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1) The tempest
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The play is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skillful manipulation. The tempest brings to the island Prospero's usurping brother Antonio and the complicit Alonso, King of Naples. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's low nature, the redemption of Alonso, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel about 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...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at PARADISE HILLS, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken...
Language
English
Formats
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
5) Cast away
Language
English
Formats
Description
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade calendar....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientific expedition on an uninhabited island stumbles across a secret Soviet military operation code-named "Delos". The expedition is attacked by an assassination squad and the survivors begin a fight to stay alive.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When news reaches Britain's Foreign Office indicating rich mineral deposits on the small island of Gaillardia, interest in the ex-colony is re-awakened, and bumbling envoy Cadogen de Vere Carlton-Browne is sent to investigate.
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Collector's series; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carmen and Juni Cortez are back. Now they are full-fledged SPYkid operatives with the OSS. Together they embark on a mission to a mysterious island to retreive a valuable device, which in the wrong hands could jeopardize the world!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.
12) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two teenage boys help a fugitive evade bounty hunters and reunite with his true love.
13) The red turtle
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dialogue-less animated film follows the major life stages of a man castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dream vacation turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare when a rough-hewn cargo pilot takes a sharp-tongued yuppie on a quick flight to Tahiti, only to crash in a storm, stranding the two on a deserted island.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (ca. 991 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After their plane crashes on an isolated tropical island, the survivors discover others who are descendents of a secret medical testing group called the Dharma Initiative. As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (552 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Less than a decade after its three season stint on television, Gilligan's Island reigned supreme as a smash syndication success story. Picking up new fans each and every year, with scores of them being the after-school crowd, a revival via animation was a Gilligan-apropos no-brainer (sorry, little buddy!). And said revival comes with nearly a full complement of original castaways! Thanks to the returning talents of Bob Denver (Gilligan), Alan Hale,...
19) Swiss army man
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After learning of a former infantry mate's attempted suicide, journalist Esteban returns to the Falkland Islands (or in Argentina, known as the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen-year-old soldier. Presents the harrowing story of a group of young men sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear its emotional scars.
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