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1. First Reformed (2017)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric The Entertainer, Victoria Hill
Votes: 62,639 | Gross: $3.45M
2. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Votes: 10,145
3. The East (2013)
PG-13 | 116 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Director: Zal Batmanglij | Stars: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Elliot Page, Toby Kebbell
Votes: 52,406 | Gross: $2.27M
4. Promised Land (2012)
R | 106 min | Drama
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook
Votes: 39,929 | Gross: $7.60M
5. Black Sheep (2006)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis, Matthew Chamberlain
Votes: 42,120 | Gross: $0.08M
6. The Cove (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff
Votes: 51,465 | Gross: $0.87M
7. The Hunter (IV) (2011)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman
Votes: 41,171 | Gross: $0.18M
8. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror.
Director: Crispian Mills | Stars: Jassa Ahluwalia, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Finn Cole
Votes: 16,307 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Naughty (2023)
107 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty-year-old ecology student Elya blocks a construction head's plans for an old forest park. Intrigued, he bets romantic days together will sway her. She accepts, expecting Pretty Woman, but finds he challenges her preconceptions.
Director: Dmitriy Suvorov | Stars: Marat Abdrakhimov, Kirill Arsenyev, Semyon Arzumanov, Anton Belov
Votes: 905
10. Night Moves (2013)
R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 16,711 | Gross: $0.25M
11. Kona fer í stríð (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson
Votes: 11,312 | Gross: $0.85M
12. The Odyssey (2016)
PG | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas
Votes: 6,196
13. Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)
83 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A flock of sea eagles attack the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California. Why did the birds attack? Who will survive?
Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Ryan Lord, Julia Culbert, Marc DeNola, Alan Bagh
Votes: 413
14. Spoor (2017)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny
Votes: 6,048
15. Parasite (2004)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A cleaning fluid experiment on an oil rig turns disastrous when a worker goes missing and eco-activists seize the rig, before a dangerous new creature forces workers and activists to band together.
Director: Andrew Prendergast | Stars: Gary Condés, Saskia Gould, Conrad Whitaker, G.W. Stevens
Votes: 689
16. Racing Extinction (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News
A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton
Votes: 8,199
17. Class Rank (2017)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
Director: Eric Stoltz | Stars: Skyler Gisondo, Olivia Holt, Kristin Chenoweth, Bruce Dern
Votes: 1,689
18. School's Out (2018)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.
Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel
Votes: 3,118
19. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 8,378
20. Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser (2019)
142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser tries to save the nomadic Penan tribe from deforestation in Borneo.
Director: Niklaus Hilber | Stars: Sven Schelker, Nick Kelesau, Elizabeth Ballang, Matthew Crowley
Votes: 556
21. Fubar: Balls to the Wall (2010)
R | 85 min | Comedy
Terry and Dean head north to make sweet cash in the oil patch.
Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: David Lawrence, Jamil Jabril, Terra Hazelton, Paul Spence
Votes: 1,758
22. Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Marsha Mason, Bob Gunton, Penny Fuller, Roberta Maxwell
Votes: 67
23. Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Simon Jackson fights to save the endagered Spirit Bear from extinction by going up against the foresting industry.
Director: Stefan Scaini | Stars: Mark Rendall, Graham Greene, Katie Stuart, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 276
24. Something Beneath (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Just under your feet lurks an evil so deadly, so intelligent, it's scary. The attendees of an ecological summit are about to discover a bigger problem than global warming.
Director: David Winning | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Peter MacNeill, Natalie Brown, Brendan Beiser
Votes: 977
25. Atomic Homefront (2017)
TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary
A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.
Director: Rebecca Cammisa | Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey, Kay Drey
Votes: 569
26. Ghost Rig (2003)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Environmental activists encounter a mysterious and deadly presence.
Director: Julian Kean | Stars: Jaason Simmons, Bryan Carney, Juliet Diamond, Kerry Norton
Votes: 694
27. Burn Up (2008)
Drama
An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
Stars: Bradley Whitford, Neve Campbell, Rupert Penry-Jones, Marc Warren
Votes: 554
28. Dolores (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.
Director: Peter Bratt | Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez, Ricardo S. Chavez
Votes: 376 | Gross: $0.56M
29. Mining for Ruby (2017)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A widower dealing with his depression falls for an environmental activist.
Director: Zoe Quist | Stars: Mischa Barton, Jonathan Bennett, Billy Zane, Antoinette Kalaj
Votes: 455
30. Yöjuna (1996)
86 min | Mystery, Thriller
Young Ari Nykänen joins a board of inquiry investigating a mysterious freight train accident which at first seems just a case of vandalism. Ari delves deeper into the case and discovers a ... See full summary »
Director: Arto Lehkamo | Stars: Santeri Kinnunen, Vera Kiiskinen, Minna Soisalo, Åke Lindman
Votes: 215
31. The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)
87 min | Documentary
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant causes deformed births and deadly cancers. Two heroic women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable.
