Movies like Stranded 2002
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Stranded (2002)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
island, pirate, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, family life, isolation, confined, estrangement, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, treasure hunt, shipwreck, ocean, heroes, friends, escapades, immigrants, wilderness, child in peril, survival, escape, priest, native, tropical island ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
thailand
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and captivating films with plots about escapades, danger, survival, heroes, isolation, island and confined mostly in Adventure, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Stranded: The New Swiss Family Robinson (1998), Robinson Crusoe (1997), Robinson Crusoe (2003), Cast Away (2000), Lost in the Barrens (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabeth 'Lizzy' by sailing yacht from Hong Kong to Syndney. The gun he gets thrown in by ...
Style:
romantic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
exotic island, ocean, sailing, pirate, shipwreck, rescue, survival, treasure hunt, fish out of water, family in danger, family life, desert ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
singapore, australia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, psychotronic ...
Plot:
survival, desert island, shipwreck, friendship, stranded on an island, island, ocean, destiny, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss, female nudity ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
london, scotland, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
snowstorm, survival, rescue, wilderness, disaster, frostbite, hypothermia, babies and infants, confined, heroes, escapades, family life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ 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:
serious, realistic, captivating, humorous
Plot:
island, survival, isolation, slavery, confined, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, shipwreck, stranded, pets, parrot, goat ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, exciting, harsh ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
dog, survival, boy dog relationship, wilderness, youth, animals, kids and family, childhood, friendship, young heroes, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place:
london, british columbia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Cast Away
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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:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, bear attack, wilderness, nature, winter, native american, treasure hunt, snow, friendship between boys, train, mountain, bear ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Boston boy escapes from spies and survives in the wild with tricks from his mountain-man father.
Style:
exciting, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
child in peril, survival, wilderness, youth, mountain, kidnapping, father son relationship, boy, parents and children, escapades, heroes, confined ...
Time:
80s
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, realistic, serious
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, survival, animals, wilderness, inventions and discoveries, friendship, daring rescue, heroes, escapades, adventurer, treasure hunt, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, yukon, london, england, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sincere
Plot:
desert island, survival, tropical island, ocean, shipwreck, island, marooned, stranded, isolation, fish out of water, escapades, confined ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
ocean, island, beach, youth, animals, dolphins, daring rescue, gangsters, confined, young heroes, pirate, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
bahamas, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
Style:
exciting, feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
resort, pirate, chase, treasure hunt, siblings relations, disorder, daring rescue, family life, ship, parents and children, island, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
Style:
exciting, serious, atmospheric, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
island, ship, survival, heroes, isolation, fall in love, confined, escapades, youth, ocean, fight, friends ...
Time:
17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A youth (Russ Hanson) attempts to re-introduce a domesticated wolf to the wild.
Style:
captivating, serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
wolf, animals, wilderness, animal life, mistaken identity, fish out of water, heroes, survival, misfit, escapades, on the run, father son relationship ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Style:
realistic, semi serious
Plot:
survival, rescue, family relations, wilderness, island, disaster, escapades, confined, getting home, environmentalism, siblings relations, battle zone ...
Time:
80s
Place:
british columbia, alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Movies similar to White Fang
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
Plot:
native american white relationships, kidnapping, wilderness, survival, native american, colonialism, captivity, americana, culture clash, settler, pioneer, escape ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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:
serious, exciting, captivating, intense, factual ...
Plot:
whale, lost at sea, ship, survival, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, shipwreck, rescue, hunting, suspense, isolation ...
Time:
19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday ...
Style:
captivating, biting, serious, realistic
Plot:
desert island, survival, blaxploitation, anarchist, island, suspense, escapades, confined, buddies, moral dilemma, power relations, fish out of water ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
nature, wilderness, survival, treasure hunt, youth, camp, family relations, mountain, bear, wolf, rocky mountains, animal life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
252
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
Story:
Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.
Attempting to claim ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot:
kidnapping, orphan, heroes, heroic mission, teenage life, daring rescue, rivalry, escapades, pirate, treasure hunt, good versus evil, adventurer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like The Whale
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Plot:
island, survival, ocean, wise man, friends, wisdom of life, storm, sea disaster, friendship, isolation, escapades, shipwreck ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, youth, adventurer, escapades, heroes, on the run, family life, friendship, train, friends, artifact, historian ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Style:
exciting, realistic, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
pirate, pirate ship, sea battle, ocean, stowaway, sailboat, child in peril, sword fight, pirate captain, kidnapping, escapades, ship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
jamaica, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disaster, survival, aviation, arctic, interwar period, nature, space, rescue attempt, heroes, leadership, daring rescue, ghost ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
pirate, island, remote island, torture, rape, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, graphic violence, good versus evil, escapades, survival, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, realistic ...
Plot:
adventurer, heroes, heroic mission, leadership, rivalry, dishonesty, hopes, political unrest, culture clash, society, medieval, priest ...
Time:
13th century, middle ages
Place:
asia, china, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that ...
Style:
serious, intense, exciting, captivating, talky
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
pirate, treasure map, ship, adventurer, heroes, young heroes, obsessive quest, daring rescue, rebelliousness, youth, gang, betrayal ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
494
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
courage, kidnapping, adventurer, rivalry, state affairs, heroes, orphan, soldier, confined, corrupted ruler, pirate, escapades ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
281
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
survival, wilderness, island, escapades, forces of nature, shipwreck, isolation, human spirit, family relations, storm, stranded, spirituality ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
wolf, snowboarding, survival, death of father, uncle nephew relationship, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, pets, daring rescue, wilderness, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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