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Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
30 schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten strangers are invited to a lavish estate on an island. Through a recording, their mysterious host accuses each of his "guests" of murder and proceeds to exact "justice."
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.
4) The tempest
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations from the Folger Library Collections.
5) The Tempest
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This play revolves around an enchanted island, an exiled duke, young lovers and a framework of conspiracy as they affected dramatic and emotional romances.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is both 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, as he leads them into one of the most treacherous battles in the Pacific.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 440
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
10) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
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. Includes featurette.
12) Hero's island
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On an island off the Carolina coast, an 18th-century family is being besieged by murderous local fisherman. An outsider joins the family, aided by a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Blackbeard the Pirate!
13) Tower of evil
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a team of archaeologists arrives to work on an island where a double murder recently occurred, they go ahead with their plans and discover that the killer is still at large.
16) The red turtle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Formats
Description
The dialogue-less film tells the story of a man shipwrecked at sea who becomes stranded on a beautiful but desolated island. He learns to live in isolation, seemingly tormented in his efforts to escape the island by a giant red turtle. Miraculously, he soon comes upon a young woman also lost at sea and they create a family together.
17) Paradise Hills
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Generations into the future, a strict binary divides society into the bourgeoisie "superiors" and the "inferiors." Uma, a superior teenager, struggles with her family's decision to marry her off to Son, a fellow superior. Instead, she finds herself falling for Markus, an inferior. When her mother learns of the secret romance, she banishes Uma to Paradise Hills, a finishing school for rebellious young women. Uma learns that behind the high-class facility's...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a band of castaways lands on a mysterious island, they discover it's already inhabited by giant carnivorous creatures and wonders beyond the imagination. In order to stay alive, they're pitted to the death against deadly dinosaurs, fearsome sea monsters, soaring pterodactyls, and marauding tribes of primitive humans.
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