Movies: Hunger

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistan...

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff....

In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police....

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant....

A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom....

When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his corruption, he and his government officials panic. They mistake a gambler for the inspector....

A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his girlfriend head the mountains to find anything to bring back....

16mm. In one of the first films to use computer animation, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony. Combining traditional and computer animation (one of the first to use it!), Peter Foldes, through clever metamorphos...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they will pose as orphans and find some kindly old grandmother to take care of them when the snow flies. ...

A muffin thief troubles Mr. Baker, so he seeks help from a sleek detective. They agree to catch the thief at night in the bakery in Baker Street....

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one winter in one American city, the film presents an intimate snaps...

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A mother and her son partake in a rage filled dinner together....

A government subsidized water facility "melts" down releasing a toxin into the water supply which turns the employees and population into soulless mutants hungry for blood, as a group of survivors try to escape the mutants wrath....

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS independent documentary investigates U.S. and European agribusiness in the Third World. Filmed on fi...

H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunger. His first quest is the welcoming doors of a saloon in which a large free lunch is advertised....

A woman struggles with an uncontrollable craving....

During the largest food crisis in a century, a group of college students step up to help those facing hunger. Their small local effort inspires hope nationally and motivates 600+ students to drop everything to feed millions of families. Within months...

Snow White wakes up as a zombie and she is very hungry....

There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this ...