Movies like The Light at the Edge of the World

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The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
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The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.
Style: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: pirate, lighthouse, island, rape, torture, remote island, lighthouse keeper, survival, isolation, escapades, rivalry, danger, confined, good versus evil, violent content, cowboy, violence, cave, shipwreck, murder, city, siege, flashback, friend, slaughterhouse ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1800s
Place: latin america, argentina

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Most similar movies to The Light at the Edge of the World

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about danger, escapades, survival, confined, rivalry, murder and isolation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Light at the Edge of the World: The Mysterious Island (1973), Robinson Crusoe (1997), Stranded (2002), The Tomb (2007), Edge of Honor (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: submarine, lost soul, giant monster, castaway, island, pirate, escapades, danger, chimpanzee, jules verne
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
80%
 6.5
 848
Stranded (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, captivating, serious, period drama
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, island, danger, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, family life, isolation, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 1K
The Tomb (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, rivalry, supernatural, confined, escapades, survival, ancient mystery, woman in danger, gory, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Edge of Honor (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of scouts stumble onto a cache of stolen weapons hidden in a forest. They meet up with a girl and get involved with the men who originally stole the weapons. The men try to shoot the scouts every time - but are thwarted at the end.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dead children, forest, lumberjack, wilderness, scout, crime gone awry, rivalry, escapades, confined, good versus evil, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, danger, confined, escape, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wilderness, island, survival, bullying, innocence lost, children, coming of age, isolation, youth, desert island, childhood, human nature ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, future, near future
Place: britain, fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Senseless (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, intelligent ...
Plot: confined, missing person, danger, captivity, isolation, terrorism, prison life, internet, unsettling, confined space, extreme, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, haunted by the past, sniper, childhood trauma, confined, stalking, woods, survival, murder, manhunt, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: village, survival, murder, wilderness, on the run, danger, eskimo indian, native american, shaman, winter, village life, false accusation ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 4K
The Way West (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, against the odds, rivalry, obnoxious boss, on the road, fish out of water, culture clash, father son relationship, cowboy, painting, native american, wagon train ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967, 1840s
Place: missouri, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.2
 112K
Black Sails (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min.
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Story: The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspense, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pirate, captain, pirate ship, swashbuckler, island, treasure, gold, treasure hunt, ship, graphic violence, danger, sea ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, ancient times
Place: caribbean, syria, america, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.0
 675
The Crew (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: rescue, hostage, survival, captivity, isolation, forces of nature, danger, confined, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq, social relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Crusoe (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: desert island, robinson crusoe, tropical island, survival, shipwreck, ocean, marooned, stranded, isolation, fish out of water, confined, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: fictional island, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Survival Quest (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Hammer of the Gods (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thor along with his friends travels to mysterious island seeking glory and fame. Upon arriving they encounter strange creatures and they start searching the island for answers. Meanwhile Thor keeps seeing visions for a mighty warrior and a big ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, exciting ...
Plot: norse mythology, viking, island, battles, destiny, rivalry, imaginary, escapades, danger, medieval, village, legends and myths ...
Time: year 2009
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Style: serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: convict, clergy, disaster, priest, evacuation, island, natural disaster, rescue, church, faith, volcano, quicksand ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Naked Prey (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, tribe, hunter, manhunt, on the run, cannibalism, native, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time: 19th century, 60s, 1800s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Cavern (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: cave, survival, research, serial killer, adventurer, rescue, danger, confined, escapades, chaos, isolation, wilderness ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: russia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 662
Ghosted (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: ‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: prison life, prison, survival, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, danger, confined, twists and turns, prison fight, supernatural, strong violent content, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Four Stories of St. Julian (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set entirely in one location, the film follows four strangers who become trapped in the elevator of St. Julian-a decrepit, inner-city building. An assassin, a religious zealot, a mother, and a thief...just moments after being confined, it becomes ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, rivalry, danger, redemption, religions or cults, elevator, murder, violence, panic, stranded, survival, trapped in an elevator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 119K
Deliverance (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, flying, airplane, air disaster, world war, photojournalism, female journalist, exotic locale, pilot, u.s. air force, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Locked in a Room (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, trapped, teenager, room, survival, isolation, murder, violence, teenage life, confined, mysterious character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 533
The Whale (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: whale, lost at sea, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, shipwreck, rescue, isolation, catastrophe ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Style: serious, atmospheric, fairy tale, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, submarine, steampunk, sailor, animal, creature, professor, shipwreck, rivalry, good versus evil, heroes, daring rescue ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fog and Night (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: fighting the system, investigation, uncover truth, partner, danger, friendship, rivalry, who to trust, society, murder, law enforcement, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, rape, showdown, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
 515
Kidnapped (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot: pirate, captain, courage, kidnapping, ocean, danger, adventurer, confined, orphan, corrupted ruler, state affairs, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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