Highest-Rated Movies about 'Pirate', Sort by Popularity

Castle in the Sky (1986), The Pirate Fairy (2014), The Princess Bride (1987), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Sharkwater (2006), China Seas (1935), Castle in the Sky (1986), The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pirate movies.

#16. Treasure Planet (2002)

Storyline: In this science fiction rendering of the classic novel "Treasure Island", Jim Hawkins is a rebellious teen seen by the world as an aimless slacker. After he receives a map from a dying pirate, he embarks on an odyssey across the universe to find the legendary Treasure Planet.

Plot Keywords: teen boy, sidekick, robot, captain, pirate, cook, suspenseful ...

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#17. Chocolat (2000)

Storyline: When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcomed.

Plot Keywords: mother, friend, mayor, preacher, pirate, grandmother, emotional ...

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#18. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Storyline: A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge tree house) and explore the island and its wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival and pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.

Plot Keywords: mother, father, son, pirate, amusing, endearing, playful ...

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#19. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Storyline: After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the the land of the dead, they must face their foes, Davy Jones and Lord Cutler Beckett. Beckett, now with control of Jones' heart, forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Now, Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, to gathering. The Pirate Lords want to release the goddess Calypso, Davy Jones's damned lover, from the trap they sent her to out of fear, in which the Pirate Lords must combine the 9 pieces that bound her by ritual to undo it and release her in hopes that she will help them fight. With this, all pirates will stand together and will make their final stand for freedom against Beckett, Jones, Norrington, the Flying Dutchman, and the entire East India Trading Company.

Plot Keywords: captain jack sparrow, fiancée, pirate, ghost, goddess, madcap, amusing ...

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#20. The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

Storyline: This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic (Rex Smith) has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel Stanley (Linda Ronstadt). Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth (Dame Angela Lansbury), who made a dreadful blunder years before. A highlight is the song and dance, "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One".—Reid Gagle

Plot Keywords: pirate, apprentice, love interest, military officer, police officer, nurse, cheeky ...

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#21. The Black Pirate (1926)

Storyline: A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.—David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>

Plot Keywords: nobleman, princess, pirate, father, airy, engaging, gripping ...

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#22. Cabiria (1914)

Storyline: Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. She is sold as a slave in Carthage, and as she is just going to be sacrificed to god Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by both Fulvio Axilla, a Roman noble, and his giant slave Maciste. Maciste is captured just after having confided Cabiria to Sophinisbe's safe keeping, while Fulvio Axilla manages to escape from Carthage. Ten years went away with Punic wars before he is able to come back to Carthage...—Yepok

Plot Keywords: slave, nurse, pirate, priest, roman, melodramatic, powerful ...

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#24. Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

Storyline: The Muppets are back into action in another movie based on a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kermit the Frog and his colleagues go on a warfare against ruthless pirates. They also share their problem-solving journey on sea to rescue a treasure.

Plot Keywords: frog, puppet, captain, cabin boy, pirate, long john silver, islander ...

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#25. The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Storyline: Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom. Little do the cutthroats know that she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester the Great, who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.—Alfred Jingle

Plot Keywords: actor, princess, pirate, tattoo artist, governor, guard, hilarious ...

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#27. The Black Swan (1942)

Storyline: When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Carribean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: pirate, governor, damsel in distress, english gentleman, thrilling, passionate, amusing ...

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#28. Mysterious Island (1961)

Storyline: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'.—Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>

Plot Keywords: prisoner of war, pirate, scientist, campy, spectacular, prison camp, island ...

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#29. Peter Pan (2003)

Storyline: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.

Plot Keywords: pirate, peter pan, brother, captain hook, tinkerbell, endearing, positive ...

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