Cause and meaning movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant cause and meaning movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative, psychological and touching films and TV shows about / with cause and meaning, unfulfillment, hopes, society, introspection, family relations, friends, philosophy, friendship and human nature plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
cause and meaning
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cause and meaning movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as cause and meaning: The Shift (2009), Something's Cooking (2007), Desperados on the Block (2009), St. Peter (2005), The Apostle (2014), Endtime (2014), Freddy Hotel (2014), Arctic (2014), Born to Love You (2012), Today and Tomorrow (2013).

List of cause and meaning movies

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 8.3
 1K
The Shift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: consciousness, enlightenment, career change, changing lives, cause and meaning, con artists, charlatan, redemption, self discovery, hopes, dull life, buddhism ...
Place: tibet, california
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Something's Cooking (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, cause and meaning, family relations, couples, cooking and food, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, guilt, seduction, neighbor, food, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Desperados on the Block (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Their paths cross in the elevator of an anonymous student block in Munich: Clara, Motek, and Sin are three strangers in Germany, longing for acceptance and warmth, searching for a spark of the feeling we call "home". DESPERADOS ON THE ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: cause and meaning, love and romance, looking for love, student life, college life, society, social misfits, youth, immigrant, bittersweet, communication problem, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 6.9
 584
St. Peter (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, epic, biblical ...
Plot: bible, chosen one, human spirit, martyr, apostle, miraculous event, religions or cults, state affairs, hopes, cause and meaning, society, discrimination ...
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land
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 6.8
 131
The Apostle (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: family problems, self discovery, society, family in crisis, life turned upside down, religions or cults, cause and meaning, introspection, religion, family conflict, culture clash, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 5.2
 22
Endtime (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Eight friends throw a goodbye party to welcome the end of the world.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, exciting, contemplative ...
Plot: apocalypse, introspection, best friend, dealing with death, friendship, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, unfulfillment, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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 4.8
 17
Freddy Hotel (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, realistic, bleak
Plot: couple relations, losing-it hero, unfulfillment, writer's life, dull life, cause and meaning, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, hotel, disintegration, drugs/alcohol
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A quixotic artist hypothesizes about why he feels bad when a mystery girl stands him up. The event prompts him to ask: what's the content of a momentary feeling? Is it the sum of your experiences? And perhaps more importantly, are your ...
Style: experimental, psychological, stylized, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: introspection, fall in love, cause and meaning, young lovers, city life, unfulfilled love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, afrofuturism, black history, art ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.6
 122
Arctic (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Simon and Jota are two young scoundrels who hit the street every day to eke out a living. Each one wants what he lacks. Simon cannot stand being surrounded by his large family all the time. Jota wants to stop leading a lonely life and will do his ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, hood ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, nothing to lose, best friend, cause and meaning, human nature, dull life, pregnant teenager, gang, gangster, ghetto, twentysomething life, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Born to Love You (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: “Born to Love You” is a romantic comedy about poor lass, portrayed by Angeline Quinto, who tries her best to provide the needs of her siblings by joining singing contests. In one of the singing contests she joined in, she met Martin’s ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, humorous
Plot: investigation, cause and meaning, ambition, family relations, starting over, half brother, long lost father, mother son relationship, love story, tour guide, wedding, translator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, korea
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Today and Tomorrow (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This movie tells a story of young people from 'Ant tribe' in Beijing. By telling the story of these young people, Today and Tomorrow shows the psychological changes of college graduates. It reflects their confusion about future and love. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: unemployment, friendship, friends, life is a bitch, society, cause and meaning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, twenty something, gays and lesbians, gender, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: china, beijing china
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 7.1
 10K
Inside (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find ...
Style: psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, art house ...
Plot: cause and meaning, introspection, hopes, writer's life, artists and showbiz, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, party, advice, alienation, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, middle east, turkey
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Blue Lips (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Six people's lives come together.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching
Plot: introspection, fish out of water, hopes, couple relations, life turned upside down, cause and meaning, bittersweet, disorder, dealing with death, encounter, rebirth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 7.5
 7K
Wheels (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Style: touching, semi serious, psychological, bleak, sentimental ...
