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poster
MGM Plus
88
8.1
/374098/
79
/6376/
79
/4133/
4.3
/452989/
98
/144/
93
/5231/
92
/23/
cc age 15+

Chinatown (1974)
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
poster
87
7.9
/122645/
78
/3515/
77
/1925/
4.4
/483084/
92
/150/
89
/3366/
93
/26/
cc age 16+

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.2
/8859/
79
/206/
78
/89/
3.9
/2441/
96
/97/
94
/1228/
89
/28/

No End in Sight (2007)
Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
8.1
/29108/
78
/561/
76
/598/
4.1
/23704/
93
/28/
95
/783/
75
/13/

Jean de Florette (1986)
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.3
/33980/
77
/2159/
76
/1110/
3.9
/169326/
93
/170/
84
/113/
82
/27/

Bacurau (2019)
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
poster
fuboTV
77
7.3
/315380/
72
/12723/
68
/6928/
3.7
/788019/
88
/222/
70
/9086/
75
/35/
cc age 10+

Rango (2011)
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
poster
75
7.0
/4437/
72
/170/
65
/116/
3.8
/7555/
96
/70/
71
/10/
81
/13/

Western (2017)
A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same time, they are confronted with their prejudices and mistrust. For two of the men, a nearby village becomes the stage for a competition for the recognition and favor of the village.
poster
Netflix
75
7.4
/15434/
72
/324/
69
/287/
3.6
/16131/
87
/62/
85
/232/
69
/20/

Even the Rain (2011)
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.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.5
/134753/
71
/2613/
70
/1486/
3.6
/64255/
82
/235/
70
/7071/
67
/43/
cc age 16+

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.4
/9514/
75
/502/
70
/151/
3.5
/3465/
84
/70/
74
/186/
76
/18/

Dirty Wars (2013)
Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
poster
Kanopy
75
72
7.2
/6857/
71
/256/
68
/163/
3.7
/5227/
86
/14/
84
/113/

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
poster
Kanopy
72
69
7.5
/14397/
71
/250/
68
/123/
3.9
/47523/
86
/7/
59

Burning Days (2022)
With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.
poster
72
66
7.0
/6170/
69
/123/
69
/80/
3.4
/3490/
79
/14/
77
/164/
75
/9/

Road to Morocco (1942)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
66
7.4
/11070/
75
/229/
71
/180/
3.6
/2666/

Fortress of War (2010)
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.1
/9564/
62
/561/
60
/367/
3.0
/3559/
90
/10/
50
/51/

The Last Days (2013)
A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
66
62
6.7
/6586/
70
/1457/
71
/274/
3.2
/20674/
60
/23/

South Park the Streaming Wars (2022)
Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills while an epic conflict unfolds that threatens South Park’s very existence.
poster
72
59
6.8
/3920/
66
/69/
65
/74/
3.4
/2598/
100
/7/
65
/25/

The Lost Patrol (1934)
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
poster
64
58
6.5
/5937/
58
/108/
59
/117/
3.8
/10787/
77
/26/
70
/165/
45
/9/

The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
58
6.6
/7230/
68
/203/
65
/152/
3.3
/3329/
57
/61/

Chato's Land (1972)
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.
poster
60
57
6.0
/6799/
64
/210/
58
/129/
3.0
/3498/
73
/33/
51
/312/
59
/7/

Sleep Dealer (2008)
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
55
8.0
/2786/
71
/21/
82
/38/
4.1
/5133/

The Land (1970)
Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.
poster
The Roku Channel
61
54
5.3
/4110/
59
/347/
60
/223/
2.9
/1063/
75
/12/

The Last Survivors (2014)
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
poster
74
51
7.2
/3348/
73
/171/
73
/141/
3.7
/4704/
82
/5/

Survival Family (2017)
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
poster
The Roku Channel
50
5.8
/10865/
61
/719/
56
/323/
3.0
/5055/
47
/36/
36
/86/
47
/13/
cc age 16+

Young Ones (2014)
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
poster
MGM Plus
46
4.8
/5377/
55
/212/
53
/87/
2.6
/3575/
43
/151/
24
/10/

Solarbabies (1986)
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
poster
71
46
7.2
/2093/
76
/155/
72
/91/
3.7
/10295/
64
/5/

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
poster
Kanopy
70
45
6.7
/1796/
72
/55/
60
/31/
3.4
/365/
83
/23/
74
/81/

