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10 Best Movies Like Island

If you loved Island, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Wasp

Wasp

2003★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him...

#2
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Drama & Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#5
The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life....

#6
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Island for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....