It’s funny how far I’ve come: from the young me making my family cancel a cruise vacation after watching Swiss Family Robinson because I was scared to death about pirate attacks and being stranded on an island, to now, daydreaming about escaping to an unknown deserted island, leaving behind all this adulting for good. Until I can make up my mind whether I want to stay or run, movies have my back.The best deserted island movies are not just stories of sun-soaked, sandy adventure surrounded by endless waves. These castaway narratives often explore complex themes, capturing the primal mix of survival, solitude, human connection, and the occasional whack-in-the-head epiphany. In this article, we’ve listed some of the best deserted island movies that are cinematic escapes to the middle of nowhere. Best Deserted Island Movies1. Cast Away on the Moon (2009) Lee Hae-jun’s Cast Away on the Moon follows a hapless man, buried in debt and dumped by his girlfriend, who decides to jump into the Han River to end his life, but he wakes up alone on a deserted island in the middle of the Seoul River. He begins to enjoy living away from the city’s chaos and worries when life takes a turn when he gets to know Kin Jung-yeon, a reclusive young woman addicted to social media, who spots him through her camera, and the two begin talking via messages in bottles and sand writings. Before they realize, two isolated individuals have freed each other from their respective...
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