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1) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adventure tale based on the classic novel by William Golding. When an aircraft carrying a group of military school cadets is forced to crash land in an uninhabited Pacific jungle, it is survival of the fittest, man against nature, and boy against boy as sides are drawn when the hunters become the hunted.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. He tries to escape the island but is prevented from doing so by a large red sea turtle. Soon he is joined by a young woman also lost at sea.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cara Rutledge thought she had left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother, coming just as her own life is spinning out of control, has Cara heading back to the scenic Low country of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide 'turtle lady' and renews old acquaintances long thought lost.
10) Paradise Hills
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Generations into the future, a strict binary divides society into the bourgeoisie "superiors" and the "inferiors." Uma, a superior teenager, struggles with her family's decision to marry her off to Son, a fellow superior. Instead, she finds herself falling for Markus, an inferior. When her mother learns of the secret romance, she banishes Uma to Paradise Hills, a finishing school for rebellious young women. Uma learns that behind the high-class facility's...
12) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Seven years after Morgan and Madison's plans to rescue Mo from PADRE end in failure, the people they brought to the island are forced to toil under PADRE's cynical rule. But the promise of a better world remains, resting with the only person able to reignite everyone's belief in it: a now eight-year-old Mo.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it feels like a vacation, until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! With All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.
16) Blink twice
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She'll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
18) Moonrise kingdom
Series
Criterion collection volume 776
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
On an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two twelve-year-olds fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host and begin to be killed one by one; fourteen years after her sister was executed for murdering her husband, a woman asks Hercule Poirot to find the truth; when a woman's harassment of a newly married couple turns deadly, Hercule Poirot attempts to solve the mystery.
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