1940s 17th-18thC Piracy
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- DirectorsDavid ButlerSidney LanfieldStarsBob HopeVirginia MayoWalter BrennanA cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsPaul HenreidMaureen O'HaraWalter SlezakAfter being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerMaureen O'HaraLaird CregarAn ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
- DirectorMarco ElterStarsVittorio SanipoliLuisa FeridaMemo Benassi
- DirectorMarco ElterStarsVittorio SanipoliLoredanaOsvaldo Valenti
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsPedro ArmendárizJune MarloweMaría Luisa ZeaThis genuine swashbuckler is yet another film from prolific Director Chano Urueta. It is based on the 1868 novel "The Black Corsair" by Italian author Emilio Salgari. Set in the Caribbean Sea during the 1700's age of piracy, it chronicles the adventures of a pirate, (Pedro Armendariz) and his long-standing war against a colonial Governor (Jose Baviera) from Venezuela, who is determined to stop his nemesis. Actress June Marlowe plays the pirate's love interest. Maria Luisa Zea and Jose Pulido round out the cast.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJoan FontaineArturo de CórdovaBasil RathboneAn English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsCharles LaughtonRandolph ScottBarbara BrittonThe unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
- DirectorsEdgar G. UlmerGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsLouis HaywardBinnie BarnesMariella LottiA group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- DirectorHannu LeminenStarsTauno PaloHelena KaraGhedi Lönnberg
- DirectorGiorgos TzavellasStarsManos KatrakisVasilis DiamantopoulosPetros GiannakosMarinos Kontaras, a pirate in the Aegean, falls in love and abducts beautiful Lemonia.
- DirectorsRobert Z. LeonardW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyMary BolandOn a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsErminio MacarioJuan de LandaDora BiniIn Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree bumbling sailors from a garbage scow are marooned on an island where the anachronistic inhabitants seem trapped in the 17th Century.