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1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

The monster slayer Geralt of Rivia must find his adoptive daughter who is being pursued by the Wild Hunt, and prevent the White Frost from bringing about the end of the world.

Director: Konrad Tomaszkiewicz | Stars: Doug Cockle, Denise Gough, Jo Wyatt, Jaimi Barbakoff

Votes: 33,336

2. Tulip Fever (2017)

R | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.

Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger

Votes: 22,953 | Gross: $2.43M

3. The Castaway Cowboy (1974)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Western

A Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea

Votes: 910

4. Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 2,312

5. Phantom Ship (1935)

Approved | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.

Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard

Votes: 1,056

6. The Outcasts (1968–1969)

60 min | Western

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.

Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano

Votes: 182

7. Flatland (2002)

Action, Drama, Mystery

This Sci-Fi adventure follows the struggle between good and evil forces in an alternate universe, and what happens when their 4,000-year-long conflict crosses over into modern-day Shanghai to endanger both worlds.

Stars: Bumper Robinson, Phillip Rhys Chaudhary, Françoise Yip, Katherine Kendall

Votes: 115

8. Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his father's ships after he is unwillingly press-ganged aboard.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 565

9. The Legend of Sea Wolf (1975)

PG | 92 min | Adventure

A tale of the brutal sea captain of the Ghost who is ruthless with his crew. It becomes more than they can tolerate.

Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Chuck Connors, Giuseppe Pambieri, Barbara Bach, Rik Battaglia

Votes: 161

10. Dancing Pirate (1936)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!

Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni

Votes: 385

11. The Black Coin (1936)

Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen

Votes: 82

12. The Live Ghost (1934)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy

A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word "ghost," is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor it's...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him... See full summary »

Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long

Votes: 1,570

13. Marie Galante (1934)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a café in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan

Votes: 409

14. Dicky Moe (1962)

TV-Y7 | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The captain's obsession with the white whale Dicky Moe led his crew to abandon ship. He abducts Tom and enlists him as crew but Jerry's already on board to help make Tom's life miserable.

Director: Gene Deitch | Star: Allen Swift

Votes: 496

15. Cargo to Capetown (1950)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

The plot involves Ireland, captain of a tired oil tanker, and Crawford, the ship's engineer. The pair soon find themselves at odds over their mutual affection for Drew (who happens to be Crawford's fiancee).

Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Ellen Drew, John Ireland, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 145

16. Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)

7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 535

17. Frisco Kid (1935)

Passed | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita

Votes: 691

18. Eria 88 (2004– )

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Drama

In the early 1980s, a war is raging in Arslan, a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom. Mercenary fighter pilots from all over the world are hired or shanghaied to fight. They live in a secret desert airbase called Area 88.

Stars: Sarah Hauser, John Swasey, Chris Patton, John Gremillion

Votes: 146

19. The Devil at His Elbow (1916)

50 min | Drama

John Ashton, a young mechanical engineer, is completing the plans of a new submarine. The government is interested in his work, and he has promised to have it done by the tenth of the month... See full summary »

Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Clifford Bruce, Dorothy Green, John K. Roberts, Francis McDonald

Votes: 14

20. Waterfront (1928)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, James Bradbury Sr., Knute Erickson

Votes: 12

21. Ships of Hate (1931)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.

Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Dorothy Sebastian, Charles Middleton, Lloyd Whitlock

Votes: 23

22. AquaNox 2: Revelation (2003 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In the future where nuclear war destroyed the surface, so humans moved into underwater corrupt megalopolises, William Drake, an adventurous heir of a bankrupt corporation who got shanghaied by mercenaries, uncovers forgotten past.

Stars: Gabriel Kuttner, Simon Smithies, Heather De Lisle, Alan Houghland

Votes: 44

23. The End of the Bridge (1914)

Short, Crime, Drama

"Shark" Manning, a brawny, brutal crook, is chief of the Mudflats gang of robbers, and has for his leading aide a sallow, slim youth, Dick Brackett, the latter residing with his father, ... See full summary »

Stars: Francis McDonald, Madeline Pardee, Frank Cleaver, Fred Whitman

24. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: San Francisco (1960)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

While in San Francisco, two of Ben's hired hands get shanghaied and so does Ben in the process of looking for them.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Votes: 196

25. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
Episode: My Name Is Jemal (1968)

60 min | Western

Jemal is shanghaied and put in a prison wagon by Sgt Taggert who assumes his identity and robs a stagecoach. Corey goes to search for Jemal, with a sheriff and his men in pursuit, assuming him complicit in the crime.

Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, James Edwards, Janee Michelle

Votes: 16

26. Profit (1996–1997)
Episode: Chinese Box (1997)

45 min | Crime, Drama

An impending F.B.I. raid due to a subsidiary company selling missile parts to an enemy country gives Profit chances to creates destructive future gains and put him in a good light with Mr. Gracen.

Director: David Greenwalt | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr

Votes: 73

27. Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982–1983)
Episode: Shanghaied (1982)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A mysterious sailor calling himself Captain Ahab comes to Bora Gora and kidnaps Corky, forcing him to fix a broken part on Ahab's ship. Despite suffering from malaria, Jake goes after them.

Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Caitlin O'Heaney, Marta DuBois

Votes: 65

28. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990–1991)
Episode: One Sweet and Sour Chinese Adventure to Go (1990)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Bill and Ted accidentally break Missy's... I mean, Mrs. Preston's Antique Chinese vase and must go on a most superdacious adventure back to Antique China to get her a new one before she returns home.

Directors: Robert Alvarez, Don Lusk, Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano, Ray Patterson | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Ken Berry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Hamilton Camp

Votes: 51

29. Pistol (2022)
Episode: Track 5: Nancy and Sid (2022)

TV-MA | Biography, Drama, Music

Sid becomes increasingly lost to heroin and violence as his relationship with Nancy heats up. A plan to get rid of Nancy goes awry during a riverboat stunt at the Queen's Jubilee.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Sydney Chandler

Votes: 284

30. Winsome Witch (1965–1967)
Episode: Sea-Dogged (1966)

Animation, Comedy, Family

Winnie is captured by pirates and forced to serve as a scullery maid by their scurvy captain. The witch decides to teach the buccaneer some manners.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Star: Jean Vander Pyl