Movies Similar to the Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Movies like The Light at the Edge of the World (1971).
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Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Starring:
Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Polly Walker, Ian Hart
Duration: 1h 45mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama
The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative.
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Black Sails (2014 - 2017)
Starring:
Jessica Parker Kennedy, Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Zach McGowan
Duration: 56mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama
A prequel to the (fictional) events of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island". The series centres on a group of pirates operating out of Nassau in the Bahamas.
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Man Friday (1975)
Starring:
Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier, Christopher Cabot
Duration: 1h 55mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama
Friday and four
of his friends arrive in a canoe on the island on which Crusoe has been stranded for years.
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Starring:
Omar Sharif, Ambroise Bia, Jess Hahn, Philippe Nicaud
Duration: 1h 36mins
Genres:
Adventure, Sci-Fi
L'Ile Mysterieuse / La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo / Die Geheimnisvolle Insel (The Mysterious Island) is a 1973 European film (96 minutes) adapted from Jules Verne's 1875 novel L'Île mystérieuse.
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Stranded (2002)
Starring:
Liam Cunningham, Brana Bajic, Roger Allam, Jesse Spencer
Duration: 2h 0mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama
PART ONE
After being falsely accused of a crime he never committed, Pastor David Robinson is shipped off to a penal colony to serve out an eight-year sentence.
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Survival Quest (1988)
Starring:
Lance Henriksen, Mark Rolston, Steve Antin, Michael Allen Ryder
Duration: 1h 36mins
Genres:
Adventure, Thriller
There are two sets of campers on California's Sierra Madre Mountain.
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Thor: Hammer of the Gods (2009)
Starring:
Zachery Ty Bryan, Alexis Kendra, Mac Brandt, Daz Crawford
Duration: 1h 32mins
Genres:
Action, Adventure, Drama
In the opening, a narrator tells us, ". It was unmistakable. A wolf rising its stem and stern. Its sailed dripped blood red.
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Deliverance (1972)
Starring:
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Duration: 1h 49mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Four Atlanta businessmen—Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe and Drew Ballinger—decide to canoe down a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness before it is dammed.
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
Starring:
Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale
Duration: 1h 30mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
An aircraft carrying 24 American military school cadet boys returning home crash lands into the sea near a remote, uninhabited, jungle island in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Island (1980)
Starring:
Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass
Duration: 1h 49mins
Genres:
Action, Adventure, Drama
Blair Maynard is a British-born American journalist who was once in the Navy and who decides to investigate the mystery of why so many boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle of the Caribbean.
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Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Starring:
Sara Canning, James Van Der Beek, LeVar Burton, Diana Reis
Duration: 1h 29mins
Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
On April 6, 2001, Anne Sluti (Sara Canning), an all-American 17-year-old from Kearney, Nebraska, is seen running on a track at her high school as her boyfriend, Gary, and her best friend, Paige, watch.
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Crossbones (2014 - 2014)
Starring:
John Malkovich, Richard Coyle, Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Massri
Duration: 1h 0mins
Genres:
Action, Adventure, Drama
The tale takes place on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas.
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Edge of Honor (1991)
Starring:
Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger, Scott Reeves, Alex 'Sasha' Walkup
Duration: 1h 29mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The film begins with an account of impoverished families living on the North-West coast of the United States having taken up arms smuggling to support themselves and their families.
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The Crew (1994)
Starring:
Viggo Mortensen, Donal Logue, Jeremy Sisto, Pamela Gidley
Duration: 1h 35mins
Genres:
Drama, Thriller
Reluctantly Bill agrees to spend a weekend on his brother-in-law's boat in the Bahamas.
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Opposing Force (1986)
Starring:
Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree
Duration: 1h 40mins
Genres:
Action, Drama, Thriller
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission.
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Starring:
Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani
Duration: 1h 50mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In 1898, Sir Robert Beaumont, the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule.
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Crusoe (1988)
Starring:
Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara, Elvis Payne, Richard D. Sharp
Duration: 1h 31mins
Genres:
Drama
Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves.
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Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
Genres:
Adventure, Drama
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Survive! (1976)
Starring:
Pablo Ferrel, Hugo Stiglitz, Norma Lazareno, Luz María Aguilar
Duration: 1h 25mins
Genres:
Drama, Thriller
Survive! (Spanish: Supervivientes de los Andes - Andes Survivors) is a 1976 Mexican thriller film directed by René Cardona Jr.
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Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Starring:
Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshirô Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Duration: 1h 47mins
Genres:
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Shadow of the Wolf (also known as Agaguk) is a 1992 Canadian-French adventure film directed by Jacques Dorfmann and Pierre Magny and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshiro Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, and Donald Sutherland.
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