When we think about tropical islands, we think of paradise. All these films are set or revolve around events on tropical islands. But things are not perfect in paradise... Which of these films would you most like to watch (once again)?
Island: UNSPECIFIED DESERTED ISLAND
Fight for survival after being stranded on the island as the lone survivor of an airplane crash.
starring Tom Hanks
Island: PRISON ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF FRENCH GUIANA
Horrific conditions on the prison island and attempts to escape from there.
starring Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
Island: UNSPECIFIED ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF THAILAND
A secret island with an endless supply of marijuana, harbouring parasites of society and surrounded by shark infested waters.
starring Leonardo DiC…
Island: UNSPECIFIED DESERTED ISLAND
A group of young boys are stranded alone on an island and have to fend for themselves. Two factions form: one group want to build shelters and collect food, the oth…
Island: UNSPECIFIED DESERTED ISLAND
The relationship between brother and sister as they grow up without contact to any other human beings.
starring Brooke Shields
Island: UNSPECIFIED DESERTED ISLAND
Nim's father is lost during a tropical storm leaving her completely alone on the island.
starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Island: MATALAVA
During WW2, a man is ordered onto a deserted island in the Pacific to watch out for Japanese war planes. His solitude then gets disturbed by the arrival of a female school teacher and…
Island: ST NICHOLAS
The goings on in a dysfuncional beach resort on an island threatened by international develpers and a local rebellion.
starring Robin Williams, Twiggy, Peter O'Toole, directed by H…
Island: MANUKURA
A Polynesian sailor -- unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully -- is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor. When he finally esc…
Island: STROMBOLI
Karen, a young woman from a Baltic country finds it hard to get used to the hard life in her husband's village on Stromboli, which is continuously threatened by the volcano.
starring…
Island: BALI
A hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Island: DRY TORTUGA
The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned in Shark Island prison on the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 186…
Island: UNSPECIFIED PACIFIC ISLAND
A snobbish yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor. They all look down on the lowl…
Island: JAMAICA
A notorious pirate is made governor of Jamaica and enlists the help of some of his former partners to get rid of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's…
Island: COBRA ISLAND
A Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled o…
Island: UNSPECIFIED DESERTED ISLAND
Super rich European aristocrats are settling in luxury on the island to avoid the war in Europe. Things go wrong when they run out of food, all wildlife has been ki…
Island: UNSPECIFIED PACIFIC ISLAND
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
star…
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