Movies and TV shows set in fictional island

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in fictional island ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good and stylized films and TV shows about / with island, danger, escapades, heroes, culture clash, dialogue, catastrophe, transformation, friendship and storytelling plots mostly in Adventure, Fantasy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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fictional island movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as fictional island: Death in Paradise (2011), Scooby-Doo (2002), King Kong (2005), Total Drama Island (2007), The Wicker Man (1973), Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003), Captain Ron (1992), Amphibia (2019), Fantasy Island (1977).

List of movies set in fictional island

Death in Paradise (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with ...
Style: realistic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, light ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, whodunit, police investigation, law enforcement, lifestyle change, murder, island, new job, suspicion, coworker, multiple suspects ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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 5.2
 117K
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that ...
Style: feel good, humorous, twist ending, entertaining, parody ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, amateur detective, monster, scooby doo, talking animals, friendship, good versus evil, chase, heroes, teenager, youth, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he ...
Style: feel good, humorous, 3d animation, light, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot: food, inventor, father son relationship, nerd, mad scientist, small town, greed, natural disaster, parents and children, save the world, friendship, weatherman ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: china, egypt, london, paris france, new york ...
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 7.2
 430K
King Kong (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style: sentimental, scenic, emotional, exciting, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night ...
Plot: king kong, dinosaur, jungle, monster, creature, beast, gorilla, rescue, giant animal, survival, human animal relationship, island ...
Time: 1930s, prehistoric times, 20th century, year 1933
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Total Drama Island (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Total Drama Island is a Canadian animated television series which premiered in Canada on Teletoon on July 8, 2007 and on June 5, 2008 in the U.S. on Cartoon Network. This is the first season of the Total Drama series and has 27 episodes, each 22 ...
Style: not serious, humorous, adult animation, witty, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, preschoolers
Plot: rivalry, reward, youth, group of strangers, contests and competitions, reality, island, competition, survival, elimination, tv show, self involved ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, fictional island
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 7.5
 83K
The Wicker Man (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, scary, controversial ...
Plot: cult, religion, ritual, disappearance, paganism, investigation, sacrifice, female nudity, secret society, human sacrifice, temptation, police ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands, fictional island
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 6.8
 260K
Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, humorous, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, rescue, fantasy world, peter pan, destiny, creativity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, big ben london, england, fictional island
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Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: A crew of kid pirates - leader Jake and pals Izzy and Cubby - and their Never Land adventures as they work to outwit two infamous characters, the one and only Captain Hook and Smee.
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, friends, fantasy world, escapades, rivalry, friendship, heroes, young heroes, peter pan, child protagonist, male protagonist, disney ...
Time: 2010s
Place: fictional island
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 6.8
 75K
Peter Pan (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: pirate, childhood, fantasy world, children, fairy, boy, magic, imaginary kingdom, young heroes, first love, youth, teenager ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 20th century
Place: london, europe, big ben london, england, united kingdom ...
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Peter Pan 2: Return to Never Land (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In 1940 on a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, has two children, one of them is her daughter, Jane.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, preschoolers
Plot: world war two, pirate, magic, fairy, friendship, imaginary kingdom, peter pan, heroes, kidnapping, disney, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, 50s
Place: london, england, fictional island
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 5.8
 22K
Captain Ron (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and ...
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: boat, sailing, childhood, female nudity, sea, runaway, dumb, gangsters, adaptation, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, weapons ...
Time: 90s
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, cuba, fictional island
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 8.3
 7K
Amphibia (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of 13-year-old, self-centered Anne Boonchuy who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will transform into a hero ...
Style: funny, feel good, captivating, colourful, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teen fantasy, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, human animal relationship, frog, animal that acts human, magic, teenager, talking animals, parallel world, giant bird, warrior, sword, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, fictional island
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Fantasy Island (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, wish come true, island, adventurer, dream come true, mysterious character, escapades, mysterious place, exotic locale, magic, occult, intelligence agency ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: pacific ocean, fictional island
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Treasure Island (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure ...
Style: melancholic, light, talky, scenic, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: pirate, treasure, treasure hunt, ship, treasure map, child in peril, courage, medieval, blind character, betrayal, chase, swashbuckler ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: israel, england, fictional island
