Under the surface movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of under the surface movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Haiti
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, political
Plot:
culture clash, haunted by the past, immigrant, family relations, social relations, life is a bitch, society, single parent, political unrest, blaxploitation, couple relations, under the surface ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
haiti, africa, usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Colombian remake of the U.S. TV show Breaking Bad. After he is diagnosed with cancer, Walter Blanco teams up with José Miguel Rosas in order to sell crystal meth.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, drug dealing, hidden identity, couple relations, master criminal, partner, unlikely partners, unlikely criminals, family relations, criminal heroes, stash, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america, south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school life, addiction, youth, best friend, hopes, recovery, rehabilitation, drug abuse, teenage life, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
Style:
tense, emotional, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
young couple, estate, half sister half sister relationship, family relations, siblings relations, couple relations, missing person, uninvited guest, couples, sister sister relationship, sleeping, sleep disorder ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Med stjerner som Frits Helmuth, Sonja Richter, Sidse Babett Knudsen og selvfølgelig Erik Clausen selv på plakaten, er der lagt i hønsegården til et af Clausens sædvanlige humoristiske og satiriske øjebliksbilleder af dagens Danmark. Anna har ...
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, character study, compassion, female protagonist, empathy, aspiring actress, humanity, identity, social satire, melancholy, intimate, domestic drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Family, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Things are not going well in the depression-era town of Castle Gate. Mr. Ribaldi, a mysterious rich man with a disfigured face and an abrasive personality, has just bought and moved into a long-vacant mansion. Bonnie, an adolescent girl who loves to ...
Style:
sad, independent film, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, adult
Plot:
dancing, youth, waking up, social relations, under the surface, estate, eviction, isolation, rich and poor, small town, small town life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, bleak
Plot:
murder, teenage life, teacher, lgbt, school, education, life is a bitch, under the surface, social relations, power relations, poisoning, high school life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Truman Capote's semi-autobiographical first novel about coming of age in the Deep South during the 1930s centers on 13-year-old Joel Sansom (David Speck), who reunites with his estranged father at the family's shabby plantation, where he ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
coming of age, 13 year old, teenage boy, lgbt, glbt, family relations, forbidden love, best friend, family problems, under the surface, estate, estrangement ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Sethna family resides in the hills of Panchgani. A retired sculptor Dinshaw heads the family of Dinshaw's wife Katy , brother Farokh, sister-in-law Tina and second brother Fardoonjee . When the bizarre Cyrus comes into their lives, it is ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
dishonesty, parents and children, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, apprentice, drifter, siblings relations, family drama, devious, under the surface, win over ...
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
Style:
postmodern, sincere, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
sexual relations, filmmaking, dishonesty, screenwriter, female nudity, theater, nudity, manipulation, artists and showbiz, under the surface, smoking, director ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ship, ocean, workplace, power relations, isolation, human nature, confined, search and rescue, sailing, under the surface, boat, sleeping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A top chef goes on the run from a messy situation involving a dead body. He and his two sisters find their way to Lærkevej, a quiet suburban street where they rent a house, settle in and bury the corpse in the yard. The locals are suspicious of, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gangster, suburbs, family relations, dishonesty, siblings relations, alcoholic, doctor, on the run, dead body, siblings, cover up, dark humor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, period piece ...
Plot:
small town, village, rivalry, lesbian, society, social relations, village life, small town life, snobbism, priest, friendship, gossip ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In 1945 the Second World War came to an end and the Nazis fled. Scientists and military elite escaped across borders and found themselves in new worlds. Some fled to Russia, some the United States and others to South America. But there was another ...
Style:
bleak, serious, surreal, rough, psychotronic ...
Plot:
zombie, fascism, nazi, nazi zombie, occult, apocalypse, danger, curses spells and rituals, terrorism, heroes, espionage, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, naked man, brother brother relationship, male nudity, siblings relations, realism, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, family relations, protecting from truth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, helsinki finland, finland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It’s a warm and dry summer. Dan, Tom and Victor, three inseparable adolescents, take advantage of the last day of school to wander in the countryside. They jump with joy when they discover an abandoned old film studio, whose many corridors and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer clown, psychopath, teenage life, child in peril, friendship between boys, evil clown, vengeance, danger, youth, witnessing a crime, small town, clown ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
danger, gangster, secret, money problems, delivery, mission gone awry, workplace situations, financial problem, delivery man, chase, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is the portrait of two recently released prisoners (Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer) who learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gender, lesbian, female female relationship, lgbtq, confined, destructive relationship, couples, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, going straight, isolation, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten ...
Style:
sexual, mumblecore, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, gender, erection, sex scene, gay sex, gay erotica, oral sex, lgbt, gay friend, gay love, ejaculation, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, ohio
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with ...
Style:
surprise ending, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder investigation, female lawyer, murder, danger, investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, legal investigation, woman in danger, haunted by the past, religions or cults, false arrest ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
wealthy family, dysfunctional family, family relations, family business, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, family life, homecoming, secret, child abuse, police detective ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style:
surreal, experimental, serious, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, disappearance, whodunit, violence, danger, uncover truth, obsession, spouse in danger, violent content, nudity, crazy love, arthouse horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
journalism, murder mystery, twists and turns, macabre, journalist, courtroom, prison, prisoner, writers, courtroom drama, justice, prison visit ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
new york, oregon, usa, montana, mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However, it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men, a process that the doctors aren't particularly averse to.
Style:
disturbing, gothic, dark, suspense, controversial ...
Plot:
naked in public, male nudity, swimming pool, male pubic hair, public nudity, rejuvenation, beach, female nudity, hospital, searching for the truth, female pubic hair, bare butt ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
brittany, paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are ...
Style:
feel good, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, death, children, dysfunctional marriage, vacation, family drama, breakup, family problems, parents and children, amor, coming of age, nothing goes right ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, scotland
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Arjun and Geeta are a young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. They get married, and soon are proud parents. Arjun gets in the bad books of a notorious gangster named Nagraj, and is brutally killed. When Geeta finds out she decides to ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
terrorist, death of husband, widow, good versus evil, revenge, heroine, female protagonist, death row, villain, prison, evil man, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants ...
Style:
lovecraft, classic horror, gothic, scary, tense ...
Plot:
attempted rape, island, cosmic horror, small town, sexual attraction, rural setting, fire, lighthouse, feral man, mental disorder, lost soul, atmosphere ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, ...
Style:
witty, stylized, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
lawyer, workplace situations, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal, criminal lawyer, dark humor, dishonesty, moral dilemma, money, organized crime, lawyer client relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, syria, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, blood, hearing voices, murder, psychiatrist, schizophrenic, hallucination, dog, childhood trauma, crush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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