Movies: Garbage

After using a mysterious hole to dispose of all his trash, a man faces unexpected consequences....

On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all....

It's about the lonely garbage detective Hansjörg Stähli, who's looking for a garbage criminal and true love....

Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away....

Follows the party worker who gave up his own child, and a young woman who left her baby in the garbage. After 19 years, it can be seen that the same boy and his mother are living together in a drug dispensary....

Over eight million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, killing sea life. Now new evidence says it's entering our food chain with unknown health effects....

A young man collects bottles from people's garbage and he is trying to find a way out of that situation. A middle-aged waitress will try to help him....

Planet Earth has become a gigantic landfill, as a gardener and her husband learn too late....

A cute little guy is trying to do the right thing and clean up his neighborhood. However, when he approaches a garbage can to empty it, one thoughtless person after another come by and make an even bigger mess....

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump....

Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact....

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Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Academic Support Center Film Library, Keep America Beautiful, Inc., and Keep Los Angeles Beautiful, Inc., the 1963 short film A Land Betrayed examines t...

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an e...

Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through th...

An experimental 3D animation about a broken android, an elusive junk monster, and the place where all the broken things go....

This documentary film presents one of the largest environmental and financial crimes of our days. More specificaly, it explores the irreversible damage done to the public interest, the environment and the citizens by the construction of private garba...

A tentacled lake monster exacts revenge upon a noble but flawed fisherman....

Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In Holland, scientists found plastic in the stomach...

A grandfather shares stories with his granddaughter about how wasteful previous generations used to be until they committed to recycling and cutting down on solid waste....