Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

The Holy Mountain

1926

German

6.6

♡ 11

68%

Leni Riefenstahl Director

Leni Riefenstahl as Diotima

Luis Trenker as Karl

Frida Richard as Mother

Ernst Petersen as Vigo

In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing rifts in all relationships.

The Living Sea

1995

English

7.1

♡ 3

75%

time lapse photography

wildlife

Greg MacGillivray Director

Meryl Streep as Narrator

James A.R. McFarlane as Self

Bruce Robison as Self

Stephanie K. Martin as Self

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.

Out of Nature

2014

Norwegian

6.9

♡ 2

60%

Marte Vold Director

Harald Erdal as Mann i 60-årene

William Bache-Wiig as Martin 7 år

Trond Peter Stamsø Munch as Martins far

Frida Helland as Mia

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.

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 Old Man and the Sea

1958

English

6.9

♡ 24

75%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Don Diamond as Cafe Proprietor

Harry Bellaver as Martin

Spencer Tracy as The Old Man / Narrator

Don Alvarado as Waiter

Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.

The Food of the Gods

1976

English

4.6

♡ 19

18%

based on novel or book

Bert I. Gordon Director

Ralph Meeker as Bensington

John McLiam as Mr. Skinner

Ida Lupino as Mrs. Skinner

Belinda Balaski as Rita

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

Truth and Justice

2019

Estonian

7.9

♡ 16

80%

Action

based on novel or book

Tanel Toom Director

Ott Aardam as Hundipalu Tiit

Andres Lepik as Pastor

Ahti Puudersell as Puudersell

Andres Tabun as Tabun

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.

Letter Never Sent

1960

Russian

7.8

♡ 8

83%

Mikhail Kalatozov Director

Boris Kozhukhov as

Vasiliy Livanov as Andrey

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Konstantin Sabinin

Tatyana Samoylova as Tanya

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

Prey

2007

English

4.7

♡ 9

17%

husband wife relationship

lion

parent child relationship

Sci-Fi

sibling relationship

Thriller

Darrell Roodt Director

Bridget Moynahan as Amy Newman

Jamie Bartlett as Crawford

Carly Schroeder as Jessica Newman

Peter Weller as Tom Newman

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

Silence of the Tides

2020

Dutch

7.6

♡ 1

Pieter-Rim de Kroon Director

Angelica Kühn as Bird ringer

Ralf Lukkien as F16 Pilot

Johann Petersen as Postman Hanni

Job ten Horn as Redknot rechearcher

The passage of time is spellbinding in this cinematic tour de force about the Wadden Sea. A film that inhales and exhales along with the tides as it explores the fragile relationship between man and nature.

Man vs. Shark

2019

English

6.4

♡ 2

40 years after inventing armored suits that protect divers from attacks by smaller shark species of sharks, marine biologist, Jeremiah Sullivan, faces off against hungry hammerheads and deadly tiger sharks to measure their bite force, body strength and ability to chew through his advanced materials before creating new armor he’ll test by putting himself inside the devastating jaws of a 14-foot tiger shark.

Mogambo

1953

English

6.6

♡ 11

75%

man between two women

Romance

safari

sexual tension

John Ford Director

Ava Gardner as Eloise Y. Kelly

Denis O'Dea as Father Josef

Grace Kelly as Linda Nordley

Bruce Seton as Wilson

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

The Year Earth Changed

2021

English

8.2

♡ 40

100%

human animal relationship

human vs nature

nature

Tom Beard Director

David Attenborough as Narrator

Salim Mandela as Self - Cheetah Researcher

Justin Perrault as Self - Turtle Researcher

Janet Neilson as Self - Whale Researcher

Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop.

North Face

2008

German

7.4

♡ 23

84%

Philipp Stölzl Director

Petra Morzé as Elisabeth Landauer

Johannes Thanheiser as Grossvater Kurz

Ulrich Tukur as Henry Arau

Benno Fürmann as Toni Kurz

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

The Impossible

2012

English

♡ 243

81%

J.A. Bayona Director

Ewan McGregor as Henry

Tom Holland as Lucas

Naomi Watts as Maria

Geraldine Chaplin as Old Woman

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

1984

Japanese

8.0

♡ 91

91%

post-apocalyptic future

saving the world

Sci-Fi

Hayao Miyazaki Director

Shia LaBeouf as Asbel

Frank Welker as Gol

Uma Thurman as Kushana

Dee Bradley Baker as Tolmekian Soldier

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Misa mi

2003

Swedish

5.9

♡ 2

human animal relationship

human vs nature

orphan

Linus Torell Director

Anna Maria Blind as Akku

Sannamari Patjas as Mia

Lena Granhagen as Mormor

Magnus Krepper as Pappa

When her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with his new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne, she refuses to go with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that she can stay with her grandmother in Arjeplog over the summer instead. In the deep forest of northern Sweden, Misa find more than she ever could imagine; she meets a wolf with cubs that Misa develop a deep and strange connection with. But the wolf spreads fear in the small village and someone has hired a poacher to kill it and her cubs...

Koyaanisqatsi

1982

English

8.2

♡ 36

91%

Godfrey Reggio Director

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self - On TV

Edward Asner as Self - On TV

Peter Sellers as Self - On TV

Dick Cavett as Self - On TV

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Arcadia

2017

English

7.3

♡ 4

Paul Wright Director

Ian Sexon as

Laura Rennie as

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.

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