Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "island-name-in-title"

1. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt

Votes: 253,121

2. Madagascar (2005)

PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.

Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith

Votes: 437,558 | Gross: $193.60M

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

TV-14 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson

Votes: 52,683

4. Baltic Crimes (2014– )

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Crime series set on the German Poland border. Police gain the help of an ex convict, a former prosecutor convicted of murder.. With her experience and help the crimes are solved whilst she deals with family and community issues.

Stars: Katrin Sass, Rainer Sellien, Max Hopp, Rikke Lylloff

Votes: 475

5. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Madagascar animals join a struggling European circus to get back to New York, but find themselves being pursued by a psychotic animal-control officer.

Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer

Votes: 198,000 | Gross: $216.39M

6. I Am Cuba (1964)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García

Votes: 10,663

7. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.

Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond

Votes: 5,363

8. Midway (1976)

PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford

Votes: 21,491

9. Key Largo (1948)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 43,983

10. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 11,406

11. Stromboli (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Drama

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo

Votes: 7,966

12. England Is Mine (2017)

Not Rated | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A portrait of Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become the lead singer of seminal alternative rock band The Smiths.

Director: Mark Gill | Stars: Jodie Comer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jack Lowden, Peter McDonald

Votes: 3,780

13. Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis

Votes: 3,087

14. Malta Story (1953)

97 min | Drama, History, War

1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow

Votes: 1,962

15. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)

93 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Celia Milius, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Carlos Romero

Votes: 546

16. The Kings of Mykonos (2010)

102 min | Comedy

Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he's never met.

Director: Peter Andrikidis | Stars: Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Zeta Makrypoulia, Alex Dimitriades

Votes: 2,694

17. Widow of St. Pierre (2000)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 5,731 | Gross: $3.06M

18. A Cape Cod Christmas (2021 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama, Romance

When a children's author hosts one last Christmas dinner with her disagreeable siblings before they sell the family house, she reunites with her childhood sweetheart who helps her find a way to keep the home she loves so dearly.

Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Katie Leclerc, Brent Bailey, Cindy Lentol, Chris Owen

Votes: 432

19. Iona (2015)

85 min | Drama

Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.

Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan

Votes: 355

20. Java Heat (2013)

R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A Muslim detective teams with an American posing as a graduate student to find the man behind a series of deadly terrorist bombings in Indonesia.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: Kellan Lutz, Verdi Solaiman, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu

Votes: 4,936

21. Galapagos (2006)

180 min | Documentary

The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.

Stars: Tilda Swinton, Richard Wollocombe, Tom Hiddleston, Stacy Keach

Votes: 1,437

22. Pêcheur d'Islande (1924)

93 min | Drama

Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.

Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Charles Vanel, Thomy Bourdelle, Noémi Seize

Votes: 59

23. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)

G | 39 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as castaways but are now highly endangered.

Director: David Douglas | Stars: Patricia Wright, Morgan Freeman, Hantanirina Rasamimanana

Votes: 1,017 | Gross: $11.26M

24. Bornholmer Straße (2014 TV Movie)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.

Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ulrich Matthes, Rainer Bock

Votes: 870

25. Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)

89 min | Comedy, Drama

After years of performing the same comedy sketch at performances, Tony Hawks decides to find inspiration for his scripts by traveling around Ireland with a portable fridge.

Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Tony Hawks, Valerie O'Connor, Ed Byrne, Sean Hughes

Votes: 490

26. The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama

Eighteen years have passed since the arrival of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. The last of these mutineers has just died and the island is now populated solely by their widows and... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: James Craig, Lynn Bari, John Smith, Arleen Whelan

Votes: 54

27. Hierro (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After her son goes missing, a broken mother returns months later to the island of El Hierro to identify a body. She finds out her son is not the only one missing.

Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Elena Anaya, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe, Andrés Herrera

Votes: 3,398

28. Monte Cristo (1929)

223 min | Adventure

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them

Director: Henri Fescourt | Stars: Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Gaston Modot, Jean Toulout

Votes: 158

29. Strawberry Shortcake: Adventures on Ice Cream Island (2004 Video)

TV-G | 64 min | Animation

When Honey Pie Pony meets other horses on Ice Cream Island, she thinks she should move there. But once she realizes how much her human pals need her back home, she reconsiders. Later Honey ... See full summary »

Stars: Sarah Heinke, DeJare Barfield, Nils Haaland, Anna Jordan

Votes: 61

30. With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)

Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, War

Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.

Directors: Richard Brooks, Louis Hayward | Stars: Alexander Bonnyman Jr., John Borich, Merritt A. Edson, H.W. Hill

Votes: 305

31. Tôkyô-jima (2010)

129 min | Drama

Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.

