The Navigator (1924), Father Goose (1964), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Hell in the Pacific (1969), The Black Stallion (1979), Paradise Lagoon (1957), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Shipwrecked (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Desert Island movies.
Storyline: Three people, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things to eat, they can concentrate on the love triangle between the men and the woman.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, adventure, marriage, love triangle, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark—April M. Cheek <Aravis2713@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, comedy, drama, aviation, animals, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: James Mason and Sir John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough Colonel and a refined Captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peacetime Tahiti.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, romance, british film, 1960s, class conflict, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre to Miami, and they sail with the assistance of Captain Ron and their lives will never be the same again.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, family, travel, absurd, humor, chaos ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Rugrats and family become stranded on an island, and Stu Pickles (Jack Riley) is blamed. The kids wander off into the jungle, and Spike (Bruce Willis) loses his sense of smell due to sneezing. This becomes a problem when a clouded leopard named Siri (Chrissie Hynde) finds out about the babies and goes after them, and the situation only gets worse when the kids become trapped underwater with an amnesic Nigel Thornberry (Tim Curry), losing oxygen fast.—Red Yoshi
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, comedy, family, children, survival, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually, that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, 1960s, disaster, satire, absurd, political allegory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts. Exploring, the 3 find a voodoo ritual in the cellar, where the doctor is trying to acquire war intelligence by transferring personalities into his zombies. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their creator.—Cynan Rees <cynanrees@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, zombie, black and white, 1940s, b-movie, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While the general theme of this film resembles "The Blue Lagoon" (the film for which this is a sequel), the basic plot is quite different. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it, Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive. Established in the first film, the only word Paddy ever says is "Richard", so the crew assumes Richard is the infant's name. Taken in by Sarah, a widow with an infant baby girl Lilli, Richard (Paddy) is cared for in a return to civilization. Struck by cholera, the crew of the ship start to die and the captain sets Sarah, Richard, Lilli and a healthy crew member on a lifeboat in an attempt to preserve their lives. With water and food running short, the crew member escorting Sarah and the children becomes dangerous, so Sarah takes the only course of action she feels suitable to preserve the children: she strikes him and throws him overboard. Taking control of the small craft, she eventually guides them back to the island of ...
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, drama, coming of age, survival, nature, growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cayman Went is the story of Josh Anders, a fading Hollywood underwater action star whose life takes on new meaning when he's forced to spend time with the eccentric, endearing inhabitants of Cayman Brac and their local dive community.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, crime, action, mystery, black comedy, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man is stranded on a tropical island.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, survival, adaptation, historical, struggle for survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eager to climb the corporate ladder, the nice guy and low-level office drone, Chris, sees his hard work go down the drain when an arrogant and conniving co-worker steals his brilliant idea and lands an important client. Under those circumstances, the tough ex-Marine and determined team-building coach, Storm Rothschild, leads the mismatched office team to a remote tropical island for a mandatory two-day character-building course. However, there, on the secluded haven, whatever can go wrong will go wrong, as ravenous ambition, unpunished rebellion, frail allegiances, and even a ferocious man-eating tiger get in the way of the stranded employees' safe return to civilisation. Does the team have what it takes to survive?
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, action, absurd, workplace, teamwork, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American crook Renzo Capetto sees a chance to make a bundle when a Caribbean island has a revolution. He plans to help loyalists (and the national treasury) escape on his boat, then kill the men and blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster. Trouble ensues when the _real_ monster shows up!—Paul White <pwhite@bigfoot.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, science fiction, b-movie, low budget, monster, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) works at the Admiral Benbow Inn with his mother. Soon after Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore), a stranger, arrives and starts ranting about treasure, he dies. Jim finds a map in his possessions leading to a pirate's treasure stash. Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) is convinced to raise money for an expedition. Pirate Long John Silver (Wallace Beery) infiltrates the voyage as ship's cook, bringing his crew with him and preparing to mutiny and steal the treasure.
Plot Keywords: adventure, treasure hunt, classic, adaptation, black and white, young hero, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) has a map to a pirate's buried treasure, and pirate Long John Silver (Orson Welles) wants it.
Plot Keywords: adventure, treasure hunt, classic, adaptation, family, action, fantasy ...
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