

Movies Like The Spanish Main
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The Black Swan

The Three Musketeers

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Captain Blood

Anne of the Indies

The Crimson Pirate

Blackbeard, the Pirate

Safe in Hell

The Bluff

The Pirate

Against All Flags

Ben-Hur

The Princess Bride

Indochine

Avenger of the Seven Seas

Priceless

A Story of the Forest: Mavka

To Take A Wife

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The Hurricane
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