Islands in the Stream (1977), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), The Edge of the World (1937), Man of Aran (1934), Whisky Galore! (1949), A Shine of Rainbows (2009), Respiro (2002), Local Boys (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Island Life movies.
Storyline: A Hemingwayesque artist (George C. Scott) plays and drinks in the 1940s Bahamas, visited by his first wife (Claire Bloom) and three sons.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, war, family, father-son relationship, literary adaptation, artist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton (Lily James) and members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their experiences of Nazi-occupied Guernsey Island. When an idea for a book catches Juliet, she goes to visit the island, making life-long friends and taking life changing steps along the way. This book is told by way of letters, and as the reader, you become enchanted by the writers of them and the love Juliet comes to feel for each of the Islanders; Dawsey Adams (Michiel Huisman), Amelia Maugery (Dame Penelope Wilton), Isola Pribby (Katherine Parkinson), Eben Ramsey (Sir Tom Courtenay), Kit (Florence Keen), and Elizabeth McKenna (Jessica Brown Findlay).—Cathryn McDowell
Plot Keywords: historical, romance, drama, war, novel adaptation, british, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A trio wanders the cliffs of an Outer Hebridean island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the others... It is ten years earlier, and the way of life on the island is dying; steam trawlers from the mainland threaten its survival as a fishing port. Peter Manson, one of the community's leaders, resists evacuating to the mainland, though his son Robbie is about to leave the island himself. Meanwhile, Robbie's twin sister plans to marry his best friend, Andrew Gray. Andrew and Robbie argue over evacuation and decide to settle the matter by racing to the top of a cliff. Ruth is terrified: she may lose them both. The race ends in tragedy, which tears apart the families of Manson and Gray. Times passes and Ruth reveals she is pregnant with an illegitimate child. This promises to bring the two families back together, but not before desperation hits the islanders. Evacuation is inevitable. And so is one last tragedy.—sspurli
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, history, british film, black and white, 1930s, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Plot Keywords: documentary, ireland, 1930s, black and white, survival, nature, silent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.—Jörg Ausfelt <joerg.ausfelt@telia.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, world war ii, scotland, smuggling, black comedy, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maire O'Donnell is a loving woman as rare as a double rainbow. Joyful, warm and caring, she adopts a young orphan named Tomas and whisks him off to a new home on remote Corrie Island, off the coast of Ireland. Maire shares with Tomas the joys of her island home and introduces him to the whimsical local folklore, including the secret of the seals, and teaches him that everything you need is inside of you- if you really look. But Maire's stern husband Alec silently disapproves of Tomas' timidity and halting speech. He can't hide his disappointment that Tomas isn't the kind of child he was hoping for and his reluctance to get to know the boy makes Tomas unsure of whether he really belongs. Soon though, Tomas too falls in love with his home, befriending local children, descending into a secret bat-filled cave, and saving a stranded baby seal. When tragedy strikes however, Tomas is faced with his greatest challenge yet. He'll lose everything unless he can find- and share- the unique gifts inside of him. Risking all, Tomas embarks on a perilous journey where he will need to call on his ability to see joy and color even when in the darkest place, in order to triumph and come home. A Shine Of Rainbows is a story about the transformational power of love, about finding acceptance, discovering ourselves, and realizing that rainbows are all around us- and within us too.—Sepiafilms
Plot Keywords: family, heartwarming, coming of age, orphan, ireland, adoption, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale, the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social issues, motherhood, mental health, cultural conflict, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers and their surfing buddies face new challenges and adventures over the course of a memorable summer.
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, surfing, family, friendship, brotherhood, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ewart Gray (Donald Sinden) is the new Resident-in-Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother and sister missionary team of Martha Jones (Glynis Johns) and Reverend Owen Jones (Paul Rogers), and Edward "Honorable Ted" Wilson (Robert Newton) - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, romance, island, british film, adaptation, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii -- along the way he makes some friends, including a young Hawaiian girl and her father, romances Judy Hudson, and sings a few songs.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, elvis presley, 1960s, aviation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For Harry Fluder, life was working out exactly how he thought it was supposed to. He had a great job, loyal friends, and the perfect fiancee. However, finding one of his maybe not-so-loyal friends doing a "great job" with his perfect fiancee, was not part of the plan. After cancelling the wedding, Harry, in a drunken stupor, ponders how everything that was so right could have gone so wrong, meanwhile Bowie, Harry's best man, gets a flash of inspiration. Instead of also cancelling the amazing tropical honeymoon, why don't the two of them go instead, on an epic "homie-moon." What is supposed to be a refreshing weekend of rest and relaxation turns into an all-out bonkers adventure of epic proportions. Harry and Bowie will have the time of their lives, if they can just survive this Random Tropical Paradise.—Zachary Sullivan
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, adventure, vacation, romantic comedy, travel, island ...
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