List of pirate films and TV series
This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries. The list includes films about other periods of piracy, TV series, and films tangentially related, such as pirate-themed pornographic films. Films about other types of piracy, such as music piracy, are not included.
List of films and series[]
Media | Title | Released | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
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Short film | 1908 | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | ||||
Short film | The Pirate's Gold | 1908 | D. W. Griffith | George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson, Charles Inslee | ||
Serial (3 parts) | 1909 | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | ||||
Short film | Blackbeard | 1911 | Francis Boggs | Sydney Ayres, Hobart Bosworth | Film about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |
Short film | 1912 | J. Searle Dawley | , Ben F. Wilson, Charles Ogle | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Short film | Pirate Gold | 1913 | Wilfred Lucas | Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, J. Jiquel Lanoe | ||
Documentary | 1915 | Rex Beach, | ||||
Documentary | 1915 | Rex Beach, | ||||
Documentary | 1915 | Rex Beach, | ||||
Short film | A Submarine Pirate | 1915 | Charles Avery, Sydney Chaplin | Sydney Chaplin, Wesley Ruggles | Submarine piracy. Set in modern times. | |
Animated comedy short | 1916 | John Randolph Bray | Comedy | |||
Daphne and the Pirate | 1916 | Christy Cabanne | Lillian Gish, Elliott Dexter, Walter Long | |||
1918 | Thomas N. Heffron | William Desmond, Mary Warren, Jack Richardson | ||||
Treasure Island | 1918 | Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin, Violet Radcliffe | Based on Treasure Island | ||
1919 | Ernst Wendt | Film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea | ||||
1920 | Vitale De Stefano | Based on Yolanda, the Black Corsair's Daughter | ||||
Film serial | Pirate Gold | 1920 | George B. Seitz | Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz, Frank Redman | ||
Treasure Island | 1920 | Maurice Tourneur | Shirley Mason, , | Based on Treasure Island | ||
1921 | Vitale De Stefano | Based on The Black Corsair | ||||
1921 | J. P. McGowan, Kathleen Clifford, Stanhope Wheatcroft | |||||
1921 | Vitale De Stefano | Based on Son of the Red Corsair | ||||
1921 | Vitale De Stefano | , | Based on The Queen of the Caribbean | |||
1921 | Vitale Di Stefano | Based on the sequel novels of The Black Corsair | ||||
Film serial | 1922 | Burton L. King, J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo, Kathleen Myers, | |||
Film serial | 1922 | Louis Feuillade | Aimé Simon-Girard | Set in modern times | ||
Masters of the Sea | 1922 | Alexander Korda | Victor Varconi | Set in modern times | ||
1924 | , Robert F. McGowan | Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels | ||||
Captain Blood | 1924 | David Smith | J. Warren Kerrigan, Jean Paige, Charlotte Merriam | Based on Captain Blood | ||
Peter Pan | 1924 | Herbert Brenon | Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali | Based on Peter and Wendy | ||
The Sea Hawk | 1924 | Frank Lloyd | Milton Sills, Enid Bennett | Based on The Sea Hawk, set in the Elizabethan era in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Clothes Make the Pirate | 1925 | Maurice Tourneur | Leon Errol, Dorothy Gish, Nita Naldi | Comedy | ||
Peter the Pirate | 1925 | Arthur Robison | Paul Richter, Aud Egede Nissen, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Set in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Satan's Sister | 1925 | George Pearson | Betty Balfour | Set in modern times | ||
Film serial | Surcouf | 1925 | Luitz-Morat | Jean Angelo | Film about Robert Surcouf (1773 – 1827), set in the Napoleonic Wars | |
Also known as The Black Buccaneer | The Black Pirate | 1926 | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Anders Randolf | ||
Breed of the Sea | 1926 | Ralph Ince | Ralph Ince, Margaret Livingston, Pat Harmon | |||
The Eagle of the Sea | 1926 | Frank Lloyd | Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez | Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) | ||
Also known as Sons of the Sea | Old Ironsides | 1926 | James Cruze | Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery | Set in the Mediterranean Sea, in the early 19th century | |
The Road to Romance | 1927 | John S. Robertson | Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc McDermott | Based on Romance | ||
The Beautiful Corsair | 1928 | Wladimiro De Liguoro | Rina De Liguoro | |||
The First Kiss | 1928 | Rowland V. Lee | Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, Lane Chandler | |||
