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The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
After the Armada’s defeat, a privateer crew uses a lie about England to hold a village in its power. The arrangement depends on keeping people apart who could give each other away. Choose it for a Hammer pirate story with mistrust at the dock rather than an open chase at sea.
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Against All Flags (1952)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
A British sailor has to look like a deserter to gain entry to a pirate stronghold. The disguise puts him among people who have good reasons to doubt his story. Pick it for an adventure where being accepted by a crew is itself the risky part.
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The King's Pirate (1967)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
This later take on Against All Flags sends a naval officer into a pirate group under cover. It offers another way to stage the same uncomfortable bargain, with the captain needing help from people who would have a reason to turn on him if they understood his mission.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
Kidd offers to guard treasure on behalf of the king and takes a crew of condemned pirates promised pardons. The captain’s private aims give that arrangement a very short life. Pick the Charles Laughton film to watch a legitimate-looking mission give different people a reason to cross each other.
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Scalawag (1973)
5.1/10on IMDb
Released
A treasure expedition puts a young traveler alongside a pirate who can keep others in the dark about what he wants. Try it for a different spin on Stevenson’s setup, with the loyalties around one-legged Peg carrying the story into more Western surroundings.
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Frederic thinks his apprenticeship is over, but the pirate crew has a different interpretation of the arrangement. This Gilbert and Sullivan film is a comic pick for a pirate oath that can break at least as many plans as a sword fight.
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
The Pirate Captain’s chance at a prize depends on what he will give away, and the crew has reasons to ask whether it signed up for the same thing. This stop-motion comedy also goes by The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Pick it for a captain whose ambition can turn the people helping him into his main critics.
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Pirates (1986)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Captain Red’s interest in a golden throne keeps shifting which alliances he wants to honor. The movie treats the planned voyage as something that one person’s greed can quickly bend. Try the 1986 film for a brassier, less noble version of the ambitious pirate captain.
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The Pirates (2014)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Pirates and land bandits compete to find a royal seal after a whale swallows it. The Korean adventure lets different groups recruit, split, and try to get ahead of one another. Pick it when you want a crew story that can turn from a battle at sea into a joke about who actually understands the water.
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The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
A pirate crew and a group of bandits form a shaky alliance to search for royal treasure. Each has something the other needs and a reason to keep back some of what it knows. This light caper puts the arrangement between groups at the center of the chase.
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Yellowbeard (1983)
5.9/10on IMDb
Released
The party pursuing the buried treasure has multiple reasons to keep its intentions private, and the loudest person in the group isn’t necessarily the one in control. Choose this comedy for deliberate double-crosses and the opposite of a smoothly run pirate ship.
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The Spanish Main (1945)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
A pirate crew’s capture of a ship carrying a bride brings a second set of interests onto the deck. The captain’s course begins to depend on whether people he captured or brought along agree with how he wants to proceed. It is a glossy Technicolor pick for less stable loyalties than its romance suggests.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
5.9/10on IMDb
Released
Blackbeard’s new surgeon has his own reasons for being aboard. Watch for how one suspicious appointment draws the rest of the crew and the pirate captain into a hunt where everyone is trying to keep a second set of plans hidden.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Captain Kidd and Captain Bonney are both interested in what can be gained from a treasure map. The comedy gives apparently helpful newcomers a way to interrupt the plans of whichever pirate thinks they know the most.
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Castle in the Sky (1986)
8.0/10on IMDb
Released
Dola’s air pirates begin as a threat and become helpful to the children when a larger danger is in sight. Pick it for the chance to see the same unruly crew function as an enemy and as a surprisingly useful ally, without losing its own interests.
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Porco Rosso (1992)
7.7/10on IMDb
Released
The film’s seaplane pirates have to agree on their relationship with a much better-known pilot and someone who wants to challenge him. Their joint plans make it a playful pick about pirates who know what they want individually and take some time to work out what they want together.
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One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
A resort island’s host invites the Straw Hats to take part in challenges and gradually separates members of the crew. Choose this for a darker pirate adventure that makes the crew’s ability to trust one another the thing its host is trying to undo.
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One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword (2004)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Zoro seems to set his own crew aside to honor a connection from his past. This is the One Piece movie to choose when the crucial question is what an otherwise dependable character owes somebody outside the ship.
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One Piece Film: Strong World (2010)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
The pirate Shiki singles out Nami for her skill as a navigator and tries to make her serve his plans. Pick it to see a crew learn what one member’s apparent choices might mean when another captain has leverage over her.
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One Piece: Stampede (2019)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
A gathering of pirates promising treasure gives multiple crews a reason to take part and contradictory ways to decide who should win. Choose it if you already know the animated series and want an unusually large collection of pirate alliances and rivalries at once.
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Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Zarina takes her own kind of talent to a band of pirates and learns what their apparent loyalty is worth when she becomes inconvenient. This is the family pick for an actual change in who commands the crew, with stakes that stay understandable without the rest of the Tinker Bell films.
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