Abandoned

Abandoned (2016) is a New Zealand survival drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director John Laing retells what happened to the crew of a small trimaran that left Picton in the winter of 1989, headed for Tonga.

Four men put to sea aboard the Rose Noelle. A single freak wave flips the boat, and the whole world shrinks to an upturned hull rocking on open ocean. No radio, almost no food, and a tally of days that will soon stop meaning much. Days turn into weeks, weeks into the better part of four months. Dominic Purcell plays one of the men who keeps the others going more through stubbornness than muscle, and the cramped quarters grind their tempers raw.

None of this was invented: the real drift ran 119 days and ended on the shore of Great Barrier Island. The film leans on hunger, tight space and slow dread rather than spectacle, so it suits anyone who likes a bare, unromanticized castaway story. Stream Abandoned (2016) online on iFILM.