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1. Kaiju No. 8 (2024– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A man working a job far removed from his childhood dreams gets wrapped up in an unexpected situation...!. Becoming a monster, he aims once again to fulfill his lifelong dream...!.
Stars: Masaya Fukunishi, Asami Seto, Wataru Kato, Nazeeh Tarsha
Votes: 1,167
2. The Strain (2014–2017)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism ravages the city of New York.
Stars: Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Kevin Durand, Jonathan Hyde
Votes: 87,133
3. Battleship (2012)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna
Votes: 257,480 | Gross: $65.42M
4. Life (2009)
TV-G | 43 min | Documentary
David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth. From giving an overview of the challenges facing life to hunting the deep sea and various major evolutionary groups of creatures.
Stars: Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan, Roger Munns
Votes: 42,831
5. Operation Pacific (1951)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes
Votes: 3,895
6. Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982–1983)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of a 1930's Pacific Islands bush pilot and his companions.
Stars: Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Caitlin O'Heaney, Marta DuBois
Votes: 1,886
7. Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Action
On a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett
Votes: 12,804
8. Morituri (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard
Votes: 4,502
9. Away All Boats (1956)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, War
The story of a U.S. Naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, from 1943 to 1945.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Lex Barker, Julie Adams
Votes: 1,629
10. Mysterious Ways (2023)
90 min | Drama
When a media storm threatens the marriage between a Vicar and his Samoan boyfriend something extraordinary happens.
Director: Paul Oremland | Stars: Nick Afoa, Vincent Andrew-Scammell, Lena Boswell, Elisabeth Easther
Votes: 21
11. Abandoned (VI) (2015)
TV-14 | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Director: John Laing | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Peter Feeney, Owen Black, Greg Johnson
Votes: 3,332
12. Man of the East (1972)
PG | 123 min | Action, Comedy, Western
In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto
Votes: 3,206
13. Kon-Tiki (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
Director: Thor Heyerdahl | Stars: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland
Votes: 2,809
14. Pacific Banana (1981)
R | 82 min | Comedy
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his ... See full summary »
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Graeme Blundell, Robin Stewart, Deborah Gray, Alyson Best
Votes: 213
15. 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
16. The Pearl Button (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán, Ema Malig
Votes: 2,907
17. Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.
Director: Izuru Narushima | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya, Mitsugorô Bandô
Votes: 1,256
18. Teine Sa (2021– )
Drama, Horror
The ancient female spirits of the Pacific are stirring. Revered and feared, these sacred goddesses have crept back into the modern world to engage with five women each facing their own demons.
Stars: Frankie Adams, Dominic Ona-Ariki, Elsie Polosovai, Joseph Naufahu
Votes: 11
19. No Man Is an Island (1962)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, War
During the early Pacific war years, American seaman George Tweed is the only U.S. serviceman on Guam not captured by the Japanese forces.
Directors: Richard Goldstone, John Monks Jr. | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Marshall Thompson, Barbara Perez, Ronald Remy
Votes: 589
20. The Coming War on China (2016)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History
From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
Director: John Pilger | Stars: Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher
Votes: 1,690
21. The Proud and Profane (1956)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin
Votes: 654
22. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
When the Japanese declare war on the United States of America with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin fights through the Pacific whilst on a mission to rescue his captured brother.
Stars: Dale Dye, Nick Jameson, Yuri Lowenthal, Mako
Votes: 1,185
23. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
You play through the eyes of soldiers in various engagements of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Directors: Mo Davoudian, Ali Donovan | Stars: Dave Wittenberg, Will Friedle, Bart Tangredi, Chris Cox
Votes: 1,279
24. Island of the Lost (1967)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Action, Mystery
An anthropologist and his family are shipwrecked on a South Seas island.
Director: John Florea | Stars: Richard Greene, Luke Halpin, Sheilah Wells, Irene Tsu
Votes: 160
25. Battlefield 1942 (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
In Battlefield 1942, players are dropped into the middle of a World War II battlefield and forced to find a path to victory both for them and for the soldiers on their side.
Director: Johan Persson | Stars: Malcolm Sherwood, Patti Tauscher, Marc Farly, Ken Felton
Votes: 1,469
26. Pacific Inferno (1979)
89 min | War
After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Bayer | Stars: Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, Timothy Brown, Rik Van Nutter
Votes: 269
27. 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
28. Tongan Ninja (2002)
83 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
The Tongan Ninja is sent by his master to the island of New Zealand to help a floundering Chinese restaurant, but the mysterious Mister Big sends numerous villains to prevent the eatery's success.
Director: Jason Stutter | Stars: Sam Manu, Jemaine Clement, Linda Tseng, Laura Hill
Votes: 747
29. Sensation Hunters (1933)
73 min | Drama
Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna
Votes: 211
30. Battle of Midway: The True Story (2019 TV Special)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
It was one of the largest naval engagements ever and a turning point in WWII. The Battle of Midway changed the face of warfare and made victory in the Pacific possible.