Modern Pirates | 1928 | Manfred Noa | Jack Trevor | Set in modern times | ||
The Delightful Rogue | 1929 | Leslie Pearce | Rod La Rocque | Set in modern times | ||
Film serial | The Pirate of Panama | 1929 | Ray Taylor | Jay Wilsey, Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson | ||
Hell Harbor | 1930 | Henry King | Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland | |||
Corsair | 1931 | Roland West | Chester Morris | Set in modern times | ||
Film serial | Pirate Treasure | 1934 | Ray Taylor | Richard Talmadge, Lucille Lund, Walter Miller | ||
Treasure Island | 1934 | Victor Fleming | Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | Based on Captain Blood | ||
China Seas | 1935 | Tay Garnett | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery | Set in modern times | ||
Naughty Marietta | 1935 | Robert Z. Leonard, W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy | Musical | ||
This was a pirate-themed variety show held of Catalina Isle which starred a number Hollywood comics. | 1935 | Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, , | ||||
Captain Calamity | 1936 | John Reinhardt | Marian Nixon, George Houston, Vince Barnett | Set in modern times | ||
Dancing Pirate | 1936 | Lloyd Corrigan | Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna | Musical comedy. Set in the 1820s. | ||
The Black Corsair | 1937 | Amleto Palermi | Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino | Based on The Black Corsair | ||
Doctor Syn | 1937 | Roy William Neill | George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder | Film about smugglers in England in the late 18th century. Based on Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh. | ||
The Buccaneer | 1938 | Cecil B. DeMille | Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff | Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) | ||
Spawn of the North | 1938 | Henry Hathaway | George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour | Set in modern times, at the coast of Alaska | ||
Jamaica Inn | 1939 | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton | Set in England in 1819. Based on Jamaica Inn | ||
The Daughter of the Green Pirate | 1940 | Enrico Guazzoni | Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti | Based on the sequel novels of The Black Corsair | ||
Theatrical film | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | United States | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | Set in the Elizabethan era, but unlike the novel The Sea Hawk it is set in the Caribbean Sea |
The Black Swan | 1942 | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar | Film about Henry Morgan (c. 1635 – 1688) | ||
Reap the Wild Wind | 1942 | Cecil B. DeMille | Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard | Set in the 1840s along the Florida coast | ||
1943 | Vittorio Sanipoli | Based on Son of the Red Corsair | ||||
1943 | Vittorio Sanipoli | Based on the sequel novels of The Black Corsair | ||||
El Corsario Negro | 1944 | Chano Urueta | Pedro Armendáriz, María Luisa Zea, June Marlowe | Based on The Black Corsair | ||
Frenchman's Creek | 1944 | Mitchell Leisen | Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone | Based on Frenchman's Creek | ||
The Princess and the Pirate | 1944 | David Butler | Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Victor McLaglen, Walter Slezak | Comedy | ||
Captain Kidd | 1945 | Rowland V. Lee | Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton | Film about Captain William Kidd (1654 – 1701) | ||
Film serial | Manhunt of Mystery Island | 1945 | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Yakima Canutt, Wallace Grissell | Richard Bailey, Linda Stirling | Set in modern times | |
The Spanish Main | 1945 | Frank Borzage | Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak | |||
Film serial | The Sea Hound | 1947 | , Mack V. Wright | Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd (actor), Pamela Blake | Set in modern times | |
Sinbad the Sailor | 1947 | Richard Wallace | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn | Set at the time of Caliph Harun al-Rashid (ruled from 786 to 809), in the Indian Ocean. | ||
Animated comedy short | Buccaneer Bunny | 1948 | Friz Freleng | Mel Blanc (voice) | ||
The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli | Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak | Musical | ||
Barbary Pirate | 1949 | Lew Landers | Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall | Film about the begin of the First Barbary War. Set in 1801 | ||
1949 | Hannu Leminen | Tauno Palo, Helena Kara, | ||||
Buccaneer's Girl | 1950 | Frederick de Cordova | Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas | Set around 1810 | ||
