Stranded movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant stranded movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, realistic, intense, serious and interesting films and TV shows about / with survival, stranded, isolation, catastrophe, danger, mentor, dialogue, storytelling, wilderness and first contact plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stranded: Swept Away (2002), Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Centigrade (2020), Lost (2004), The Wilds (2020), Vinyan (2008), Outback (2019), Castaway (1986), Passengers (2016).
Best films
New films
| Boat (2024) | 5.4 | |
| The Occupant (2025) | 4.9 | |
| Send Help (2026) | 7.2 | |
| Alyad Palyad (2024) | 7.1 | |
| Uncontained (2025) | 4.6 |
List of stranded movies
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, melancholic, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
island, tropical island, stranded on an island, sexual relations, stranded, stockholm syndrome, rich woman, love story, beautiful scenery, shipwreck, octopus, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, italy, mediterranean sea, london
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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:
touching, romantic, sexy, sexual, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, marooned, true love, love and romance, island, stranded, teenage life, high school student, lost at sea, tropical island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
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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, sexy, cute, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, opposites attract, battle of the sexes, disaster, couples, initially antagonists, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hawaii, tahiti, fictional island, pacific ocean, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
stranded, trapped, backwoods, blizzard, snowstorm, frostbite, pregnant woman, breast feeding, couples, argument, birth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time:
y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
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27K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas ...
Style:
enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, group of teenagers, desert island, lgbt, island, stranded on an island, crash, teenager, survival, survivor, destiny, strong female character ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oakland california
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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, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
stranded, missing person, missing child, husband wife relationship, survival, danger, isolation, orphan, couple relations, feral child, jungle, island ...
Place:
thailand, burma, asia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
American high school sweethearts, Wade and Lisa, travel to Australia to experience nature at its finest. As their relationship strains, they head inland to Uluru, navigating remote dirt roads with an unreliable GPS. Soon, they find themselves ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, splatter, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, australian outback, scorpion, survival, stranded, animal attack, vacation, paranormal activity, desert, dehydration, lost, delusion ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania
Is relevant?
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:
sexy, scenic, realistic, retro, grindhouse ...
Audience:
manly, kids, girls' night
Plot:
island, desert island, beautiful scenery, friendship, survival, sexy woman, character study, erotica, stranded, sailing, jungle girl, cannon ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
fictional island, london, europe, england, antarctica ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style:
futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
america, los angeles, space western
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Fiji, Jamaica
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, sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
island, stranded, love and romance, shipwreck, young love, beautiful scenery, coming of age, teenage love, survival, desert island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, year 1980 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
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422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Is relevant?
997K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style:
futuristic, biting, clever, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
survival, mars, astronaut, stranded, space travel, nasa, isolation, science, outer space, struggle for survival, space, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2030s, year 2016, near future, future ...
Place:
china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, beijing china ...
Is relevant?
153K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, trapped, ocean, creature feature, great white shark, stranded, beach ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
mexico, texas, tijuana mexico, australia
Is relevant?
87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
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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:
sexy, sexual, harsh, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
island, happy ending, sodomy, survival, abuse, fall in love, master and servant, yacht, bare breasts, stranded, love story, opposites attract ...
Time:
20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place:
mediterranean sea, italy
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
Style:
exciting, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hallucination, desert, survival, u.s. marine, landmine, soldier, stranded, parent child relationship, war zone, military operation, wilderness survival, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Is relevant?
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:
humorous, funny, entertaining, light
Plot:
stranded on an island, survival, desert island, castaway, stranded, interracial relations, culture clash, friendship, man-woman relation, interracial romance, island, bird ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
giant bird, stranded, american civil war, desert island, island, castaway, submarine, survival, civil war, balloon, monster, ocean ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, richmond virginia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style:
factual, suspense, touching, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, rescue, disaster, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, hopes, doctor, honest, radio, trapped ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
chile, peru, south america, latin america, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, dogme 95, stranded, shakespeare, dogma, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, danger, tragedy, bus ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, namibia, new jersey, australia
Is relevant?
696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, South Africa
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.
Style:
suspense, realistic, tense, factual, intense ...
Plot:
civil war, politics, conflict, courage, military, mercenary, fight scenes, ethnic conflict, propaganda, betrayal, assassination, stranded ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa, congo, ireland, south africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.
Style:
captivating, adult animation, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
survival, space, stranded, exploration, escape, spacecraft, crew, planet, alien planet, isolation, adventure hero, female protagonist ...
Time:
near future
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