Movies: Garbage

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....

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...

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

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...

Dustin Bugg constructs his entire life from litter, including his best and only friend Morris. When 'normal' society sees fit to take this away, Dustin embarks on a surreal and perilous journey to claim it back....

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....

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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 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....

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...

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

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....

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."...

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...

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...