Lighthouse movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant lighthouse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological, atmospheric and melancholic films and TV shows about / with lighthouse, island, isolation, lighthouse keeper, boat, sea, survival, murder, loneliness and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lighthouse: The Vanishing (2018), The Light Between Oceans (2016), The Lighthouse (2019), Cold Skin (2017), The Sacred Mound (1993), The Lighthouse (2016), Half Light (2006), The Man in the Lighthouse (2007), South Solitary (2010), The Light (2004).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lighthouse, remote island, lighthouse keeper, disappearance, treasure chest, mental disorder, disorder, danger, investigation, loneliness, gold bar, gold ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1900, 20th century, 90s
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, mysterious, exciting, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, lighthouse, island, sea, lighthouse keeper, survival, mermaid, interspecies sex, night, loneliness, creature feature, snow ...
Time:
year 1914, 1910s
Place:
antarctic, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, fog, cabin in the woods, conversation, haunted by the past, death, drunkenness, ghost, zombie, man killed, all male cast ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, georgian era
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, lighthouse, murder, death of child, woman in danger, mentally unstable, death, female protagonist, danger, loss of child, death in the family ...
Place:
scotland, london, san francisco
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'
Style:
suspense, gothic, scary, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Plot:
lighthouse, isolation, edgar allan poe, paranoia, macabre, paranormal, haunting, supernatural, ghost, storm, symbolism, amnesia ...
Time:
1790s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
gay, lighthouse, homoeroticism, erection, boys love, lgbt, male pubic hair, sex, female nudity, male nudity, countryside, lgbtq ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
lighthouse, female protagonist, lighthouse keeper, remote island, island, solitude, loneliness, isolation, recluse, family relations, workplace, job ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
island, fall in love, love triangle, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, marital infidelity, storm, married woman ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives on an isolated island in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, bleak
Plot:
lighthouse keeper, isolation, family relations, discipline, teenage life, bullying, friendship, family in crisis, youth, family problems, parents and children, favoritism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
lighthouse, young lovers, forbidden love, disability, orphan, family relations, starting over, hopes, love and romance, gender, gays and lesbians, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, latin america, uruguay, spain
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Orphan Mike O'Conner was abused from age three by his own dad, fled to Chicago to start a rock band but got dragged in bad mates' crime and convicted under probation. Mike's sister, Kate, managed to get him released and employed as ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, family relations, small town life, psychopath, small town, siblings relations, lighthouse, father figure, female nudity, missing brother, brother sister relationship, voyeur ...
Place:
usa, oregon
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, tense, serious ...
Plot:
lighthouse, serial killer, island, prison guard, octopus, travel, giant octopus, lost soul, electrocution, person on fire, psychopath, rock ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.
Style:
bleak, dark, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
childhood trauma, rehabilitation, island, demon, survival, monster, murder, lighthouse, teenager, father son relationship, teenage crush, danger ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Erkin, who works as a watchman at the lighthouse, is a lonely man in his mid-thirties. Erkin, crushed under his credit debts, one day receives the news of his grandfather's death. A big surprise awaits Erkin, who immediately goes to his ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, retirement home, lighthouse keeper, life, problem, family relations, relationships, debt, satire, grandfather grandson relationship, family problems, reconciliation ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Moriah is a woodworking artisan living in a French, seaside town, who dreams of restoring the local lighthouse. When Ben, an American architect, comes to town, it seems as though her dreams will never become reality after she learns he’s there to ...
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, exciting, humorous ...
Plot:
lighthouse, female protagonist, small town, seaside, seaside town, love and romance, love affair, architect, town, couple relations, love, small town life ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lighthouse, ghost, revenge, supernatural horror, haunted house, small town, blood, radio station, sword, campfire story, murder, chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Recently divorced Melanie brings her son to a remote island for Christmas, where she connects with a lighthouse owner.
Style:
christmas special, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, feel good
Plot:
lighthouse, holiday, christmas, divorced mother, island, single mother, remote island, satire, xmas, christmas spirit, christmas present, christmas season ...
Place:
pacific ocean
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two brothers and a stray dog stumble upon some jewel thieves in a lighthouse.
Style:
mysterious, independent film
Plot:
lighthouse, children, seaside town, summer vacation, jewel theft, thief, childhood, babysitter, single mother, teenager, whodunit, small town sheriff ...
Time:
70s
Place:
northern california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt him down. In the meantime, the wife meets a ...
Style:
light, dark
Plot:
cheating wife, neglected wife, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, isolation, rape, skinny dipping, nudity, female pubic hair, bare breasts, female nudity, death of son ...
Place:
balkan, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay ...
Plot:
lighthouse, beach, seaside, world war one, death in childbirth, modernism, mother daughter relationship, politics, flashback, painting, wedding, family relations ...
Time:
year 1914, edwardian era
Place:
cornwall
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fleeing her abusive ex, Jess hires a fishing boat captain to take her across Lake Superior to a new life in Canada. When an accident leaves her washed up on shore, she’s taken in by a reclusive lighthouse keeper. As Jess is nursed back to health, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, dark, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lighthouse, unsettling, trauma, isolation, domestic abuse, escape, survival, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, escape attempt ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
Story:
A storm threatens the already damaged harbor breakwater, and Beamer, the Lighthouse, fears for the safety of all who live in Little Golden Book Land! When Scuffy overhears Beamer sharing bad news with the big ships anchored nearby, he promises to ...
Style:
uplifting, lighthearted, humorous, colorful, educational
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
lighthouse, puppy, kitten, teamwork, friendship, children, rescue, elephant, bear, train, harbor, community ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Style:
slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, sexy, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
male nudity, treasure, fog, lighthouse, exotic island, zombie, burned alive, sex, sexual intercourse, bare chested male, murder of a nude woman, monster ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
Style:
humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot:
self discovery, friends, couples, village life, countryside, village, lighthouse, family relations, fall in love, love, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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