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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Jack Sparrow’s old crew has taken his ship, and their new captain needs something Jack knows. Start here if you want to see a mutiny continue to shape who can bargain with whom well after the original betrayal.
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Treasure Island (1950)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Disney’s 1950 adaptation makes ship’s cook Long John Silver one of the few adults Jim Hawkins knows well. The crew’s other plans keep testing what that friendship is worth. Robert Newton’s Silver makes it an accessible first version of the story.
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Morgan Adams inherits a piece of a treasure map and faces a rival relative alongside trouble among her own people. Choose it for an extravagant adventure where the captain has to earn enough time and loyalty to finish working out the map.
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The Crimson Pirate (1952)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Captain Vallo changes course when the people he planned to exploit persuade him to help them. His crew has to decide whether to turn a profitable voyage into a rebellion. Pick it for a broadly comic swashbuckler with a mutiny that makes practical sense from the crew’s perspective.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
7.2/10on IMDb
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A gathering of pirate captains becomes a contest between people who agree on very little except the threat gathering around them. Pick it for feuds and unlikely coalitions, after the earlier films establish why individual promises are so hard to trust.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
The Black Pearl’s crew and the people swept into its voyage keep running into the consequences of Jack’s old bargain. It is a stronger pick for impossible debts and changing loyalties than for a clear contest between one captain and one mutineer.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
A mutiny aboard Blackbeard’s ship makes clear how little its sailors are able to control. Watch for the way Jack tests what an apparently rebellious crew can actually do while old rivals pursue the same goal.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Jack’s crew loses confidence in him before an old enemy forces another voyage. Try it later in the series, when the crew walking away carries the history of the other films and the pirate captain has to make his case from much less secure ground.
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Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
7.0/10on IMDb
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Tim Curry’s Long John Silver still has to convince Jim Hawkins he is on the boy’s side, even with singing and Muppet sailors around them. Choose it for a very funny retelling that preserves the tension of sharing a ship with a crew pretending to have one purpose.
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Treasure Planet (2002)
7.2/10on IMDb
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A spacecraft built like a sailing ship carries Jim Hawkins and a crew that includes the person he trusts most. Silver’s involvement in a mutiny makes his two loyalties the emotional center of the story, with plenty of room for a space adventure around it.
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Treasure Island (1934)
7.1/10on IMDb
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Wallace Beery’s Silver and Jackie Cooper’s Jim give the 1934 adaptation its central relationship. Pick it for a classic studio adventure in which the crew’s intentions become dangerous in part because the boy has a good reason to keep listening to Silver.
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Treasure Island (1972)
5.8/10on IMDb
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The 1972 film gives Orson Welles the role of Long John Silver. It’s a choice for viewers comparing the different ways an adult can offer Jim apparent protection while joining in the plans of a mutinous crew.
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Treasure Island (1990)
7.0/10on IMDb
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Charlton Heston and Christian Bale play Silver and Jim in this 1990 TV adaptation. Choose it for more time spent with the shifting trust between them, while the ship gives both sides of the argument a practical reason to need each other.
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Treasure Island (1988)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
This 1988 Soviet animated adaptation uses a very different comic style to tell the story of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. Keep it alongside the live-action films if you want a version where songs, caricature, and little character portraits give the same mutiny a quicker rhythm.
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Treasure Island (1999)
5.2/10on IMDb
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The 1999 adaptation casts Jack Palance as Silver. It is another way into the same shipboard double game, with a younger Jim having to read kindness and danger in the same man before the crew finally stops pretending to agree.
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Long John Silver (1954)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Robert Newton returns as the pirate who can get a different response from every person he talks to. Go here after the Disney Treasure Island if you want a story that gives Silver more time to work on bargains of his own.
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Captain Blood (1935)
7.7/10on IMDb
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An enslaved doctor and his fellow captives escape and turn pirate. Their rules and loyalties matter once another leader’s behavior tests Peter Blood’s compromises. Pick it for the classic Errol Flynn take on making a crew answer to something more than a captain’s charm.
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The Black Pirate (1926)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
A man seeks revenge by joining a pirate crew under false pretenses. As he becomes useful to the pirates, his idea of what to do about them starts to run into the situation of someone taken aboard. Pick the silent film for the way allegiance has to be communicated in action.
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The Black Swan (1942)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Not all of Henry Morgan’s old shipmates go along with his decision to serve as governor and suppress piracy. That split makes the allegiance of other former pirates consequential. Choose it for a glossy studio swashbuckler where changing the flag does not settle the quarrel.
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Anne of the Indies (1951)
6.6/10on IMDb
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Captain Anne Providence accepts a prisoner aboard her ship and gives him more trust than some old allies think safe. Choose it for a pirate adventure where the captain’s judgment of someone she lets aboard can matter as much as her judgment of a rival vessel.
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The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
A pirate band looking for treasure takes advantage of people with their own loyalties inside a struggling settlement. This Hammer adventure puts a lot of the intrigue on land, where the crew’s bargains and threats can matter without a spectacular sea battle.
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