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

1. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 469,018 | Gross: $13.78M

2. Paris, Texas (1984)

R | 145 min | Drama

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry

Votes: 120,071 | Gross: $2.18M

3. Apostle (2018)

TV-MA | 130 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins, Bill Milner

Votes: 59,391

4. Dreams (1990)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy

A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada

Votes: 29,328 | Gross: $1.96M

5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

Not Rated | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan

Votes: 50,498 | Gross: $0.14M

6. Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

G | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Sex, torture, and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes that his people can co-exist with the Sodomites--a disastrous decision.

Directors: Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Rossana Podestà

Votes: 2,201 | Gross: $5.45M

7. Last Words (II) (2020)

126 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others.

Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: Nick Nolte, Kalipha Touray, Charlotte Rampling, Alba Rohrwacher

Votes: 368

8. Dead Souls (2018)

495 min | Documentary, History

A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.

Director: Wang Bing

Votes: 383

9. Xyber 9: New Dawn (1999–2007)

TV-Y7 | Animation, Action, Adventure

On the war-torn world of Terrana, adventurous orphaned fifteen-year-old boy Jack (Jason Marsden) finds a powerful A.I. device called Xyber 9 (Rene Auberjonois) and uses it to gather allies and defeat the forces of evil overlord Machestro (Tony Jay).

Stars: Jason Marsden, Rene Auberjonois, Tim Curry, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette

Votes: 97

10. The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings (1983 TV Movie)

TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

After a young boy becomes upset about moving and runs away, the Care Bears must rescue him from the clutches of the evil Professor Coldheart.

Director: Pino Van Lamsweerde | Stars: Anna MacCormack, Rick Jones, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye

Votes: 422

11. The Bluffers (1986–1987)

25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A group of animal friends inhabits the last forest in the barren land of Bluffoonia, but now Clandestino, Bluffoonia's tyrant obsessed with machinery and industry, plans to exploit their home as well.

Stars: Allen Swift, Kees ter Bruggen, Richard Felgate, Gene Deitch

Votes: 143

12. La possibilité d'une île (2008)

95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A futuristic story about a man and his clone.

Director: Michel Houellebecq | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Patrick Bauchau, Jordi Dauder, Jean-Pierre Malo

Votes: 338

13. The Cowboy and the Indians (1949)

Approved | 68 min | Western

Evil Indian Agent Richards is cheating the Indians into starvation. Gene shows that their raids are only for survival.

Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Sheila Ryan, Frank Richards

Votes: 185

14. Quest (1996)

12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In the desolate landscapes of an unforgiving desert, a desperate for water wanderer summons up the strength to follow the muffled sound of dripping liquid, only to pay the high price of pursuing a dream. Is all hope lost?

Director: Tyron Montgomery

Votes: 800

15. K (2002)

85 min | Drama, Fantasy

Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. ... See full summary »

Director: Shoja Azari | Stars: Oz Phillips, Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat, Mohammad Ghaffari

Votes: 100

16. Unter Eisbären - Abenteuer in Russlands Arktis (2009 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean straddling the International Date Line and belonging to the Republic of Chukotka, is considered as one of the most remote islands of the Russian ... See full summary »

Director: Heiko De Groot | Stars: Heiko De Groot, Uwe Anders

17. Uma Fábrica de Trigo (1931)

51 min | Documentary

Eight imported CLETRAC 30 tractors, assembled with the Oliver Disc Gang Plow, work non stop, from dawn to sunset, to grub up a large barren land south of the Tagus river, in preparation to a wheat harvest.

Director: Artur Costa de Macedo

18. The Electric Arctic Circle (2008)

Short

At its simplest, The Electric Arctic Circle is a motorcycle excursion to the Arctic Circle captured on film, a generically American formula so familiar and true that it begs at every splice... See full summary »

Director: Brian George | Stars: Brian George, Brent Hagen, Galen Jackson

19. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: The Transient/Two Lost Old Men (1996)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A rabbi tries to exorcise a dybbuk, or demon in Jewish mythology, from a possessed Jewish woman. Three young ecologists locate a strange dead zone in the middle of a forest, that somehow causes rapid aging.

Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 34

20. Planet Earth (2006)
Episode: From Pole to Pole (2006)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Family

"Planet Earth" travels around the Earth, finding where the sun always shines and where it's rarely seen. Next, they find where water is abundant and where it's scarce.

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield | Stars: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver, Nikolay Drozdov, Mike Holding

Votes: 4,180

21. Longmire (2012–2017)
Episode: Pilot (2012)

Not Rated | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Sheriff Longmire runs a small department in rural Wyoming. When the body of a man is found in the woods the investigation leads to tension between Longmire and the local Indian Reservation,... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Chulack | Stars: Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase

Votes: 1,469

22. A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode: L'Île des Gorges Sèches (2006)

Animation, Family

After swimming for many hours, the cow and the cat stumble upon two antagonistic pandas on a dry island. Can our two adventurers teach them a thing or two about peaceful coexistence, and above all, how to find water in the wilderness?

Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux