environmental causes (movies)
by Hayduke555 | created - 21 Aug 2013 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicGood movies about environmental issues, conservation issues and environmentalism. Movies supporting eco-activists causes.
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1. Rosa blanca (1961)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Christiane Martel, Reinhold Olszewski, Rita Macedo
Votes: 110
2. Always Further On (1965)
105 min | Drama
A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.
Director: Luis Alcoriza | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, Aurora Clavel, Eric del Castillo
Votes: 84
3. Population Explosion (1968)
15 min | Short, Animation
Director: Pierre Hébert | Star: Patrick Watson
Votes: 16
4. Silent Running (1972)
G | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Votes: 26,865 | Gross: $0.69M
5. Smog (1973 TV Movie)
86 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Marie-Luise Marjan, Wolfgang Grönebaum, Heinz Schacht, Michaela Henner
Votes: 181
6.
Little Mole (1957–2002)
Episode:
Krtek a buldozer
(1975)
7 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Zdenek Miler
Votes: 68
7. Guardian of the Wilderness (1976)
G | 112 min | Adventure, Western
Based on the life of Galen Clark, whose determined efforts led to the creation of Yosemite National Park. When he is diagnosed with terminal tuberculosis, and disappointed that he hasn't ... See full summary »
Director: David O'Malley | Stars: Denver Pyle, John Dehner, Ken Berry, Cheryl Miller
Votes: 66
8. Fighting Mad (1976)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Philip Carey
Votes: 491
9. Trollsommar (1980)
85 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Three city kids are taken somewhat reluctantly to a farm out in the forests of Sweden. There they meet the resident country kids who's rosy cheeks and youthful antics mirror the apathy and ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Dahlberg | Stars: Teddy Rhodin, Marrit Ohlsson, Stefan Wånggren, Birger Åsander
Votes: 107
10. Wizards (1977)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval
Votes: 10,672 | Gross: $9.00M
11. Brontosaurus (1980)
71 min | Family
Tomás' hobby is to search for rare birds and to take care of nature and animals. He and his friends use their free time to clean the forest of debris left by others, using the material to build a sculpture of a brontosaurus.
Director: Vera Plívová-Simková | Stars: Tomás Simek, Dana Vávrová, Michal Hofbauer, Lukás Bech
Votes: 46
12. Bitter Harvest (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter, David Knell
Votes: 242
13.
Little Mole (1957–2002)
Episode:
Krtek ve meste
(1982)
7 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Krtek and meste.
Director: Zdenek Miler
Votes: 121
14. El Norte (1983)
R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama
After their family is killed in a government massacre, brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago
Votes: 4,794
15. Unfinished Business (1984)
99 min | Drama
Seventeen year old Isabelle Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life directionless. Isabelle becomes involved with an anti-nuclear group that her boyfriend Jessie ... See full summary »
Director: Don Owen | Stars: Isabelle Mejias, Peter Spence, Leslie Toth, Julie Biggs
Votes: 28
16. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya
Votes: 152,396 | Gross: $0.50M
17. 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: 9,388 | Gross: $24.47M
18. Choke Canyon (1986)
PG | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased.
Director: Charles Bail | Stars: Stephen Collins, Janet Julian, Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 237
19. Killing Cars (1986)
R | 104 min | Action, Thriller
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnès Soral, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 151
20. Taffin (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Votes: 1,459 | Gross: $0.16M
21. The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985.
Director: Chris Thomson | Stars: Jack Thompson, Brad Davis, Mary Regan, Germain Houde
Votes: 59
22. The Smoggies (1988–1991)
30 min | Animation, Family
The tiny denzins of a paradisical island must prevent stupid treasure hunters from wrecking their environment.
Stars: Tedd Dillon, Brian Dooley, Richard M Dumont, Karen Marginson
Votes: 92
23. The Journey to Melonia (1989)
104 min | Animation, Family, Adventure
When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
Director: Per Åhlin | Stars: Allan Edwall, Robyn Carlsson, Olle Sarri, Tomas von Brömssen
Votes: 1,264
24. Indio (1989)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Action
"Indio", a half-Indian ex-Marine, fights to save the rainforest against the forces of a mega corporation that is trying to destroy it to make money, headed by a former US Army colonel.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Francesco Quinn, Brian Dennehy, Rene Abadeza
Votes: 193
25. Widget, the World Watcher (1990– )
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Widget is an alien that has come down from the sky to learn about humans with the aid of his sidekick, Brain. They explore the world and educate kids on health, safety, emotions and dangers.