Director: Makoto Shinozaki | Stars: Tae Kimura, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Ryôhei Abe, Tasuku Emoto

Votes: 56

32. Cuba Libre (1996 TV Movie)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of traveling to Cuba. In the end, however, they only manage to get as far as the Belgian coast.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming, Wolfram Berger, Mark Schlichter

Votes: 112

33. Nuova Guinea, l'isola dei cannibali (1974)

100 min | Documentary, Horror

Add a Plot

Director: Akira Ide | Stars: Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II

Votes: 66

34. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)

90 min | Drama

"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.

Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz

Votes: 79

35. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)

PG | 20 min | Documentary, Short, War

Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.

Stars: Harlon Block, John H. Bradley, Rene A. Gagnon, Ira H. Hayes

Votes: 172

36. The Fight for Greenland (2020)

95 min | Documentary

The film follows four strong-willed and dynamic young Greenlanders that deeply disagree on which direction their country should follow, but all are fighting for a better Greenland.

Director: Kenneth Sorento | Stars: Ane Marie Andersen, Dorthe Andersen, Erneeraq Andersen, Kaaleeraq Andersen

Votes: 81

37. Liberté-Oléron (2001)

107 min | Comedy

During the summer vacation of a french family, the father goes through a mid-life crisis. To cope with it, he ends up buying a boat, which turns out to be a not-so-good idea.

Director: Bruno Podalydès | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Guilaine Londez, Patrick Pineau, Arnaud Jalbert

Votes: 612

38. Sylter Geschichten (1993–1996)

45 min | Drama

Sylt stories.

Stars: Claus Wilcke, Andreas Maria Schwaiger, Gabriele Metzger, Eva Renzi

Votes: 17

39. The Flatey Enigma (2018)

211 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Set in 1971, the series follows Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies, accused of murder. To prove her innocence, she has to solve a riddle in a medieval manuscript about Norse kings, the ... See full summary »

Stars: Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Hilmir Jensson, Sigurður Sigurjónsson

Votes: 372

40. Ein Bayer auf Rügen (1993–1997)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Add a Plot

Stars: Wolfgang Fierek, Ottfried Fischer, Luise Deschauer, Veronika Fitz

Votes: 37

41. The Jew of Malta (2012)

Drama

Barabas' wealth and land are seized and his home turned into a nunnery. He spends the rest of the movie plotting his revenge

Director: Douglas Morse | Stars: Barzin Akhavan, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ian Antal, Ben Beckley

Votes: 10

42. Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot (1981)

59 min | Documentary

Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Ertaud | Star: Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Votes: 23

43. Under the Grecian Sun: Crete (2016 Video)

58 min | Documentary, Comedy, History

A romantic culinary travel journey with The Goddess and the Greek® on the Greek island of Crete. Hosted by award-winning on-camera personality, lifestyle journalist, author of 'Diary of A ... See full summary »

Directors: Cynthia Daddona, James Stathis | Stars: Cynthia Daddona, James Stathis

44. Through Greenland - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (2019)

Documentary

Through Greenland is a visually spectacular program series with Danish Game of Thrones super star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on an adventurous expedition through Greenland.

Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nukâka, Jo Scheuer, Cecilie Frydenlund

Votes: 43

45. Cuba baila (1961)

87 min | Drama, Musical

Add a Plot

Director: Julio García Espinosa | Stars: Tete Blanco, Vivian Gude, Alfredo Perojo, Raquel Revuelta

Votes: 15

46. Capri You Love? (2007)

85 min | Comedy, Drama

Over the course of one weekend, in an idyllic villa close by the Blue Grotto, two men and two women meet. As the hours pass they find themselves entangled in a humorous clash of attraction and ego.

Director: Alexander Oppersdorff | Stars: Chiara Schoras, Kathrin Angerer, Markus Meyer, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey

Votes: 36

47. The Battle for Malta (2013)

Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Aaron Young | Stars: James Holland, Alexis Rodney

Votes: 15

48. Okinawa: Urizun no ame (2015)

148 min | Documentary, History, War

'Okinawa: The Afterburn' is the first documentary film to provide a comprehensive picture of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the ensuing 70-year occupation of the island by the U.S. military.

Director: John Junkerman

Votes: 237

49. Mörder auf Amrum (2009 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

Add a Plot

Director: Markus Imboden | Stars: Hinnerk Schönemann, Irina Potapenko, Barbara Rudnik, Thomas Thieme

Votes: 183

50. Atlantis (I) (2008)

90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Shy, thirteen year old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to ... See full summary »

Director: Digna Sinke | Stars: Pitou Nicolaes, Valerie Bedier de Prairie, Khaldoen El Mecky, Cas Enklaar

Votes: 99