Dramatic movies and TV shows – page 2

List of dramatic movies

Type:
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
Is relevant?
 8.0
 265K
Lion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot: adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place: india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
Is relevant?
 8.0
 1.4M
Titanic (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style: romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place: atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
Is relevant?
 7.8
 55K
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style: sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time: year 2002
Place: denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern europe ...
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 7.4
 337K
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Style: emotional, psychological, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, troubled teen, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, lgbtq ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 9.2
 2.2M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
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The Lost Symbol (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
Style: dramatic, enigmatic, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot: secret society, riddles and clues, kidnapped, secret service, symbol, symbolism, conspiracy, police investigation, conspiracy theory, kidnapping, investigation, secret ...
Time: 2000s
Place: washington d.c.
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Léon: The Professional (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style: neo noir, touching, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, murder, loneliness, organized crime, redemption, sniper, loner, life philosophy, dark hero ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
 7.3
 145K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: dramatic, entertaining, emotional, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: twists and turns, con artists, mental illness, heist, cons and scams, plot twist, greed, partner, con men, life philosophy, slick, psychology ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
 6.7
 81K
The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
Is relevant?
 8.2
 1.1M
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot: twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place: usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Is relevant?
 7.0
 491K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: america, los angeles, space western
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Love Likes Coincidences (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: true love, destiny, couples, life, hopes, power of love, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, childhood memory, love, life philosophy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
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American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: cerebral, rough, serious, clever, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: gang, skinhead, racism, prison, neo nazism, neo nazi, character change, nazism, juvenile delinquency, murder, politics, african american ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
Is relevant?
 8.5
 42K
Skam (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.
Style: emotional, dramatic, realistic, sweet, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, high school student, friendship, teenage sexuality, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, gay relationship, teenager, high school, friendship between girls, gay teenager ...
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
Is relevant?
 8.2
 1.4M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
 7.9
 696K
Life of Pi (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style: philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot: survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place: india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
 7.3
 47K
North Country (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Style: inspirational, sincere, emotional, factual, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, feminism, sexual harassment, small town, lawsuit, rape, feminist, court, lawyer, labor union, courtroom, sexism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: minnesota, usa
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, witty, surreal, visually appealing ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, art theft, mentor, mentor protege relationship, prison escape, murder, escapades, twists and turns, gunfight, painting, fictional country, lawyer ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place: eastern europe, alps, europe, persia, america ...
Is relevant?
 9.2
 565K
The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style: serious, dramatic, clever, cynical, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, dark humor, family life, criminal heroes, mob boss, parents and children, criminal, dysfunctional family, family relations, introspection ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, north america
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Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style: romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Is relevant?
 5.8
 13K
Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are ...
Style: romantic, dramatic, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: true love, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, young lovers, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, shakespeare, family feud, love and romance, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children ...
Time: middle ages, 16th century
Place: italy, united kingdom, europe
Is relevant?
 5.0
 23K
Mother/Android (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot: robot, pregnant woman, post apocalypse, journey, apocalypse, couples, couple relations, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, survival, pregnancy, characters in danger ...
Time: near future, future
Place: korea
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 90K
Only the Brave (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style: exciting, emotional, tense, dramatic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: natural disaster, forest fire, firefighter, heroism, tragedy, rescue, danger, friends, mentor, firefighting, fire department, male camaraderie ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013 ...
Place: arizona, usa
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time: future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
Is relevant?
 8.0
 750K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
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Scent of a Woman (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, tango, human spirit, human nature, life philosophy, coming of age, thanksgiving, loneliness, preparatory school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new england, new hampshire, usa, seattle
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The Young Victoria (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic, touching, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: royal family, queen of england, marriage, royalty, queen, politics, queen victoria, royal court, aristocracy, love and romance, princess, love story ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place: london, buckingham palace, england, britain, europe ...
Is relevant?
 6.4
 132K
Fall (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: trap, friendship, survival, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, rock climbing, dehydration, female friendship, loss of loved one, tower, mountain climbing, twists and turns ...
Is relevant?
 6.7
 150
More Than Love (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Clara's stepmother Francisca who had her mother killed and married her father, now plans to murder her husband. When Clara tries to tell the family, she is asked to leave the house. Francisca will now go after her one true love, Manel.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, soap opera, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: betrayal, family secret, manipulation, family drama, death, wedding, family relations, couples, crash, love, family problems, plane crash ...
Time: 2010s
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