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Crusoe (2008)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
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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 man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Plot:
survival, shipwreck, desert island, ocean, friendship, storm, friends, isolation, escapades, wise man, wisdom of life, sea disaster, treasure, interracial relations, native, sacrifice, danger, confined, culture clash, belief, presumed dead, abandoned, life risking, cannibalism, seafaring ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century
Place:
england, fictional island
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Most similar movies to Crusoe
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and captivating films and TV series with plots about escapades, survival, danger, ocean, island, ship and sea mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Crusoe: Amazon (1999), Follow the River (1995), Moby Dick (1998), Sea Wolf (2009), Stranded (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, female nudity, ship ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, oceania, pacific ocean, scotland, london
Similarity:
45%
723
Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot:
jungle, amazon tribe, air disaster, tribe, forces of nature, superstition, rescue, escapades, down on your luck, danger, dangerous animal, survivor ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, sea, ocean, captain, whale, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, danger, friendship, water, shipwreck, creature ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Similarity:
100%
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:
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:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
ship, ocean, captain, survival, danger, expedition, isolation, sea disaster, self discovery, escapades, writer's life, sailing ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
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:
100%
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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:
island, survival, wilderness, sailboat, shipwreck, rescue, family relations, disaster, danger, confined, escapades, getting home ...
Time:
80s
Place:
alaska, british columbia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, serious, historical drama, realistic ...
Plot:
pirate, outlaw, escapades, rivalry, danger, terrorizing, sailing, chivalry, criminal, pirate ship, courage, sea ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
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Story:
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe fills his time in either building a shelter for himself, or by reminiscing about the years he spent at sea and the adventures that led him to where he is. The months roll by and the hardships ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
desert island, robinson crusoe, survival, island, beach, marooned, shipwreck, escapades, confined, danger, pets, sea disaster ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Story:
Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale. The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, entertaining
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
teenager, stranded on an island, isolation, island, youth, escapades, danger, siblings relations, teenage life, interracial relations, brother sister relationship, survivor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean, hawaii, oceania
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Fantastic Journey was an American science fiction television series that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977.
Style:
spooky
Audience:
kids
Plot:
bermuda triangle, portal, military dictatorship, castaway, paradox, utopia, parallel universe, island, survival, time portal, shipwreck, computer ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 60 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, costume drama, sexy, historical drama, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pirate, captain, pirate ship, swashbuckler, colonial america, sea, gold, treasure hunt, medieval, island, treasure, danger ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
caribbean, syria, america, west indies
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, 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:
independent film, captivating, biting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, blaxploitation, shipwreck, robinson crusoe, atheist, stranded, anarchist, island, interracial relations, buddies, confined, escapades ...
Time:
year 1975, 17th century
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, captivating
Plot:
island, isolation, shipwreck, teenager, survival, stranded, danger, teamwork, friendship, exploration, lost civilization, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story:
A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, danger, on the run, escapades, female whipping, prisoner, society, injustice, life is a bitch, sailing ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place:
australia, england, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
ship, ocean, storm at sea, violence, sea, castaway, survival, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, social differences ...
Time:
year 2008, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
30%
556
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, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
whale, lost at sea, shipwreck, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, rescue, isolation, hunting ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart ...
Style:
epic, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, costume drama ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure map, pirate, island, expedition, ship, treasure, adventurer, heroes, danger, rivalry, escapades ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
england, caribbean, fictional island
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
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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, medieval, heroes, heroic mission, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, hopes, political unrest, culture clash, society, priest ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century
Place:
asia, china, venice, italy
Similarity:
27%
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:
26%
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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, 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:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style:
serious, epic, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
adventurer, expedition, explorer, endurance, photograph, against the odds, danger, ambition, forces of nature, nature, survival, sea ...
Time:
1910s, year 1914, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, south pole, britain, england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia, Thailand, Ukraine
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of thirteen tourists, including Lisa and Andrew, arrives to an Asian country, but instead of exotic travel they get into ordeal. Shipwrecked, they must survive ona desert island.
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, desert island, crash, family relations, island, society, friendship, survivor, group of strangers, social relations, stranded on an island, parents and children ...
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
13%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, sailing, ship, boat, survival, captain, attempted rape, courage, die hard, pirate ship, sea voyage, pirate ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, ocean, airplane, buddy, pilot, friends, danger, escapades, friendship, woman in a bikini, artist ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
africa, france, congo, paris france, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Plot:
ocean, sea captain, strong man, tough guy, strength, brutality, ship, revenge, sadism, violence, sailboat, survival ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean, san francisco
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
TV show
Story:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
inventor, sea, british navy, ocean, against the odds, military life, escapades, danger, sea disaster, sailing, father son relationship, sea voyage ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, jamaica
Similarity:
23%
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