Island Survival Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 18 films about survival and set on islands, spanning 1960–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2000

  Battle Royale

  Japan — Near Future
  Island · Wildernessdir. Kinji Fukasaku
• 2012

  Beasts of the Southern Wild

  Louisiana — Near Future
  Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin
• 2000

  Cast Away

  Memphis — 1990s · 2000s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2009

  Castaway on the Moon

  Seoul — 2000s
  Island · Urbandir. Lee Hae-jun
• 1975

  Jaws

  1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Steven Spielberg
• 1993

  Jurassic Park

  Costa Rica — 1990s
  Islanddir. Steven Spielberg
• 2012

  Life of Pi

  Pondicherry · Montreal — 1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee
• 1990

  Lord of the Flies

  Pacific Ocean — 1990s
  Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Harry Hook
• 2012

  Moonrise Kingdom

  New England — 1960s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Wes Anderson
• 2013

  Mud

  Arkansas — 2010s
  Rural · Islanddir. Jeff Nichols
• 1973

  Papillon

  French Guiana — 1930s · 1940s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner
• 2016

  Swiss Army Man

  2010s
  Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Daniel Kwan
• 1960

  Swiss Family Robinson

  1800s
  Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ken Annakin
• 1979

  The Black Stallion

  1940s
  Island · Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Carroll Ballard
• 2024

  The Wild Robot

  Near Future
  Island · Wildernessdir. Chris Sanders
• 2022

  Triangle of Sadness

  2020s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund
• 2018

  Utøya: July 22

  Norway — 2010s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Erik Poppe
• 1976

  Who Can Kill a Child?

  Spain — 1970s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador