# The best castaway and desert island movies

Tom Hanks and Wilson, Pi and his tiger, Robert Redford alone on the ocean: castaways, desert islands and sinking ships, according to eCartelera, decine21 and Parecidas.

- 686 votes · 12 items
- Mar 12, 2019 · setlist_leon
- https://even.best/en/l/4395/the-best-castaway-and-desert-island-movies

## Top 12

1. **Cast Away (2000)** (72 · ▲77 ▼5) — Robert Zemeckis. Tom Hanks, an island and a volleyball called Wilson.
2. **Robinson Crusoe (1954)** (53 · ▲57 ▼4) — Luis Buñuel. Defoe's castaway and Friday.
3. **Life of Pi (2012)** (46 · ▲59 ▼13) — Ang Lee. A boy and a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat.
4. **The Poseidon Adventure (1972)** (45 · ▲51 ▼6) — Ronald Neame. A capsized ocean liner.
5. **All Is Lost (2013)** (42 · ▲51 ▼9) — J. C. Chandor. Robert Redford alone on a drifting yacht.
6. **Lifeboat (1944)** (39 · ▲48 ▼9) — Alfred Hitchcock. Survivors of a torpedoed ship in a lifeboat.
7. **Swiss Family Robinson (1960)** (35 · ▲41 ▼6) — Ken Annakin. A Swiss family shipwrecked on an island.
8. **The Blue Lagoon (1980)** (34 · ▲44 ▼10) — Randal Kleiser. Two children grow up alone on a tropical island.
9. **Titanic (1997)** (33 · ▲47 ▼14) — James Cameron. The most famous shipwreck of all.
10. **In the Heart of the Sea (2015)** (26 · ▲39 ▼13) — Ron Howard. The whaleship Essex and its survivors.
11. **The Perfect Storm (2000)** (21 · ▲31 ▼10) — Wolfgang Petersen. A fishing boat caught in the 1991 storm.
12. **Lord of the Flies (1963)** (20 · ▲31 ▼11) — Peter Brook. Boys alone on an island, from William Golding.

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