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- Cast Away. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. 297 votes. In this enthralling survival drama, director Robert Zemeckis captures the desperate struggle of Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks), a FedEx employee who gets stranded on a remote island after a plane crash.
- Adrift. Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas. 140 votes. Based on a harrowing true story, Adrift follows the lives of young couple Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) as they embark on a sailing adventure across the Pacific Ocean.
- Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. 240 votes. James Cameron's epic disaster romance Titanic revisits the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic, blending historical events with the fictional love story of upper-class Rose (Kate Winslet) and working-class Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).
- The Perfect Storm. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly. 191 votes. Director Wolfgang Petersen brings Sebastian Junger's bestselling novel to life in The Perfect Storm, a thrilling drama about the ill-fated fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its crew during the “storm of the century.”
Sep 19, 2024 · This list highlights some of the best movies that center around shipwrecks, showcasing a variety of genres from historical epics to thrilling adventures. Each film brings its own perspective on what it means to be stranded at sea or marooned on an island.
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- The Tarzan Series
- Lifeboat
- Treasure Island
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Attack of The Mushroom People
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Terminal Island
- The Land That Time Forgot
- The Blue Lagoon
- Lord of The Flies
The 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice Burroughs introduced the world to a son of the British aristocracy who was marooned as an infant on an island along with his family, who perished at the hands of nature and local animals. Tarzan grew up as as child of an ape tribe. Twenty years after Tarzan’s family was marooned, a young girl named Jan...
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s lesser-known achievements that has gained accolades over the years despite the fact that upon its release, it was widely criticized for being too sympathetic toward the Nazi character (Walter Slezak), since England and the USA were at war with Germany at the time. The plot, based on a story by John Steinbeck, invol...
This is the first movie by Walt Disney Productions that featured absolutely no animation and instead was entirely live-action. It’s an adaption of the classic 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel about a young boy named Jim Hawkins who befriends a salty buccaneer named Long John Silver as they encounter one misfortune after another in their desperate ...
This yarn about a shipwrecked family is based on an 1812 novel of the same name by Johann David Wyss. It is the second adaption of the novel, following a 1940 film version by RKO Pictures. It involves a Swiss family—parents and their three sons—who flee the Napoleonic Wars in an attempt to relocate to a colony in New Guinea, only to be attacked by ...
Released in Japan as Matango, this dark film is partly based on a short story by William H. Hodgson called “The Voice in the Night” and involves a group of castaways from a yachting excursion who ignore all warnings not to eat the mutagenic mushrooms they encounter on the island where they’re stranded. The addictive mushrooms cause whomever eats th...
One of the most successful of all the “disaster films” of the late 1960s and early to mid-1970s, The Poseidon Adventure is based on a 1969 novel of the same name. Gathering together five Oscar winners, the plot involves passengers on an ocean liner that is turned upside-down by a tsunami on New Year’s Eve as everyone is reveling in the main ballroo...
Released in the UK as Knuckle Man, this movie takes place in an America that has abolished the death penalty. Instead of being killed in the gas chamber, irredeemable convicts are instead sent to Terminal Island, where they can only survive by fighting it out with other dangerous criminals on an island where all dangerous convicts are sent. A civil...
Set in World War I, this children’s adventure film based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel involving a German U-boat that sinks a British ship and then takes its survivors onboard. Veering off-course, they find themselves in the primitive land of Caprona, an Antarctic nightmare world which is ruled by cavemen and dinosaurs. TV Guide says: “The speci...
The Blue Lagoon is the second film based on a 1903 novel about two children who are marooned on a South Seas tropical island paradise but whose family members were killed in the process. As they grow into adulthood together, safely protected from the murderous savages who inhabit the island’s other side, they find that they are experiencing strange...
This is the second film version of the classic William Golding novel about schoolboys who wind up stranded on an island and descend into savagery—the first version was in 1963. The boys were on a plane carrying two dozen young cadets that crashed into the ocean near a remote Pacific jungle island. They eventually split into two warring factions unt...
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Aug 19, 2024 · Unlike survival films that involve collapsing buildings or natural disasters, films where characters are lost at sea tend to feel severely threatening. The best lost at sea films have brilliant visual elements that translate to audiences just how vast the ocean is and how alone its characters are.
1. Titanic. 1997 3h 14m PG-13. 7.9 (1.3M) Rate. 75 Metascore. A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Director James Cameron Stars Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane. "A Night to Remember" 2. Life of Pi. 2012 2h 7m PG. 7.9 (674K) Rate. 79 Metascore.
May 21, 2020 · Matt Hickman. Updated on 05/21/20. While survival films know no bounds in terms of locale — the Andes, Alaska, outer space, and on — there’s nothing quite as punishing as being completely lost, abandoned and left to fend for yourself in the middle of the open ocean.
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Sep 22, 2022 · Movies about being stranded at sea are some of the most exhilarating and terrifying out there. From Dead Calm to Life of Pi, here are the best.
