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Plot Summary:
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic
Best tv shows and movies like Robinson Crusoe (2003):
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Chasing Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
From giant barracudas to 500lb stingrays, CHASING MONSTERS takes viewers on a high adrenaline quest to seek out the world's most colossal underwater creatures in remote and dangerous corners of the planet. Hosted by extreme angler and adventurer Cyril Chauquet, this high-stakes series explores the elusive monster fish living in the hidden depths of the oceans, lakes, and rivers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, disturbing, factual, entertaining
Similar in 89%
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Plot Summary:
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Man Friday (1975)
Plot Summary:
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, captivating, realistic, biting, suspense
Similar in 88%
Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe fills his time in either building a shelter for himself, or by reminiscing about the years he spent at sea and the adventures that led him to where he is. The months roll by and the hardships become easier, especially with his herd of wild goats, the ship's dog and a friendly parrot to keep him company. But one day he comes across a strange footprint - friend or foe?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic
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Crusoe (2008)
Plot Summary:
Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, baroque
Similar in 90%
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979)
Plot Summary:
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a 1979 television series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American writer Mark Twain. The series was made up of 26 episodes and was a Canadian/German coproduction. Huckleberry Finn is played by Ian Tracey who is also the narrator. Tom Sawyer is played by Sammy Snyders. Directed by Jack B. Hively and Ken Jubenvill, this mini-series was broadcast in many countries such as Germany, UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Venezuela and many other Latin American nations. The series was re-shown many times during the 1980s to early 1990s and has grown somewhat of a cult following. Even though Mark Twain originally wrote the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as separate units, this mini-series conjures up both literary works as only one story. Therefore, it places greater importance on Huckleberry's character without putting aside Tom Sawyer's. In 2007, the complete series was released as a 4 DVD box set by Fabulous Films in the UK. It contains many extras including a 12 page color booklet and a 30 minute 'making of' documentary featuring interviews with many stars of the series including Sammy Snyders, Ian Tracey, and Blu Mankuma.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Sea Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting, serious
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Moby Dick (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, nautical, fairy tale, stylized, period drama
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Anything to Survive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 88%
Stranded (2002)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, period drama
Similar in 81%
Rugged Gold (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen Quebec.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film
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The Musketeers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, historical drama, costume drama, realistic, serious, tension, suspense, period piece, epic, stylized
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The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 480 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, historical drama, road movie, costume drama, period drama, tragic
Similar in 79%
Crusoe (1988)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Sea Wolf (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic
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The Whale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must decide whether to head for the nearest islands - a thousand miles downwind to the west - or set out on an epic journey of almost three thousand miles to reach the South American mainland. Fear of cannibals forces them to choose South America. Almost three months later, the first whaler is rescued by another whaleship. Only three men are still alive. A week later the captain's whaler is also rescued, with just two men aboard. The third whaler is never found. This is a story of human endurance and what men in extremis will do to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, scenic, intense, factual, realistic, stylized
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The Old Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense
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To Brave Alaska (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Plot Summary:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe's search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious, epic, sexy, political, educational, disturbing
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Wolf Totem (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, dramatic, historical drama
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Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, baroque
Similar in 82%
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, captivating, brutal, scenic, depressing, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, touching, epic
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Mysterious Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Flight 29 Down (2005)
Plot Summary:
Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale. The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull. The first two seasons aired on Discovery Kids. The "third season" of the series, which started filming February 5, 2007, was produced as a four-part film, instead of the episodic format of the first two seasons. A promo debuted for Flight 29 Down: The Movie during the second season finale. The show was filmed in O'ahu, Hawaii.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining
Similar in 76%
Courage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and daughter designed to rebuild their estranged relationship with his daughter, but when a powerful storm hits they are forced to make a crash landing on the ominously named Bear Island. With Robert seriously injured and no way to reach the mainland, the three castaways find that they must rely on their faith -- and each other -- to survive the ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, retro, action adventure
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Cast Away (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 626000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, serious, scenic, emotional, motivational, sad, inspirational, feel good