Movies like The Beach
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The Beach (2000)
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, philosophical, visual, cerebral, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
island, adventurer, tourist, jungle, drug, travel, beach, utopia, desire, hippie, marijuana, survival, exotic island, traveler, tropical island, insanity, secret place, love and romance, obsessive quest, bad trip, weed, destiny, betrayal, paradise, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia, american
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Most similar movies to The Beach
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and interesting films with plots about death, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, chase and survival mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Beach: Lord of the Flies (1990), Cast Away (2000), Limbo (1999), The Mosquito Coast (1986), Jungle (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
80%
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 ...
Similarity:
67%
7K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, small town, wilderness, parents and children, human nature, danger, family relations, drug dealing, disaster, survival, seaside, fishing village ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
100%
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:
71%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, jungle, wilderness, nature, alone, wilderness survival, adventurer, survivor, amazon rainforest, rescue, raft, river ...
Time:
year 2017, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1980
Place:
bolivia, south america, andes mountains
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After an airplane crash, a handsome couple is left stranded on a tropical desert island. Bonnie and Billy are forced to fight against nature and the inhospitable environment to survive. Then soon learn to live with the environment then suddenly a ...
Style:
sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
desert island, airplane crash, passionate sex, female nudity, orgasm, beach, rescue, coming of age, nudity, bare chested male, sexually liberated, sexploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
Style:
sexy, teen, erotic, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
island, children, tropical island, love affair, coming of age, teenage sex, desert island, bare chested male, teenage pregnancy, stranded on an island, teen romance, survival ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Fiji, Jamaica
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style:
romantic, sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
island, stranded, love and romance, shipwreck, young love, beautiful scenery, coming of age, teenage love, survival, desert island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, year 1980 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style:
road movie, sexy, inspirational, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, writers, beat generation, homoeroticism, nude, infidelity, homoerotic friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, poetry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, 1950s, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, arizona, california, usa, 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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, adultery, couple relations, love, passion, christmas, destructive relationship, love and romance, husband murders wife, hospital, affair, psychiatrist ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
europe, london, united kingdom, wales, england
Similarity:
100%
692K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
Similarity:
100%
43K
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, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
submarine, underwater, sea, treasure hunt, boat, ocean, survival, gold, isolation, danger, sunken ship, greed ...
Time:
year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea, russia
Similarity:
100%
355K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate ...
Style:
suspenseful, bloody, exciting, historical drama, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, jungle, ancient history, tribe, manhunt, slavery, chase, native, ancient, death, warrior, forest ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 2006, 2000s, medieval times
Place:
mexico, mexico city, persia, central america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, surveillance, drug lord, drug dealer, love triangle, friendship, corruption, crime boss, drug, love, best friend, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, intense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, infidelity, twists and turns, fall in love, couple relations, manipulation, actor's life, artists and showbiz, love affair, love story, sexual content, erotica ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is ...
Style:
psychological, neo western, disturbing, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, cowboy, rebellious daughter, delusion, dangerous attraction, love and romance, parents and children, crazy love, father daughter relationship, psychopath, mental illness, hipster ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
south dakota, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, period piece, romantic, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
murder, on the run, tour guide, ruins, love triangle, american abroad, greed, cons and scams, dishonesty, fugitives, criminal heroes, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1962
Place:
greece, athens greece, somalia, europe, turkey ...
Similarity:
100%
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128K
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, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
wilderness, rape, survival, friendship, canoe, rape and revenge, nature, forest, river, nightmare, camping, revenge ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, appalachia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, kids
Plot:
wilderness, island, desert island, bullying, innocence lost, survival, children, stranded on an island, literary, coming of age, skinny dipping, isolation ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, future, near future
Place:
fictional island, britain, pacific ocean
Similarity:
50%
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:
50%
622K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son ...
Style:
serious, captivating, thought provoking, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
civil war, treasure hunt, gem, mercenary, smuggling, greed, revolution, mining, rebel, journalism, life changing, rescue ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, year 2003, 20th century, year 1999 ...
Place:
africa, sierra leone, zimbabwe, south africa, angola ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
self discovery, daydreamer, travel, life changing experience, loneliness, disorder, adventurer, journey, lifestyle change, photographer, coworker, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
50%
206K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, cult classic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
game of death, survival, death, dystopia, violence, gory, desperation, jungle, cruelty, contests and competitions, satire, social commentary ...
Time:
future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, sex, obsession, couple relations, dangerous attraction, passion, husband wife relationship, love story, passionate sex, desire, sex scene, carnival ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, victorian era, turn of the century, 20th century ...
Place:
cuba, iran, morocco, delaware, havana cuba ...
Similarity:
100%
5K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Vanuatu
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, realistic, psychological, anthropological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pacific island, tradition, tribe, native tribe, volcano, arranged marriage, forbidden love, lovers, forced marriage, warrior, conflict, love ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
africa, oceania, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Style:
anti religion, exotic
Plot:
jungle, jungle adventure, plague, black magic, lonely, christianity, insanity, drunkard, islam, treatment, vaccine, superstition ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936
Place:
indonesia, oceania, borneo, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, scenic, visually appealing ...
Plot:
travel, sahara desert, desert, traveler, infidelity, passion, husband wife relationship, on the road, existentialism, beautiful scenery, heat wave, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
africa, morocco, north africa, new york, sahara
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, guilt, haunted by the past, countryside, attempted murder, couple relations, dangerous attraction, lgbt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
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