Films about environmental issues

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

1997 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

1995 animated film directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg

2006 animated film directed by Carlos Saldanha

2008 film by Marc Forster

2000 British stop-motion animated comedy film

1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1995 film directed by Terry Gilliam

2017 film directed by Denis Villeneuve

2007 film directed by Sean Penn

2011 animated film

2012 animated film directed by Chris Renaud

2006 animated film directed by George Miller

1984 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

2019 film directed by Michael Dougherty

2008 film directed by Scott Derrickson

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple, leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events.

2022 animated film directed by Don Hall

1993 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

2008 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

1973 film directed by Richard Fleischer

Geostorm is a 2017 American science-fiction action film directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Dean Devlin (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, and Andy García. It follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

1998 film directed by John McNaughton

Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. A co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

1990 film by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

1994 animated film directed by Isao Takahata

2016 film by Matt Ross

2004 animated film directed by Daniel Robichaud

2010 film by Eric Brevig

1988 film directed by Michael Apted

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

2019 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

2016 film directed by Trevor Wall

1991 film by Russell Mulcahy

1994 film by Steven Seagal

1966 film by James Hill

2023 film directed by Sam Fell

1994 film by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

1997 film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá

1995 film by Dwight H. Little

1992 non-narrative film

1992 film by Bill Kroyer

2004 film by David O. Russell

2001 anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

Avatar is an American epic science fiction media franchise created by James Cameron, which began with the 2009 film Avatar. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Studios, it consists of associated merchandise, video games, and theme park attractions.

2023 film directed by Atlee

2011 film by Radu Mihăileanu

1971 film by Yoshimitsu Banno

1993 film by Charles Grosvenor

2010 film by Roger Kumble

1998 film by Steven Zaillian

1992 film by Takao Okawara

2005 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

2022 film directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen

1985 film by John Boorman

2023 film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

2012 film by Gus Van Sant

2016 film directed by Stephen Chow