An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

Russkies

1987

English

5.5

♡ 8

14%

Rick Rosenthal Director

Joaquin Phoenix as Danny

Walter Robles as Goon

Leo Rossi as Keefer

Whip Hubley as Mischa

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.

Sweetheart

2019

English

5.8

♡ 54

95%

J.D. Dillard Director

Benedict Samuel as Brad

Kiersey Clemons as Jenn

Emory Cohen as Lucas

Hanna Mangan Lawrence as Mia

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.

The Forgotten Ones

2009

English

4.1

♡ 8

10%

Jorg Ihle Director

Terry Notary as Alpha Creature

Kellan Lutz as Jake

Jewel Staite as Liz

Justin Baldoni as Peter

When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot.

Swept Away

2002

English

3.6

♡ 14

6%

Guy Ritchie Director

Elizabeth Banks as Debi

Jeanne Tripplehorn as Marina

David Thornton as Michael

Bruce Greenwood as Tony

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.

Titanic: How It Really Sank

2009

English

6.5

♡ 7

The sinking of the Titanic was far more than a simple accident. It was a tragedy that could have been prevented. It was the result of a long chain of mistakes: a fatal series of avoidable human errors that sent the Titanic and more than half of her passengers to their watery graves. Based around the official inquiry held immediately after the event, plus evidence that's come to light since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985, National Geographic, in this drama-documentary special, answers the question: Who Sank the Titanic?

Crusoe

1988

English

6.1

♡ 3

62%

Caleb Deschanel Director

Aidan Quinn as Crusoe

Oliver Platt as Mr. Newby

Timothy Spall as Rev. Milne

Jimmy Nail as Tatik

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Unsinkable: Japan's Lost Battleship

2020

English

6.6

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

History

imperial japanese navy

October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean.

Robinson Crusoe

1997

English

♡ 17

39%

George Miller Director

Polly Walker as Mary McGregor

Damian Lewis as Patrick Connor

James Frain as Robert / Defoe's Publisher

Pierce Brosnan as Robinson Crusoe

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 on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.

Swept from the Sea

1997

English

6.7

♡ 5

28%

Beeban Kidron Director

Rachel Weisz as Amy Foster

Ian McKellen as Dr. James Kennedy

Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Finn

Tony Haygarth as Mr. Smith

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

Survival Island

2005

English

4.9

♡ 23

Action

Drama

exotic island

husband wife relationship

Stewart Raffill Director

Billy Zane as Jack

Kelly Brook as Jennifer

Juan Pablo Di Pace as Manuel

Maria Victoria Di Pace as Maria

After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with their former deckhand, Manuel.

The Black Stallion

1979

English

7.4

♡ 21

90%

human animal relationship

Carroll Ballard Director Rex

Rex as Additional Horse

Kelly Reno as Alec Ramsey

Mickey Rooney as Henry Dailey

Tom Dahlgren as Veterinarian

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

Invention for Destruction

1958

Czech

7.5

♡ 17

100%

based on novel or book

Karel Zeman Director

Frantisek Cerný as Capt. Spade

Hugh Downs as Himself - Announcer

Jana Zatloukalová as Jana

Otto Simánek as Muz ve vlaku

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.

In Search of the Castaways

1962

English

6.5

♡ 11

63%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Robert Stevenson Director

Patrick Jordan as Ayerton Hijacker Two

Hayley Mills as Mary Grant

Roger Delgado as Patagonian Prisoner

Maxwell Shaw as Sailor

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

Death Ship

1980

English

4.8

♡ 12

29%

Alvin Rakoff Director

George Kennedy as Captain Ashland

Saul Rubinek as Jackie

Nick Mancuso as Nick

Adolf Hitler as Self

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.

Whisky Galore!

1949

English

7.1

♡ 5

96%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

Alexander Mackendrick Director

Basil Radford as Captain Paul Waggett

James Robertson Justice as Dr. Maclaren

Gordon Jackson as George Campbell

Bruce Seton as Sergeant Odd

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

Zombies of Mora Tau

1957

English

5.2

12%

Edward L. Cahn Director

Frank Hagney as Capt. Peters

Gregg Palmer as Jeff Clark

Gene Roth as Sam

Chuck Hicks as Zombie

A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.

The Wild Boys

2017

French

6.8

♡ 10

90%

Bertrand Mandico Director

Nathalie Richard as La prof de lettres

Lola Créton as Narratrice

Elina Löwensohn as Séverin

Mathilde Warnier as Sloane

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

The Island of Lies

5.8

investigative journalist

isolated island

shipwreck

Paula Cons Director

Miguel Borines as Guarda

Leyre Berrocal as Juana Tatán

Tatán as Manolo

Aitor Luna as Tomás

Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959

English

6.7

♡ 8

56%

Michael Anderson Director

Noel Drayton as Charlie Bell

Jean Del Val as Javot

John Le Mesurier as M.O.A. Lawyer

Ron Nyman as Seaman

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

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Swept from the Sea

Survival Island

The Black Stallion

Invention for Destruction

In Search of the Castaways

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Whisky Galore!

Zombies of Mora Tau

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