Movies Like Mysterious Island
If you liked Mysterious Island (1961), a adventure and science fiction movie directed by Cy Endfield, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
★ 6/10Also science fictionTo prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and adventure16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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The Meg (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionA deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
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John Carter (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and science fictionJohn Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink…
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War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and science fictionRay 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…
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also adventureExplore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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Underwater (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and adventureAfter an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
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On the Beach (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionThe world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has…
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also adventureA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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The Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also adventureThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventureAstronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent…
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To Have and Have Not (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also adventureA Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and science fictionIn the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an…
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
★ 6/10Also adventureIn their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
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Moby Dick (1956)
★ 7.1/10Also adventureIn 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…
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Black Sea (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also adventureA rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the…
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionAn exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
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The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionA boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also adventureWhen wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate…
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The Thing from Another World (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionScientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.