Directors: Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna | Stars: Carol Van Strum, Bruce Anderson, To Nga Tran, William Bourdon
Votes: 126
32. Crisis (1997)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama
Alex reluctantly collects debts for the mob. Alex has led his brother Tony to believe that he is a shoe-salesman. However Alex's real talents will be desperately needed as the story unfolds... See full summary »
Director: Jalal Merhi | Stars: David Bradley, Brad Milne, Thorsten Nickel, Cameron Mitchell Jr.
Votes: 135
33. Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
This punchy, adrenaline-fuelled documentary lifts the lid on climate activism and the troublemakers who dare to cross the line.
Director: Emily James | Star: James Leadbitter
Votes: 110
34. Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
19-year-old Franka Blankenstein grew up as a child of systematic parents in Leipzig. By chance she met the geriatric nurse Stefan Clausnitz and thus found her way into an environmental ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Timur Bartels, Fred Costea, Janina Fautz, Inka Friedrich
Votes: 150
35. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.'
Directors: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman | Stars: Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, Tim Lewis, Kirk Engdall
Votes: 3,317 | Gross: $0.06M
36. The Big Nostril (1981)
94 min | Comedy
A die-hard group of environmental activists abducts a top-notch oil scout. Now, his unsuccessful private eye twin brother has to prove his worth and save the day. Can he rescue the "Big Nostril" before it's too late?
Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Sotiris Moustakas, Nikos Papanastasiou, Vangelis Protopappas, Makis Demiris
Votes: 72
37. Tellus (2014)
300 min | Crime, Drama
Tellus, a Finnish environmental group led by Eevi Forsman, use increasingly radical means to "save the earth". They are pursued by Taneli Lokka, an experienced police detective who tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
Stars: Minka Kuustonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Henrik Hammarberg
Votes: 242
38. The Airzone Solution (1993 Video)
65 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future London suffering from toxic air pollution, a reporter, his mentor, a weatherman and an environmental activist discover they are connected and set out to expose the corrupt Airzone Corporation.
Director: Bill Baggs | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Heather Tracy
Votes: 206
39. A Crack in the Mountain (2022)
100 min | Documentary
A small, impoverished Vietnamese community struggles to deal with the opportunity and challenges that arise when Hang Son Doong, the largest cave in the world and a place of extraordinary natural beauty is discovered nearby.
Director: Alastair Evans | Stars: Huong Nguyen Thien Le, Adam Spillane, Howard Limbert, Giang Hoang Dang
Votes: 31
40. Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for Our Planet (2019)
78 min | Documentary
An in-depth examination of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which was featured on the series Whale Wars (2008).
Director: Peter Brown | Stars: Peter Brown, Lon Haber, Peter Hammarstedt, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 22
41. Behind the Mask (2006)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front. It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete.
Director: Shannon Keith | Stars: Shannon Keith, Keith Mann, Kevin Kjonaas, Rod Coronado
Votes: 201
42. Hadwin's Judgement (2015)
87 min | Documentary, Drama
Docudrama about the maverick Canadian logger, Grant Hadwin, who became increasingly disillusioned with the logging industry.
Director: Sasha Snow | Stars: Michael Kopsa, Douglas Chapman, Kayla Wilson, John Vaillant
Votes: 85
43. At the Edge of the World (2008)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure
At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, ... See full summary »
Directors: Dan Stone, Patrick Gambuti Jr. | Stars: Paul Watson, Alex Cornelissen, Peter Hammarstedt, Benjamin Baldwin
Votes: 894
44. Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A film portraying the dedicated activists of Sea Shepherd, who have committed their lives to the global fight against crimes inflicted on marine life.
Director: Peter Brown | Stars: Peter Brown, Robert Hunter, Paul Watson
Votes: 366
45. Den längsta dagen (2020)
119 min | Drama
Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.
Director: Jonas Selberg Augustsén | Stars: Christina Assa Bygdell, Antti Autio, Daniel Eneris Sandström, Göran Forsmark
Votes: 109
46. Above All Else (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
One man risks family and future to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, Above All Else... See full summary »
Director: John Fiege | Stars: Julia Trigg Crawford, David Daniel, Eleanor Fairchild, Garrett Graham
Votes: 48
47. Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson (2011)
TV-PG | 110 min | Documentary
"Eco-Pirate" tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson as he repeatedly flouts the law, ... See full summary »
Director: Trish Dolman | Stars: Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, Rex Weyler, Chris Aultman
Votes: 286
48. Wrenched (2014)
TV-MA | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, Western
Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the seventies and eighties. Through interviews, ... See full summary »
Director: Ml Lincoln | Stars: Edward Abbey, Dave Foreman, Peg Millett, Robert Redford
Votes: 34
49. Un monde nouveau (2022)
Documentary
"For years, people have been made to feel guilty by persuading them that they could save the planet by dint of small gestures. The problem is above all structural, economic and political. ... See full summary »
Star: Cyril Dion
Votes: 11
50. Bruno Manser - Laki Penan (2007)
110 min | Documentary
The documentary retraces the steps of Bruno Manser, a man from Switzerland who went to live with the indigenous tribe of the Penan in the Jungle of Borneo and ended up helping to defend ... See full summary »
Director: Christoph Kühn | Stars: Bruno Manser, Asit Nyelit, Sigang, Pajak
Votes: 59