If You Liked Cast Away, Watch These Next
Finished Cast Away (2000) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Cast Away, most of them are adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Return to the Blue Lagoon(1991)
6.2AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
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2.Robinson Crusoe(1954)
6.3AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man,…
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3.Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(2007)
7.3AdventureFantasyActionAlso adventure
After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a…
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4.The Poseidon Adventure(1972)
7.2AdventureDramaThrillerAlso adventure and drama
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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5.The Old Man and the Sea(1958)
6.5AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
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7.The Journey of Natty Gann(1985)
6.8AdventureFamilyDramaAlso adventure and drama
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective…
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8.Alive(1993)
6.9AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
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9.The Sea of Trees(2016)
6.2DramaAlso drama
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
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10.Cave Rescue(2019)
5.9AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
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12.The Other Side of Heaven(2001)
6.3AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and…
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13.All Is Lost(2013)
6.6ActionAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may…
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14.Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)
6.4AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for…
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15.True Spirit(2023)
7.0AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible,…
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16.Walkabout(1971)
7.3AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an…
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18.The Sea Wolf(1941)
7.2AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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19.The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)
7.2AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A cargo aircraft crashes 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 a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
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20.Life of Pi(2012)
7.4AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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