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1. The Creator (2023)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney

Votes: 160,455

2. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.

Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson

Votes: 401,316 | Gross: $343.26M

3. The Aviator (2004)

PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly

Votes: 384,160 | Gross: $102.61M

4. Pan (2015)

PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Twelve-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny: to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara

Votes: 67,165 | Gross: $35.09M

5. Porco Rosso (1992)

PG | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura VI, Tsunehiko Kamijô

Votes: 102,157

6. The Phantom (1996)

PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 35,822 | Gross: $17.30M

7. Puff the Magic Dragon (1978 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

A friendly dragon comes to help a non-communicative boy overcome his debilitating fears.

Directors: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Philip Tanzini, Robert Ridgely, Maitzi Morgan

Votes: 772

8. Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.

Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers

Votes: 4,026 | Gross: $2.01M

9. Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure

Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey

Votes: 3,588

10. Steelyard Blues (1973)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Several misfits decide to restore a PBY flying boat and fly to a place where they can enjoy total freedom but a few obstacles hamper their plans.

Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Mel Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton

Votes: 982 | Gross: $0.02M

11. Slattery's Hurricane (1949)

83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A former WW2 naval pilot employed by a Miami civilian company reminisces about his past and present sins while flying a plane into an incoming hurricane.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell

Votes: 546

12. Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)

G | 78 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

On a desert island, Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a magic well that grants any wish and they get much more than they bargained for.

Directors: Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Phil Monroe, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Les Tremayne

Votes: 2,174

13. Sinners in Paradise (1938)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A seaplane departs for China. On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, a woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a wealthy heiress trying to distance ... See full summary »

Director: James Whale | Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin

Votes: 544

14. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)

Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Lou Fleischer, Gus Wicke

Votes: 1,104

15. Dinner at the Ritz (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

The daughter of a murdered financier is working as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks those among her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent

Votes: 307

16. SOS Pacific (1959)

92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Due to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific and the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok

Votes: 439

17. Project M7 (1953)

86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom

Votes: 190

18. The Balloonatic (1923)

Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Comedy

A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, John Brown, Phyllis Haver, Babe London

Votes: 3,242

19. China Clipper (1936)

Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander

Votes: 679

20. Wynken, Blynken & Nod (1938)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family

Three sleepy babies in a clog-boat sailing through the night sky attempt to fish with candy canes for very smart fish.

Director: Graham Heid | Star: Divonna Doxie

Votes: 791

21. Wings of the Navy (1939)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance

Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh

Votes: 360

22. Non-Stop New York (1937)

69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Cellier

Votes: 435

23. High Barbaree (1947)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Van Johnson is a Navy pilot in WWII who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell

Votes: 489

24. Ace Drummond (1936)

Approved | 255 min | Action, Adventure, Family

This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to... See full summary »

Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr., Guy Bates Post

Votes: 422

25. Voyage of the Southern Sun (2017)

103 min | Documentary

Michael Smith discovered the delights and perils of true adventure in a solo circumnavigation in his tiny amphibious flying boat, Southern Sun.

Director: Rob Murphy | Star: Michael Geoffrey Smith

Votes: 21

26. Return of the Catalina (2015)

TV-G | 100 min | Documentary

Return of the Catalina is an epic documentary that follows a group of retired Aussie pilots and engineers as they fight restore a 70 year old PBY Catalina to life, in order to remember unsung pilots of WWII.

Director: Daniel Bunker | Stars: Rex Senior, Ross Kelly, John Daley, Peter Elliot

Votes: 10

27. American Aristocracy (1916)

Passed | 52 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, C.A. de Lima, Albert Parker

Votes: 126

28. 1950 British Empire Games (1950)

106 min | Documentary, News, Sport

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Stars: Joan Harrison Breetzke, Marjorie Jackson Nelson, Shirley Strickland, Yvette Williams

29. Almaritsu (2008)

29 min | Short, Fantasy

Two children are lost in the confusion of age and maturity. Their encounter will change their slow-moving surroundings and lead all the human beings who cross the path of their dreamlike journey.

