Rationing movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant rationing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, bleak, suspense, dramatic and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with rationing, survival, death, soldier, military, world war two, friendship, sacrifice, danger and hopes plots mostly in Drama, War and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rationing: The Martian (2015), Attack on Leningrad (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), Miss Friman's War (2013), Back in Time for Dinner (2015), Helgoland 513 (2024), Attack on Leningrad (2007), The Sullivans (1976), 1990 (1977), In the Heart of the Sea (2015).
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997K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style:
futuristic, biting, clever, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
survival, mars, astronaut, stranded, space travel, nasa, isolation, science, outer space, struggle for survival, space, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2030s, year 2016, near future, future ...
Place:
china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, beijing china ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, hunger, siege, battles, soldier, self sacrifice, female protagonist, wartime life, chess, journalist, world war, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
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418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Not all battles are violent. Meet a courageous group of women who takes on both the male rulers of the day and a corrupt grocery industry. Savvy is their strategy and cans of healthy food are their weapons. The three hour drama series "Miss ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, inspirational, poignant, retro ...
Plot:
women's rights, women's suffrage, feminism, social relations, civil rights, social problems, women, civil rights movement, food, social issues, human rights, rationing ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
stockholm sweden
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Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for ...
Style:
educational, experimental, feel good
Plot:
british, post war, rationing, everyday life, social change, social history, social experiment, cooking show, dinner, house, children, father ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Helgoland. Here, on Germany's only offshore island, a small community of survivors of an apocalypse that has overrun the rest of the world and plunged it into chaos is holed up. But the price of their survival is high. The resources on the ...
Style:
bleak, grim, suspense, tense
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, island, isolation, dystopia, end of the world, human nature, rationing, moral ambiguity, community, claustrophobia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, suspense, rough, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blockade, world war two, survival, wartime, life & death, siege, struggle for survival, reconnaissance, life is a bitch, wartime life, saving a life, life risking ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, middle class, family drama, family relations, resilience, daily life, military service, sacrifice, community, patriotism, nostalgia, social change ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
australia, melbourne, asia
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194
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, dark, tense, grim ...
Plot:
dystopia, totalitarianism, corruption, abuse of power, rebellion, civil liberties, resistance, british, espionage, social commentary, escape, suspicion ...
Time:
near future, 90s
Place:
britain
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of ...
Style:
serious, rough, emotional, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, native american attack, indian reservation, buffalo, massacre, murder, native, injustice, genocide, against humanity, racism ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
north america, usa, washington d.c., south dakota, canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The patients of the big hospital are fighting for their rights during Perestroyka times.
Style:
medical drama, bleak, tense
Plot:
hospital, human rights, solidarity, perestroika, bureaucracy, social realism, protest, activism, power struggle, strike, rationing, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
It's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, small town, friendship, hopes, patriotism, nostalgia, class differences, social change, wartime, rationing, rural setting, british history ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 650 min.
TV show
Story:
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, nazi germany, fear, resistance movement, moral ambiguity, survival, collaboration, underground movement, stoicism, propaganda, rationing ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
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546
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
Style:
tense, dramatic, captivating, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, mother daughter relationship, distopia, daughter, dystopia, post apocalyptic, illness, female protagonist, mother and daughter, parents and children, mother, fight ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
War drama directed by Jerzy Wojcik.
Style:
period piece, realistic, bleak, intense, medical drama
Plot:
frontline, world war one, field hospital, sacrifice, doctor, death, military, humanity, trauma, survival, cold, loss ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, female nudity, war, rape, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, brutal rape, war crime, brutality, post war germany, military, women ...
Time:
year 1945, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, east germany, west germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style:
sexy, epic, realistic, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, sniper, military, stalingrad, world war, courage, friendship, nazi, wartime, hide and seek, winter ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944 ...
Place:
germany, soviet union, iraq, persia, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, visually appealing, visual, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, sergeant, jungle, infantry, soldier, pacific war, anti war, u.s. army, pacific island, survival, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place:
asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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190K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spaceship, space station, conspiracy, spacecraft, space colony, space exploration, investigation, society ...
Time:
future, 24th century, near future, 23rd century
Place:
space western, hawaii
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have ...
Style:
sexy, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, chaos, natural disaster, apocalypse, science, race against time, danger, nuclear ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century, future ...
Place:
london, england, russia, europe, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
australian aboriginal, bride and groom, countryside, aborigine, strong female lead, sexism, australian outback, animal cruelty, killing an animal, racism, feminist, profanity ...
Time:
year 1982, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, christmas special, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas eve, anti war, world war two, christmas, american soldier, soldier, nazi, boy, military, friendship, hitler youth, single parent ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, europe, africa, dunkirk
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to ...
Style:
futuristic, saga, exciting, tense, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, human existence, human in outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, space opera, outer space, technology, stargate, military, alien planet, space adventure ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sexy, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war one, private detective, war, love and romance, missing person, wartime, life & death, prostitute, soldier, relationships, brutality, young lovers ...
Time:
2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
france, brittany, paris france, europe, marseille ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, tense, apocalyptic, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place:
california, usa, bay area, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutiny, ship, ocean, brutality, corporal punishment, betrayal, captain, native tribe, language barrier, discipline, leadership, tyrant ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, victorian era, year 1962, georgian era ...
Place:
tahiti, england, persia, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, exciting
Plot:
competition, athlete's life, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, lifestyle, olympics, teamwork, motivation, partner ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place:
london, england
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