Based on short film movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on short film movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out weird, suspense, dark, realistic, psychological and clever films and TV shows about / with storytelling, loneliness, mentor, blood, dialogue, family relations, runaway, violence, death and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as based on short film: Whiplash (2014), District 9 (2009), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), The Stylist (2020), Mama (2013), 9 (2009), THX 1138 (1971), Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Lights Out (2016), Theater Camp (2023).
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| Rippy (2024) | 4.2 | |
| Femme (2023) | 7.3 | |
| Jagged Mind (2023) | 4.6 | |
| Night Swim (2024) | 4.7 | |
| The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) | 7.4 |
List of based on short film movies
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, psychological, motivational, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
music, jazz, obsession, emotional abuse, mentor, musician, teachers and students, drummer, follow your dream, desire for fame, musician's life, public humiliation ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, north america, peru, new york, usa
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748K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style:
serious, biting, suspense, tense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, metamorphosis, mutation, ufo, alien invasion, first contact, social commentary, transformation ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
animal, satire, anthropomorphic animal, animal life, found footage, divorce, tiny, journalist, grandmother grandson relationship, stop motion, loss of family, child ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot:
hairdresser, serial killer, supernatural, murder, killing, rescue, evil, escapades, peril, deadly creature, victim, supernatural power ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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199K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that ...
Style:
scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, children, supernatural horror, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, adoption, macabre, imaginary friend, danger, hospital ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Is relevant?
156K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg, UK, Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style:
adult animation, surreal, apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, survival, technology gone awry, vestiges of humanity, robot, fate of humanity, heroes, distopia, danger ...
Time:
future, 1940s, year 2009
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, teenager, small town, adolescence, election, bullying, high school life, nerd, loser, bully, salesman ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa, north america, utah ...
Is relevant?
151K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
dark, creepy, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, macabre, child in peril, mental illness, darkness, brother sister relationship, haunted, depression, paranormal phenomena, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
theater, summer camp, children, girl, boy, dancing, gay, gay interest, job, escapades, teamwork, ambition ...
Place:
new york state
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Style:
depressing, emotional, melancholic, surreal, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide attempt, depression, mental illness, self discovery, life, coming of age, regret, loneliness, direction and purpose, low lives, relationships, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
y2k
Place:
new jersey, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
compassionate, sad, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, social worker, depression, troubled teen, teenager, foster child, adolescence, suicide attempt, coming of age, mental illness, problem child, self harm ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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306K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, laugh out loud, satirical, funny ...
Audience:
date night, kids, adult
Plot:
workplace, dark humor, office, computer, friendship, satire, embezzlement, corporate world, rebelliousness, waitress, obnoxious boss, workplace situations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, y2k
Place:
texas, dallas texas, austin texas, usa, mexico
Is relevant?
104K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style:
independent film, neo noir, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience:
manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
friendship, small town, dysfunctional family, closeted homosexual, murder, mental illness, homosexual, psychiatric hospital, mental retardation, death threat, domestic violence, father figure ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
arkansas, southern usa, usa
Is relevant?
126K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince ...
Style:
gothic, scary, black and white, claymation, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
stop motion, dog, frankenstein, supernatural, mad scientist, experiment, halloween, loss of loved one, afterlife, reincarnation, cemetery, animal ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
usa, netherlands, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, witty, humorous, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, on the run, love, friendship between men, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, prison, gangster, heist, loser, sibling relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style:
sexual, atmospheric, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, black lesbian, lgbt teen, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian teen, homosexuality, african american, teenager, sapphic ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city, africa
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235K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style:
psychological, psychological horror, suspense, scary, mysterious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
curse, supernatural power, fear, evil smile, going insane, psychiatric ward, demon, mental illness, paranoia, suicide, female protagonist, mental health ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely young boy feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy’s devices against him to break into our world, his parents ...
Style:
spooky, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
imaginary friend, husband wife relationship, haunted house, autism, supernatural, child protagonist, monster, found footage, loneliness, family relations, demon, hallucination ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving ...
Style:
psychotronic, mysterious, cyber, realistic, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
stranger, survival, loss of father, young girl, father daughter relationship, alien planet, distopia, rescue, greed, planet, partner, father and daughter ...
Time:
future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, bleak
Plot:
relationships, relationship vs career, love affair, male female relationship, satire, retirement, melancholy, office worker, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, dreaming, anxiety ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, slapstick ...
Plot:
slice of life, construction worker, workplace situations, workplace, society, working class, construction, improv, class conflict, internship, escalation, blue collar ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, melancholic, ambiguous ending
Plot:
online dating, relationships, true love, dating, privacy invasion, cyberspace, long distance relationship, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, young love, friends, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
770
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, single father, dysfunctional family, on the road, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, oklahoma, missouri
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, family problems, working class, family relations, eviction, society, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, poverty, child ...
Place:
boston, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, ballet performance, judge, school, lawyer, divorce, family relations, friendship, child custody, love and romance, society, couples ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, austin texas, usa, texas, cannes
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style:
humorous, clever, dark comedy, witty, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, heist, dark humor, gangster, crime gone awry, disorder, organized crime, nothing goes right, scheme, friends, violent, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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