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1. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 17,894 | Gross: $13.68M

2. 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

3. 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: 4,963 | Gross: $1.58M

4. Sahara (I) (1943)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 9,757

5. 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: 2,453

6. Rocky Mountain (1950)

Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 1,321

7. Desert Nights (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Drama

A con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan, Claude King

Votes: 1,244

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Memory of Fountain (2013)

4 min | Animation, Short, Drama

Imaginary story about a man made of water, which points to the water as a basic element -- a hymn to its beauty and its fundamental importance that human beings are often unable to appreciate and preserve.

Director: Young-jun Kim

11. Chains (III) (2009)

10 min | Short, Sci-Fi

The place is an underground society of approximately two hundred humans calling themselves the rubbish dwellers, whose existence is much more bleak than the golden ones who live above ... See full summary »

Director: Sharon Lewis | Stars: Rachael Crawford, Awaovieyi Agie, Melanie Nicholls-King, Tanya Fraser

Votes: 19

12. 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

13. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: Ride or Die (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

After a Laramie deputy is killed during a bank robbery, Slim continues the pursuit of the robber alone in the desert with limited water. He wounds the killer who then attaches himself to a stranded wagon with a desperate couple.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller

Votes: 86

14. Space Patrol (1950–1955)
Episode: The Wild Men of Procyon (1955)

Action, Adventure, Family

Commander Corry and his crew investigate a mysterious burst of radiation from outside the Solar System. They trace the source to the surface of a planet whose once great civilization has ... See full summary »

Director: Dick Darley | Stars: Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Ken Mayer, Virginia Hewitt

15. The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2020)
Episode: Summer (2000)

TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy

During a blisteringly hot summer a drought is declared in Dibley but soon afterwards Water Board officials arrive, announcing that the village is to be evacuated in order to make way for ... See full summary »

Director: Gareth Carrivick | Stars: Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, Emma Chambers

Votes: 229

16. The Ark (2023– )
Episode: Get Out and Push (2023)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The water crisis has come to a head, and a new crisis has appeared in the ship's path, loaded with both threat and promise.

Director: Milan Todorovic | Stars: Christie Burke, Reece Ritchie, Richard Fleeshman, Stacey Read

Votes: 377

17. The Expanse (2015–2022)
Episode: The Big Empty (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Holden and crew are trapped in a badly damaged shuttle. On Ceres, Miller uncovers clues about Julie Mao. On Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala questions a terrorist.

Director: Terry McDonough | Stars: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper

Votes: 4,658