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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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
10) Swiss army man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
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.
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.
12) 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.
14) 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!
15) 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) Offseason
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave site has been vandalized, Marie quickly returns to the isolated offshore island where her late mother is buried. When she arrives, she discovers that the island is closing for the offseason with the bridges raised until spring, leaving her stranded. With one strange interaction with the local townspeople after another, Marie soon realizes that something is not quite right in this small town....
19) 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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On an island populated entirely--or almost entirely--by happy, flightless birds, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
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