▲This romantic survival drama starring a then 14-year-old Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins was filmed on the island of Nanuya Levu, in Fiji.

▲The island of Kho Phi Phi Leh in Thailand is where this drama-thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed.

▲Flashy and scenic, the big-screen version of the classic TV series was partly shot on location in the Dominican Republic.

▲Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Puerto Rico, and a host of other islands have all provided lustrous tropical backdrops for this swashbuckling franchise, which began with 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.'

▲A remake of the 1963 original, this version of the disturbing survival drama was mainly shot in Jamaica, with additional locations in Maui, Hawaii.

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Sun, sea, and surf usually equate to a dreamy story line and a fabulous location, and for the most part filming on an island provides exactly that. But not all islands furnish a tropical ocean backdrop. They can also serve as a setting for a far more disturbing or sinister movie.

Browse the gallery and find out where the following films were made.

▲Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris fought it out with guns blazing on Alcatraz Island, the setting for this action-thriller film.

▲Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore got together for this romantic yarn on Hawaii, notably in the Koolau Range and at Makapuu Beach, Oahu.

▲The film took place at a beach near the village of Stavros on the Greek island of Crete.

▲Jamaica stood in for the infamous Devil's Island in French Guiana, but Steve McQueen's epic cliff-jumping stunt towards the end of the movie was filmed in Maui, Hawaii.

▲Presley filmed three times in Hawaii. This third outing saw the "King" and his courtiers on Oahu.

▲The paradisiacal island of Tahiti in the South Pacific was the realistic location for much of this movie, which starred Marlon Brando as chief mutineer Fletcher Christian.

▲Directed by Robert Aldrich, this cult World War II drama set on a Pacific Island was for the most part filmed on Boracay Island in the Philippines.

▲Steven Spielberg's dinosaur romp was played out on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The location subsequently provided a prehistoric backdrop for the sequels.

▲John Ford directed John Wayne in this action-comedy movie, which though set in French Polynesia, was actually filmed in Kauai, Hawaii.

▲The film that introduced 007 to the world was largely shot in Jamaica, specifically in and around Oracabessa, a small town in St Mary parish and where Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, used to live.

▲Back in the mid-'70s, beachgoers were petrified to enter the water off Amity Island, which was in fact Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

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Hungarian film director István Szabó headed production on this romantic comedy, the exteriors of which were filmed on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.

▲Real-life sun-soaked Jamaican locations, including Dragon Bay Beach and the Sandals Royal Plantation, were used to tell this tale about a New York business student who takes up bartending in order to make ends meet.

▲This time it was Daniel Craig with a license to kill, and he looked the part, wading out of the ocean at the luxurious One&Only Ocean Club in the Bahamas.

▲Shutter Island is actually Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor, where Martin Scorsese brings this creepy psychological thriller to life. Leonardo DiCaprio heads the cast.

▲Vince Vaughan, Jason Bateman, and Malin Åkerman joined an ensemble cast for this lighthearted romantic comedy, set on the French Polynesian island of Bora Bora.

▲Three guesses where this sweeping World War II drama is set. The harbor today is still the location of a military base, shared by the Navy and the Air Force stationed in the Pacific.

▲A gripping prison drama starring Clint Eastwood and based on actual events, this movie was filmed entirely on "The Rock."

▲Parts of this romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts were filmed on the Indonesian island of Bali, with some scenes shot in Ubud and at Padang-Padang Beach.

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Besides the Greek mainland, this classic World War II adventure was shot on Rhodes and Malta.

▲The Canary Islands were chosen to recreate Ancient Greece, with the island of Anglesey, located off the coast of Wales, also selected as a place to film this action-adventure fantasy in.

▲Filmed on Kauai, though not set in Hawaii, this adventure comedy paired Harrison Ford with Anne Heche.

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Filmed in Italy, the cliffside resort town of Positano and various villages on the islands of Ischia and Procida, near Naples, were used to represent the fictional town of "Mongibello."

▲Tom Hanks' modern-day Robinson Crusoe was marooned on Monuriki, an uninhabited island in the Fiji Islands. Predictably, tourists now call it "Cast Away Island."

Discover great movies that were filmed on islands

Perfect locations for sun, sea, and surf... or something more sinister?

21/01/21 por StarsInsider

MOVIES Islands

Sun, sea, and surf usually equate to a dreamy story line and a fabulous location, and for the most part filming on an island provides exactly that. But not all islands furnish a tropical ocean backdrop. They can also serve as a setting for a far more disturbing or sinister movie.

Browse the gallery and find out where the following films were made.