Last Updated on 8 May 2025

Some recommended movies set on uninhabited, deserted, desert islands or otherwise involving people getting marooned on an island. The list is also on IMDb.

Deserted Island

• Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985)
• The Blue Lagoon (1980)
• The Breed (2006)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Dinosaur Island (2014)
• Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
• Humongous (1982)
• Island of Desire (1952)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)
• The Little Hut (1957)
• Lord of the Flies (1963)
• Lord of the Flies (1990)
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
• Many Pirate Movies (link to my Pirate Movies page)
• Paradise Lagoon (1957)
• Rescue from Gilligan’s Island (1978)
• Robinson Crusoe (1954)
• Robinson Crusoe (1997)
• The Sea Gypsies (1978)
• Shadow Island (2023)
• Shipwrecked (1990)
• Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
• Stranded (2002)
• Survival Island (2002)
• Survival Island (2005)
• Sweetheart (2019)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
• Uninhabited (2010)

Trapped, but Others Already There

• Bloodlust! (1961)
• The Island (1980)
• The Isle (2018)
• The Killer Shrews (1959)