Double Crossbones | 1950 | Charles Barton | Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer | Comedy | ||
Fortunes of Captain Blood | 1950 | Gordon Douglas | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready | Based on Captain Blood | ||
Last of the Buccaneers | 1950 | Lew Landers | Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin Booth | Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) | ||
Film serial | Pirates of the High Seas | 1950 | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell | Set in modern times | |
Treasure Island | 1950 | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll, Basil Sydney | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Two Lost Worlds | 1950 | Norman Dawn | James Arness, Kasey Rogers, Bill Kennedy | Set in the year 1830 | ||
Anne of the Indies | 1951 | Jacques Tourneur | Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget | With Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | ||
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | 1951 | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty | Based on the Horatio Hornblower novels. Set in the Napoleonic Wars | ||
Flame of Araby | 1951 | Charles Lamont | Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, Lon Chaney Jr., Buddy Baer | Film about the Brothers Barbarossa (Oruç Reis, c. 1474 – 1518, and Hayreddin Barbarossa, c. 1478 – 1546) | ||
Hurricane Island | 1951 | Lew Landers | Jon Hall, Marie Windsor, | Set in Florida in the year 1513 | ||
Revenge of the Pirates | 1951 | Primo Zeglio | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Maria Montez | |||
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd | 1952 | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton | Comedy | ||
Against All Flags | 1952 | George Sherman | Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn | Set in Madagascar | ||
Blackbeard the Pirate | 1952 | Raoul Walsh | Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix | Film about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | ||
Also known as Captain Blood, Fugitive. Sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) | Captain Pirate | 1952 | Ralph Murphy | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton | Based on Captain Blood | |
Caribbean Gold | 1952 | Edward Ludwig | John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke | Set in 1728 | ||
The Crimson Pirate | 1952 | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok | |||
The Golden Hawk | 1952 | Sidney Salkow | Sterling Hayden, Rhonda Fleming, Helena Carter | |||
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair | 1952 | Mario Soldati | May Britt, Marc Lawrence, Renato Salvatori | Based on Yolanda, the Black Corsair's Daughter | ||
I tre corsari | 1952 | Mario Soldati | Ettore Manni, Marc Lawrence, Renato Salvatori, Cesare Danova | Based on The Black Corsair | ||
Yankee Buccaneer | 1952 | Frederick de Cordova | Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball | Film about David Porter (1780 – 1843) | ||
Fair Wind to Java | 1953 | Joseph Kane | Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas | Set in 1883 | ||
Film serial | The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd | 1953 | Derwin Abrahams, | Richard Crane, David Bruce, John Crawford | Film about Captain William Kidd (1654 – 1701) | |
The Master of Ballantrae | 1953 | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux | Set after 1745, based on The Master of Ballantrae | ||
Animated film | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried (voices) | Based on Peter and Wendy | |
Prince of Pirates | 1953 | Sidney Salkow | John Derek, Barbara Rush, Carla Balenda | Set in the 16th century in the Netherlands | ||
Raiders of the Seven Seas | 1953 | Sidney Salkow | John Payne, Donna Reed, Gerald Mohr | Film about Barbarossa (Oruç Reis, c. 1474 – 1518) | ||
1954 | Camillo Mastrocinque | Renato Rascel | Musical | |||
The Black Pirates | 1954 | Anthony Dexter, Martha Roth, and Lon Chaney, Jr. | ||||
Animated comedy short | Captain Hareblower | 1954 | Friz Freleng | Mel Blanc (voice) | ||
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl | 1954 | Lew Landers | Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor, Alan Hale, Jr. | |||
His Majesty O'Keefe | 1954 | Byron Haskin | Burt Lancaster | Film about David O'Keefe (1824 – 1901) and Bully Hayes (1827 – 1877) | ||
Also known as Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1954 | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell | Sequel to Treasure Island | |
Return to Treasure Island | 1954 | Ewald André Dupont | Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall | Set in modern times. Sequel to Treasure Island | ||
Moonfleet | 1955 | Fritz Lang | Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood | Film about smugglers in England in the 18th century | ||
Pirates of Tripoli | 1955 | Felix E. Feist | Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Paul Newlan | Set in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Television series | The Buccaneers | 1956 | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Robert Shaw, Paul Hansard, Brian Rawlinson | ||
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | 1956 | Norman Foster | Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York | Film about Davy Crockett (1786 – 1836), set on the Mississippi River | ||
Pirate of the Half Moon | 1957 | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | John Derek, Gianna Maria Canale, Ingeborg Schöner | Set in the 16th century in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
The Amorous Corporal | 1958 | Robert Darène | François Périer, Rossana Podestà, Robert Hirsch | Set in Madagascar | ||
The Buccaneer | 1958 | Anthony Quinn | Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston | Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) | ||
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | 1958 | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, , Miroslav Holub | Fantasy and science fiction film based on Facing the Flag by Jules Verne | ||
Pirate of the Black Hawk | 1958 | Sergio Grieco | Gérard Landry, Mijanou Bardot | Set in the 16th century in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
The Little Savage | 1959 | Byron Haskin | Pedro Armendáriz | |||
Marie of the Isles | 1959 | Georges Combret | Belinda Lee, , Magali Noël, Folco Lulli | Set in 1635 | ||
The Pirate and the Slave Girl | 1959 | Piero Pierotti | Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso, Massimo Serato, Graziella Granata | Set in the 16th century in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Son of the Red Corsair | 1959 | Primo Zeglio | Lex Barker | Based on Son of the Red Corsair | ||
The Boy and the Pirates | 1960 | Bert I. Gordon | Charles Herbert, Susan Gordon, Murvyn Vye | Fantasy film with Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | ||
Morgan, the Pirate | 1960 | André de Toth, Primo Zeglio | Steve Reeves, Valérie Lagrange, Ivo Garrani | Film about Henry Morgan (c. 1635 – 1688) | ||
Pirates of the Coast | 1960 | Domenico Paolella | Lex Barker | |||
Queen of the Pirates | 1960 | Mario Costa | Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel | Set in the 16th century in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Robin Hood and the Pirates | 1960 | Giorgio Simonelli | Lex Barker, Walter Barnes | Set in England in the 12th century | ||
Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Ken Annakin | John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur | Set in the early 19th century, based on The Swiss Family Robinson | ||
1961 | Eugenio Martín | Hans von Borsody, Luisella Boni | ||||
Fury at Smugglers' Bay | 1961 | John Gilling | Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Michèle Mercier, John Fraser | Set in England in the 1790s. | ||
Guns of the Black Witch | 1961 | Domenico Paolella | Don Megowan, Silvana Pampanini | |||
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island | 1961 | Cy Endfield | Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Herbert Lom | Based on The Mysterious Island, set in 1865 | ||
Pirates of Tortuga | 1961 | Robert D. Webb | Ken Scott, Letícia Román, Dave King | |||
Also known as The Adventure of Mary Read | Queen of the Seas | 1961 | Umberto Lenzi | Lisa Gastoni, Jerome Courtland, Walter Barnes | Film about Mary Read (c. 1690 – 1721) | |
Rage of the Buccaneers | 1961 | Mario Costa | Ricardo Montalbán, Vincent Price, Giulia Rubini | |||
The Secret of the Black Falcon | 1961 | Domenico Paolella | Lex Barker, Walter Barnes | |||
Avenger of the Seven Seas | 1962 | Domenico Paolella | Richard Harrison, Michèle Mercier, Walter Barnes | Set in 1790 | ||
Hawk of the Caribbean | 1962 | Piero Regnoli | Johnny Desmond, Yvonne Monlaur | |||
Hero's Island | 1962 | Leslie Stevens | James Mason, Neville Brand, | Set in 1718 at the Outer Banks of North Carolina | ||
Julius Caesar Against the Pirates | 1962 | Sergio Grieco | Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane, Gordon Mitchell | An adventure of the young Julius Caesar, based on a true story. Set in the Mediterranean Sea in the years 75 BC and 74 BC. | ||
Musketeers of the Sea | 1962 | Steno | Pier Angeli, Channing Pollock, Aldo Ray, Philippe Clay, Robert Alda | |||
The Pirates of Blood River | 1962 | John Gilling | Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee | |||
