The original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with the original cast slaps. I forgot how good those films were until I rewatched them over lockdowns but they all hold up super well. So, any one of those movies.
Yeah all of the other are great but Pirates of the caribean is by far the best movie about pirates.
The Princess Bride.
Inconceivable
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Muppet Treasure Island
I’ve got cabin fever!
I’ve got it toooo!
He’s got one leg, Jim. Count 'em: …one…
There’s a Muppet Treasure Island?!
Thank you!
And it has Tim Curry!
There’s a blast from the past!
Oh yeah I totaly forgot about that movie, now the memories come flooding in.
That was back in the days when you had brutal kids movie. Caption killing his crew, I think they tortured a few muppets etc… But it has fun songs so it was all good.
I’m going to go with Hook.
It’s not as seminal to pirate movie lore as the 1950 Treasure Island or the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, but it’s just a great funny, touching movie.
Bangarang!
One of my all-time favorites. We had it on VHS as a kid and would watch it all the time.
I still randomly sing “Hook, Hook, give us the Hook!”
Treasure planet
People have said the pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. I want to specifically call out the first movie. It was a pure love letter to old pirate movies, and you get to see Jack sparrow actually be clever and serious, before he was flanderized into funny dirt jar man. The two sequels are fun, but each one took a notable drop in character writing for cheap gags.
Stardust isn’t entirely pirate themed, but the part with Robert De Niro as crossdressing sky-pirate is absolutely glorious.
The Goonies.
Hackers
Some good responses in here, so I’ll add The Pirate Movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. As with The Matrix it’s a pity that they never made any sequels.
If you like a pirate {and what right thinking person doesn’t?) then you should click this link to the Internet Archive to watch Captain Kidd with Charles Laughton having any amount of fun as magnificent bastard William Kidd.
Not probably the best, but needs to be thrown out there…
The Ice Pirates.
Plus one for Ice Pirates. It gave us Space Herpes
Captain Phillips
Not a movie, but One Piece.
Not pirates, but Jurassic Park
Not great, but Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
My first thought was Pirate Latitudes, a book written by Michael Chricton, author of Jurassic Park. Never saw a movie adaptation but he is the Stephen King of sci fi, so maybe someday. Also my favorite book of his, despite what others may say
