Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "marquesas-islands"

1. Survivor (2000– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV

A reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The lone survivor of this contest takes home a million dollars.

Stars: Jeff Probst, Lillian Morris, Jon Dalton, Rob Mariano

Votes: 27,413

2. Kon-Tiki (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson

Votes: 51,960 | Gross: $1.52M

3. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush

Votes: 964

4. Twilight for the Gods (1958)

Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama

The sailing vessel Cannibal has a leaking hull. The captain (Rock Hudson) reluctantly changes course for Honolulu, where one passenger (Cyd Charisse) is wanted by the law. The water rising, everyone struggles against nature to survive.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson

Votes: 305

5. Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After making a bet, Steve strands himself on uninhabited island.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, William Farnum, Earle Browne, Maria Alba

Votes: 505

6. Enchanted Island (1958)

93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins, Arthur Shields

Votes: 371

7. Black Shadows (1923)

Documentary

Edward G. Salisbury leads an expedition to the South Sea Islands, including the Marquesas and Samoa. They observe cannibals and headhunters in the Fiji and Solomon Islands. The travelogue ... See full summary »

Director: Edward A. Salisbury | Stars: Edward A. Salisbury, Elijah Zerr

8. Te Vaanui, l'odyssée d'Ismaël (2018)

52 min | Documentary

Marquisian of origin, Ismael is at the dawn of his biggest challenge. After twenty years in France metropolis, far from his archipelago of birth, he prepares to join the Henua Enana, the "... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Charles Granjon

9. Jacques Brel op de Marquisen (2005 TV Movie)

49 min | Documentary

Documentary about Jacques Brel's stay on the Marquesas Islands in the last years of his life.

Stars: Jan Vanlangendonck, Maddly Bamy, Princesse, Marc Bastard

10. Polynésie, la perle du Pacifique (2007 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

French Polynesia: some names of islands and place: Papeete in the Society Islands, Moorea ,Bora-Bora, Raiatea and her neighbor island Taha'a, the Marquises islands and the archipelago of ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Bacos

11. Under the Pole (2020– )
Episode: Deep Sea Corals of Polynesia (2020)

Documentary, Adventure

Join the U.T.P. team and head to the Polynesian Islands of the South Pacific as they lead an international scientific team to unveil one of the world's least-known ecosystems: the coral ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Perazio | Stars: Ghislain Bardout, Robin Bardout, Tom Bardout, Laetitia Hedouin

12. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Polynésie, un paradis bleu (2021)

89 min | Documentary

More than 15,000 kilometers from the metropolis, French Polynesia sounds like a dreamy end of the world with its 118 islands scattered in the Pacific over an area equivalent to the surface ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Yves Cauchard | Star: Ismaël Khelifa

13. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Polynésie, la perle du Pacifique (2015)

Documentary

Beginning of the journey in Papeete: Raphaël has arrived to his hotel (houses on stilts): on the morning he meets Mariama Bono, a painter and they have a walk at Papara, black sand beach ... See full summary »

Director: Olivier Corre | Star: Raphaël de Casabianca