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1. Team America: World Police (2004)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy
Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.
Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ, Kristen Miller
Votes: 178,746 | Gross: $32.79M
2. The Tailor of Panama (2001)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela
Votes: 31,176 | Gross: $13.73M
3. Basic (2003)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A D.E.A. Agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Tim Daly
Votes: 66,614 | Gross: $26.54M
4. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Votes: 33,394 | Gross: $0.01M
5. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre
Votes: 6,675
6. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon
Votes: 6,265 | Gross: $18.00M
7. Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Votes: 5,047
8. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo
Votes: 5,624
9. Across the Pacific (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton
Votes: 5,449
10. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
TV-14 | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary that weaves together the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.
Stars: Peter Coyote, George F. Will, Geoffrey C. Ward, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Votes: 2,653
11. The Dove (1974)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love... See full summary »
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, John McLiam, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 463 | Gross: $0.33M
12. Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon
Votes: 904
13. The Secret Land (1948)
Passed | 71 min | Documentary
The 1946-1947 U.S. military expedition to explore and map Antarctica, led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is presented from its planning stages through its successful completion.
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Van Heflin, James Forrestal
Votes: 430
14. The Fighting Lady (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.
Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer
Votes: 617
15. Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Mystery
Inspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash
Votes: 1,522
16. Carterland (2021)
122 min | Documentary, Biography
In the mid 1970's, a visionary leader decades ahead of his time is locked in a struggle for the future of America. His name is Jimmy Carter.
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Andrew Young, Jonathan Alter
Votes: 28
17. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
In 1940, Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, and is disturbed at the lack of civic pride. He ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 448
18. My Sin (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport, Scott Kolk
Votes: 211
19. Captain Scarface (1953)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Barton MacLane, Virginia Grey, Leif Erickson, Peter Coe
Votes: 265
20. Across the Pacific (2020)
History
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny
Votes: 70
21. 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Norman Nesbitt, John T. Smith
Votes: 1,482
22. Panama Lady (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what "real" life is like.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 330
23. The Panama Deception (1992)
91 min | Documentary, History, War
A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.
Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo, Abraham Alvarez
Votes: 1,167 | Gross: $0.31M
24. Yellow Jack (1938)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In the fever-stricken areas of Cuba, a brave band of scientists, doctors, and U.S. Marines fight a losing battle against the deadly plague of 'Yellow Jack' until the great heroic risk taken by an Irish sergeant brings victory.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Andy Devine
Votes: 292
25. Melody Cruise (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many eligible women on the cruise.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Phil Harris, Helen Mack, Greta Nissen
Votes: 389
26. Sensation Hunters (1933)
73 min | Drama
Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna
Votes: 211
27. Phantom Raiders (1940)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
An insurance company tasks with Carter and Beeswax to go to Panama where cargo ships are mysteriously exploding and sending their valuable cargoes to the bottom with all hands.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut, Florence Rice
Votes: 487
28. Submarine D-1 (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Drama
Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh
Votes: 319
29. Antarctica: Ice and Sky (2015)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A documentary about global warming.
Director: Luc Jacquet | Stars: Claude Lorius, Michel Papineschi, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 591
30. When the World Came to San Francisco (2015)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A drama about a young woman's visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The film tells the story of the exposition, as imagined through the eyes of a visitor.
Director: R. Christian Anderson | Stars: Beverly Washburn, Gerry O'Brien, Grover James Taylor, Linda Joy
Votes: 11
31. Canal Zone (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames, arrives at Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping depot on the edge of the Panama Canal, that has been converted to a training-and-relay ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, John Hubbard, Larry Parks
Votes: 58
32. Bruce Gentry (1949)
Approved | 246 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be ... See full summary »
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Tom Neal, Judy Clark, Ralph Hodges, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 66
33. The Cuban Love Song (1931)
Passed | 86 min | Musical, Romance
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 228
34. Rebel Rabbit (1949)
TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The signs indicate current bounty prices: $50 for a fox, $75 for a bear, only 2 cents for a rabbit. Bugs is insulted.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 755
35. Oasis (II) (2017)
71 min | Drama
Two friends embark on a tropical expedition to bury their past.
Director: Jorge Ameer | Stars: Cesar DeFuentes, Matthew Lynn, Katia Semacaritt, Jorge Ameer
Votes: 667
36. El último soldado (2010)
52 min | Documentary
A view on the last days of the American administration of the Panama Canal and the social relationships developed through almost a century.
Director: Luis Romero | Stars: Luis Romero, Francisco 'Bush' Buckley, Norma Cano, Rómulo Castro
37. Cruise of the Zaca (1952)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Actor Errol Flynn takes a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition to the South Seas aboard his schooner, The Zaca.
Director: Errol Flynn | Stars: Errol Flynn, Carl L. Hubbs, Laura Hubbs, Theodore Flynn
Votes: 312
38. South of Panama (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mike ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Roger Pryor, Virginia Vale, Lionel Royce, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 106
39. Panama Patrol (1939)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
The head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Adrienne Ames, Weldon Heyburn
Votes: 98
40. The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (1983)
93 min | Documentary, Drama
Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most extraordinary Americans who lived, a larger-than-life legend whose story has to be seen to be believed. Ingeniously weaving extremely rare archive ... See full summary »
Director: Harrison Engle | Stars: Bob Boyd, John Gable, Thomas Batty, Lisette Clemens
Votes: 73
41. Betrayal from the East (1945)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama
Before World War II, Japanese spies seek secrets of the Panama Canal.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Regis Toomey
Votes: 265
42. The Silent Command (1923)
80 min | Drama
Benedict Hisston is a foreign agent, part of a conspiracy to destroy the Panama Canal and the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. He attempts to acquire information about mine placement in the Canal ... See full summary »
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh, Martin Faust
Votes: 103
43. Gallagher: Overboard (1987 TV Special)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary, Comedy
A live performance by "Sledge-O-Matic" stand-up comedian Gallagher.
Director: Wayne Orr | Stars: Gallagher, Jensen Daggett, Constance Gallagher
Votes: 98
44. Lady Be Careful (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Comedy and Romance amongst American sailors in a pre-WWII tale of antics during shore leave chasing high society ladies. It's a common tale where a confident sailor bets he can get the girl but inevitably falls in love with her.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 39
45. White Legion (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Ian Keith, Tala Birell, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Suzanne Kaaren
Votes: 31
46. Bond meets Bond: James Bond meets Lieutenant Commander Frances Bond (2021 Video)
2 min | Short, Talk-Show, War
The name's Bond...Frances Bond. She may not be a 007 agent, but Lieutenant Commander Frances Bond knows how to interrogate her targets. Watch her speaking to 'No Time To Die' stars Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux.
Stars: Frances Bond, Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux
47. Diggers (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary film about the black men who came from the West Indies (primarily Barbados and Jamaica) to work on the construction of the Panama Canal from 1881 to 1914.
Director: Roman J. Foster | Stars: Brock Peters, John Woodcliff Bowen, Benjamin Jordan, Egbert Cleveland Leslie
48. Prophet Without Honor (1939)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography, Drama
This is the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer, who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Tom Neal
Votes: 169
49. TR: An American Lion (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: David de Vries | Stars: Frank D. Bradford, Chris Brick, Alan M. Crane, Richard Dreyfuss
Votes: 51
50. The Ne'er Do Well (1915)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure
Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Wheeler Oakman, Kathlyn Williams, Harry Lonsdale, Frank Clark
Votes: 25