineral deposits.

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Walter Brown, Susanne Haworth, Gary Gray, Rodney Pearlman

40. Adventures of the Seaspray (1966– )
Episode: Three Mile Limit (1967)

Adventure, Family

After celebrating Sue's birthday in a coastal New Guinea town, the Wells family returns to the Seaspray and find it occupied by a large man and his two unsavory companions who insist they own the boat - and have the papers to prove it.

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Walter Brown, Susanne Haworth, Gary Gray, Leoni Lesinawi

41. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956)
Episode: Perilous Journey (1955)

Adventure

When a native chief returns to his village and finds it destroyed and his family abducted, against the advice of Bob and Sheena, he attempts to rescue his wife and son and avenge himself on... See full summary »

Stars: Irish McCalla, Christian Drake, Milton Reddi, Virgil Richardson

42. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956)
Episode: Fair Stranger (1955)

30 min | Adventure

The sister-in-law of Colonel Deveridge, Diane Russell, plots to take over his prosperous plantation by killing his son and heir, David. She abandons him in the jungle, but Sheena rescues ... See full summary »

Director: Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Irish McCalla, Christian Drake, Lee Weaver, Jerry Molina

43. Ice Road Truckers (2007–2017)
Episode: The Lone Wolf (2014)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Adventure, Reality-TV

A defection in the ranks takes the battle for the winter roads to a whole new level. Hugh hatches a plan for VP Express to crush the competition, hauling the most lucrative load to date ... See full summary »

Stars: Mark Kohaykewych, Hugh Rowland, Alex Debogorski, Lisa Kelly

Votes: 16

44. George of the Jungle (1967–1970)
Episode: The Desperate Showers (1967)

TV-G | Animation, Adventure, Family

Can George save Ursula from being sacrificed to the Big Joo Joo by a rain-crazy witch doctor?

Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Bill Scott, June Foray, Daws Butler, Paul Frees

Votes: 11