Movies like Tabu: A Story of the South Seas: 20 to watch next
If you loved Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) — a romance, drama and adventure film directed by F. W. Murnau — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Tabu: A Story of the South Seas most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like exotic island, love of one's life and escape. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Cast Away 2000★ 7.7
Shares: Adventure, Drama
Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Rip Girls 2000★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic photography, and the truth about her mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Adrift 2018★ 6.8
Shares: Romance, Adventure
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.
Stream in India on Zee5
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The Last Song 2010★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Journey of Natty Gann 1985★ 6.8
Shares: Adventure, Drama
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nobody Has to Know 2022★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Castaway 1986★ 6.3
Shares: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, but once on the island, things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies. Gradually, it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Autumn in New York 2000★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Return to the Blue Lagoon 1991★ 6.2
Shares: Adventure, Drama
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Reap the Wild Wind 1942★ 6.3
Shares: Adventure, Romance
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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King Kong 2005★ 6.9
Shares: Adventure, Drama
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain 1995★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Adventure
Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Endless Night 2015★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Adventure
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Girl from the Song 2017★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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My Penguin Friend 2024★ 7.4
Shares: Adventure, Drama
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984★ 6.4
Shares: Adventure, Drama
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Love Everlasting 2016★ 7.4
Shares: Romance, Drama
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Restless 2011★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Romance
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Secret Life of Bees 2008★ 7.5
Shares: Adventure, Drama
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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I Am David 2003★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Adventure
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now