Seven Seas to Calais | 1962 | Rudolph Maté, Primo Zeglio | Rod Taylor, Keith Michell, Edy Vessel | Film about Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596) | ||
The Son of Captain Blood | 1962 | Tulio Demicheli | Sean Flynn, Alessandra Panaro, John Kitzmiller | Based on Captain Blood | ||
Tiger of the Seven Seas | 1962 | Luigi Capuano | Gianna Maria Canale, Anthony Steel, John Kitzmiller | |||
The Lion of St. Mark | 1963 | Luigi Capuano | Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Alberto Farnese | Set in the 1620 in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Samson and the Sea Beast | 1963 | Tanio Boccia | Kirk Morris, Margaret Lee | |||
Also known as Night Creatures | Captain Clegg | 1964 | Peter Graham Scott | Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen | Film about smugglers in England in the late 18th century. Based on Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh. | |
The Devil-Ship Pirates | 1964 | Don Sharp | Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, John Cairney | Set in England in 1588 | ||
Hercules and the Black Pirates | 1964 | Luigi Capuano | Alan Steel, Rosalba Neri | |||
The Masked Man Against the Pirates | 1964 | George Hilton, Tony Kendall | ||||
The Pirates of Malaysia | 1964 | Umberto Lenzi | Steve Reeves, Andrea Bosic, Jacqueline Sassard | Set in the 19th century in Malaysia | ||
Toto vs. the Black Pirate | 1964 | Fernando Cerchio | Totò, Mario Petri | Comedy | ||
1964 | , | Tseng Chang, Sisi Chen, | ||||
The Adventurer of Tortuga | 1965 | Luigi Capuano | Guy Madison, Ingeborg Schöner, Rik Battaglia | |||
Giant of the Evil Island | 1965 | Piero Pierotti | Peter Lupus, Halina Zalewska | |||
A High Wind in Jamaica | 1965 | Alexander Mackendrick | Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price | Set in 1870 | ||
Assault on a Queen | 1966 | Jack Donohue | Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Alf Kjellin | Submarine piracy. Set in modern times | ||
The Sea Pirate | 1966 | Sergio Bergonzelli, Roy Rowland | Gérard Barray, Antonella Lualdi | Film about Robert Surcouf (1773 – 1827), set in the Napoleonic Wars | ||
1966 | Sergio Bergonzelli, Roy Rowland | Gérard Barray, Antonella Lualdi | Film about Robert Surcouf (1773 – 1827), set in the Napoleonic Wars | |||
The King's Pirate | 1967 | Don Weis | Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell | |||
The Rover | 1967 | Terence Young | Anthony Quinn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Rita Hayworth | Based on The Rover, set in France in the Napoleonic Wars | ||
Blackbeard's Ghost | 1968 | Robert Stevenson | Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette | Fantasy comedy, set in modern times | ||
Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera | 1969 | Mario Amendola | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Sancho | Comedy | ||
1970 | Antonio Mollica | Robert Woods | ||||
Pippi in the South Seas | 1970 | Olle Hellbom | Inger Nilsson | Comedy, based on Pippi in the South Seas | ||
Blackie the Pirate | 1971 | Enzo Gicca | Terence Hill, George Martin, Bud Spencer | |||
1971 | Ferdinando Baldi | Dean Reed, Alberto de Mendoza, Annabella Incontrera | ||||
The Light at the Edge of the World | 1971 | Kevin Billington | Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar | Set at Cape Horn in the year 1865. Based on The Lighthouse at the End of the World | ||
1972 | René Cardona Jr. | Hugo Stiglitz, René Cardona III, Christa Linder | ||||
1972 | José Luis Merino | Carlos Quiney, Stelvio Rosi | ||||
Animated film | Treasure Island | 1972 | Hal Sutherland | Richard Dawson, Davy Jones, Dal McKennon (voices) | Based on Treasure Island | |
Treasure Island | 1972 | John Hough | Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Lionel Stander | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Ghost in the Noonday Sun | 1973 | Peter Medak | Peter Sellers | Comedy | ||
Scalawag | 1973 | Kirk Douglas | Kirk Douglas | Set in California in the 19th century | ||
Les Démoniaques | 1974 | Jean Rollin | Joëlle Cœur, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier, John Rico, Willy Braque | Horror. Set at the end of the 19th century, on the north European coast. | ||
The Ghost Galleon | 1974 | Amando de Ossorio | Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor | Horror. Set in modern times. | ||
The Black Corsair | 1976 | Sergio Sollima | Kabir Bedi, Carole André, Mel Ferrer | Based on The Black Corsair | ||
Noroît | 1976 | Jacques Rivette | Geraldine Chaplin, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham | Avant-garde and experimental film | ||
Also known as Scarlet Buccaneer | Swashbuckler | 1976 | James Goldstone | Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold | ||
