Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "emaciation"

51. XX (2017)

R | 80 min | Horror

This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Sofìa Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha, Peyton Kennedy

Votes: 12,407 | Gross: $0.03M

52. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 10,438

53. The Counterfeiters (2007)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach

Votes: 47,235 | Gross: $5.48M

54. In a Glass Cage (1986)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Horror

A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría

Votes: 5,064

55. One True Thing (1998)

R | 127 min | Drama

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott

Votes: 12,718 | Gross: $23.25M

56. Feed (2005)

Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Patrick Thompson, Gabby Millgate, Jack Thompson

Votes: 6,077

57. Beyond Borders (2003)

R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo

Votes: 29,072 | Gross: $4.43M

58. The Last Days (1998)

PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, War

In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary... See full summary »

Director: James Moll | Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana

Votes: 5,789 | Gross: $0.42M

59. In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War

During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.

Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Vanessa Glodjo

Votes: 34,658 | Gross: $0.30M

60. To End All Wars (2001)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama, War

During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

Director: David L. Cunningham | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciarán McMenamin, Mark Strong

Votes: 11,666

61. Save the Green Planet! (2003)

Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world.

Director: Joon-Hwan Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Baek Yun-shik, Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jae-yong

Votes: 8,724 | Gross: $0.01M

62. Crip Camp (2020)

R | 106 min | Documentary, History

Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.

Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham | Stars: James Lebrecht, Lionel Je'Woodyard, Joseph O'Conor, Ann Cupolo Freeman

Votes: 8,261

63. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

Passed | 113 min | Adventure, History, Romance

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut

Votes: 1,907

64. Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle

Votes: 2,797 | Gross: $0.41M

65. Out of the Ashes (I) (2003 TV Movie)

R | 113 min | Drama

A Holocaust survivor heads for America where she dreams of starting a new life, but finds it difficult to put the past behind her, especially when she's forced to relive the nightmare of Auschwitz.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Christine Lahti, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker

Votes: 1,348

66. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick

Votes: 6,853

67. Do Bigha Zamin (1953)

131 min | Drama

In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.

Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Murad

Votes: 2,254

68. Fires on the Plain (1959)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Takizawa

Votes: 5,333

69. Pitfall (1962)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze

Votes: 4,338

70. A Film Unfinished (2010)

Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, History

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director: Yael Hersonski | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser

Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $0.31M

71. The Long Way Home (1997)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Israel Lau, Livia Shacter, Abraham Klausner

Votes: 1,274

72. War Photographer (2001)

96 min | Documentary, War

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Director: Christian Frei | Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt

Votes: 4,306

73. Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos

Votes: 1,354 | Gross: $1.31M

74. How to Survive a Plague (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History, News

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France | Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long, Bob Rafsky

Votes: 4,360 | Gross: $0.13M

75. Shadow (II) (2009)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror

When a young soldier leaves for a mountain biking excursion, he meets the girl of his dreams as well as a group of violent locals who want to see them dead at any cost.

Director: Federico Zampaglione | Stars: Jake Muxworthy, Karina Testa, Ottaviano Blitch, Chris Coppola

Votes: 2,777

76. The Singing Forest (2003)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Two lovers are killed during the Holocaust. A father moves in with his daughter and believes to be one of the reincarnated lovers. He then falls in love with her fiance who he thinks is his past life lover.

Director: Jorge Ameer | Stars: Jon Sherrin, Erin Leigh Price, Eric Morris, David Guzzone

Votes: 735

77. Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfill his mother's last wish.

Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau

Votes: 6,009

78. Genocide (1982)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

Director: Arnold Schwartzman | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal, Neville Chamberlain

Votes: 687

79. The True Glory (1945)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, War

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.

Directors: Garson Kanin, Carol Reed | Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leslie Banks, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle

Votes: 633

80. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Scott Thompson, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 1,317

81. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)

89 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.

Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 210

82. En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1993)

Unrated | 90 min | Biography, Drama

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Mordillat | Stars: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel, Valérie Jeannet

Votes: 165

83. The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 (1981)

89 min | Documentary, Drama, History

With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.

Director: Dieter Hildebrandt | Stars: Alexander Scourby, Holger Hagen, Helga Mayer-Maynard, Simon Wiesenthal

Votes: 115

84. The Walk Home (2014)

5 min | Animation, Short, Crime

The problematic journey of a boy through a hostile city, which will lead him to an unexpected discovery.

Director: Steve Cutts

Votes: 246

85. The Smashing of the Reich (1961)

84 min | Documentary, War

An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, film libraries inventoried 11 countries and 3 years of work were needed to bring these ... See full summary »

Director: Perry Wolff | Stars: Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 17

86. 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

87. The Dog Rescuers (2013– )
Episode: Puppy Love (2013)

TV-PG | 22 min | Reality-TV

Inspector Herchy Boal falls in love with a puppy with a problem paw.

Directors: Dominic Horner, Dominic Longmuir | Stars: Herchy Boal, Daniella Dos Santos, Sara Hughes, Graeme Petty