Movies: Garbage

Film tells the story of marginalized people in Kerala through the life of a father who working as a temporary cleaner and his Eight year old son....

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....

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...

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

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....

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...

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....

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatev...

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

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....

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry....

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...

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....

Garbage performs in Monterey, Mexico in 2012; songs include "I Think I'm Paranoid," "Stupid Girl," "Only Happy When It Rains," and tracks from "Not Your Kind of People."...

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

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...

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A journey into the interior of garbage, contemplated as a phenomenon of the human spirit, and not only as a product of human action. This essay-documentary, inspired by modern chaos theory, transits between the reality of statements and the surrealis...