Island movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant island movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, suspense and romantic films and TV shows about / with island, survival, isolation, desert island, jungle, danger, escapades, stranded, boat and ocean plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as island: The Blue Lagoon (1980), Survival Island (2005), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), Castaway (1986), Cast Away (2000), Island of Death (1976), Turkish for Beginners (2012), Swept Away (2002).

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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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 (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, stranded, coming of age, love and romance, shipwreck, survival, young love, beautiful scenery, teenage love, youth, fall in love, desert island ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1980, 1890s ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Survival Island (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant, Manuel.
Style: sexy, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: island, survival, shipwreck, husband wife relationship, sexual tension, love triangle, sex scene, lust, cheating wife, desert island, romantic rivalry, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, initially antagonists, fall in love, air disaster, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: hawaii, fictional island, tahiti, pacific ocean, usa ...
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Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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.
Style: romantic, touching, sexy, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: youth, teenage love, marooned, teenage life, island, love and romance, true love, tropical island, high school student, stranded, desert island, lost at sea ...
Time: 21st century
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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.
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, teen, erotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: island, coming of age, children, tropical island, teenage pregnancy, love affair, teenage sex, sexual awakening, teenage girl, bare chested male, female nudity, survival ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, victorian era, 19th century
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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 5.8
 4K
Castaway (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scenic, emotional, sexy, realistic, retro ...
Audience: manly, kids
Plot: island, desert island, survival, friendship, beautiful scenery, sexy woman, erotica, stranded, nude, sailing, cannon, beach ...
Time: 80s
Place: fictional island, london, europe, england
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 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, 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 ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
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Island of Death (1976)
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island, spreading terror beyond anything the Islanders could have ever imagined. Only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it a man, woman or an animal. But will they go ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, island, incestuous sex, sexual abuse, anal rape, couples, sadism, obsession, violence spree, mentally unstable, gory ...
Time: 70s
Place: greece, europe
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Style: entertaining, exciting, feel good, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: island, jungle, lost city, expedition, fantasy world, lost world, atlantis, legends and myths, giant lizard, beautiful scenery, treasure, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 19th century
Place: hawaii, fictional island
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Turkish for Beginners (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuss) together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk (Elyas M'Barek) must fight for survival. After initially ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, remote island, opposites attract, adolescence, youth, island, culture clash, stranded on an island, teenage life, love and romance, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 3.6
 18K
Swept Away (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
Style: sexy, humorous, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: island, stranded on an island, tropical island, shipwreck, stranded, stockholm syndrome, rich woman, survival, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, twists and turns, love story ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: europe, italy, greece, mediterranean sea
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 591K
Lost (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 5445 min.
TV show
Story: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, island, stranded, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, lost, mysterious place, death, air disaster, destiny, plane crash ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
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 6.2
 1K
The Stranded (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Trapped on an island destroyed by a tsunami, the students of an elite school try to hold on to hope. But mysterious forces seem to work against them.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: island, teenager, survival, mysticism, high school, conflict, isolated place, struggle for survival, schoolboy, society, friendship, boarding school ...
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Welcome to the Jungle (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Puerto Rico, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, perverse ...
Plot: island, jungle, rescue, danger, instructor, wilderness, workplace intrigue, isolation, castaway, stranded, shipwreck, satire ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.1
 4K
Fear Island (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five students on spring break meet at a secluded island cabin for a weekend getaway. Stranded on the island they become the prey of a mysterious killer who seems bent on revenge for something the friends have done.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: characters killed one by one, island, homicidal maniac, stranded on an island, survival, psycho killer, danger, vengeance, unknown killer, stranded, redneck, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 5.1
 14K
The Breed (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brothers John and Matt have inherited an island cabin from their recently deceased uncle. Along with Matt's girlfriend, Nicki, and other mutual friends, the siblings travel to the cabin for a relaxing weekend getaway. But, not long after ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dog attack, island, survival, dog, dangerous animal, danger, animal attack, killer dog, isolation, plague, killer animal, teenage life ...
Place: south africa
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 2K
Purple Sea (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, island, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian sex ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place: sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 64K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mind game, island, twists and turns, trap, investigation, profiler, psycho killer, murder, survival, bloody violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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And Then There Were None (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, island, isolation, plot twist, murder, survival, investigation, bully comeuppance, trapped, accusation, death ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: britain, united kingdom, europe, england
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 6.8
 327K
The Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, cloning, escape, clone, conspiracy, fugitives, technology gone awry, island, dystopian future, lookalikes, utopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 2019, 2010s, near future ...
Place: fictional island, los angeles
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 5K
Rapa Nui (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Style: melancholic, captivating, sentimental, historical drama, epic ...
Plot: island, rivalry, catastrophe, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, state affairs, family feud, parents and children, isolation, jungle, map ...
Time: 18th century, year 1994, medieval times, 17th century
Place: chile, latin america, oceania, polynesia
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 6.6
 253K
The Beach (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, visual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, travel, adventurer, beach, obsessive quest, exotic island, utopia, tourist, drug, marijuana, jungle, hippie ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
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 5.3
 5K
The Island (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, cult classic ...
Plot: island, survival, pirate, kidnapping, rescue, insanity, ship, father son relationship, brainwashing, violence, supernatural, ocean ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: caribbean, miami, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 8K
Wrecked (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the ...
Style: captivating, spoof, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert island, island, castaway, survival, friendship, betrayal, twists and turns, hopes, danger, catastrophe, frame up, fistfight ...
Place: fictional island
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 5K
Corn Island (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, tense, sincere ...
Plot: island, teenage girl, grandfather granddaughter relationship, military, fishing, building a house, family relations, wartime life, storm, cornfield, border patrol, skinny dipping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, soviet union
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Harper's Island (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets ...
Style: tense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, multiple suspects, murder, danger, serial murder, murderer, island, gory, plan gone awry, whodunit, suspicion, victim ...
Place: washington state
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Robinson Crusoe (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, humorous
Plot: island, survival, isolation, slavery, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, shipwreck, robinson crusoe, pets, parrot, goat, tropical island ...
Time: 17th century
Place: fictional island, caribbean
Is relevant ?
 3.2
 15K
Far Cry (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Military complex on the Island. As they arrive Valerie gets captured by the minions of Doctor Krüger. ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, gaming, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chase, island, soldier, heroes, isolation, race against time, laboratory, escapades, journalism, tropical island, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 37K
Nim's Island (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style: exciting, scenic, captivating, sad, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: island, little girl, young heroes, exotic island, imaginary friend, writers, family relations, single father, danger, scientist, jungle, poacher ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: fictional island, san francisco, patagonia, pacific ocean, indonesia ...
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