Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) on Netflix

A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.

Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted to Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...

—Yepok

The beautiful Pandora Reynolds has a great many admirers. The men in her life will seemingly do anything for her - one, race car driver Stephen Cameron, gladly sends his car over a cliff to prove his love - but Pandora isn't enamored with any of them. The arrival of Hendrik van der Zee intrigues her however. He's strange man who keeps mostly to himself. Pandora soon learns that he is the legendary Flying Dutchman who, every 7 years, gets to live among mortals searching for the woman who would love him and be prepared to die for him, thus relieving from his burden of an eternal life of loneliness.

—garykmcd

Taking great pleasure in destroying the egos and lives of the unfortunate males who dared to fall in love with her, the statuesque American femme fatale and raven-haired singer, Pandora Reynolds, has never experienced the catharsis of love. Then, amid intense but unrequited passions by ardent suitors, the enigmatic and equally handsome Dutch captain, Hendrick van der Zee, sails into the picturesque Spanish bay of 1930s Esperanza, and as if by fate, catches the eye of Pandora. According to legend, the mythical 17th-century navigator called the Flying Dutchman was doomed to wander the wild seas until he finds a woman willing to love him unconditionally. It's crazy, but could sad-eyed Hendrick be the fabled mariner? Above all, is dangerous Pandora willing to sacrifice everything in the name of love?

—Nick Riganas

In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate...

—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>