| Perfect Strangers (2017) | 6.9 | |
| Arab Labor (2007) | 8.5 | |
| Winter (2015) | 7.3 | |
| Twin Peaks (1990) | 8.7 | |
| Stoker (2013) | 6.7 |
Under the surface movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
List of under the surface movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, couple relations, life turned upside down, under the surface, dishonesty, betrayal, couples, terrorism, state terrorism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bob is a landscape gardener and handyman with a typical American family. But his ailing father, Buster, is hiding a secret past while his sister, Stephanie, holds onto a secret of her own. When Bob proposes to his girlfriend and gets involved in a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, independent film
Plot:
life turned upside down, family life, hopes, parents and children, under the surface, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, destiny, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, fish out of water, culture clash, family life, homecoming, society, family problems, terminal illness, parents and children, life is a bitch, under the surface, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
104
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Film examines the matters of labor and love. After losing her job, a single professional woman moves into her friend's flat -- where she develops an attraction to her friend's husband. Meanwhile, the friend finds herself falling for one of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
love affair, ambition, fall in love, couples, destructive relationship, couple relations, under the surface, dishonesty, relationship vs career, love and romance, thirtysomething life, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his homosexuality in 1950s Britain. This film follows his life and eventual death based on the many ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, period drama
Plot:
gay, performer's life, celebrity, under the surface, private vs public, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, hidden truth, depression, lgbt, biopic, homosexuality ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
england
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286
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak
Plot:
uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, community, male nudity, social relations, mentally challenged, female nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama.
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, small town, police investigation, teenage life, teenage love, adolescence, under the surface, dangerous attraction, society, youth, obsession, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wales, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, biting ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, food, family problems, under the surface, couple relations, siblings relations, disorder ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A retired widow has her daily routine derailed when she starts receiving mysterious, anonymous phone calls.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
obsession, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, murder, widow, anonymous telephone call, painting, communism, painter, ghost, choir ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, erotic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, skateboarder, teenage boy, prostitution, homoeroticism, youth, male nudity, male pubic hair, male rape, sexual promiscuity, homosexual sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Singapore, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After discovering his wife's infidelities, Gerry leaves London to look after his deceased brother's business and family in Singapore. Discovering a foreign world of opportunity that had not existed before gives Gerry a chance at starting ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, tense
Plot:
couple relations, starting over, family relations, crumbling marriage, under the surface, couples, infidelity, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, widow, husband wife estrangement, death of brother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, ireland, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they ...
Style:
sexy, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, obsession, psychopath, family relations, under the surface, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, couples, dishonesty, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, experience the biggest sorrow and misfortune one can ever imagine. Nevertheless, in all the hopelessness they must try to reach for mutual and mature love in order to continue life after death.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
family problems, couples, under the surface, couple relations, mentally unstable, introspection, death in the family, family in crisis, child killer, nordic, innocence lost, jealous spouse ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A macabre web site called Darknet links the tales in this chilling anthology series whose protagonists face a range of unnamable horrors.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, mind bending, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
website, cyberspace, hacker, under the surface, danger, gory, internet, mind game, murder, supernatural, violent, house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
.Ana (Judy Marte) is a young woman trying to reimagine her life after her mother’s death during the course of one California spring. Filled with resentment over her father’s mistakes, Ana feels disconnected from herself and everyone around her. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, moral dilemma, under the surface, family problems, obsession, love and romance, parents and children, half sister, class conflict, male female relationship, dying mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, latin america, los angeles
Is relevant?
138
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Eldon and Cole pick up a hitchhiker, Jean on their father-son trip to find perspective on the back roads of America, they quickly learn that everything is not what it seems. As the road unfolds in front of them, so do their lives begin to ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
on the road, on the run, hidden identity, fugitives, under the surface, chases and races, parents and children, escaped prisoner, child in peril, prison escape, hitchhiking, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
couple relations, restaurant, family relations, life is a bitch, under the surface, family problems, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot:
high school, psychopath, teacher, massacre, serial killer, breaking point, under the surface, power relations, mental disorder, high school teacher, school shooting, sexual blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, USA, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, cerebral, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, moral dilemma, flying a kite, female protagonist, hallucination, actor's life, lifestyle, child illness, parallel world, escape from reality, one last job, society ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, period piece, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, wedding day, bride and groom, unrequited love, lovers reunited, under the surface, introspection, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hotel room, extramarital affair, impossible love, hotel, adultery, coitus, infidelity, cheating wife, female nudity, nude girl, female pubic hair, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
491
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Trinity is a British drama series which was broadcast on ITV2 from September to November 2009. The series is set in the fictional "Trinity College" of "Bridgeford University", and stars Charles Dance, Claire Skinner, Antonia ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sinister
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, college, amateur detective, youth, under the surface, secret movement, student life, teenage life, murder, conspiracy, private club ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspense, sentimental
Plot:
life turned upside down, love affair, family life, couple relations, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, under the surface, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, intense, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, aging, music, musician's life, rehearsal, ego clash, intrigue, friendship, life is a bitch, rivalry, overcoming ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, entertaining ...
Plot:
dark humor, infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society, couples, under the surface, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Is relevant?
300
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Julius (Marty Sader) loses his girlfriend, his job and the life of his pseudo father, Jack, his itch for a "quick fix" suffocates his ambitions and takes him on a trip through the disturbing addiction of crystal meth. Julius confides ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, rough, gloomy ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, downfall, rehabilitation, addiction, couples, family problems, under the surface, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, drug abuse, drug, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, cynical, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
love, politics, journalist, marriage, interracial relations, family life, satire, identity crisis, social differences, culture clash, couples, under the surface ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends spend an evening together after time apart. Differences in sex and sexuality reveal deep-rooted conflicts and long-hidden longings.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, introspection, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, under the surface, sexual relations, sexual attraction, sex, private vs public, sexuality, group of friends ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a quiet Ontario town, a small Bed and Breakfast dwells with a perverse secret. David Beck, a closet sociopath, but seemingly normal man, runs the B & B with his wife Samantha, a fiery woman with masochistic tendencies. The harmony of the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, detective, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, small town, police investigation, couple relations, dishonesty, under the surface, double life, secret, female nudity, sexual content, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
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