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51. The New People (1969–1970)
45 min | Drama
A group of young people crash-land on a deserted island that was a never-used atomic bomb test site. With the world thinking that they were all killed, they set out to form a civilization.
Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Zooey Hall, David Moses, Peter Ratray
Votes: 113
52. Crusoe (1988)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Caleb Deschanel | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara, Elvis Payne, Richard D. Sharp
Votes: 1,180 | Gross: $0.32M
53. Collections privées (1979)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He ... See full summary »
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shûji Terayama | Stars: Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Catherine Gandois, Marpessa Djian
Votes: 404
54. The Admirable Crichton (1968 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Janet Munro, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 149
55. The New Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990–1993)
30 min | Adventure, Family
Inspired by the novels of Walter Farley. After being shipwrecked on a remote desert island, courageous, young Alec Ramsay and a wild Arabian stallion named the "Black," form an irrevocable ... See full summary »
Stars: Mickey Rooney, Richard Ian Cox, Docs Keepin Time, Marian Filali
Votes: 443
56. Jungle Bride (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Borden
Votes: 235
57. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964)
85 min | Adventure
After shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe survives alone on island, building shelter, reminiscing about past. With wildlife as company, months pass. One day he discovers footprint, making him wonder if he's still alone.
Stars: Robert Hoffmann, Fabian Cevallos, Erich Bludau, Oskar von Schab
Votes: 342
58. Mysterious Island (1995)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1865, a group escapes from a Confederate prison in a balloon, only to be carried halfway around the world. They are shot down while approaching land (which they later discover is an "... See full summary »
Stars: Alan Scarfe, Colette Stevenson, Stephen Lovatt, Gordon Michael Woolvett
Votes: 274
59. Iguana (1988)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In the 19th century, a bullied, disfigured man dubbed Iguana flees from abusive locals, finds his own island and declares himself tyrant of his new domain. A man and a woman get stranded there and become victims of his new sadistic nature.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Everett McGill, Michael Bradford, Roger Kendall, Robert Case
Votes: 551
60. The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974–1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
The further misadventures of the inept sailor, Gilligan and his fellow castaways, in an animated series.
Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 175
61. Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An Orphaned Boy sets out in search of adventure, but when a shipwreck lands him on an island where Dinosaurs and Humans coexist, he finds not only adventure but a family as well.
Director: Davis Doi | Stars: Alyssa Milano, Jamie Kennedy, Kathy Griffin, Wayne Knight
Votes: 523
62. Robby (1968)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity.
Director: Ralph C. Bluemke | Stars: John Garces, Rita Elliot, Warren Raum, Ryp Siani
Votes: 306
63. The Savage Is Loose (1974)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama
A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
Director: George C. Scott | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, John David Carson, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 445 | Gross: $0.84M
64. Island of Desire (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Romance, War
In 1943, an Allied hospital ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray, John Laurie
Votes: 279
65. Raptor Island (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Isaacs | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Steven Bauer, Hayley DuMond, Michael Cory Davis
Votes: 1,039
66. Birds in Paradise (1984 TV Movie)
45 min | Comedy
Playboy sex comedy about three girlfriends who inherit a luxurious yacht in the Florida Keys. They "just" need to pay 10,000 dollars each of the next four months to get it. They try everything to raise the money, even a treasure hunt.
Director: Kent Ames | Stars: Brenda David, Michael Buschel, Charles Gorson, Jennifer Inch
Votes: 35
67. Return to Paradise (2022– )
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Focuses on Eden Sta. Maria and Red Ramos, two college students who were left stranded on an island following an aircraft catastrophe.
Stars: Derrick Monasterio, Elle Villanueva, Eula Valdez, Liezel Lopez
Votes: 35
68. Robinson Crusoe (1973)
G | 92 min | Adventure
Sailor is stranded on a desert island.
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Irakli Khizanishvili, Evgeniy Zharikov, Aleksey Safonov
Votes: 303
69. Show (2003)
120 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house on a desert island with 9 other contestants. Even the death of one of them does not stop the show.
Director: Maciej Slesicki | Stars: Cezary Pazura, Jerzy Stuhr, Joanna Orleanska, Dorota Segda
Votes: 755
70. Touché and Go (1957)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The amorous skunk, Pepé le Pew, chases a female cat by the seaside, under the sea and finally on a desert island.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 433
71. VeggieTales: God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (1994 Video)
Unrated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Family
Two great stories on forgiveness! "The Grapes of Wrath" features Junior Asparagus as the hapless target of teasing from a bunch of cranky grapes! Junior learns that forgiveness is the best ... See full summary »
Directors: Phil Vischer, Chris Olsen | Stars: Dan Anderson, G. Bock, Heidi Landis, Bridget Miller
Votes: 492
72. Mysterious Island (1951)
Approved | 252 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Union prisoners use a balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War and end up marooned on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges
Votes: 237
73. Half a Bride (1928)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Rambunctious Patience Winslow listens to a radio show about "companionae marriage" and decides to try it out, so she enters into a trial marriage. Her father, however, breaks up the ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, William Worthington, Freeman Wood
Votes: 47
74. Tender Scoundrel (1966)
94 min | Comedy
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer.
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Robert Morley
Votes: 420
75. Dark Paradise (2022)
55 min | Drama
A man stuck on an island tries to figure out what is going on.
Director: Henderson Maddox | Star: Stephen Barrington
Votes: 15
76. De hemligas ö (1972)
178 min | Drama
About a group of young scouts who are lost on a desert island and create their own civilization with all the problems it entails.
