Films about being stranded on islands — survival, isolation, and the fight to be rescued.
Stranded Survival Island Movies is a structured movies dataset with 31 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
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Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.
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Year span
1933 to 2023
Across 31 preview rows
IMDB Rating range
5.9 to 8
Across 31 preview rows
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Jurassic Park
1993
Steven Spielberg
8
Adventure, Science Fiction
United States of America
127
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the sec...
Papillon
1973
Franklin J. Schaffner
7.8
Crime, Drama
United States of America
151
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
The Martian
2015
Ridley Scott
7.7
Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
United States of America
141
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 upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and f...
Cast Away
2000
Robert Zemeckis
7.7
Adventure, Drama
United States of America
143
Chuck Noland, 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 crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck m...
King Kong
1933
Ernest B. Schoedsack
7.6
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
United States of America
104
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures th...
The Lighthouse
2019
Robert Eggers
7.5
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Brazil
109
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
Don Siegel
7.5
Drama, Thriller
United States of America
113
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
The Red Turtle
2016
Michael Dudok de Wit
7.4
Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Family
Belgium
81
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Battle Royale
2000
Kinji Fukasaku
7.3
Drama, Thriller, Action
Japan
113
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Papillon
2017
Michael Noer
7.3
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Czech Republic
134
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Fall
2022
Scott Mann
7.1
Thriller
United States of America
107
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter's expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test a...
Triangle of Sadness
2022
Ruben Östlund
7
Comedy, Drama
Denmark
147
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
King Kong
2005
Peter Jackson
6.9
Adventure, Drama, Action
United States of America
188
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.
Swiss Army Man
2016
Daniel Kwan
6.9
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Adventure
United States of America
97
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 “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo g...
Alive
1993
Frank Marshall
6.9
Adventure, Drama, History
United States of America
127
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 rations and through the freezing cold.
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
Ron Howard
6.8
Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Action, History
Spain
122
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Kong: Skull Island
2017
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
6.6
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
China
118
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Steven Spielberg
6.6
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
United States of America
129
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to d...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2018
J. A. Bayona
6.5
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
United States of America
129
Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
The Beach
2000
Danny Boyle
6.5
Drama, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
United Kingdom
119
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
2012
Jake Newsome
6.5
Drama, Adventure, Romance, TV Movie
United States of America
85
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.
Arctic
2018
Joe Penna
6.5
Drama, Adventure
Iceland
98
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
Tomb Raider
2018
Roar Uthaug
6.4
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Japan
118
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.
The Shallows
2016
Jaume Collet-Serra
6.3
Horror, Drama, Thriller
Australia
86
While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
Jurassic Park III
2001
Joe Johnston
6.2
Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
United States of America
92
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- din...
Return to the Blue Lagoon
1991
William A. Graham
6.2
Adventure, Drama
United States of America
98
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.
The Blue Lagoon
1980
Randal Kleiser
6.1
Adventure, Drama, Romance
United States of America
104
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 and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's ...
Six Days Seven Nights
1998
Ivan Reitman
6.1
Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
United States of America
102
In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a ...
65
2023
Scott Beck
6
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Canada
92
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.
Frozen
2010
Adam Green
6
Thriller
United States of America
94
When three skiers find themselves stranded on a chair lift at a New England ski resort that has closed for the next week, they are forced to make life or death choices that prove to be more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Poseidon
2006
Wolfgang Petersen
5.9
Adventure, Action, Drama, Thriller
United States of America
98
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
