Movies: Hunger

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff....

After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find ...

“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and redistributing food, and occasional other types of “waste”, across Atlanta, GA. Presented in a quiet observational sty...

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder....

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...

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 ...

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

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 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....

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...

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....

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

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...

Biscut is a powerful film on the state of politics in Uttar Pradesh and offers a gritty and hard-hitting take on the treatment of the backward classes and their never-ending exploitation in the caste-dominated political landscape of Uttar Pradesh....

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

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

A woman struggles with an uncontrollable craving....

Synopsis: A rabbit couple tries to survive in a dying forest......

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man....

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....