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Movies Like The Last Island

If you liked The Last Island (1990), a drama and adventure movie directed by Marleen Gorris, 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.

  1. 1Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and drama

    After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…

  2. 2Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!

  3. 3Light of My Life

    Light of My Life (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

  4. 4The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fiction

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  5. 5Meltdown: Days of Destruction

    Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction

    Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…

  6. 6Jonathan

    Jonathan (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction

    Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.

  7. 7Timescape

    Timescape (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…

  8. 8Stowaway

    Stowaway (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

  9. 92073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…

  10. 10Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…

  11. 11I Am David

    I Am David (2003)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and adventure

    A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a…

  12. 12Cave Rescue

    Cave Rescue (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also adventure and drama

    When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…

  13. 13The Man Who Fell to Earth

    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…

  14. 14Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies (1990)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama

    When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.

  15. 15My Zoe

    My Zoe (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and science fiction

    Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle…

  16. 16Omni Loop

    Omni Loop (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…

  17. 17The Host

    The Host (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and science fiction

    A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to…

  18. 18Limbo

    Limbo (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and drama

    Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo…

  19. 19The 5th Wave

    The 5th Wave (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and adventure

    16-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.

  20. 20Babylon 5: The River of Souls

    Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.

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