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 6.3
 3K
Abandoned (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: sea, lost at sea, ship, desert island, death, fear, storm, courage, survival, boat, sailing, wilderness ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: pacific ocean
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 4.1
 9K
Great White (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: What should have been a tourist trip to remember, quickly turns into a living nightmare when five passengers on a seaplane become stranded, miles away from shore. What follows is a desperate bid for survival as the group try to make it to land ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody
Plot: shark, shark attack, great white shark, killer shark, island, creature, blood, rescue, water, creature feature, killer animal, airplane ...
Place: australia, oceania
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 4.6
 3K
Dead Season (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie, plague, apocalypse, on the run, survival, cannibalism, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, social decay, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, caribbean
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Raptor Island (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lost world, creature feature, soldier, kaiju, battles, military, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, escapades, rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: china, asia
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, island, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, macabre, diary, nightmare, art ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 6.6
 2K
Mr. Robinson (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Robbie is a rich and wealthy man who is married to a woman called Magda. One day, they decide to go on holiday. Magda suggests via ferry, despite the fact that Robbie HATES sea travel. He suggests via airplane, but Magda has a fear of heights. ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light
Plot: stranded on an island, survival, castaway, interracial relations, stranded, desert island, female nudity, friendship, culture clash, man-woman relation, interracial romance, island ...
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 2.5
 427
Triassic Hunt (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When two genetically created dinosaurs end up on the loose, it's up to a team of rag tag mercenaries to capture them. When the realize that the dinosaurs are bred as smart as humans, the game of cat and mouse turns for the worst.
Style: emotional, suspenseful, serious, scenic, suspense ...
Plot: dinosaur, monster, animal attack, hunting, betrayal, eaten alive, genetics, giant monster, rescue, journey, fight, giant creature ...
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 3.2
 407
Island Escape (2023)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trapped on an island, a team of mercenaries on a rescue mission begin to question everything around them as they encounter threatening creatures living in the shadows.
Style: bleak, scary, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: survival horror, monster, struggle for survival, desert island, teaching, island, survival, scientist, remote island, female scientist, wormhole
Place: fictional island
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 3.5
 992
Bermuda Island (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Passengers on their way to a tropical paradise crash at sea and find themselves on a deserted island. Desperate to survive the elements and infighting between survivors, they find that the island has more in store for them than they could ever ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: tropical island, plane crash, survival horror, survival, desert island, island, air disaster, remote island, trapped, struggle for survival, monster, female nudity ...
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 3.1
 2K
Maneater (2022)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.
Style: bloody, captivating, tense, serious, scary ...
Plot: shark, vacation gone wrong, shark attack, vacation, animal attack, predator, giant monster, monster, desert island, sea monster, human versus monster, remote island ...
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 4.1
 245
Castaways (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island.
Style: semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating, feel good
Plot: businessman, unlikely friendships, desert island, resort, island, satire, survival, escapades, plane crash
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 7.3
 110
The New People (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. The crash ...
Plot: island, desert island, survival, stranded, nuclear testing, abandoned city, teenager, survivor, castaway, airplane accident, young woman, nuclear ...
Place: pacific ocean
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Welcome to the Jungle (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in 1961.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot: cannibalism, jungle, wilderness, found footage, cannibal, survival, obsessive quest, danger, gory, african tribe, escapades, cons and scams ...
Place: new zealand
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Mysterious Island (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot: ocean, manipulation, friends, disorder, wise man, mind game, mysterious character, leadership, danger, escapades, survival, uncover truth ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
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The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, aviation, stranded on an island, pacific island, ocean, water, trap, trapped, youth, sea, ship, profanity ...
Time: year 1980
Place: fictional island, san francisco
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 6.0
 2K
Jumping Ship (2001)
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, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, daring rescue, disorder, parents and children, ship, family life, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, pacific ocean
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5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of friends get together in a remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation. Soon they start turning up dead one by one. The group gets together to determine the identity of the killer amongst them.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, erotic, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, voyeur, killer, exploitation, maniac, business, desert island, macabre, murderer, lost soul, old dark house ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy
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Frankenstein Island (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
Style: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film
Plot: zombie, frankenstein, monster, frankenstein's monster, exploitation, creature, lost soul, alien, invasion, desert island, jungle, dracula ...
Time: year 1981
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Humongous (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: island, mutant, monster, revenge, murder, isolation, deadly creature, gory, danger, youth, rescue, rape and revenge ...
Time: 1940s, year 1982, 80s, 70s, year 1946
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Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, gory, female nudity, virus, pandemic, zombie violence, danger, living dead, race against time, survival, zombie child ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: papua new guinea, barcelona, europe, italy, spain
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 5.7
 9K
Gothic (1986)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot: insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, mind game, brutality, obsession, goth, drug, writers, hallucination ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
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 4.9
 5K
Zombi 3 (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into ...
Style: splatter, apocalyptic, suspense, epic, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, infection, living dead, plague, gory, exploitation, terrorism, zombie attack, virus, undead, desert island, dystopia ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida) , a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for the murder of a circus girl, he spots the photo of a ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, terrifying, creepy ...
Plot: insanity, sexploitation, body horror, exploitation, surrealism, island, martial arts, desert island, erotica, pink film, lost soul, feral man ...
Place: japan
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Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertently re-frozen and brought back to life. As if that weren't bad ...
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: snowman, serial killer, christmas, reincarnation, murder, vengeance, survival, isolation, psychopath, xmas, island, monster ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
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 6.2
 21K
Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
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 7.5
 194K
Battle Royale (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, 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: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: game of death, survival, death, dystopia, suicide, gory, desperation, cruelty, social commentary, school class, dystopian future, contests and competitions ...
Time: future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place: japan, asia, east asia
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Zombie Beach Party (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Ulysses, a professional wrestler, is going to watch another fight in which a wrestler is up against a horde of zombies. One of the zombies kills a waitress and Ulysses and his friends decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the ...
Style: scary, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, parody ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, rivalry, wrestler, gory, plague, deadly creature, danger, superhero, escapades, chaos, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, survival, isolation, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, college, killer animal, creature feature, amusement park, laboratory ...
Time: prehistory
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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, stylized ...
Plot: cthulhu, ancient mystery, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, cosmic horror, monster, kaiju, giant monster, obsession, secrets, existentialism ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century
Place: rhode island, louisiana
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 5.3
 6K
Vinyan (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission: Impossible) is convinced she ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: stranded, missing child, missing person, husband wife relationship, survival, isolation, danger, orphan, couple relations, jungle, feral child, island ...
Place: thailand, burma, asia
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