Deserted island movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant deserted island movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, captivating, feel good and psychological films and TV shows about / with desert island, island, survival, stranded, stranded on an island, danger, isolation, beach, escapades and shipwreck plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as deserted island: Castaway (1986), Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Swept Away (2002), Uninhabited (2010), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Summer Affair (1971), Cast Away (2000), Lord of the Flies (1963), Robinson Crusoe (1997), Island Fury (1983).

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 5.8
 4K
Castaway (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the ...
Style: scenic, emotional, sexy, realistic, retro ...
Audience: manly, kids
Plot: island, desert island, survival, friendship, beautiful scenery, sexy woman, erotica, stranded, nude, sailing, cannon, beach ...
Time: 80s
Place: fictional island, london, europe, england
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Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Style: romantic, touching, sexy, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: youth, teenage love, marooned, teenage life, island, love and romance, true love, tropical island, high school student, stranded, desert island, lost at sea ...
Time: 21st century
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 3.6
 18K
Swept Away (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
Style: sexy, humorous, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: island, stranded on an island, tropical island, shipwreck, stranded, stockholm syndrome, rich woman, survival, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, twists and turns, love story ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: europe, italy, greece, mediterranean sea
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 4.3
 3K
Uninhabited (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, horrifying, psychological
Plot: island, couples, ghost, couple relations, supernatural, danger, camping, young lovers, confined, isolation, sailing, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, stranded, coming of age, love and romance, shipwreck, survival, young love, beautiful scenery, teenage love, youth, fall in love, desert island ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1980, 1890s ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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 5.5
 230
Summer Affair (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted ...
Style: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, freeze frame
Plot: erotica, young love, hippie, island, desert island, love, coming of age, rich girl, parents, nudity, bare chested male, family relations ...
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 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
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: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
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Lord of the Flies (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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
Plot: wilderness, island, survival, bullying, innocence lost, children, coming of age, isolation, youth, desert island, childhood, human nature ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, future, near future
Place: britain, fictional island, pacific ocean
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Robinson Crusoe (1997)
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: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, friendship, stranded on an island, destiny, stranded, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss ...
Time: year 1997, 18th century
Place: fictional island, london, scotland, oceania, pacific ocean
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 3.8
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Island Fury (1983)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Teenage girls are kidnapped and brought to a remote island, which is inhabited by a family of crazed killers.
Style: independent film
Plot: cannibalism, island, maniac, kidnapping, murder, psychopath, exploitation, cannibal, lost soul, desert island, teenage girl, mute ...
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 7.5
 7K
Swept Away (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. He is stood up.
Style: harsh, talky, melancholic, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, strong sexual content, bare breasts, survival, sodomy, sea disaster, love, fall in love, happy ending, opposites attract, yacht, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
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: melancholic, realistic, serious, teen, erotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: island, coming of age, children, tropical island, teenage pregnancy, love affair, teenage sex, sexual awakening, teenage girl, bare chested male, female nudity, survival ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, victorian era, 19th century
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, initially antagonists, fall in love, air disaster, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: hawaii, fictional island, tahiti, pacific ocean, usa ...
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 5.5
 387
Foxtrot (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and Julia (Charlotte Rampling) decide it's best to hide out on an island of paradise until the war ends. However politics and jealousy ensue when Larsen (Max Von Sydow) enter the mix.
Style: sexual, independent film
Plot: world war two, world war, wartime, love, sexuality, suicide, murder, desert island, jealousy, food shortage, luxury, nazi ...
Time: year 1976
Place: europe
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Everywhere But Here (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jeff is an entrepreneur with an unrelenting drive to succeed. His dream is to revolutionize the cell phone industry with his new invention called 'Everywhere', a mobile phone that presumably works everywhere in the world. His ambitions ...
Style: light, feel good, visually appealing, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: child, children, survival, shipwreck, marooned, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, castaway, spoiled brat, invention, nature, birthday party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 5.8
 10K
Sweetheart (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.
Style: scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: creature, desert island, shipwreck, monster, sea monster, survival horror, stranded on an island, tropical island, creature feature, water, sinking boat, trap ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.9
 451
Missing 9 (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Story about an unexpected plane crash that causes a widespread panic in South Korea due to the disappearance of nine people, including some influential figures in the entertainment industry. Seo Joon O used to be a popular singer, but he isn't ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, exciting, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: memory loss, desert island, air disaster, music band, survival, getting home, sole survivor, hidden truth, island, struggle for survival, musician, murder mystery ...
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 7.5
 38K
The Red Turtle (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Style: atmospheric, anime, bleak, stylized, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: isolation, nature, island, raft, sea turtle, loneliness, beach, desert island, swimming, sea, transformation, solitude ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
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And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s ...
Plot: island, hippie, murder, serial killer, pacific island, court, flashback, murder trial, courtroom, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sailboat, marijuana ...
Place: pacific ocean, hawaii, san francisco
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 6.2
 1K
Man Friday (1975)
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, biting, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: survival, blaxploitation, robinson crusoe, shipwreck, anarchist, stranded, atheist, interracial relations, island, confined, buddies, escapades ...
Time: year 1975, 17th century
Place: fictional island
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Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ocean, robinson crusoe, lost at sea, chimpanzee, nature, stranded, survival, navy, desert island, disorder, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: fictional island
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
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, confined, danger, pets, escapades, sea disaster, isolation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: fictional island
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The staff of the island resort need the aid of the Harlem Globetrotters to keep their island from a greedy millionaire.
Plot: basketball, desert island, tropical island, robot, resort, african american, basketball team, reunion
Time: 80s
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 6.9
 133K
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new ...
Style: surreal, buddy comedy, touching, mindfuck, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, corpse, survival, hallucination, friendship, loneliness, forest, imagination, dead body, dark humor, life & death, island ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 90s
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style: psychological, captivating, rough, scenic, brutal ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: island, coming of age, survival, bullying, stranded, isolation, innocence lost, death, childhood, distopia, literature, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
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 4.3
 511
Out of Control (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rape, female nudity, attempted rape, sex, airplane crash, woman with a gun, beach, air disaster, survival, island, violence, kidnapping ...
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 3.9
 572
Gale Force (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles cop who's joined to try and make up for an earlier PR blunder, to a tropical island to hunt for a buried treasure worth ten ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: treasure hunt, natural disaster, island, survival, escapades, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, dishonesty, criminal heroes, chaos and mayhem, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 5.3
 1K
Down Twisted (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Maxine (Cary Lowell) is a waitress with big dreams who inadvertently gets mixed up with a gang of smugglers who are trying to get their hands on a stolen artefact called 'The Crucible Of San Lucas'.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannon, killer, waitress, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, betrayal, danger, on the run, disorder, woman in danger, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: los angeles, central america
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Pippi in the South Seas (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Pippi in the South Seas (original title is Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series. Pippi, with friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, monkey, youth, kidnapping, best friend, women, bird, fictional country, nordic, ape, european, rescue mission ...
Place: fictional island, eastern europe
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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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