If You Liked Life of Pi, Watch These Next
Finished Life of Pi (2012) 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 Life of Pi, most of them are adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.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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2.Moby Dick(1956)
7.1AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon…
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3.Where the Wild Things Are(2009)
6.5AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
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4.White Squall(1996)
6.3DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the…
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5.Finding Nemo(2003)
7.8AnimationFamilyAdventureAlso adventure
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more…
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6.Kensuke's Kingdom(2024)
7.1AnimationAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Michael and his dog overboard. After washing up on a remote island, terrified, they struggle to survive and adjust to life alone, One day, Michael discovers he is not alone when he is confronted by a mysterious…
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7.War of the Worlds(2005)
6.6AdventureThrillerScience FictionAlso adventure
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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8.The Sea Beast(2022)
7.3AnimationAdventureActionAlso adventure
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot.
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10.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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11.The Perfect Storm(2000)
6.5DramaAdventureActionAlso drama and adventure
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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12.Escape to Witch Mountain(1975)
6.4AdventureFantasyScience FictionAlso adventure
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while…
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13.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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14.A Shine of Rainbows(2009)
6.4FamilyDramaAlso drama
An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomás as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and…
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15.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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17.My Penguin Friend(2024)
7.3FamilyAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
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18.Eight Below(2006)
7.0AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six…
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20.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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