Movies like The Island 1980

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The Island (1980)
 5.3
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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 across Warner and his band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, cult classic, psychotronic, serious, slasher, scary, psychological ...
Plot: island, survival, pirate, kidnapping, rescue, insanity, ship, violence, father son relationship, brainwashing, supernatural, ocean, stockholm syndrome, boat, missing person, isolation, against the odds, heroic mission, escape, hostage, cocaine, boy, capture, captive, mysterious disappearance ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: caribbean, new york, miami
Keyword: ocean or sea, doctors

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Most similar movies to The Island

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and exciting films with plots about danger, survival, death, escapades, explosion, blood and deadly mostly in Thriller, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like The Island: Death Ship (1980), The Shallows (2016), Ashanti (1979), The Deep (1977), Robinson Crusoe (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Death Ship (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost ship, supernatural, ghost, ship, gory, survival, good versus evil, ocean, torture, exploitation, danger, confined ...
Time: year 1980
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100%
 6.3
 143K
The Shallows (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style: scary, minimal cast, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, creature feature, trapped, killer shark, shark attack, ocean, beach, sea, stranded ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: mexico, texas, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 2K
Ashanti (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, missing person, village life, danger, village, rescue, race against time, rivalry, terrorism, intrigue, hostage, mercenary ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 14K
The Deep (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, diving, shipwreck, sea, chase, kidnapping, see through clothes, survival ...
Place: haiti, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, friendship, stranded on an island, destiny, stranded, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss ...
Time: year 1997, 18th century
Place: fictional island, london, scotland, oceania, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 444K
King Kong (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style: sentimental, scenic, suspense, emotional, epic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, manly, boys' night ...
Plot: creature, jungle, dinosaur, king kong, monster, beast, gorilla, giant ape, island, rescue, giant animal, monkey ...
Time: year 2005, 1930s, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 41K
Black Sea (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Plot: submarine, underwater, boat, treasure hunt, sea, ocean, gold, isolation, heist, danger, greed, murder ...
Time: year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place: black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, survival, ship, ocean liner, rescue, natural disaster, cruise, race against time, plutonium, sinking ship, shipwreck, shootout ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 5.8
 84K
Jaws 2 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, survival, monster, creature feature, underwater, creature, boat, panic, fish, animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.1
 655K
Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.4
 559
The Eliminator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, chase, one against many, island, rivalry, danger, escapades, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.6
 109K
Ghost Ship (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes ...
Style: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, ship, supernatural horror, ghost ship, survival, macabre, gory, danger, twists and turns, ocean, greed ...
Time: year 2002, year 1962, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Surviving the Game (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mason is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really twisted when Mason discovers the group isn't after wild animals ...
Style: suspense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: survival, manhunt, human prey, most dangerous game, homeless, psychopath, chase, wilderness, brutality, hunting, death, mountain ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, survival, cruise ship, ship, natural disaster, christmas, greed, new year's eve, ocean, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
House of the Dead (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, ...
Style: scary, stylized, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, brutality, mad scientist, danger, party, chaos, teenage life, gory, video game, undead, monster ...
Time: 2000s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Avenging Force (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, terrorism, martial arts, rescue, survival, kidnapping, save the day, race against time, danger, vengeance, spy, cannon ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.5
 3K
Awaken (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs.
Style: slasher, captivating, enigmatic, tense, exciting ...
Plot: island, missing person, survival, abduction, female protagonist, amnesia, shooting, jungle, group of strangers, danger, violence, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Devil's Tomb (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, desert, soldier, danger, deadly creature, survival, heroes, daring rescue, save the world, heroic mission, escapades, experiment gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.3
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Deep Water (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: cruise ship, one against many, hostage, survival, conspiracy, terrorist group, kidnapping, fight, betrayal, ocean, teenage girl, disaster ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: san francisco, pentagon, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.6
 2K
Lost Voyage (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: bermuda triangle, ghost, afterlife, cruise ship, ghost ship, survival, investigation, supernatural ability, danger, obsession, ocean, journalism ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.5
 2K
The Untold (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, sasquatch, grizzly bear, bigfoot, missing person, supernatural, survival, rescue, danger, legends and myths, heroic mission, dangerous animal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.5
 9K
The Swarm (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, race against time, panic, small town, military, bee, survival, antidote, plague, danger, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
 5K
Target (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Texan with a secret past (Gene Hackman) searches Europe with his son (Matt Dillon) after the KGB kidnaps his wife (Gayle Hunnicutt).
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, espionage, kidnapping, father son relationship, missing person, rescue, spy, daring rescue, parents and children, secret agent, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: europe, hamburg germany, paris france, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, missing friend, friendship, woman in danger, expedition, torture, rescue, bicycle, murder, hostage, survival horror, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.2
 2K
The Rig (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: sea monster, oil, creature feature, human versus monster, isolation, survival, deadly creature, forces of nature, supernatural, rescue, confined, escapades ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 12K
Airport '77 (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, airplane, underwater, rescue, airport, survival, aviation, bermuda triangle, airplane accident, hijacking, airplane hijack, frogman ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.2
 1K
Shark Hunter (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, deadly creature, race against time, obsession, escapades, rescue ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
On Deadly Ground (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO, Michael Jennings, is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, corruption, conspiracy, corporate greed, oil company, environmental, vigilante, oil, revenge, brutality, one man army, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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