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Cast Away(2000)

PG-13
| 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 5,324 votes)

Chuck Nolan, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening(2012)

3.2/5 (with 628 votes)

Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.

The Blue Lagoon(1980)

R
| 1h 44min | Romance / Love, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 805 votes)

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

Return to the Blue Lagoon(1991)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 509 votes)

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Swiss Army Man(2016)

3.5/5 (with 1,567 votes)

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Lord of the Flies(1963)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Thriller, Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 219 votes)

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.

Directed by Peter Brook - With James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allan, ...

Sweetheart(2019)

1h 22min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 151 votes)

Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.

Directed by J. D. Dillard - With Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence

The Black Stallion(1979)

G
| 1h 58min | Kids & Family, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 121 votes)

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

The Red Turtle(2016)

3.8/5 (with 550 votes)

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

Rage(2016)

2h 22min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

Directed by Lee Sang-il - With Ken Watanabe

Robinson Crusoe(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Drama
2.9/5 (with 91 votes)

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.

Swept Away(1974)

3.8/5 (with 129 votes)

A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise.

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Castaway(1986)

R
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Drama
3.2/5 (with 50 votes)

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.

Robinson Crusoe(1954)

PG
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.

Shock Waves(1977)

PG
| 1h 25min | Horror, Science Fiction, War
2.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.

My Favorite Wife(1940)

3.5/5 (with 62 votes)

Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.(1966)

G
| 1h 53min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by her father, who then comes after Crusoe.

Savages(1995)

2h | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 118 votes)

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden(2014)

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

Directed by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine - With Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor, ...

Crusoe(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Adventure
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

The Admirable Crichton(1957)

NR
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.

Dead Season(2012)

1h 26min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 25 votes)

It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors-- but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.

Directed by Adam Deyoe

Man Friday(1975)

PG
| 1h 55min | Adventure
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

Summer Affair(1971)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.

Mr. Robinson Crusoe(1932)

1h 16min | Adventure, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization and carves a miniature city of 52nd Street and Park Avenue out of the jungle. Drexel is befriended by his dog, a native monkey, and a wild goat that is captured in one of his traps. He attempts to cultivate a native as his Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe, but fails as the native escape.

Rescued(2008)

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Megan Hughes and two of her coworkers' plane crashes on a business trip. They finds themselves stranded on an island. Now isolated from civilization, Magan embarks on a journey to discover what it means to be rescued.

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe(1973)

1h 32min | Adventure
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

In the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only survivor. He takes steps to get food and shelter, hoping one day to be rescued. One day a band of black men arrive by boat and are about to execute one of their number; Crusoe saves him and drives them off, and names the man Friday, and teaches him Crusoe's on language. They survive together, but will they ever be rescued?

The Story of Fifteen Boys(1987)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea with no captain or crew? Why are pirates after the boys' new-found friend? Will they ever get home again? The excitement unfolds in scene after thrilling scene.

Two Lost Worlds(1951)

2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island(1981)

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.

Directed by Peter Baldwin - With Bob Denver
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