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1. The Emerald Forest (1985)

R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez

Votes: 11,011 | Gross: $24.47M

2. No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2022)

70 min | Animation, Drama, Family

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ughetto family dreamed of a better life abroad. Luigi Ughetto crosses the Alps and starts a new life in France, changing the fate of his beloved family forever.

Director: Alain Ughetto | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Alain Ughetto, Stefano Paganini, Diego Giuliani

Votes: 1,818

3. Tarzan Goes to India (1962)

Approved | 88 min | Action, Adventure

Summoned to India by a dying maharajah, Tarzan attempts to remove an elephant herd from a valley to be flooded upon completion of a modern dam.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana, Feroz Khan

Votes: 592

4. Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969)

168 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Old friends Munish and Jai become enemies when they end up loving the same girl. But Munish decides to save Jai when he gets caught in a case involving a faulty railway bridge.

Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Dharmendra, Saira Banu, Feroz Khan, Mumtaz Askari

Votes: 193

5. New Frontier (1939)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Western

The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our good guys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Jones

Votes: 693

6. India: Matri Bhumi (1959)

90 min | Documentary, Drama

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Votes: 732

7. Farewell (1983)

121 min | Drama

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ... See full summary »

Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko, Leonid Kryuk

Votes: 767

8. Mister Moses (1965)

115 min | Adventure, Romance

In 1960s Kenya, American snake-oil salesman and diamond smuggler Joe Moses is chased out of many villages and pursued by the authorities until fate entrusts him with helping a native tribe that believes he is a holy man.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox

Votes: 333

9. Lumière d'été (1943)

112 min | Drama

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle.

Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard

Votes: 646

10. One Day, the Nile (1972)

105 min | Drama

About the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Zulfikar, Suad Husni, Imad Hamdi, Igor Vladimirov

Votes: 106

11. Baraj (1977)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of the local brothel. Too shy to identify himself, Nazim sends her love letters, signing as... See full summary »

Director: Orhan Aksoy | Stars: Türkan Soray, Tarik Akan, Naser Malek Motiee, Suzan Avci

Votes: 423

12. The River (1938)

Unrated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, History

This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.

Director: Pare Lorentz | Star: Thomas Chalmers

Votes: 670

13. L'eau vive (1958)

96 min | Drama

Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million ... See full summary »

Director: François Villiers | Stars: Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Henri Arius, Odette Barencey

Votes: 74

14. Tracked by the Police (1927)

Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona,to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi

Votes: 44

15. The Mysterious Rider (1933)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Mystery, Romance

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and... See full summary »

Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Berton Churchill, Irving Pichel

Votes: 28

16. How to Vote (1936)

Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Robert Benchley, Billy Bletcher, Jules Cowles, George Guhl

Votes: 164

17. Spoilers of the Range (1939)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western

Beginning as usual with The Sons of the Pioneers singing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" over the opening title and credit frames, which should be how all Westerns begin, especially those westerns ... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Dick Curtis

Votes: 22

18. Valley of the Tennessee (1944)

29 min | Documentary, Short

One of 26 documentary shorts produced by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau between 1942 and 1945,and intended to show foreigners something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hammid | Stars: Fredric March, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Votes: 19

19. A Luta Continua (1972)

35 min | Documentary, Short, History

A look at life in the areas of Mozambique that had been liberated from Portuguese colonial rule.

Director: Robert van Lierop | Stars: Eduardo Mondlane, Robert van Lierop

20. Roots (2008)

18 min | Short, Drama, Family

In a Turkish village, doomed to be flooded by the construction of a dam, an unemployed widower wants to celebrate the birthday of his child, who dreams of flying like Spiderman. The same ... See full summary »

Director: Eileen Hofer | Stars: Hulusi Keles, Jacky Nercessian

Votes: 8

21. The Fire Fighters (1927)

Passed | Action, Adventure, Crime

Chapter 1 - For Life and Liberty -Fred Powers (Lafe McKee), a widower and member of the Danville Fire Department, wins enough money on the victory of the Danville Brrigade in the annual ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Helen Ferguson, Wilbur McGaugh, Lafe McKee

22. The Brothers Brannagan (1960– )
Episode: Terror in the Afternoon (1961)

26 min | Crime, Drama

After her brother, mother and fiancé die in construction accidents at a dam construction site, Kathy Lombard asks the Brannigans to investigate whether the death's were truly accidents or ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Stephen Dunne, Mark Roberts, Gloria Talbott, Robert Harland

23. Meurtres à... (2013– )
Episode: Meurtres dans le Jura (2019)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The corpse of the healer Rose Tournault has been found in her house and the police captain Anna Buisson will be in charge of the investigation.When she arrives at the house of the dead, she... See full summary »

Director: Éric Duret | Stars: Sandrine Quétier, Pierre-Yves Bon, Christian Charmetant, Elizabeth Bourgine

Votes: 72

24. Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode: Apogée et agonie : 1945-1957 (2020)

58 min | Documentary, History

The Gulag's peak and decline (1945-1953).

Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Yuri Fidelgolts, David Boudennyi

Votes: 33

25. Mega Disasters (2006–2008)
Episode: Dam Break (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary

Modern dams are marvels of engineering but after decades of neglect the U.S. infrastructure is in crisis and by 2020, 85% of U.S. dams may be near their breaking point. When the South Fork ... See full summary »

Stars: J.V. Martin, Roger Tilling

Votes: 6

26. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 16 July 1952 (1952)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Rogers interview Louis V. Sutton, president, Carolina Power and Light Company. Topics include the government's role in generating electric power, future hydroelectric projects, the... See full summary »

Director: Alan Cartoun | Stars: William Bradford Huie, Frank Knight, Donald I. Rogers, Louis V. Sutton