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 8.7
 41K
Father Ted (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Style: surreal, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: priest, clergy, island, catholic church, bishop, friendship, catholic priest, against the odds, family relations, family life, small town, eccentric family ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, europe, fictional island
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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, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating
Plot: manipulation, disorder, mysterious place, wise man, friends, escapades, mysterious character, human spirit, confined, mind game, leadership, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, fairy tale, serious
Plot: deadly creature, island, good versus evil, escapades, supernatural, heroes, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, goddess, sword and sorcery, odyssey, suspense ...
Place: fictional island
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 6.1
 459K
Justice League (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, psychotronic, captivating, epic ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: superhero, superman character, superhero team, super strength, justice league, wonder woman character, super powers, good versus evil, batman, super speed, giant, alien ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: tower bridge london, russia, kansas, london, norway ...
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 7.8
 705K
Skyfall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Turkey
Duration: 143 min.
Story: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: james bond, espionage, secret agents, spy, 007, secret service, british intelligence, suspense, heroic mission, mission, undercover, assassin ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china, scotland, london, turkey, asia ...
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Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Barbie plays Rosella in this new musical film. Shipwrecked as a child, Rosella grows up on the island under the watchful eyes of her loving animal friends. The arrival of Prince Antonio leads Rosella and her furry pals to explore civilization and ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, preschoolers
Plot: barbie, princess, island, friendship, save the kingdom, friends, save the day, animal life, castaway, magic, teamwork, group of friends ...
Time: 2000s
Place: italy, fictional island
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 6.7
 3K
Crusoe (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Plot: island, survival, ocean, wise man, friends, wisdom of life, storm, sea disaster, friendship, isolation, escapades, shipwreck ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, fictional island
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 7.2
 18K
Wonder Woman (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess Diana. When an Army fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, crash-lands on the island, the rebellious and ...
Style: stylized, witty, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: superhero, female warrior, heroes, lone hero, vengeance, heroine, betrayal, good versus evil, miraculous event, brutality, women, justice ...
Place: new york, washington d.c., san francisco, fictional island
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Robinson y Viernes en la isla encantada (1973)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Robinson Crusoe teaches children Viernes the principles of the white man's culture and build a raft to leave the island to calling "of despair". Shortly before finishing rescue a white men and the father Friday when they will be ...
Plot: seal the animal, penguins, ant, turtle, cannibal, snake, canoe, all male cast, iguana, swamp, island, religion ...
Time: 17th century
Place: fictional island
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 6.4
 351K
The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, brutal, bloody, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, chase, machismo, showdown, sniper, military, fistfight, unstoppable, warrior ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
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Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Style: humorous, exciting, satirical, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: goofy hero, imaginary kingdom, mysterious place, island, giant, fantasy world, princess, travel, sea disaster, catastrophe, getting home, battles ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
Place: new york, fictional island
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 6.3
 218K
Tomb Raider (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Style: exciting, surprise ending, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: female protagonist, strong female character, rescue, treasure hunt, jungle, peril, tough girl, chase, female fighter, father daughter relationship, legend, heroine ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: hong kong, britain, asia, england, united kingdom ...
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Style: entertaining, feel good, exciting, psychotronic, absurd ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: jungle, island, lost city, atlantis, fantasy world, expedition, legends and myths, beautiful scenery, lost world, gold, teenager, chase ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: hawaii, fictional island
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Style: exciting, stylized, humorous, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, island, survival, missing person, forces of nature, isolation, daring rescue, supernatural, escapades, adventurer, disorder, dangerous animal ...
Time: prehistory
Place: fictional island
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one ...
Style: colourful, humorous, funny, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: kids
Plot: pirate, stop motion, mentor, children, rivalry, greed, twists and turns, treasure hunt, friendship, creativity, rescue, pirate ship ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 1830s
Place: london, england, caribbean, madagascar, fictional island
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Pair of Kings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Pair of Kings is an American television sitcom shown on the cable channel Disney XD. The sitcom's target audience are teenagers. The series began production on February 15, 2010, with stars Mitchel Musso and Doc Shaw departing fellow Disney ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: kids, teen fantasy
Plot: siblings relations, island, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, twins, family relations, culture clash, sibling relationship, jungle, youth, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: fictional island
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