Highest-Rated Movies about 'Drought', Sort by Popularity

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Tuya's Marriage (2006), Skylark (1993), A Boy Called Sailboat (2018), Elephant Walk (1954), The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995), Pray for Rain (2017), Animals United (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drought movies.

#2. Tuya's Marriage (2006)

Storyline: Married to and in love with disabled peasant Ba'toer, Tuya (Yu Nan) is forced to divorce him and find a new husband to support both them and their two children when an injury leaves her unable to work. After a series of men refuse to look after Ba'toer, Tuya finds herself torn between wealthy, recently divorced oilman and schoolmate Bao'lier, who promises to provide for her husband's medical care, and her neighbor, Sen'ge, whose wife has recently left him.

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, wealthy man, neighbor, son, bleak, gripping ...

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#3. Skylark (1993)

Storyline: Sarah (Glenn Close) and farmer husband Jacob Witting (Christopher Walken) want to keep their family together, but a drought makes it difficult to farm their land and provide for their children. When a fire ruins several buildings on their property, Sarah takes stepdaughter Anna (Lexi Randall) and stepson Caleb (Christopher Bell) to her brother's home in Maine, leaving Jacob to tend what's left of their farm. As they steel themselves for a period of separation, Jacob and Sarah pledge to reunite.

Plot Keywords: farmer, wife, daughter, son, friend, brother, emotional ...

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#4. A Boy Called Sailboat (2018)

Storyline: In a slanted dwelling beyond the outskirts of a drought-ridden town, a close Hispanic family accept an impossible blessing and name their only son Sailboat. Sailboat stirs new love and hope in his family who forge a simple but proud life in the deep South West of America, but one afternoon he brings home something more: a "little guitar". From this moment, Sailboat and his ukulele are inseparable, and when his gravely ill grandmother instructs him to write a song for her, Sailboat meanders through adversity to deliver the unimaginable - the greatest song ever written. Will the song breathe one final miracle, or reveal a hapless twist of fate that will return his family to a house held up by a "stick", a car without doors, an unchanging wardrobe, and a friend who can't blink?—Cameron Nugent

Plot Keywords: family, son, musician, friend, parent, grandmother, lighthearted ...

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#5. Elephant Walk (1954)

Storyline: Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: plantation owner, wife, foreman, friend, emotional, playful, melodramatic ...

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#6. The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)

Storyline: Littlefoot (Scott McAfee) and his young friends Cera, Ducky and Spike are being harassed by a group of older dinosaurs led by Hyp (Whitby Hertford). When a meteorite strikes nearby, it causes a drought. The resulting scarcity of resources creates animosity among the different species in the Great Valley. Littlefoot and his crew resolve to venture forth to find a solution -- as does Hyp and his gang. Will the groups learn to cooperate, or will their rivalry destroy them?

Plot Keywords: dinosaur, orphan, friend, bully, predator, raw, positive ...

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#7. Pray for Rain (2017)

Storyline: When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs and the ill effects of extreme poverty. She quickly figures out that her dad's accidental death was not accidental at all. The lists of possible suspects include overly zealous environmentalists, a local war lord and other farmers jealous of her father's outstanding reputation.—AnonymousB

Plot Keywords: journalist, mother, police detective, gang member, bleak, brooding, fiery ...

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