Director: Damien Montaron | Stars: Fabien Bondil, Edina Dzogovic, Jean-Jacques Parquier, Philibert Parquier

Votes: 13

30. Clippers at War (1945)

43 min | Documentary, Short, War

The history of how Pan American World Airways served the Allied cause during the Second World War, especially in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters.

Stars: Del Sharbutt, Basil Ruysdael

31. Antarctica 1948 (1949)

24 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

This black-and-white film was made as a record of operations of the Australian National Research Expedition to Antarctica, from November 1947 to April 1948. It follows the journeys of two ... See full summary »

Stars: Phillip Garth Law, Fritz Loewe, Stuart Campbell, Alan Campbell-Drury

32. Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode: Moby Ghost (1997)

TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The EGBs come up against a deadly ghost serpent that is terrorizing New York. When it proves impossible to stop, they team up with an Ahab-like ghost who has been obsessed his entire ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Caldwell | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick

Votes: 34

33. She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985–1987)
Episode: Beast Island (1985)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Adora locks He-Man up at Beast Island. As the Rebels try to break him out, Adora begins to question Hordak and all he stands for.

Director: Lou Kachivas | Stars: Melendy Britt, George DiCenzo, Linda Gary, John Erwin

Votes: 102

34. Jungle Jim (1955–1956)
Episode: A Fortune in Ivory (1955)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Skipper and his tutor are captured when they accidentally discover a cache of ivory which a crook was preparing for shipment.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Huston, Dean Fredericks, Dorothy Adams

Votes: 25

35. Jungle Jim (1955–1956)
Episode: The Eyes of Minobo (1955)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Commissioner Morrison asks Jungle Jim to prevent the Basuto tribe from starting a war with the Wazuries. The Basutos are convinced that their enemies have stolen the eyes of their idol, each one a gem of enormous value.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Huston, Dean Fredericks, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 20

36. Aladdin (1994–1995)
Episode: Raiders of the Lost Shark (1994)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Aladdin must stop a land swimming shark destroying Agrabah.

Directors: Toby Shelton, Karen Peterson | Stars: Scott Weinger, Val Bettin, Dan Castellaneta, Gilbert Gottfried

Votes: 67

37. Aladdin (1994–1995)
Episode: The Prophet Motive (1994)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Aladdin must battle the monster of Fashoom.

Director: Toby Shelton | Stars: Scott Weinger, Jason Alexander, James Avery, Dan Castellaneta

Votes: 68

38. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The War Against the U-Boats (2002)

Documentary, History, War

An in depth look at the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, the people who commanded the fighting, the national leaders, and the equipment used.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith

Votes: 6

39. Found and Explained (2020– )
Episode: Navy's Biggest Mistake - Cancelling the Martin P6M SeaMaster (2021)

17 min | Documentary

The Martin-P6M Seamaster was a jet powered flying boat and the United States Navy's initiative to get back into the strategic bombing mission taken over by the Air Force's Boeing B-52. ... See full summary »

Star: Nicholas Cummins

40. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Airborne (2020)

57 min | History

Airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz struggle to find a place in post-World War I aviation. Their ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Jared Beaulieu, Amy Corral, Richard Derry

41. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Latin Laboratory (2020)

History

As they push southward, Trippe, Sikorsky, Lindbergh and Leuteritz build larger flying boats, harness radio to navigate safely over great distances, and, with help from the U.S. government, ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Jake Berger, Richard Derry, Billy Donahue

42. Arabian Knights (1968–1969)
Episode: The Sultan's Plot (1968)

10 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

The Arabian Knights help a caliph whose city has been vanished by the infamous Sultan of Darkness, Abaddon.

Stars: Henry Corden, Paul Frees, Frank Gerstle, Shari Lewis

43. Sirius the Jaeger (2018)
Episode: The Sanctuary of Sirius (2018)

TV-MA | Animation, Action, History

Alone, Yuliy heads to southern Karafuto/Sakhalin on the trail of the Ark of Sirius. His brother and the vampire prince Yevgraf are already there.

Directors: Hidenobu Kurakawa, Masahiro Andô | Stars: Yûto Uemura, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Nanako Mori, Yûsuke Kobayashi

Votes: 57