Absurdistan (2008)
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 shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.
poster
74
41
7.4
/745/
69
/39/
77
/67/
3.8
/1623/

Sympathy for the Devil (2019)
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
40
7.2
/2121/
68
/35/
63
/32/
3.4
/577/
77
/46/

A Town Like Alice (1956)
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
poster
Criterion Channel
66
38
7.0
/1154/
60
/29/
62
/32/
3.7
/6816/

Demon Pond (1979)
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
poster
65
35
6.8
/1040/
65
/20/
57
/31/
3.5
/3415/

The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
poster
58
26
6.5
/1084/
63
/27/
63
/29/
3.6
/1298/
31
/2/

Apache Drums (1951)
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
poster
65
25
5.6
/164/
61
/7/
78
/52/
3.3
/485/

Chaco (2020)
In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they haven't seen for months, and that they will never find. They leave together in a search that will make them realize, progressively, the destiny they have been pushed into and the inevitable condition of a defeated troop. They're walking like shadows, wandering forever in the middle of dust and silence.
poster
69
24
7.5
/522/
65
/10/
66
/37/
3.7
/653/

Manon of the Spring (1953)
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
poster
Pluto TV
45
24
5.1
/1492/
51
/53/
48
/29/
2.7
/1438/
25
/18/

Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of survivors living in a cave run out of water and desperately need to locate a new supply. The last guy they sent out to find water never returned, and now his 10 year old son Timmy wants to join the next search team. They think they know where there's an untapped well of water, but to get there they have to travel through dangerous terrain controlled by a savage gang of motorcyclists under the bloodthirsty reign of 'Crazy Bull'. On their mission, Timmy and his team run into a lonesome stranger named Alien (Robert Iannucci) who may be able to help them against the marauding motorcyclists. Can the struggling survivors looking for water in this barren world defeat Crazy Bull and his exterminating minions? Hang on tight - the battle has just begun!
poster
74
20
7.1
/390/
73
/15/
64
/18/
3.3
/1475/
100
/2/

Pumzi (2009)
A sci-fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, 'The Water War'.
poster
54
17
5.1
/702/
53
/20/
53
/20/
3.0
/690/

Memory of Water (2022)
Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.
poster
The Roku Channel
39
15
4.3
/927/
46
/41/
42
/26/
2.8
/728/
11
/10/

Stryker (1983)
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 Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.
poster
54
12
5.7
/532/
46
/12/
55
/11/
3.0
/592/

Adventure in Sahara (1938)
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
poster
53
8
5.7
/321/
43
/6/
51
/11/
3.2
/275/

The Last Drop of Water (1911)
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
poster
49
8
6.4
/517/
35
/7/
52
/11/
3.2
/250/
33
/3/

Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences.
poster
?
6.3
/32/
10
/1/
100
/1/

Return from the Stars (1982)
About the careful attitude to water.
poster
?
9.1
/12/

Wastelands (2024)
The eldest member of a rural community of grape growers refuses to sell his land to a greedy real estate company. 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.
poster
73
?
7.9
/5607/
68
/27/
74
/20/

Oasis (2017)
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
poster
?
6.6
/48/
50
/4/
50
/4/

The Last Well (2017)
The year is 2037. Europe is in a state of complete breakdown. The owner of the last well of natural pure water becomes substitute father and husband. But when his well runs dry, he is forced to do the one last "trade".
poster
64
?
6.0
/114/
63
/3/
68
/4/
3.4
/220/

The Dry Spell (2023)
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the city's water department and his job is to visit homes and stores that are behind on their bills and either collect the money or shut off the water supply (water suspension enforcement). Shunsaku is separated from his wife and children, and his heart grows thirsty as he spends his days visiting poor households and being abhorred. One day, during a water shutoff, Shunsaku meets two young sisters who have been neglected. He sees them as his own children and offers them a helping hand.
poster
?
6.7
/40/
60
/1/

Land and Live in the Desert (1945)
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
38
?
3.8
/332/
40
/21/
36
/4/

Gunfight at Dry River (2021)
The closing years of the nineteenth century Old West. Dry River tells the story of a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought, with the only water source controlled by a family of American renegades on the trail for a legend of lost gold. When a Mexican stranger arrives to reclaim his father’s land, a violent confrontation will cause the lives of all to be forever transformed.


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