Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "water-shortage"

1. Dune (1984)

PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino

Votes: 180,544 | Gross: $30.93M

2. Do the Right Thing (1989)

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

Votes: 112,818 | Gross: $27.55M

3. Dune (2000)

Not Rated | 265 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A three-part miniseries on politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah. Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.

Stars: William Hurt, Alec Newman, Giancarlo Giannini, Uwe Ochsenknecht

Votes: 24,988

4. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 350,832

5. Rango (2011)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 294,023 | Gross: $123.48M

6. 127 Hours (2010)

R | 94 min | Biography, Drama

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott

Votes: 402,362 | Gross: $18.34M

7. Jericho (2006–2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A small town in Kansas is literally left in the dark after seeing a mushroom cloud over nearby Denver, Colorado. The townspeople struggle to find answers about the blast and solutions on how to survive.

Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Lennie James, Ashley Scott, Kenneth Mitchell

Votes: 58,865

8. Bacurau (2019)

Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.

Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima

Votes: 30,788

9. Jean de Florette (1986)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu

Votes: 27,596 | Gross: $4.94M

10. Burning Days (2022)

129 min | Drama, Thriller

Emre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.

Director: Emin Alper | Stars: Selahattin Pasali, Ekin Koç, Erol Babaoglu, Erdem Senocak

Votes: 12,325

11. Solarbabies (1986)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.

Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas

Votes: 4,979 | Gross: $1.58M

12. Young Ones (2014)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Set in the future when water is hard to find, a teenage boy sets out to protect his family and survive.

Director: Jake Paltrow | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning

Votes: 10,393

13. Chato's Land (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Western

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland

Votes: 6,299 | Gross: $0.42M

14. The Wayward Cloud (2005)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-ching Lu, Kuei-Mei Yang

Votes: 5,650

15. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 6,226

16. The Last Survivors (2014)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A teenage girl fights to protect the last working well in a drought-stricken valley from a greedy water baron.

Director: Tom Hammock | Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart, Max Charles, Nicole Arianna Fox

Votes: 3,932

17. Oasis (2017 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Richard Madden, Anil Kapoor, Antje Traue, Mark Addy

Votes: 5,514

18. A Town Like Alice (1956)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War

A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki, Tran Van Khe

Votes: 1,917

19. The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)

R | 103 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In the year 3000, the Earth has been rendered a desert by nuclear war. A group of survivors goes in search of rare and valuable water, but standing in their way are the evil Exterminators, who live only to cause pain and misery.

Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Robert Iannucci, Alicia Moro, Luciano Pigozzi, Eduardo Fajardo

Votes: 1,337

20. Stryker (1983)

R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi

The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road ... See full summary »

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Steve Sandor, Andria Savio, William Ostrander, Mike Lane

Votes: 810 | Gross: $1.72M

21. The Last Days (2013)

Unrated | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In this terrifying apocalyptic horror, a mysterious epidemic like no other has swept across the globe, leaving chaos in its wake.

Directors: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Jose Coronado, Marta Etura, Leticia Dolera

Votes: 9,023

22. Utama (2022)

87 min | Drama

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Candelaria Quispe, Placide Ali

Votes: 2,087

23. Road to Morocco (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn

Votes: 5,869 | Gross: $1.63M

24. Survival Family (2016)

117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

After a sudden worldwide power cut, a Tokyo family are caught up in the chaos as millions traverse the country in search of electricity.

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Fumiyo Kohinata, Eri Fukatsu, Yuki Izumisawa, Wakana Aoi

Votes: 3,029

25. The Lost Patrol (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny

Votes: 3,613

26. Even the Rain (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri

Votes: 14,247 | Gross: $0.56M

27. Fortress of War (2010)

Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov

Votes: 10,544

28. Approaching the Unknown (2016)

R | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A U.S. astronaut prepares for a mission to Mars.

Director: Mark Elijah Rosenberg | Stars: Mark Strong, Luke Wilson, Sanaa Lathan, Anders Danielsen Lie

Votes: 9,164

29. Badlands 2005 (1988 TV Movie)

48 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Sharon Stone, Caitlin O'Heaney

Votes: 63

30. Sleep Dealer (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.

Director: Alex Rivera | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina

Votes: 6,691 | Gross: $0.08M

31. Western (2017)

Unrated | 121 min | Drama

German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.

Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova

Votes: 4,311 | Gross: $0.04M

32. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)

74 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Revolves around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years, through Brazil's colonization, slavery, military regime and the future, in 2096, in the midst of wars for water.

Directors: Luiz Bolognesi, Jean Cullen De Moura, Marcelo Fernandes De Moura | Stars: Selton Mello, Camila Pitanga, Rodrigo Santoro, Carlos Alayeto

Votes: 1,959

33. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.

Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger

Votes: 1,499 | Gross: $0.25M

34. The Land (1970)

130 min | Drama

A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed

Votes: 2,467

35. Memory of Water (2022)

101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government.

Director: Saara Saarela | Stars: Saga Sarkola, Mimosa Willamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Pekka Strang

Votes: 597

36. Sympathy for the Devil (2019)

100 min | War

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

Director: Guillaume de Fontenay | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vincent Rottiers, Ella Rumpf, Arieh Worthalter

Votes: 694

37. Demon Pond (1979)

123 min | Fantasy, Romance

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates ... See full summary »

Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tamasaburô Bandô, Gô Katô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kôji Nanbara

Votes: 543

38. War Paint (1953)

Approved | 89 min | Adventure, War, Western

An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Robert Stack, Joan Taylor, Charles McGraw, Keith Larsen

Votes: 535

39. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972 TV Movie)

75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis

Votes: 477

40. Apache Drums (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields

Votes: 948

41. Manon des sources (1952)

228 min | Drama

To avenge her father's death, Manon blocks the source of water for local villagers.

Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, André Bervil, Charles Blavette

Votes: 465

42. Absurdistan (2008)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water ... See full summary »

Director: Veit Helmer | Stars: Max Mauff, Kristyna Ryska, Nino Chkheidze, Ivane Ivantbelidze

Votes: 1,747 | Gross: $0.04M

43. New Eden (1994 TV Movie)

R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Two fellow prisoners, one a renegade and another mild-mannered engineer, are released on a desert planet with barren resources. Repeatedly Kyne and Adams come into contact for a final showdown that will determine the communities fate.

Director: Alan Metzger | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Lisa Bonet, Tobin Bell, Michael Bowen

Votes: 387

44. Ten Who Dared (1960)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Family, Western

Major John Wesley Powell leads an expedition through the Grand Canyon to chart the Colorado River.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 309

45. Wastelands (2024)

18 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

The eldest member of a rural community refuses to sell his land. When he seems cornered by the dirty tactics of a corrupt businessman, he must decide whether to give up everything he owns, or take control of the situation.

Director: Rami Mercado | Stars: Enrique Laborde, Mauricio Pérez, Silvio Guevara, Andrea Gentili

46. Adventure in Sahara (1938)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt (C. Henry Gordon). To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray, Robert Fiske

Votes: 449

47. Blind Sun (2015)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery

Greece. A seaside resort plagued by a heavy heatwave. Water is rare and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, guards a French family's villa while they are away. In ... See full summary »

Director: Joyce A. Nashawati | Stars: Ziad Bakri, Mimi Denissi, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Giannis Stankoglou

Votes: 1,661

48. Stay Filthy, Cali (2015)

2 min | Short, Comedy

Non-traditional PSA web-series in the form of six short raunchy comedic vignettes made to raise awareness of the water shortage in California. In each episode, the narrator (Bruce Campbell) encourages the viewers to stop wasting water.

Stars: Bruce Campbell, Cerina Vincent, Annika Marks, Sharon Lawrence

Votes: 67

49. Pumzi (2009)

21 min | Short, Sci-Fi

A sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.

Director: Wanuri Kahiu | Stars: Kudzani Moswela, Chantelle Burger, Tammy Richards, Nicole Bailey

Votes: 361

50. Killat (2022)

9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A middle-aged woman struggles to arrange a bucket of water for his son-in-law who is stuck in a bathroom without water. Her struggle to find a bucket of water amidst dire scarcity involves a comic and dramatic wrestle with her neighbor.

Director: Saurabh Dixit | Stars: Meeta Jeswani, Chiranjeev Joshi, Laxmi Pandey, Niti Shrivastava