USA: This is not a seen from a film but this is a real story of a fisherman. Jose Salvadore Alvarenga is a Mexican fisherman who fought for his life for 13 months on an island in the middle of the ocean. His boat was destroyed by the sea storm and his fellow was drowned and killed in the sea.. He was surviving by eating the gross, fishes and turtles. Eventually he was saved by a US ship. Read this interesting story here.