Stars: Russi Taylor, Jim Cummings, Kath Soucie, Dana Hill
Votes: 299
26. Amazon (1990)
R | 96 min | Drama
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio
Votes: 423
27. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1996)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A quintet of teenagers work together to encourage environmentally responsible behavior and can summon a superhero to deal with ecological disasters.
Stars: David Coburn, Joey Dedio, Kath Soucie, LeVar Burton
Votes: 10,656
28. Clearcut (1991)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
He's not a "militant"... he's manito. Spirit Being.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Graham Greene, Ron Lea, Michael Hogan, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Votes: 556
29. Indio 2 - La rivolta (1991)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure
A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Frank Cuervo, Dirk Galuba, Maurizio Fardo
Votes: 103
30. Medicine Man (1992)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alexandre
Votes: 21,538 | Gross: $45.50M
31. Lucia (1992)
90 min | Drama
Director: Mel Chionglo | Stars: Gina Alajar, Elvira Baldomero, Suzette Ranillo, Lolita Rodriguez
Votes: 11
32. Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Director: Paul Seed | Stars: John Heard, Bob Gunton, Mark Metcalf, Bruce Gray
Votes: 249
33. The Rainbow Warrior (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 93 min | Drama
This film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by the New ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox
Votes: 251
34. Divine Fate (1993)
11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An environmental morality tale. A divine gate gives one all that one desires, on the condition that one takes only what one needs and one gives something good in return.
Director: Ishu Patel | Stars: Linda Morrison, Jason Lang, Aron Tager, Susan Glover
Votes: 46
35. The Airzone Solution (1993 Video)
65 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
It is the near future and, thanks to the Industrial age, an environmental catastrophe looms. The public is given gas masks as Toxic Air Alerts increase and it looks like the Earth is slowly... See full summary »
Director: Bill Baggs | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Heather Tracy
Votes: 161
36. Fire on the Amazon (1993)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing indigenous Indians away, so few men can profit from cattle. Opposition gets killed. A US photojournalist tries to investigate. Activist Alyssa helps him.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Sandra Bullock, Juan Fernández, Judith Chapman
Votes: 2,473
37. On Deadly Ground (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A mystical martial artist/environmental Agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation.
Director: Steven Seagal | Stars: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley
Votes: 22,354 | Gross: $38.59M
38. Arkelope! (1995)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Late at night, a couch-potato couple watches a documentary on the Arkelope, a rare animal hunted down to a single survivor. The doorbell rings...
Director: Roslyn Schwartz | Stars: Harry Hill, Sheena Larkin, Mark Trafford
Votes: 71
39.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Darkness Falls
(1994)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A group of loggers working in a remote forest unearths thousands of deadly insectlike creatures that paralyze and cocoon their victims. Scully, Mulder and a few others end up trapped there.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jason Beghe, Tom O'Rourke
Votes: 4,590
40. The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (1994 TV Movie)
R | 123 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ... See full summary »
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Raul Julia, Carmen Argenziano, Sônia Braga, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 639
41. Ocean Girl (1994–1997)
25 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Set against the beauty of Far North Queensland, Ocean Girl is the story of Neri, a mysterious young girl from the ocean, who is discovered by the young inhabitants of an underwater research colony.
Stars: Marzena Godecki, David Hoflin, Jeffrey Walker, Alex Pinder
Votes: 1,708
42. Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Teenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Francis Capra, Mary Kate Schellhardt
Votes: 17,200 | Gross: $30.08M
45. Forest Warrior (1996)
PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A shape-shifting mountain man and a group of children team up to protect an enchanted forest from evil lumberjacks.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Terry Kiser, Max Gail, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 2,446
46. Gift (1996)
15 min | Short