Plot: junkie, paraplegic, friendship, introspection, disability, cause and meaning, self discovery, suicide, life, loneliness, society, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.2
 53
Find the Way (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Between fear of success and a tricky break-up, Ludovic is beyond all hope as he is getting close to the 30's stage. His unexpected meeting with a sick child, Raphael, shakes up his daily life and his future approach. Together, they go after ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: hopes, self discovery, introspection, cause and meaning, terminal illness, life turned upside down, child illness, disorder, friendship, family relations, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france, marseille, provence
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 8.1
 200K
PK (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: This experimental satire is a comedy of ideas about an alien in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, inspirational, humorous ...
Plot: religion, benign alien, meaning of life, islam, guru, society, supernatural, alien on earth, disorder, justice, heartwarming, fish out of water ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, future, 21st century
Place: india, new delhi, belgium
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Austria, Netherlands
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema offers an introduction into some of Žižek's most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of ...
Style: intellectual, psychological, philosophical, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, philosophy, social relations, artists and showbiz, society, cause and meaning, creativity, monologue, psychoanalysis, exploitation, conference, human relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
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The Zero Theorem (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style: surreal, thought provoking, philosophical, psychedelic, cerebral ...
Plot: computers and web, computer, computer system, virtual reality, loneliness, escape from reality, distopia, society, computer genius, hacker, dystopian future, existentialism ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2013, 2010s
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Special Delivery (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
Style: realistic, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Plot: love triangle, couples, cause and meaning, couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, infidelity, misunderstanding, restaurant, missing person, alcohol abuse, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 7.3
 2K
Ushpizin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: rabbi, charity, orthodox jew, religious, uninvited guest, redemption, couples, family relations, religions or cults, society, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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 8.3
 591K
Lost (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 5445 min.
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Story: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, island, stranded, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, lost, mysterious place, death, air disaster, destiny, plane crash ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
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 6.2
 86K
Solaris (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Style: philosophical, confusing, futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot: space travel, space station, space and aliens, afterlife, mysterious planet, outer space, planet, astronaut, trapped in space, space exploration, alien contact, space ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future
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The Sensation of Sight (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Style: serious, contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: self discovery, family relations, single parent, small town life, haunted by the past, hopes, estrangement, profanity, ghost, midlife crisis, dealing with death, family business ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new hampshire
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 6.4
 113
Saudade (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A film that explores the true meaning of a word by medical professionals, feelings of real people and the images that represent the word to the filmmaker. The viewer will get into a journey through true stories and feelings, chasing the true meaning ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot: hip hop, misfit, social misfits, cause and meaning, friendship, rap, hip hop culture, humour, pop culture, musician's life, friends, japanese culture ...
Place: japan, asia
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 5.4
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Cosmodrama (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Maybe the 1960s, maybe the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from nor where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have ample time to meditate, rather scientifically, on matter, life ...
Style: contemplative, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: spacecraft, space and aliens, space travel, confined, satire, isolation, cause and meaning, universe, multiverse, cosmology, scientist, dancing ...
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Ship of Theseus (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Netherlands
Duration: 140 min.
Story: This first feature film from Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, tells three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances: a visually impaired Egyptian photographer, who after a cornea transplant has ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: philosophy, society, injustice, idealism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, introspection, cause and meaning, photograph, death, photography, monastery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 6.1
 3K
Bird People (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: hotel, airport, supernatural, cause and meaning, supernatural romance, love and romance, hopes, starting over, husband wife relationship, hipster, woman, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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The Alley Cat (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A road movie on a bicycle. Jasper leaves an alley cat race and goes on a physical and spiritual journey on her bike, through Chicago's nighttime streets, to a destination that holds an emotional secret.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot: buddies, friends, introspection, contests and competitions, cause and meaning, strong female presence, bicycle, urban, drugs/alcohol
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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A Long Way Down (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four lost souls decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When they meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family.
Style: touching, dark comedy, emotional, talky, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: new year's eve, new year, friendship, suicide, introspection, direction and purpose, unfulfillment, dull life, group of strangers, cause and meaning, coping, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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The Absent Season (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, musician's life, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, family relations, cause and meaning, loneliness, sexual content, love and romance, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
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