Movies and TvShows featuring "pearl-diving" theme.
Return to the Blue Lagoon follows the story of two teenagers who find themselves stranded on a remote Pacific island. As they struggle to survive, they also navigate the challenges of puberty and their budding romantic feelings for each other. The movie explores themes of sexual awakening, young love, and coming-of-age in a tropical paradise.
In a Savage Land follows a newlywed couple, a colonial governor and a missionary, as they navigate the complexities of love, lust, and power play in 1930s Papua New Guinea. Their relationship is tested during the Japanese invasion, revealing the sexism and machismo prevalent at the time. The couple also encounters an old woman, anthropologists, pearl divers, and a mysterious tomb. Amidst their struggles, the husband-wife relationship takes unexpected turns and explores themes of anthropology, native culture, and the South Pacific.
A story of adventure and romance on the high seas, with a cast of intriguing characters and a thrilling plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway.
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
In Scottish Mussel, a group of friends in Scotland discover a pearl while diving and try to save a nature conservation project. However, they get caught up with a criminal gang and must navigate their way out of trouble. With comedy and adventure, the film explores friendship and the beauty of the Scottish countryside.
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
White Shadows in the South Seas is a silent film that follows a doctor who is haunted by his shameful past. Stranded on a tropical island, he must face the consequences of his actions and navigate through a dangerous and unpredictable environment. As he tries to survive and find redemption, he encounters native people, deals with cultural differences, and becomes entangled in a tragic romance. This classic romantic drama explores themes of guilt, forgiveness, and the clash of cultures.
A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives.
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the girl offers herself to Lafitte to save her English lover, Lafitte makes him walk the plank. The girl then places a curse on Lafitte and his descendants, preventing them from ever knowing the true love of woman. Two hundred years later, in the West Antilles, painter Paul Winthrop poses Joe, a pearl diver, as a pirate. Upon seeing the completed painting, each envisions the earlier situation. Later, Joe finds the buried treasure and sails to New York, where he learns that the portrait has also attracted wealthy Lily Demorest and her suitor, Robert Spurr, a "financial pirate."
A pseudo-documentary, “Samarang” tells the story of lowly Ahmang (Captain A.V. Cockle) and his socially superior love, Sai-Yu (Theresa Seth). Both live in the village of Samarang in the Indian Ocean. Because Sai-Yu is the daughter of a chief and Ahmang is but a poor fisherman, he needs to increase his wealth before asking for her hand. Thus he accepts the perilous offer of the wily Chang-Fu, who seeks pearl divers. Ahmang must brave the treacherous waters of the Forbidden Lagoon of Sakai, home to bloodthirsty cannibals, killer sharks, and a monstrous grasping octopus. Sai-Yu and Ahmang’s younger brother Ko-Hai come along for kicks, too. Ahmang finds his pearl, but he and Sai-Yu are stranded on the island, where they befriend a local orangutan. When they return to the boat, a shark kills Ko-Hai, and Ahmang must get revenge.
Set in Kuwait, The Cruel Sea tells the story of pearl divers who face tragedy and challenges during their dangerous expeditions. The movie explores the lives of the fishermen and the harsh realities they endure.
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father agrees to let him experience this job. Ramon enters a forbidden cave, den of a giant skate nicknamed the Manta Diablo. He finds an oyster containing a black pearl of unusual size. His father donates it to the Virgin rather than sell it to dishonest traffickers. Shortly after, the flotilla of the village led by Salazar perishes at sea. Ramon must face the Manta Diablo with another fisherman to bring prosperity to the village ..
In the shores of Sulu lives the sea-faring tribe that is ruled by Datu Tanbuong. His granddaughter, Minda is betrothed to be married to Danao, who is a handsome young pearl fisher who presents a handful of impressive pearls to the datu. However, a visitor to Danao and Minda's wedding celebration is Hadji Razul, a chief of another tribe who has feelings for Minda.
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
A village head's son's accidental death in the sea forces the government to ban fishermen from diving in search of pearls. However, the ban obstructs the main occupation of the villagers.
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B. Davidson) arrives and there is a romance, which is hindered by various complications including a typhoon.