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Mystery on Monster Island (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain, Puerto Rico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story concerns a shipwrecked group who discover natural wonders and a gold treasure on a dangerous island populated by dinosaurs and living seaweed. Terence Stamp is the bad guy. Supposedly the most expensive film made in Spain to that point, it ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ship, dinosaur, creature, island, stranded, isolation, chases and races, survival, adventurer, pirate, kaiju, cannibal ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, year 1981
Place: fictional island, usa, san francisco
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 6.8
 51K
Enemy Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, survival, space wars, friendship, space travel, space opera, desert, space ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: space western
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 2K
Mr. Robinson (1976)
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: funny, humorous, entertaining, light
Plot: stranded on an island, survival, castaway, interracial relations, stranded, desert island, female nudity, friendship, culture clash, man-woman relation, interracial romance, island ...
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The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, 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, conflict, military, courage, fight scenes, ethnic conflict, politics, betrayal, storytelling, propaganda, assassination, survival ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, congo, ireland, south africa
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Day of a Thousand Screams (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: TV reporter Natasha McGrath is sent to a remote area. Along with her small crew and a couple of campers, they encounter a man who watches, taunts and kills them one by one: repeatedly.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: chase, massacre, stranded, car trouble, possessed human, sadistic psychopath, killings, mystery killer, murderer, death, murder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 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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Space Truckers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer ...
Style: humorous, futuristic, captivating, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, androids and robots, space and aliens, killer robot, space, rescue, space pirate, stranded, outer space, danger, rebellion, nothing goes right ...
Time: future, 90s
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 6K
Marooned (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot: space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, rescue, spacewalk, survival, space opera, space exploration, rescue mission, stranded, confined ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: usa
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 4.7
 3K
Eden (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, exciting
Plot: struggle for survival, survival, island, stranded, fight, desperation, starvation, mercy killing, hostility, soccer, trapped, team ...
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The Town Christmas Forgot (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but ...
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous
Plot: christmas, husband wife relationship, stranded, mayor, old man, abandoned mine, interracial friendship, father son relationship, party, intergenerational friendship, contest, xmas ...
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Hotel of the Damned (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a car accident and stranded in the middle of nowhere, an ex-con and his daughter find themselves in an abandoned hotel, populated by sub-human cannibalistic creatures.
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, rough, slasher ...
Plot: hotel, monster, daughter, stranded, mutant, abandoned house, car accident, survival horror, survival, creature, supernatural horror, couple relations ...
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From the Dark (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story centers on a young couple on a road trip through the Irish countryside who encounter an ancient force of evil.
Style: scary, suspense, dark, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: vampire, farm, creature, supernatural, fear, stranded, vampire bite, couple relations, countryside, farmer, deadly creature, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: island, pirate, giant lizard, treasure, castaway, stranded, survival, rivalry, danger, escapades, adventurer, rescue ...
Time: 1860s
Place: fictional island, thailand, virginia
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 4.5
 2K
Arrowhead (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn't believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, smart ...
Plot: stranded, marooned, science, transformation, survival, monster, pow, distant planet, time travel, space, violence against women, fantasy world ...
Place: australia
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 7.2
 149K
Tremors (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before ...
Style: scary, entertaining, suspenseful, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: monster, creature feature, desert, survival, small town, deadly creature, creature, death, danger, stranded, rescue, mutant ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, future, 80s
Place: nevada, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 32K
Kandahar (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
Plot: cia agent, world war, stranded, undercover agent, cia, behind enemy lines, translator, undercover, reconnaissance, covert operation, swat team, mission ...
Time: 2020s
Place: langley virginia, dubai, iran
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 3K
Irul (2021)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A dark rainy night, an empty house, a stranded couple and an unknown man. A sleek game of the cat and the mouse starts playing on, as the three of them find a dead body in the basement.
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, psychological thriller
Plot: psycho, stranded, violence, murder, stranger, mind game, serial killer, suspicion, graphic violence, murder mystery, murderer, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 13K
Tourist Trap (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, mannequin, serial killer, psychopath, insanity, fear, group of friends, chase, blood, maniac, old dark house, doll ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
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 5.4
 9K
Love (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style: futuristic, psychological, thought provoking, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot: isolation, space travel, trapped in space, space, astronaut, space and aliens, loneliness, survival, human nature, stranded, solitude, losing-it hero ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2030s, 2040s, 1860s
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Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style: scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, small town, monster, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, giant monster, chase, metamorphosis, stranded, danger, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, nevada
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Back to the Outback (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.
Style: funny, colorful, sincere, humorous, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids
Plot: travel, friendship, koala, crocodile, friend, spider, animal, snake, great white shark, house, stranded, predator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oceania, sydney australia, australia
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 6.9
 79K
The Edge (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, marital infidelity, bear attack, hunter, crash, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 147K
The Bodyguard (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks ...
Style: romantic, touching, suspense, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love story, interracial romance, music, bodyguard, white male black female relationship, singer, stalker, interracial love, love and romance, interracial couple, relationships ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, miami
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 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
Is relevant ?
 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
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 65K
Vertical Limit (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, adventurer, disaster, mountain, natural disaster, wilderness, mountaineering, expedition, snow ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: himalaya, pakistan, antarctic, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 252K
Pitch Black (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, creature, survival, alien, space travel, alien life-form, one man army, outer space, dark hero, tough guy, anti hero, deadly creature ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: oceania, space western
Is relevant ?
 5.6
 104K
Runaway Bride (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night ...
Plot: wedding, small town, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, journalist, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, reporter, fear of commitment, stereotypes, breakup, canceled wedding ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, maryland
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, supernatural, crazy, gas station, carsploitation, monster, car, hostage, danger, animate object, heroic mission, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 189K
Deep Impact (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style: suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, president, tsunami, save the world, destruction, life & death, self sacrifice ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, philadelphia ...
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