River's End: California's Latest Water War

2021

English

8.1

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

documentary filmmaking

human vs nature

river

water supply

Jacob Morrison Director

Delanna Studi as Narrator

Char Miller as Self

Alan Bacock as Self

Peter H. Gleick as Self - Scientist and Author

A documentary that reveals California's complex struggle over who gets fresh water, and how moneyed interests game the system. Constant battling over uncertain water supplies heralds an impending crisis—not just in California, but around the world.

The River

1984

English

6.3

♡ 18

27%

Mark Rydell Director

Scott Glenn as Joe Wade

Jack Starrett as Swick

Mel Gibson as Tom Garvey

Charles Robinson as Truck

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Take Me to the River

2015

English

6.2

♡ 5

73%

60%

Action

cousin cousin relationship

Matt Sobel Director

Robin Weigert as Cindy

Josh Hamilton as Keith

Azura Skye as Ruth

Logan Miller as Ryder

A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.

Operation Mekong

2016

Chinese

6.5

♡ 46

82%

Dante Lam Director

Idan Aedan as Kid Soldier Carl Ng

Carl Ng as Pierre

Vithaya Pansringarm as P'Som Ken Lo

Ken Lo as Xing Deng

The Chinese government launches a daring operation to arrest a violent drug cartel following the discovery of thirteen Chinese crew members' bodies on two ships sailing through the Mekong River.

#Float

2022

English

2.6

♡ 6

20%

Zac Locke Director

Grant Morningstar as Blake

Cristobal Reyes as Chuy

Kaya Coleman as Dee

Jaden Heller as Rubber Duck

When a vlogger and her crew embark on their annual river float to commemorate the untimely loss of their friend, they are plunged into a life and death battle with a mysterious local, a sinister paranormal force, and their own fears.

Lions of Crocodile River

2007

English

7.2

♡ 1

Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

2021

English

5.6

♡ 12

67%

grandparent grandchild relationship

Dave Rosenbaum Director

Jermaine Fowler as Benny

Lilly Singh as Penny

Pierce Brosnan as (voice)

Brendan Gleeson as (voice)

A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration of life. Based on the stage show phenomenon of the same name and featuring Bill Whelan’s multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning music.

Into the Okavango

2018

English

7.6

♡ 3

100%

struggle for survival

travel

water for life

wilderness

Neil Gelinas Director

Courtney Richards as Self - National Geographic Photographer

Kgalalelo Mpitsang as Self - Poler

Topho Retiyo as Self - Poler, Guide, and Musician

Götz Neef as Self - Research and Collections Manager

A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.

Wild River

1960

English

7.5

♡ 9

92%

84%

1930s

Action

based on novel or book

Elia Kazan Director

Albert Salmi as Hank Bailey

Bruce Dern as Jack Roper

Malcolm Atterbury as Sy Moore

Frank Overton as Walter Clark

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Blood River Crossing

2013

English

8.5

♡ 2

Documentary

river

wildlife

Graeme Duane Director

Giancarlo Esposito as (voice)

In the most brutal migration on the planet, ride shotgun with ZuluEchoFive and FoxtrotOne, a zebra mother and her son. They run the gauntlet through crocodile infested rivers and lion offensives, culminating in the world's ultimate ambush: the Mara River - where the biggest crocodiles in Africa are on the attack.

The River

2018

Spanish

6.1

♡ 2

100%

Juan Pablo Richter Director

Julia Hernandez as Inés

Valentina Villalpando as Julieta

Fernando Arze Echalar as Rafael

Santiago Rozo as Sebastián

An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's limber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.

Rivers of Giants

2005

English

6.8

♡ 2

Africa is a land of giants. Its powerful rivers sculpt the earth and form impressive valleys and waterways that are home to many imposing and powerful inhabitants. These are the rivers where massive elephants and hippos live, feed and drink, and where ancient crocodiles hunt and breed. They share the rivers with porcupines, the martial eagle, and the leopard.

Sacrifice!

1972

Italian

5.3

♡ 5

Umberto Lenzi Director Chit

Chit as Cannibal

Ivan Rassimov as John Bradley

Pipop Pupinyo as Mihuan

Song Suanhud as Witch Doctor

A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

English

8.1

♡ 102

96%

93%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Geoffrey Horne as Lieutenant Joyce

James Donald as Major Clipton

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden

William Holden as Shears

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Piranha

1978

English

5.9

♡ 37

72%

Joe Dante Director

Belinda Balaski as Betsy

Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Robert Hoak

Keenan Wynn as Jack

Phil Tippett as Scuba Diver #3

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Rituals

1977

English

6.2

♡ 6

52%

Peter Carter Director

Hal Holbrook as Harry

Jack Creley as Jesse

Robin Gammell as Martin

Lawrence Dane as Mitzi

Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.

Mud

2012

English

7.4

♡ 85

97%

Jeff Nichols Director

Reese Witherspoon as Juniper

Joe Don Baker as King

Sarah Paulson as Mary Lee

Matthew McConaughey as Mud

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Corn Island

2014

Georgian

7.4

♡ 5

80%

George Ovashvili Director

Tamer Levent as Abkhazian oficer

Mariam Buturishvili as Girl

Ilyas Salman as Old man

Irakli Samushia as Soldier

The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

1956

English

6.6

♡ 14

66%

Norman Foster Director

William Bakewell as

Paul Newlan as Big Harpe

Frank Richards as Little Harpe

Douglass Dumbrille as Saloon owner

Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.