Oro rojo | 1977 | Alberto Vázquez Figueroa | José Sacristán, Isela Vega, Hugo Stiglitz | Set in modern times | ||
Golden Rendezvous | 1977 | Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson | Set in modern times | |||
The Island | 1980 | Michael Ritchie | Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor | Set in modern times | ||
1981 | Juan Piquer Simón | , Patty Shepard, Frank Braña | ||||
The Pirate Movie | 1982 | Ken Annakin | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton | Musical | ||
Nate and Hayes | 1983 | Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove | Film about Bully Hayes (1827 – 1877) | |||
The Pirates of Penzance | 1983 | Wilford Leach | Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt | Musical | ||
Space Raiders | 1983 | Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall | Science fiction | |||
Yellowbeard | 1983 | Mel Damski | Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle | Comedy | ||
The Ice Pirates | 1984 | Stewart Raffill | Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts | Science fiction | ||
Television film | The Master of Ballantrae | 1984 | Douglas Hickox | Michael York, Timothy Dalton, John Gielgud | Set after 1745, based on The Master of Ballantrae | |
The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner | Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman | |||
The Lightship | 1985 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Klaus Maria Brandauer | Set in modern times | ||
Television film | 1985 | Norman Campbell | Brent Carver, Jeff Hyslop, | Musical | ||
Treasure Island | 1985 | Raúl Ruiz | Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Animated film | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | Science fiction | ||
Pirates | 1986 | Roman Polanski | Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas | |||
Television miniseries | Return to Treasure Island | 1986 | Brian Blessed, Christopher Guard, Reiner Schöne | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Jim & Piraterna Blom | 1987 | Hans Alfredson | , Ewa Fröling, Jan Malmsjö | |||
The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, André the Giant | |||
Television miniseries | Treasure Island in Outer Space | 1987 | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Quinn, Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Löwitsch | Science fiction miniseries, based on Treasure Island | |
Deep Rising | 1988 | Stephen Sommers | Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald | Set in modern times | ||
Iguana | 1988 | Monte Hellman | Everett McGill, Fabio Testi, Michael Madsen | Set in the 19th century on a remote island of the Galápagos Islands | ||
Act of Piracy | 1988 | John Cardos | Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer (actress), Ray Sharkey | Set in modern times. | ||
Animated television series | Peter Pan and the Pirates | 1990 | Tim Curry, Kath Soucie, Chris M. Allport (voices) | Based on Peter and Wendy | ||
Shipwrecked | 1990 | Nils Gaup | , Gabriel Byrne, | |||
Television film | Treasure Island | 1990 | Fraser Clarke Heston | Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee | Based on Treasure Island | |
Television film | Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair | 1990 | Alberto Negrin | Burt Lancaster, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Culp, Renzo Montagnani, Rebecca Schaeffer | Set in modern times | |
Television film | 1990 | Sean Blowers, , Mona Hammond | ||||
Television film | Pirate's Island | 1990 | Beth Buchanan, Brian Rooney, Sancho Gracia | |||
Animated television series | The Pirates of Dark Water | 1991 | Jodi Benson, Héctor Elizondo, George Newbern (voices) | |||
Matusalem | 1991 | Marc Labrèche, Jessica Barker, Maxime Collin | ||||
Hook | 1991 | Steven Spielberg | Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts | Based on Peter and Wendy | ||
Under Siege | 1992 | Andrew Davis | Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey | Set in modern times | ||
Children's television series | Pirates | 1994 | Mem Ferda, , June Brown | |||
Television film | 1994 | Anthony Zerbe, Corey Carrier, Jason Beghe | Based on Treasure Island | |||
Cutthroat Island | 1995 | Renny Harlin | Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella | |||
Magic Island | 1995 | Sam Irvin | Zachery Ty Bryan, Andrew Divoff, Edward Kerr | |||
Waterworld | 1995 | Kevin Reynolds | Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper | Science fiction | ||
Muppet Treasure Island | 1996 | Brian Henson | Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly | Comedy, based on Treasure Island | ||
1996 | Jed Brophy, , Richard Condon | Based on Treasure Island | ||||
