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Robinson Crusoe (1997)
14K
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 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.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, baroque
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, ship, striptease, female nudity, adventurer, jungle, danger, sea disaster, wilderness, sailing, wilderness survival, loneliness, robinson crusoe, nature, treasure hunt, sea ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century, 1700s
Place:
fictional island, london, scotland, pacific ocean, oceania
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Most similar movies to Robinson Crusoe
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and suspense films with plots about survival, escapades, danger, nature, culture clash, wilderness and mentor mostly in Adventure, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Robinson Crusoe: Cast Away (2000), The Bounty (1984), The Lost City of Z (2016), All Is Lost (2013), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
684K
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:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
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75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, sexy, epic ...
Plot:
ship, mutiny, sea, island, sea voyage, colonialism, storm at sea, journey, royal navy, lifeboat, pacific island, captain ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, year 1984, 1780s, 1930s
Place:
england, tahiti, britain, pacific ocean, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Style:
inspirational, meditative, period piece, exciting, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
explorer, jungle, survival, expedition, travel, archaeology, journey, tribe, amazon jungle, conquistador, world war one, destiny ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, future, 1900s, year 2017 ...
Place:
south america, ireland, england, bolivia, america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, airplane accident, aviation, disaster, crash landing, sahara desert, thirst, isolation, pilot ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, libya, africa, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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, native, on the run, cannibalism, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, south africa
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100%
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, shipwreck, tropical island, robinson crusoe, survival, dog, death of dog, bare chested male, sole survivor, storm, sinking ship, tropics ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
fictional island, virginia
Similarity:
100%
914
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 173 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, danger, island, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, isolation, family life, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 192 min.
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Story:
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, humorous
Plot:
island, survival, isolation, slavery, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, shipwreck, robinson crusoe, pets, goat, parrot, tropical island ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
54K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style:
harsh, visually stunning, epic, sexy, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ocean, survival, sea voyage, boat, raft, expedition, shark, adventurer, sailing, lost at sea, fish, travel ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place:
pacific ocean, peru, polynesia, usa, south america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, period piece, epic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, naval battle, sea battle, battles, sailing, warship, heroic mission, royal navy, british navy, sea ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place:
britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style:
intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
wilderness, river, coming of age, friendship, survival, summer, nature, camping, youth, camp, mountain climbing, chess ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
267K
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, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
island, adventurer, tourist, jungle, drug, travel, beach, utopia, desire, hippie, marijuana, survival ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
Similarity:
100%
940K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, harsh, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, violent, bear attack, wilderness survival, winter, hunter, wild west ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, north america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur ...
Style:
perverse, action adventure, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mountain man, american indian, native american, wilderness, mountain, survival, wild west, cowboy, violence, native american attack, vigilantism, camping ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1830s
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, bear attack, native american, paranoia, mountain man, revenge, pain, winter, trapper, wolf pack, loner ...
Time:
1820s, 1800s, year 1971, 19th century, 70s
Place:
north dakota, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Plot:
survival, shipwreck, desert island, ocean, sea disaster, wise man, wisdom of life, friends, storm, isolation, friendship, escapades ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century
Place:
england, fictional island
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous ...
Style:
touching, harsh, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, nature, utopia, village, obsessive quest, danger, mental illness, father son relationship, rain forest, inventor, missionary, social commentary ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south america, central america, latin america, usa, baltimore ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
inspirational, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, survival, mentor, life & death ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, south america, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, touching, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, adventurer, culture clash, stranded, orphan, feral man, unrequited love, ape, animal cruelty, justice, rescue ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 1900s ...
Place:
africa, england, london, united kingdom, europe ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american white relationships, colonialism, wilderness, survival, native, danger, captivity, culture clash, settler, colonial america, escape, pioneer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
leopard, male nudity, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, humanity, loneliness, brutality, soldier, wilderness, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place:
egypt, sahara, france, ottoman empire, africa ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, friendship, space wars, space, extraterrestrial, alien life-form, space opera, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
space western
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, german shepherd, survival, wilderness, stranded, landscape, canine, animal, daring rescue, pets, adventurer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, canada, england, london, yukon
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 ...
Style:
intense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, desert, aviation, stranded, adaptation, dialogue, chase, rescue, treasure hunt, introspection, human nature, getting home ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
beijing china, long beach california, mongolia
Similarity:
75%
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