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Tabu(1931)

3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

The youngsters Matahi and Reri are in love with each other. The old warrior Hitu announces that Reri is to be the new chosen virgin for the gods. This means she must stay untouched, otherwise she and her lover will be killed. But Matahi abducts and escapes with her to an island ruled by the white man, where their gods would be harmless and powerless.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Anne Chevalier

Father Goose(1964)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 71 votes)

During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!

Pippi in the South Seas(1970)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 26min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

Pippi Longstocking, accompanied by friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on the South Seas to search for her father, who has been kidnapped by pirates.

From Hell It Came(1957)

1h 13min | Horror
1.9/5 (with 14 votes)

A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.

Directed by Dan Milner - With Tod Andrews

The Hurricane(1937)

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

Gung Ho!(1943)

1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake(1942)

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.

South Sea Woman(1953)

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.

South Pacific(2001)

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.

Directed by Richard Pearce - With Glenn Close

Moana(1926)

1h 17min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength.".

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty

Bis ans Ende der Träume(2018)

1h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love

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Paradise Found(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.

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Odissea nuda(1961)

1h 57min | Drama

A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salerno.

The Narrow Corner(1933)

1h 9min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Hurricane Smith(1952)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.

Victory(1919)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.

Monica in the South Seas(2023)

1h 12min | Documentary

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.

Directed by Mika Taanila, Sami van Ingen

Sadie Thompson(1928)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

Isle of Forgotten Sins(1943)

1h 22min | Action, Adventure, Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.

Paradise Island(1930)

1.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.

Bora Bora(1968)

1h 37min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.

Isle of Fury(1936)

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.

Terror Island(1920)

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.

Emma: Queen of the South Seas(1988)

3h 13min | Drama, TV Movie

Based on the life of Emma Eliza Coe, whose strength and cunning staved off the colonial struggle involving the United States, Great Britain, and Germany while she built her own empire. Emma's father, the first consul in Samoa, taught his daughter at an early age the bitter truth about the fickleness of men.

Captain Calamity(1936)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

Aloha(1931)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Drama

In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.

Moana(1959)

1h 22min | Documentary

Documentary focused on underwater shootings and hawaiian dances.

The South Seas 3D: Bikini Atoll & Marshall Islands(2012)

The South Pacific – the ocean between the American continent and Asia, stands for endless vastness, an infinite stretch of water and pristine nature. For many, the South Pacific is synonymous with paradise sun, beaches and of course, the bikini. But the bikini, or rather the island Bikini, also stands for a disastrous series of nuclear tests, carried out by the USA immediately after the Second World War. To this end, numerous ships of different sizes and categories were brought together. The remnants of these vessels have found a watery grave at the bottom of the lagoon: in depths of up to 60 metres, practically inaccessible for the average diver. Until recently, the region could not be visited for decades, due to radioactive contamination. But how have nature and mankind developed? Accompany us to a very special ships cemetery. Explore a region untouched by human hand for more than 60 years and experience the magic of the South Seas.

Black Magic(1929)

1h 6min | Drama

On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily.".

Directed by George B. Seitz - With Josephine Dunn

The Sea God(1930)

1h 15min | Adventure
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

Directed by George Abbott - With Richard Arlen
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