Television miniseries | 1997 | Kevin McCarey | Chuck Shamata, Roger Daltrey, | |||
1998 | , , Pierre-Luc Brillant | |||||
Six Days, Seven Nights | 1998 | Ivan Reitman | Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Temuera Morrison | Set in modern times | ||
Television miniseries. Also known as Pirates: Blood Brothers |
1999 | Lamberto Bava | Paolo Seganti, Nicholas Rogers, Mario Adorf, Padma Lakshmi, Jennifer Nitsch | |||
Animated television series | One Piece | 1999 | Fantasy | |||
Pirates of the Plain | 1999 | John R. Cherry III | Tim Curry, Seth Adkins, Dee Wallace, Charles Napier | Fantasy comedy, set in modern times | ||
I predatori delle Antille | 1999 | Joe D'Amato | Anita Skultéty | |||
Treasure Island | 1999 | Peter Rowe | Jack Palance | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Final Voyage | 1999 | Jim Wynorski | Dylan Walsh, Ice-T, Erika Eleniak, Claudia Christian | Set in modern times | ||
Animated film | One Piece: The Movie | 2000 | Junji Shimizu | Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi | Fantasy film | |
Agent Red | 2000 | Damian Lee | Dolph Lundgren, Alexander Kuznetov, Natalie Radford | Submarine piracy. Set in modern times | ||
Animated film | Die Abrafaxe – Unter schwarzer Flagge | 2001 | Fantasy film with Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |||
Based on the PC Game of a similar title, Hentai. | 2002 | Ben Dover | , , , and | The perverted pirate sails the seven seas, armed with a torture chamber and his depraved imagination. Nothing is off limits in this bizarre excursion into a world of erotic peril. | ||
Animated film | Treasure Planet | 2002 | Ron Clements, John Musker | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short (voices) | Science fiction, based on Treasure Island | |
TV series (Australia) | Pirate Islands | 2003 | Brooke Harman, , Eliza Taylor | |||
Captain Sabertooth | 2003 | , | Terje Formoe, , (voices) | Comedy | ||
Animated film | One Piece The Movie: Dead End no Bōken | 2003 | Kōnosuke Uda | Fantasy film | ||
Peter Pan | 2003 | P. J. Hogan | Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams | Based on Peter and Wendy | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley | |||
Animated film | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | 2003 | Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore | Comedy. Set in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
Singing Behind Screens | 2003 | Ermanno Olmi | , Bud Spencer | Film about Ching Shih (1775–1844) | ||
Animated film | One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword | 2004 | Kazuhisa Takenouchi | Fantasy film | ||
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2005 | Mark Roper | Thomas Ian Griffith | Set in modern times | |||
Submerged | 2005 | Anthony Hickox | Steven Seagal, William Hope, Vinnie Jones | Submarine piracy. Set in modern times | ||
Pornographic film | Pirates | 2005 | Joone | Jesse Jane, Carmen Luvana, Janine, Teagan Presley, Devon, Jenaveve Jolie and Evan Stone | In 1763, Captain Edward Reynolds is hunting pirates, or at least trying to do so. He does not consider himself a great commander, and neither does most of his crew. | |
Television miniseries | Blackbeard | 2006 | Kevin Connor | Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Stacy Keach | TV miniseries about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |
Television miniseries | Blackbeard | 2006 | Richard Dale, Tilman Remme | James Purefoy | TV miniseries about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |
Pirates of Treasure Island | 2006 | Leigh Scott | Lance Henriksen | Based on Treasure Island | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | United States | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley | ||
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake | 2006 | Kirby Heyborne, , Larry Bagby | ||||
Television film | 2006 | Ken Duken, Claire Keim, Gottfried John, Gudrun Landgrebe, Frank Giering | Television film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea | |||
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2007 | Alain Berbérian | Gérard Jugnot, Alice Taglioni, Jean-Paul Rouve | Based on Treasure Island | |||
Animated film | One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta | 2007 | Takahiro Imamura | Fantasy film | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | United States | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Chow Yun-Fat, Geoffrey Rush | ||
Television film | 2007 | Tobias Moretti, François Goeske, , Christian Tramitz, Jürgen Vogel | A German television film, Die Schatzinsel, based on the novel by R.L. Stevenson, it adds a character, Captain Flint's daughter | |||
