Movies: Garbage

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 poorly operated weather station in Milwaukee is reporting an overcast sky when it receives a radio signal transmission from aliens, telling them that they have hijacked the sky and that if they don't comply, there will be severe consequences. all t...

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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....

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....

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....

Report on vandalism...

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....

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

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

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...