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Pete's Dragon(1977)

1h 42min | Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 297 votes)

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

Directed by Don Chaffey, Don Bluth - With Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Sean Marshall, ...

Cold Skin(2017)

1h 46min | Horror, Fantasy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 250 votes)

A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

Directed by Xavier Gens - With David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Ray Stevenson, John Benfield

The Vanishing(2019)

1h 48min | Thriller, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 320 votes)

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

Directed by Kristoffer Nyholm - With Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells

Song of the Sea(2014)

1h 33min | Kids & Family, Animation, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 606 votes)

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

Directed by Tomm Moore

The Little Bather(1968)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 148 votes)

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

Directed by Robert Dhéry - With Louis de Funès, Franco Fabrizi, Michel Galabru, Pierre Dac, Pierre Tchernia, Andréa Parisy, ...

A Very Long Engagement(2004)

2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 523 votes)

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - With Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Clovis Cornillac, Albert Dupontel, Denis Lavant, ...
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The Light Between Oceans(2016)

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| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 623 votes)

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Directed by Derek Cianfrance - With Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Caren Pistorius, Emily Barclay, Scott Wills, ...

Half Light(2006)

1h 50min | Thriller, Horror
3.0/5 (with 123 votes)

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

Directed by Craig Rosenberg - With Demi Moore, Hans Matheson, Henry Ian Cusick, James Cosmo, Anne Smith, Michael Wilson, ...

The Man in the Lighthouse(2007)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation.

Directed by Joselito Altarejos

The Light at the Edge of the World(1971)

2h 8min | Adventure
2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

Directed by Kevin Billington - With Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Fernando Rey, Renato Salvatori, Massimo Ranieri, ...

A Stolen Life(1946)

1h 49min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, Jack Gage - With Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charles Ruggles, Bruce Bennett, ...

The Eye of the Storm(2011)

1h 54min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.

Directed by Fred Schepisi - With Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Dustin Clare, Helen Morse, Robyn Nevin, ...
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Captain January(1936)

1h 17min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.

Directed by David Butler - With Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen, Sara Haden, June Lang, ...

The Last Day(2004)

1h 45min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.

Directed by Rodolphe Marconi - With Nicole Garcia, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Laurent, Alysson Paradis, Bruno Todeschini, Christophe Malavoy, ...

The Monster of Piedras Blancas(1959)

1h 11min | Science Fiction, Horror
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.

Directed by Irvin Berwick - With Les Tremayne, John Harmon, Jeanne Carmen

Lighthouse Keeping(1946)

7min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Donald is a lighthouse keeper. He shines the light on a sleeping pelican; the angry bird comes into the lighthouse and tries to put out the light. Donald and the bird do battle through the rest of the picture.

Directed by Jack Hannah

The Light(2004)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.

Directed by Philippe Lioret - With Grégori Derangère, Sandrine Bonnaire, Philippe Torreton, Anne Consigny, Blandine Pélissier, Christophe Kourotchkine, ...

Foes(1977)

1h 31min | Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The tranquil life of a lighthouse keeper and his family is disrupted when a flying saucer and its alien inhabitants invade.

The Disciple(2013)

1h 33min | Thriller, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives in the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles desperately to stay on and makes friends with Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts to favor Karl over his own son.

Directed by Ulrika Bengts - With Erik Enge, Patrik Kumpulainen, Niklas Groundstroem, Amanda Ooms, Ping Mon H. Wallén, Philip Zandén, ...

Captain January(1924)

1h 4min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.

Directed by Edward F. Cline - With Diana Serra Cary, Hobart Bosworth, Irene Rich, Lincoln Stedman, Harry T. Morey

Thunder Rock(1942)

1h 52min | Drama, Fantasy, War
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.

Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting - With Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Barbara Mullen

Angel's Bite(1984)

1h 37min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt him down. In the meantime, the wife meets a mysterious and seductive stranger.

Directed by Lordan Zafranović

The Taste of Summer(1975)

1h 40min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Asko Tolonen

South Solitary(2010)

2h 1min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.

Directed by Shirley Barrett - With Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas

Where It Is Cold in the Sun(1991)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Along the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one of his stops, she gets off his truck to go to get some water. When the driver comes back to his truck and sees her gone, he assumes she has found another ride, and leave her. Once again, she is stranded. This time, the location is a lighthouse. She and the keeper have no recourse but to become acquainted, and for the next few days, that is what they do. Eventually, the man who left her in the lurch comes back to look for her, and finds her at the lighthouse.

Directed by Bogdan Dreyer - With Oana Pellea, Gheorghe Visu

To Keep the Light(2016)

1h 28min | Drama, History
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine. When a mysterious stranger washes up on shore, secrets buried in deep waters come to light, and she confronts both her past and her future.

Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son(2002)

1h 39min | Drama

Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely.

Directed by Vicko Ruić - With Vjekoslav Janković, Ivo Gregurević

The Lighthouse Keepers(1922)

1h 12min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

After losing her father in the sea, Rosa is lodged in the house of the lighthouse keeper João Vidal. António Gaspar, also a lighthouse keeper, loves Rosa. His jealousy of João Vidal will provoke the death of Rosa, an act that the mother of António will help to cover up.

Directed by Maurice Mariaud

Vingar kring fyren(1938)

1h 34min | Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.

Directed by Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius - With Lars Hanson

Sea Light(2022)

15min | Drama, Fantasy

An elder lighthouse keeper takes care of what has been his home for years. Old and secluded from society, he's disturbed by mysterious bottled letters. These and an unexpected malfunction make him doubt his job, his life and his existence.

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