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Star Trek Beyond(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 3,038 votes)

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

The Martian(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 24min | Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 9,058 votes)

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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.

Lightyear(2022)

3.5/5 (with 1,553 votes)

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

Directed by Angus MacLane

Tremors(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Horror, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 1,388 votes)

Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

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?

Tremors 2: Aftershocks(1996)

3.1/5 (with 397 votes)

Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt Gummer. Add to that team a young punk out for cash and a fearless scientist, and the critters don't stand a chance.

Triangle of Sadness(2022)

R
| 2h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 638 votes)

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

Alive(1993)

R
| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 622 votes)

The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

In the Heart of the Sea(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Action, History
3.4/5 (with 1,847 votes)

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

The Sand(2015)

1h 24min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 101 votes)

After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wakes up under the blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?

Directed by Isaac Gabaeff - With Brooke Butler

Breakdown(1997)

R
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 392 votes)

When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.

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Identity(2003)

R
| 1h 30min | Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,639 votes)

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Mine(2016)

NR
| 2h 13min | War, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 580 votes)

After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.

Chernobyl Diaries(2012)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 722 votes)

A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

3.2/5 (with 201 votes)

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Enemy Mine(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 403 votes)

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

Frozen(2010)

R
| 1h 33min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 790 votes)

When three skiers find themselves stranded on a chair lift at a New England ski resort that has closed for the next week, they are forced to make life or death choices that prove to be more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

Love Wrecked(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Kids & Family, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 219 votes)

On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.

Mysterious Island(1961)

NR
| 1h 41min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

Lord of the Flies(1990)

R
| 1h 30min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 232 votes)

When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.

S. Darko(2009)

2.2/5 (with 208 votes)

Seven years after her brother's death, Samantha Darko finds herself stranded in a small desert town after her car breaks down where she is plagued by bizarre visions telling of the universe's end. As a result, she must face her own demons, and in doing so, save the world and herself.

Galaxy of Terror(1981)

2.6/5 (with 80 votes)

As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?

Last Cannibal World(1977)

R
| 1h 28min | Adventure, Horror
2.8/5 (with 36 votes)

An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.

Directed by Ruggero Deodato - With Me Me Lai, Massimo Foschi, Ivan Rassimov, Suleiman

Centigrade(2020)

1h 29min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 114 votes)

A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.

Directed by Brendan Walsh - With Genesis Rodriguez, Vincent Piazza

Move Over, Darling(1963)

3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

Anthropophagous(1980)

R
| 1h 32min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 65 votes)

Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.

Edge of Winter(2016)

1h 29min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 75 votes)

When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.

Vinyan(2008)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 54 votes)

Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.

Dust Devil(1992)

R
| 1h 43min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

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