Dramatic movies and TV shows – page 5
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| Reborn (2025) | 5.6 | |
| Kaantha (2025) | 7.3 | |
| Thala (2025) | 4.3 | |
| Love in the Clouds (2025) | 8.3 | |
| She Said Maybe (2025) | 4.9 |
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style:
touching, depressing, anime, sad, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
world war two, hunger, orphan, war, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, boy, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, exciting, rough, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, military, basic training, friendship, officers and cadets, war in afghanistan, soldier, death, ambush, military life, wartime life, tough heroes ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
afghanistan, ukraine, soviet union, russia, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The film’s plot is based on a true story about a 10-year-old boy from a village, Ilya,whose father is killed. The criminal remains unpunished. Nobody around this situation is particularly worried, except the child, who arranges a real hunt for the ...
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
village, vengeance, murder, death of father, father son relationship, father, vendetta, murder of father, loss of father, vigilantism, child protagonist, vigilante ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Simone Clark is the oldest rookie in the FBI.
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, crime drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fbi, black cast, rookie, fbi agent, federal agent, academy, law enforcement, special agent, agent, female protagonist, female fbi agent, investigation ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three brothers get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays. As they slowly get the hang of things, they find themselves on unexpected journeys of self-discovery and begin to rebuild ...
Style:
dramatic, entertaining, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, brother brother relationship, family relations, child, child protagonist, family problems, relationships, brothers, holiday, aunt nephew relationship, single mother, firefighter ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, serious, powerful, crying ...
Plot:
lgbt, police officer, gay interest, gay, closeted homosexual, love, gay affair, relationships, lost love, secret relationship, male male relationship, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, year 1958, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
venice, brighton, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, sexy, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, working undercover, mission, top secret, kgb, mole, government agency, couple relations, investigation ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., soviet union, usa, ussr
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381K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, spy, cia, national security, war on terror, treason, secret service, investigation, terrorist, danger, top secret ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, langley virginia, usa, iraq, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After losing his mother at the age of 14, Kosuke spent his depressed adolescence hiding his gay identity in a rural town. Now working as a fashion magazine editor, he spends his free time with his close friends. One day, he meets Ryuta, a personal ...
Style:
dramatic, captivating, serious, sincere, semi autobiographical
Plot:
boys love, gay, gay lead character, gay japanese, gay couple, lgbt, gay sex, sex, sexuality, gay crush, homosexuality, homosexual ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Romance
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story:
Discover the secret of a nerdy young man who falls in love with a third-year senior. Because his dream is so far from reach, observing is the only thing he could do. “Kaojao told me I was falling in love. Som said I was seriously sick. Daisy said ...
Style:
entertaining, dramatic, exciting, captivating, bilingual
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, relationships, stalker, guy, couples, youth, love, love and romance, young man, boys love, gay ...
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193K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, entertaining, exciting, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
business, businessman, biopic, sports man, ambition, basketball player, escapades, success, fight, rise to the top, lifestyle, casino ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
Plot kept under wraps. Described as action-packed spy series
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, secret agent, intelligence agency, agent, spy, erased memory, syndicate, memory, secret service, special agent, female warrior, world war ...
Time:
post world war one
Place:
wyoming, utah, morocco
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, reflective, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
transgender woman, transgender, mother daughter relationship, lgbt, acceptance, forgiveness, identity, character study, family drama, transsexuality, transsexual, trans woman ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
An exclusive look at the players and coaches in their professional and personal settings, following the chosen teams as they prepare for their respective outdoor games capturing all the action, camaraderie, drama, humor, heartaches and triumphs as ...
Style:
dramatic, captivating, emotional, suspenseful, inspirational
Plot:
hockey, rivalry, ice hockey, rivals, ambition, athlete and trainer, ambitious man, professional sports, competitor, direction and purpose, sport team, hockey player ...
Place:
north america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, exciting, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
spacecraft, space colony, life, spacesuit, biosphere, space mission, ship, cosmonaut, space adventure, teamwork, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Time:
future
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1K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning from ...
Style:
dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
transgender, brother sister relationship, ex boyfriend, lgbt, trans man, transsexuality, transsexual, half sister, body transformation, lgbtq, father, sister ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory.
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, dark, philosophical ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
teenage girl, cheerleader, high school, support group, love, spirit, school teacher, teenager, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, afterlife, apprentice ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
Following the rise of the rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the '70s L.A. music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status.
Style:
dramatic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
rock band, subculture, rock music, musician, musical tour, rock concert, rock musician, music band, success, rock singer, music, musician's life ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Jiang Wen Jing's dream is to become a prosecutor. She successfully gets accepted into the public prosecutor's office and under the guidance of fellow colleagues Yin Chuan and Yu Kai Yin, takes on many difficult cases that help her grow ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, exciting, clever ...
Plot:
prosecutor, courtroom, ambition, workplace, revenge, law firm, dream, court case, career, success, career woman, rise to the top ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Style:
sad, surreal, dramatic, tragicomedy, stylized ...
Plot:
cat, artist, family relations, childhood trauma, painting, art, life is a bitch, life philosophy, painter, breast cancer, cancer, grief ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
london, new york
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a ...
Style:
political, serious, emotional, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
politics, protest, police brutality, fighting the system, idealism, hopes, political unrest, chaos and mayhem, state affairs, rebelliousness, resistance, rebellion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 80s
Place:
usa, seattle, washington d.c., canada, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A female executive (Demi Moore) and a night janitor (Michael Caine) conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Style:
suspenseful, clever, suspense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
diamond theft, redemption, robbery, heist, perfect crime, revenge, life philosophy, jewel theft, investigation, workplace, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1960, 60s
Place:
london, europe, england, south africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style:
emotional, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, children in wartime, blind character, coming of age, children, camp, child, muslim, anti war, saddam hussein, survival, orphan ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, iran, maghreb, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, harsh ...
Plot:
existentialism, tragedy, biopic, crime gone awry, mentor, human nature, youth, misfit, isolation, logic, village, philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1974, 1800s ...
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style:
breathtaking, cerebral, atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wilderness, forest, wilderness survival, human spirit, cold weather, friendship, survival, hunter, nature, tiger, environment, explorer ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1975, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr, persia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beauty, courtesan, forbidden love, prostitute, medieval, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, sex, love story, social differences, rich and poor ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, victorian era, year 1998
Place:
venice, italy, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
love, afterlife, dealing with death, love and romance, life & death, love at first sight, lifestyle change, impossible love, life philosophy, supernatural, supernatural romance, mysterious character ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
Style:
emotional, costume drama, touching, witty, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
poet, love and romance, destiny, love, power of love, unrequited love, friendship, love triangle, duel, swashbuckler, poetry, sword fight ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 1990, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, england
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