Pornographic film | Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge | 2008 | Joone | Jesse Jane, Belladonna, Evan Stone | Captain Edward Reynolds brags about his victory over the dreaded pirate Victor Stagnetti to his loyal companion Jules; he has even assembled a new crew for his ship, including Ai Chow and Olivia, Serena's cousin. It is Olivia who informs the crew that the governor of Jamaica has ordered Serena's arrest and Olivia is on board to protect the crew from enemies, and to convince Edward and Jules to ask for Serena's pardon. When they finally go to Jamaica and ask Governor Littleton to pardon Serena, he is more interested in Jules' appearance than anything else. They convince the governor, who first sends them on a mission to kill another group of pirates and find another hidden treasure. | |
Animated film | The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie | 2008 | Mike Nawrocki | Comedy | ||
12 Paces Without a Head | 2009 | Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer | Film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea | |||
Animated film | One Piece Film: Strong World | 2009 | Munehisa Sakai | Fantasy film | ||
Documentary film | The Pirate Tapes | 2011 | , | Pirates in Somalia. Set in modern times. | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | 2011 | United States | Rob Marshall | Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush | ||
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A Hijacking | 2012 | Tobias Lindholm | Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim | Set in modern times | |
Animated film | One Piece Film: Z | 2012 | Tatsuya Nagamine | Fantasy film | ||
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | 2012 | Peter Lord | Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven (voices) | Comedy | |
Television film | Treasure Island | 2012 | Steve Barron | Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland | Based on Treasure Island | |
Captain Phillips | 2013 | Paul Greengrass | Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi | Set in modern times | ||
Television film | Black Sails | 2014 | Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine | Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold | Set roughly two decades before the events of Treasure Island and during the Golden Age of Piracy, the feared Captain Flint brings on a younger crew member as they fight for the survival of New Providence Island. | |
Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama | 2014 | John Andreas Andersen, Lisa Marie Gamlem | Captain Sabertooth series | |||
Television film | Crossbones | 2014 | Neil Cross, James V. Hart and Amanda Welles | John Malkovich, Richard Coyle, Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Masri, David Hoflin, Chris Perfetti, Tracy Ifeachor | Based on Colin Woodard's book The Republic of Pirates. In 1729, the island of Santa Compaña is home to pirates, thieves, and cutthroats all ruled by the feared pirate captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, who the British Empire believes is dead, but who in actuality is merely in hiding. Calling himself "Commodore", he now uses this island as his base of operations. | |
Animated film | The Pirate Fairy | 2014 | Peggy Holmes | Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hiddleston (voices) | Based on Peter and Wendy | |
Pan | 2015 | Joe Wright | Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Amanda Seyfried | Based on Peter and Wendy | ||
Pirate's Passage | 2015 | , | Donald Sutherland, Gage Munroe, Carrie-Anne Moss | |||
Animated film | One Piece Film: Gold | 2016 | Hiroaki Miyamoto | Fantasy film | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | 2017 | United States | Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg | Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem | ||
Superhero film | Aquaman | 2018 | James Wan | Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe | Submarine piracy. Set in modern times. | |
Bollywood film | Thugs of Hindostan | 2018 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Amitabh Bachchan | Set in 1795, the film follows a band of Thugs led by Khudabaksh Azaad, who aspires to free Hindostan (the Indian subcontinent) from the rule of the expanding British East India Company. | |
Animated film | Kaptein Sabeltann og den magiske diamant | 2019 | Marit Moum Aune, Rasmus A. Sivertsen | Captain Sabertooth series | ||
Netflix docuseries | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | 2021 | Stan Griffin, Justin Rickett, and Patrick Dickinson | Sam Callis, James Oliver Wheatley, and Derek Jacobi | Docuseries portraying the rise and fall of the 18th century pirate republic based in Nassau, Bahamas. | |
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