Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "food-rationing"

1. The Ruins (2008)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey

Votes: 84,353 | Gross: $17.43M

2. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama

The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi

Votes: 62,186 | Gross: $3.87M

3. The Night Porter (1974)

R | 118 min | Drama

A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti

Votes: 14,732 | Gross: $0.63M

4. Animal Farm (1954)

Approved | 72 min | Animation, Drama

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.

Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas | Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham

Votes: 19,021

5. Blindness (2008)

R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya

Votes: 75,213 | Gross: $3.07M

6. Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Miranda Otto, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson

Votes: 56,769 | Gross: $21.01M

7. The 33 (2015)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

Director: Patricia Riggen | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin

Votes: 39,765 | Gross: $12.19M

8. The Tribe (1999–2003)

TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A group of young adults struggle to survive in a world where all the adults have been killed by a mysterious virus.

Stars: Caleb Ross, Victoria Spence, Meryl Cassie, Antonia Prebble

Votes: 3,197

9. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999 Video)

Not Rated | 76 min | Musical

A humorously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph.

Director: David Mallet | Stars: Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough, Ian McNeice

Votes: 5,000

10. From Time to Time (2009)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, more than a century apart. When 13-year-old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Director: Julian Fellowes | Stars: Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Christopher Villiers

Votes: 5,559

11. For a Lost Soldier (1992)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.

Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbé, Freark Smink

Votes: 4,831 | Gross: $0.39M

12. Germany Year Zero (1948)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger

Votes: 13,719

13. Close to the Enemy (2016)

59 min | Drama

A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Lucy Ward, Charlotte Riley, August Diehl

Votes: 1,309

14. A Private Function (1984)

R | 92 min | Comedy

In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths

Votes: 3,184 | Gross: $2.53M

15. Island in the Sky (1953)

Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness

Votes: 3,788

16. The Human Comedy (1943)

Passed | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt

Votes: 2,453

17. Leningrad (2009)

R | 110 min | Drama, War

Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.

Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 4,797

18. The Subject Was Roses (1968)

G | 107 min | Drama

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon

Votes: 1,830

19. The Zookeeper (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War

In the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.

Director: Ralph Ziman | Stars: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri

Votes: 4,354

20. Berlin 1945 (2020)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.

Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David

Votes: 319

21. High Voltage (1929)

Passed | 63 min | Drama

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley

Votes: 432

22. The Last Protestor (2018)

Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A father must come to terms with the oppressive government he works for upon finding out his daughter is rebelling against it.

Director: Nicole Castillo | Stars: Elizabeth Lambert, Joe Duffy, Devorah Lynne Dishington, Sean Mears

23. The Voice of the Turtle (1947)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A soldier spends the weekend with an actress after being stood up by her friend. Will he be able to change her cynical attitude towards love?

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris

Votes: 803

24. An Itch in Time (1943)

Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short

Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan

Votes: 664

25. The Bunker (2017)

107 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

30 odd years after your birth in a nuclear fallout shelter, you must find your way out alone amidst an ever escalating tide dangerous radiation.

Director: Allan Plenderleith | Stars: Adam Brown, Sarah Greene, Grahame Fox, Jerome St. John Blake

Votes: 104

26. 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: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,315

27. A Perfect Hero (1991)

299 min | Drama

Flying officer Hugh Fleming is shot down and badly burned during the battle of Britain in September 1940.

Stars: Nigel Havers, James Fox, Fiona Gillies, Amanda Elwes

Votes: 97

28. Behind the Meat-Ball (1945)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short

A dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner

Votes: 199

29. Prazdnik (I) (2019)

74 min | Comedy

Besieged Leningrad. In the suburban house of the Resurrection, living "in a special position," six people and a chicken that no one can cook is gathered. Previously, the cook was engaged in... See full summary »

Director: Aleksey Krasovskiy | Stars: Yan Tsapnik, Alyona Babenko, Pavel Tabakov, Anfisa Chernykh

Votes: 556

30. Thunder Pass (1954)

76 min | Drama, Western

A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dane Clark, Dorothy Patrick, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr

Votes: 133

31. Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956)

Not Rated | 124 min | War, Drama

The story takes place during the Korean War (1951-1953). In the fall of 1952, the American troops launched a large-scale attack by the border between South Korea and North Korea during the ... See full summary »

Directors: Shan Lin, Meng Sha | Stars: Baocheng Gao, Linge Xu, Liang Zhang, Yuru Li

Votes: 168

32. Wartime Nutrition (1943)

10 min | Documentary, Short

World War II American propaganda film emphasizing the importance of nutrition and following wartime rationing.

Star: Thomas Parran

Votes: 5

33. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Out of the Valley of Death (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

A wagon train takes the wrong cutoff and end up in Death Valley running short of food and water. Two of the stronger men leave to find supplies but those left behind start to give up hope of their return.

Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Jim Davis, Douglas Fowley, Bing Russell, Lee Bergere

Votes: 25

34. Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode: Return from Outer Space (1965)

Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Using a matter transfer device left behind by the Taurons, Will beams himself back to Earth. He arrives safely in the small town of Hatfield Four Corners, Vermont, but his pleas for help are considered the fantasies of a runaway boy.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen

Votes: 361

35. ToonHeads (1992–2003)
Episode: A ToonHeads Special: The Wartime Cartoons (2001)

TV-G | 49 min | Documentary, Animation, Family

A look at animated shorts produced during World War II with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Superman, Porky Pig, Popeye and more.

Directors: George A. Klein, Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng, Dan Gordon, George Gordon, William Hanna, Chuck Jones, Seymour Kneitel, Norm McCabe, Robert McKimson, Izzy Sparber, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leslie Fram, Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini

36. Star Wars: Resistance (2018–2020)
Episode: Hunt on Celsor 3 (2019)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The pirates volunteer to find food for the Colossus, but Kaz doesn't trust them; Kaz and Torra go on the hunt, but run into big problems.

Directors: Justin Ridge, Brad Rau | Stars: Christopher Sean, Josh Brener, Scott Lawrence, David Shaughnessy

Votes: 399

37. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Distant War: September 1939-May 1940 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The invasions of Poland, the Winter War, the sinking of the Graf Spee, the "phony war" and Norwegian Campaign, and the elevation of Winston Churchill to Prime Minister.

Director: David Elstein | Stars: Laurence Olivier, R.A. Butler, Bernard Kops, Robert Boothby

Votes: 563

38. Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode: Origines : 1917-1933 (2020)

54 min | Documentary, History

From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936).

Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Louisa Gummer, Florence Pernel, Andrei Roschin, Dmitriy Likhachyov

Votes: 37

39. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Battle for the Mediterranean (2002)

Documentary, History, War

We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill

Votes: 5

40. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Siege of Leningrad (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels

Votes: 6

41. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #3.48 (2020)

120 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Today's three topics to be discussed by Jeremy, Storm and the panel are as follows:- "Coronavirus: Supermarkets right to ration goods?"; "Should the government ban electric bikes?"; "... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Wright | Stars: Jeremy Vine, Storm, Peter Bleksley, Susie Amy

42. La Brea (2021–2024)
Episode: The Hunt (2021)

TV-14 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

With the food supply dwindling, Eve and Ty venture into the forest on a risky hunting expedition. As an unlikely rescue mission comes to fruition, Gavin must put his faith and the fate of his family in the hands of an old friend.

Director: Adam Davidson | Stars: Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Chiké Okonkwo, Karina Logue

Votes: 664

43. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #4.189 (2021)

95 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

This morning, Jeremy asks - Should food be rationed to save Christmas? Is it right to jail the M25 protesters? Are you ever too old to start a family? Plus, the Stories of the Day.

Director: Bee Badik | Stars: Jeremy Vine, Storm, Andrew Pierce, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

44. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: Episode #7.13 (2010)

Reality-TV

A group of celebrity housemates living together in a special custom-built house are filmed 24 hours per day. All housemates must remain in the house at all times, and avoid being evicted by... See full summary »

Stars: Marcus Bentley, Stephen Baldwin, Basshunter, Stephanie Beacham

45. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: Episode #7.14 (2010)

Reality-TV

A group of celebrity Big Brother contestants enter the Big Brother compound and must compete against each other for a chance to win a cash prize in a house wired with cameras and ... See full summary »

Stars: Davina McCall, Marcus Bentley, Stephen Baldwin, Basshunter

46. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: Episode #7.16 (2010)

Reality-TV

Celebrity Big Brother is a reality television show made in the UK, where 12 celebrities take part in a challenge to see who will last the longest in the purpose-built Big Brother house. ... See full summary »

Stars: Marcus Bentley, Stephen Baldwin, Basshunter, Stephanie Beacham

47. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: Episode #7.17 (2010)

Reality-TV

12 Celebrity Big Brother contestants are isolated from the outside world for 27 days in a custom built house. Watching over these Housemates is Big Brother - heard only via a voice. He is ... See full summary »

Stars: Marcus Bentley, Stephen Baldwin, Basshunter, Stephanie Beacham

48. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #4.213 (2021)

95 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Today, Claudia-Liza asks - Do we need to bring back wartime rationing to save the planet? Should public sector worker's pay be increased above inflation? Has the nation fallen out of love with the traditional fried breakfast?

Director: Bee Badik | Stars: Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije, Rezzy Ghadjar, Carole Malone, Matthew Stadlen

49. Los pacientes del doctor García (2023)
Episode: Adrián (2023)

Drama

Nationalist soldier Adrián Gallardo reluctantly agrees to fight in a boxing match. Romero continues to pursue Manuel. Amparo shares news.

Directors: Salvador García Ruiz, Joan Noguera | Stars: Javier Rey, Tamar Novas, Verónica Echegui, Jon Olivares

Votes: 29

50. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: The French Resistance

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Sworn to Secrecy examines the French Resistance. After Nazi Germany's invasion and capture of France, brave French citizens take it upon themselves to wage a guerrilla campaign against ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, J.C. Simmons, Bela Elek, M.R.D. Foot