Movies like The Desert Island (1938)
The best movies like The Desert Island (1938) are The Man Who Slept (2009), La vache qui voulait sauter par dessus l'église (1998) and Home Sweet Home (2019). If The Desert Island hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Desert Island
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe King and the Mockingbird (1980)7.8/10 from 429 votes
- NewestGenius Loci (2020)Released 2020
- In FrenchThe Man Who Slept (2009)Also in French
The Man Who Slept (2009)
A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
La vache qui voulait sauter par dessus l'église (1998)
A farmer has computerised his farm but hasn't counted on bugs in the system ... and the cow wants to jump over the church.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Home Sweet Home (2019)
An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Little Seed (2015)
A little girl catches floral patterns with a magic cloth and uses them to make her own pretty dresses. Every night, ants move her house from one field to the next. One day, a seed drops into her mouth and a young shoot sprouts from her navel.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Gandahar (1987)
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Masters (1982)
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Rain Children (2003)
There is a world with two towns that are big enemies: Pyross and Hydross.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe King and the Mockingbird (1980)
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Mor's Island (2004)
Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRaining Cats and Frogs (2003)
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGenius Loci (2020)
One night, Reine, a young loner, sees among the urban chaos a moving oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFantastic Planet (1973)
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Desert Island?
The closest matches to The Desert Island are The Man Who Slept (2009), La vache qui voulait sauter par dessus l'église (1998) and Home Sweet Home (2019). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Desert Island?
Start with The Man Who Slept (2009), the closest match to The Desert Island.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Desert Island?
The King and the Mockingbird (1980), rated 7.8/10 by 429 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Desert Island?
Genius Loci (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Desert Island?
Yes: The Man Who Slept (2009), La vache qui voulait sauter par dessus l'église (1998) and Home Sweet Home (2019).
How are movies similar to The Desert Island chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Desert Island, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.