Stars: Annika Levin, Ann-Sofie Kylin, Birgitta Wanatowski, Björn Glemme
Votes: 19
77. Blanca Nieves y sus 7 amantes (1980)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Snow White has the mission to deliver a package, but her ship sinks and she tries to survive on a desert island with 7 criminals, who she must please to survive.
Director: Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Sasha Montenegro, Eric del Castillo, Rafael Inclán, Víctor Manuel Castro
Votes: 83
78. Ukradená vzducholod (1967)
84 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Jan Malát, Michal Pospísil
Votes: 665
79. Two Years' Vacation (1974)
340 min | Adventure
A group of young New Zealand school boys find themselves adrift at sea in the South Pacific, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where, threatened by pirates, they must learn to get along together to survive.
Stars: Franz Seidenschwan, Marc Di Napoli, Dominique Planchot, Didier Gaudron
Votes: 250
80. Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)
16 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Scrooge McDuck teaches Huey, Dewey and Louie the basics about money & its history, economics and investing.
Director: Hamilton Luske | Stars: Bill Thompson, The Mellowmen Quartet
Votes: 442
81. Typhoon (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Romance
Having been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 145
82. The Delos Adventure (1986)
R | 98 min | Action
A group of scientists inadvertently stumble on a secret Soviet military operation, and are hunted down by a commando team.
Director: Joseph Purcell | Stars: Roger Kern, Jenny Neumann, Kurtwood Smith, Enrique Castillo
Votes: 73
83. Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936)
Approved | 256 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our ... See full summary »
Directors: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Mala, Rex, Buck the Dog, Mamo Clark
Votes: 121
84. Expeditie Robinson (2000– )
Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV
Dutch version of the desert island-based reality TV series.
Stars: Nicolette Kluijver, Dennis Weening, Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Kaj Gorgels
Votes: 509
85. Survivor Type (2012)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A disgraced surgeon stranded on a deserted island with no food and only a handful of supplies must go to great lengths to stay alive for rescue that may never come.
Director: Billy Hanson | Stars: Gideon Emery, P.J. Brown, Carolina Castro, Cutty Cuthbert
Votes: 87
86. Miss Robin Crusoe (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy
A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues a female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday.
Director: Eugene Frenke | Stars: Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes
Votes: 252
87. Isola meccanica (1978)
100 min | Drama
Three cons kidnap a girl for ransom and bring her to a, believed to be, desert island.
Director: Bruno Pischiutta | Stars: Femi Benussi, Gian Franco Molaro, Paola Morra, Bruno Pischiutta
Votes: 12
88. Soft Touch II (1988 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Playboy sex comedy about three girlfriends who inherit a luxurious yacht in the Florida Keys. They "just" need to pay 10 000 dollars each of the next four months to get it. They try everything to raise the money, even a treasure hunt.
Director: Kent Ames | Stars: Jeannine Louise, Sue Morrow, Jennifer Inch, Michael Buschel
Votes: 44
89. Yoko & his friends (2015)
80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This is the third time that Vik and his family have moved to a different city. Vik is a shy child who finds it hard to make new friends, and whenever he finally does start to open up to ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Iñigo Berasategui, Alexey Medvedev, Juanjo Elordi, Rishat Gilmetdinov | Stars: Eba Ojanguren, Jaione Insausti, Arantxa Moñux, Kiko Jauregi
Votes: 24
90. Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, George Nichols
Votes: 408
91. Monkeyshine (2008)
PG-13 | 52 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Jake Truman leads an unhappy life until he his given a map which could lead him to everything he desires.
Director: Jamie Rae | Stars: Sonny Falco, Amanda Highton, Michael Sani, Amy McKeown
Votes: 70
92. Dear Claudia (1999)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a blind a sailor, a street kid, a mistress, a miner, a butcher, two thieves and a ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Cudlipp | Stars: Bryan Brown, Aleksandra Vujcic, Deborah Mailman, Kim Hillas
Votes: 366
93. The Little Island (1958)
Not Rated | 33 min | Animation, Short
Depicts the dreams, ideas, and struggles of three men (representing "truth," "beauty," and "good") who settle on a tiny island.
Director: Richard Williams
Votes: 129
94. Too Much Water (2020 Video Game)
Adventure
Too Much Water is a top-down castaway simulator with an exquisite "splash" of humor, and a captivating story. After a solar flare hits the Earth, the oceans flood, destroying cities and killing millions.
Director: Filip Budd | Stars: Evan Sarkozi, Filip Budd, James Macintosh, Ross K. Foad
Votes: 12
95. Insula comorilor (1975)
75 min | Adventure
'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the second part where the boys find themselves stranded on the island.
Directors: Sergiu Nicolaescu, Gilles Grangier | Stars: Marc Di Napoli, Constantin Nedelcu, Nucu Paunescu, Dominique Planchot
96. Sinners in Heaven (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, Holmes Herbert, Florence Billings
97. Fair Weather Fiends (1946)
Passed | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
After a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.
Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Mel Blanc, Ben Hardaway, Will Wright
Votes: 171
98. Survivor Type (2011)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Director: Chris Ethridge | Stars: Michael Beasley, David Calhoun, Adam Drescher, Tony Folden
Votes: 19
99. L'invention de Morel (1967 TV Movie)
95 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. One day, a group of people from another time come in. ... See full summary »
Director: Claude-Jean Bonnardot | Stars: Alain Saury, Juliette Mills, Didier Conti, Anne Talbot
Votes: 83
100. Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Philip, her former suitor. Enoch is rescued ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, Robert Harron
Votes: 369