Stars: Timothy Orr, Hill Goodspeed, Ian W. Toll, Laura Lawfer Orr
Votes: 14
31. Battle of Blood Island (1960)
TV-PG | 64 min | Drama, War
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
Director: Joel Rapp | Stars: Richard Devon, Ron Gans, Roger Corman
Votes: 293
32. Oceans Apart: Greed, Betrayal and Pacific Island Rugby (2020)
59 min | Documentary, Sport
Presented by former Samoa rugby player Dan Leo, who sacrificed his own career to confront corruption in his national union, Oceans Apart looks at the bond between the Pacific and modern Rugby and reveals the darker side of the sport.
Directors: Callum Drummond, Axel Haudiquet | Stars: Dan Leo, Inoke Afeaki, Ben Atiga, Frank Bunce
Votes: 496
33. Children of Nagasaki (1983)
128 min | Drama, War
The atom-bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 is recalled by a survivor.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Gô Katô, Yukiyo Toake, Masatomo Nakabayashi, Mami Nishijima
Votes: 167
34. Murder in the Pacific (2023)
Documentary
The efforts by the New Zealand authorities to solve the case of who bombed the Rainbow Warrior ship in 1985, which resulted in the death of one of the crew.
Stars: Chris Martin, Peter Willcox, Bunny McDiarmid, Pierre Joxe
Votes: 80
35. Noon Sunday (1970)
R | 104 min | Action, Drama
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
Director: Terry Bourke | Stars: Mark Lenard, John Russell, Linda Avery, Keye Luke
Votes: 88
36. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 121
37. Female Slave Ship (1960)
83 min | Action, Adventure, War
Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshiki Onoda | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Mihara, Utako Mitsuya
Votes: 33
38. When the World Came to San Francisco (2015)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A drama about a young woman's visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The film tells the story of the exposition, as imagined through the eyes of a visitor.
Director: R. Christian Anderson | Stars: Beverly Washburn, Gerry O'Brien, Grover James Taylor, Linda Joy
Votes: 11
39. The People of Paradise (1960)
Documentary
A six part documentary series following David Attenborough as he visits various South Pacific islands, observing local customs and rituals that are quickly fading.
Stars: David Attenborough, Brian Branston
Votes: 28
40. Airboss IV: The X Factor (2000)
Action, Adventure
AirBoss does cool stuff (Again)
Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Frank Bona, Radium Cheung, Demosthenes Chrysan
Votes: 43
41. Don't Look Down (2016)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
The story behind Richard Branson's attempts to break world records flying in a hot air balloon. Using interviews with Branson, his team, archive and dramatic recons, the film tells a story of courage, determination, despair and triumph.
Director: Daniel Gordon | Stars: Eve Branson, Richard Branson, Mike Kendrick, Per Lindstrand
Votes: 130
42. Escape to Paradise (1960)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In the Philippines during World War II, a girl is rescued from bandits by a guerrilla fighter.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Leopoldo Salcedo, Diane Jergens, Johnny Monteiro, Joe Dennis
Votes: 82
43. Surfing the '50s (1994 Video)
70 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: Bud Browne | Stars: Peter Cole, John Kelly, Mickey Dora, George Downing
44. New Zealand from Above (2012)
43 min | Documentary
An aerial journey from the deep south of the South Island to the northern tip of the North Island. We discover the landscapes and meet New Zealanders who talk about their work, interests and culture.
Star: Julian Pulvermacher
Votes: 54
45. Samoa (1956)
32 min | Documentary, Short, Family
The story of a happy people on an island paradise begins with a description of life and cultural events in the communities. There are glimpses of fishing and local foods being prepared, and the building of a guest house is shown.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 44
46. The Indian Pacific: Australia's Longest Train Journey (2019 TV Movie)
182 min | Documentary
Crossing Australia from Perth to Sydney, the pivotal part played by the transcontinental railway line in linking the far-flung west coast with the eastern states is explored.
Director: Adam Kay
Votes: 18
47. Final Mission: USS Tang (2013)
15 min | Short, Action, History
A riveting, first-hand account of the last epic battle of the USS Tang submarine during WWII.
Director: Joseph Cortina
48. Front Mission (1995 Video Game)
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the future, many military forces are dependent on huge mech robots, called Wanzers (Walking Panzers) for combat. At Huffman Island, located in the the pacific ocean, wanzers are deployed... See full summary »
Director: Hideo Iwasaki
Votes: 23
49. Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)
Documentary, History, War
From white-knuckle, high-speed dogfights to brutal land combat, witness the Battle of Okinawa in vivid color.
Stars: Jeff Wilburn, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Chester W. Nimitz, Mitsuru Ushijima
Votes: 20
50. 1st to Fight: Pacific War Marines (2020)
60 min | Documentary, History, War
The Battle for Guadal Canal, as told by the men who were there. Narrated by Jon Seda, there are side-by-side images of the island today. A stirring documentary, told in real time.
Director: Tim Gray | Stars: Jon Seda, Bill Finnegan, Daniel Martinez, Lou Imfeld
Votes: 11