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 serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, touching and scary films and TV shows about / with lighthouse, island, lighthouse keeper, boat, family relations, sea, survival, friendship, beach and danger plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lighthouse: The Vanishing (2018), The Light Between Oceans (2016), Cold Skin (2017), The Lighthouse (2016), The Lighthouse (2019), Half Light (2006), The Sacred Mound (1993), The Light (2004), Prey (2019), Watchtower (2001).

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 5.9
 20K
The Vanishing (2018)
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, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lighthouse, remote island, lighthouse keeper, treasure chest, disappearance, danger, disorder, investigation, loneliness, lost soul, heist, mental health ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, year 1900
Place: scotland
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
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, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
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 6.0
 18K
Cold Skin (2017)
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, exciting, suspenseful, lovecraft, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, island, interspecies sex, sea, loneliness, beast, mermaid, survival, night, weatherman ...
Time: year 1914
Place: antarctic
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The Lighthouse (2016)
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: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, fog, conversation, haunted by the past, drunkenness, death, zombie, ghost, cabin in the woods, man killed, all male cast ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
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 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
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 6.0
 14K
Half Light (2006)
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: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, lighthouse, death of child, uncover truth, mentally unstable, loss of child, woman in danger, writers, afterlife, death in the family ...
Place: scotland, london
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
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 ...
Plot: coming of age, wedding, fire, island, lighthouse, boy, first love, love, nudity, sex, sexual dysfunction, treasure ...
Place: iceland
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 7.0
 2K
The Light (2004)
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: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual
Audience: date night
Plot: island, love triangle, fall in love, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, sensuality, storm, village ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany, atlantic ocean
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 4.6
 3K
Prey (2019)
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: dark, bleak, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: rehabilitation, island, demon, survival, monster, murder, lighthouse, childhood trauma, teenager, father son relationship, teenage crush, danger ...
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 4.6
 822
Watchtower (2001)
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, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, family relations, small town life, life is a bitch, psychopath, small town, siblings relations, lighthouse, father figure, voyeur, village, village life ...
Place: usa, oregon
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 4.8
 1K
Lighthouse (1999)
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, tense, scary, serious ...
Plot: lighthouse, serial killer, island, octopus, travel, lost soul, electrocution, person on fire, shipwreck, rock, psychopath, prison ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
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 6.5
 466
The Disciple (2013)
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: suspenseful, realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak
Plot: lighthouse keeper, isolation, family relations, discipline, teenage life, youth, family problems, friendship, family in crisis, bullying, favoritism, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: finland, eastern europe
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Horror on Snape Island (1972)
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, sexy, classic horror, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: male nudity, lighthouse, fog, treasure, zombie, underground, relic hunter, stoner, occult, 666, lost soul, feral man ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england, europe
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To the Lighthouse (1983)
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, politics, monologue, mother, mother daughter relationship, father, flashback, painting, wedding, modernism ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1914
Place: cornwall
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The Man in the Lighthouse (2007)
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: lighthouse, gay, lgbt, boys love, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lighthouse keeper, male pubic hair, masturbation, teacher, sex, male nudity ...
Place: the philippines
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 6.8
 82K
The Fog (1980)
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: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, lighthouse, small town, revenge, ship, blood, radio station, sword, monster, ghost ship, supernatural horror, murder ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
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 6.5
 485
South Solitary (2010)
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: captivating, disturbing, psychological, period drama, weird
Plot: lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, remote island, recluse, lifestyle, workplace, family problems, family relations, female protagonist, kids and family, job, sea ...
Time: 1920s
Place: australia
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 6.2
 14K
The Deep (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, diving, shipwreck, sea, chase, kidnapping, see through clothes, survival ...
Place: haiti, caribbean
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 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
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: independent film, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: pirate, lighthouse, island, remote island, torture, rape, lighthouse keeper, violent content, good versus evil, escapades, survival, confined ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1800s
Place: argentina, latin america
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 6.6
 6K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
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Lighthouse Hill (2004)
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: sincere, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: self discovery, friends, couples, village life, village, countryside, lighthouse, family relations, fall in love, love, publisher, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lighthouse, wedding, friendship, terminal illness, island, tragic hero, unlikely couple, love and romance, elderly, on the run, young lovers, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
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 4.3
 1K
My Apologies (2023)
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, feel good, semi serious
Plot: lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, life, debt, problem, relationships, grandfather grandson relationship, family relations, satire, family problems, retirement home
Time: 1930s
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Stampy's Lovely World (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Stampylonghead, referred to as Stampy, creates a fictional world within the video game Minecraft. Minecraft is a sandbox video game, allowing for complete freedom of the player to do whatever they want. With his friends, Stampy builds incredible ...
Style: fairy tale, funny, entertaining, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spa, dojo, anthropomorphic bear, hospital, hotel, radio station, role playing, theater, farming, bank, voice over narration, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 2017, year 2016, year 2015 ...
Place: britain, united kingdom
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 7.0
 39K
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, porn, erotica, explicit sex, strong sexual content, female masturbation, male nudity, waitress ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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 6.9
 730
The Lighthouse (1998)
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: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot: lighthouse, disability, orphan, family relations, immigrant, fall in love, hopes, young lovers, forbidden love, youth, love and romance, gender ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, spain
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The Lightkeepers (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
Style: touching, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: seaside, love and romance, couples, isolation, friendship, friends, love affair, lifestyle, elderly, lighthouse keeper, women, lighthouse ...
Time: edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place: massachusetts, new england, usa
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 6.7
 1K
Marius (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: seaport, obsession, couples, hopes, follow your dream, unfulfillment, couple relations, unfulfilled love, lovers apart, self sacrifice, working class, sailor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, south of france
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