Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "starving-to-death"

1. Into the Wild (2007)

R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 658,584 | Gross: $18.35M

2. The Wonder (I) (2022)

R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar

Votes: 44,337

3. Rose Red (2002)

PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A college professor and a team of psychics investigate mysterious deaths and disappearances at an old abandoned mansion.

Stars: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes

Votes: 27,051

4. Flowers in the Attic (1987)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Children are hidden away under an attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams

Votes: 11,278 | Gross: $15.15M

5. The Wages of Fear (1953)

Not Rated | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli

Votes: 66,646

6. Hunger (2008)

Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw

Votes: 73,586 | Gross: $0.15M

7. Angela's Ashes (1999)

R | 145 min | Biography, Drama

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens

Votes: 23,263 | Gross: $13.04M

8. The Grandmaster (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang, Chang Chen

Votes: 36,804 | Gross: $6.59M

9. Life (2009)

TV-G | 43 min | Documentary

David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth. From giving an overview of the challenges facing life to hunting the deep sea and various major evolutionary groups of creatures.

Stars: Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan, Roger Munns

Votes: 42,831

10. XX (2017)

R | 80 min | Horror

This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Sofìa Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha, Peyton Kennedy

Votes: 12,398 | Gross: $0.03M

11. Barefoot Gen (1983)

TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris

Votes: 9,217

12. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold

Votes: 6,562

13. To End All Wars (2001)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama, War

During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

Director: David L. Cunningham | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciarán McMenamin, Mark Strong

Votes: 11,649

14. Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami

Votes: 7,627

15. Asura (I) (2012)

76 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.

Director: Kei'ichi Sato | Stars: Masako Nozawa, Tesshô Genda, Megumi Hayashibara, Hiroaki Hirata

Votes: 1,409

16. Mother India (1957)

Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.

Director: Mehboob Khan | Stars: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Raaj Kumar

Votes: 9,860

17. Live and Become (2005)

Unrated | 140 min | Drama

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe

Votes: 6,313

18. The Hunger (II) (2020)

90 min | Documentary, History

The Story of the Irish Famine of the 1840s.

Director: Ruán Magan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Cormac Ó'Gráda, Niamh Gallagher, Mary C. Kelly

Votes: 99

19. Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)

107 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story follows the life of Leni Gruyten, a regular German woman during the 1930s and 40s. Through her interactions with friends, family, and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif, Michel Galabru, Vadim Glowna

Votes: 388

20. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, War

A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrocities created by the Germans. ... See full summary »

Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe

Votes: 363

21. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Nicholas Winand, Thomas Betthauser, Scott Thompson, Blaiden D. Cordle

Votes: 1,315

22. Look to the Sky (1993)

100 min | Drama

Amsterdam, 1942: four-year-old Jonah and his parents are deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany where the child learns to cope with an incomprehensible world of war, brutality and persecution.

Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Juliet Aubrey, Jenner Del Vecchio, Luke Petterson

Votes: 461

23. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: Love Hungry (1988)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Desperate to lose weight in order to please an old boyfriend from high school, compulsive eater Betsy Cowland uses mysterious, and possibly unsafe, products that she receives in the mail.

Director: John Strysik | Stars: Sharon Madden, Larry Gelman, Diana Hale, John Romo

Votes: 247

24. World War II in Numbers (2019)
Episode: Backs to the wall (2019)

Documentary

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Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Helen Fry, Max Hastings, Jeremy Hicks, Adolf Hitler

25. World War II in Numbers (2019)
Episode: Road to stalingrad (2019)

Documentary

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Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Vasiliy Chuikov, Mary Fulbrook, Max Hastings, Jeremy Hicks

Votes: 5

26. Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode: Stalingrad (2022)

Documentary, History

The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match - it's now a fight to the death.

Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Richard Overy, Heike B. Görtemaker, Garry Kasparov

Votes: 70

27. Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode: Time is Blood (2021)

45 min | Documentary, History, War

After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.

Directors: Lyndy Saville, Cal Seville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Klaus Schmider, Richard John Evans