Moody movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant moody movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out moody, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological, tense and captivating films and TV shows about / with slow burn, isolation, obsession, psychological drama, investigation, character study, grief, haunting, murder and secrets plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Spain, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as moody: American Beauty (1999), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Container (2006), The Waiter (2018), Journey to Midnight (1968), Personal Baggage (2009), Lone (2014), American Cherry (2023), When No One Sees Us (2025), In Montauk (2012).
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Australia, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, kids ...
Plot:
love story, forbidden love, tragic love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, suicide, shakespeare, true love, family feud, teen romance, young lovers, star crossed lovers, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, y2k, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, north america, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renos is an old-time waiter with a meticulous routine. He is a loner and an avid collector of information. His repetitive daily routine liberates him from the agony of pursuing the unknown. The unexpected events that invade his life hide many ...
Style:
melancholic, depressing, art house, moody
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
hobby, routine, neighbor, lifestyle, dull life, coworker, lifestyle change, changing lives, restaurant, house, spa, outdoor sex ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, hellas, athens greece
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two episodes of the UK tv show 'Journey to the Unknown'. The episodes are 'Poor Butterfly' and 'The Indian Spirit Guide'.
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, creepy, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, macabre, supernatural, haunting, ghost story, isolation, psychic, superstition, occult, domestic drama, narration, costume party ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Vid is talented but spoiled young man smothered in his affection to the adoring mother and heedless of his aloof father. His grandfather is benevolent but self-important patriarch and his new girlfriend is a creature of voluptuous innocence ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, intense, dark ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family conflict, isolation, loneliness, guilt, domestic drama, innocence lost, remote village, secrets, mother son relationship, obsession, irony ...
Place:
slovenia, central europe
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Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
A unique new form merging film and music into a dark subconscious stew set to the music of Chelsea Wolfe's 2013 album Pain is Beauty.
Style:
experimental, melancholic, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
memory, regret, desert, isolation, haunting, solitude, macabre, guilt, female protagonist, ghost, minimalism, visionary ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious, troubled boy meets an impressionable girl in their small town. Together they embark on a romance where his love turns into obsession as he tries to protect her from her dysfunctional family -- he makes her a video diary that confesses ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, dramatic, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teen romance, dysfunctional family, coming of age, teenager, love, mental illness, romantic obsession, teenage girl, sex, teenage boy, couples, teenage protagonist ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
TV show
Story:
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Spanish Holy Week celebrations, two policewomen try to solve a series of crimes in the Andalusian town of Morón de la Frontera, in the political and cultural region of Seville’s so-called 'deep ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, atmospheric, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
police procedural, investigation, slow burn, moral ambiguity, cultural conflict, suicide, corruption, forensic, crime investigation, politics, police, criminal ...
Place:
andalusia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Julie Wagner has everything today's young woman thinks she wants: a successful husband who adores her, a baby on the way, a close circle of family and friends, and a career as a photographer that is about to take off. So why is she alone in ...
Style:
contemplative, sensitive, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, character study, creative process, identity, personal growth, longing, intimate, domestic drama, photographer, isolation, regret ...
Place:
new york state
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The six-part series follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis' daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to ...
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, forensics, journalist, island, investigation, sleuth, investigative journalism, investigative reporter, journalism, family secret, corruption ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
"Shadowlands" is an anthology style series that explores love in three separate stories - a couple renegotiating a relationship, a narcissist grasping to comprehend it, and star-crossed lovers mourning its loss. The series begins in 1928 ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, psychological, contemplative, anthology ...
Plot:
gay, paranormal, lgbtq, lovers, young lovers, paranormal phenomena, love story, love and romance, couples, youth, love affair, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
hotel, seduction, vacation, obsession, relationship problems, attempted seduction, male female relationship, relationships, tragic love, couple relations, seductress, irony of fate ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Portugal, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, desert, haunting, trauma, grief, macabre, investigation, survival, memory, lone ranger, secrets ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A struggling addict ventures into the Louisiana swamps to reconnect with her estranged faith healer father, only to discover he is hiding a troubling secret aboard his houseboat.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
swamp, family relations, father daughter relationship, secret, addiction, witch doctor, drug addiction, drug abuse, heroin addict, father and daughter, drug overdose, family drama ...
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by Park Sung-soo.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
musician, trauma, pickpocket, terminal illness, fighting illness, male female relationship, love story, love interest, relationship problems, love affair, money problems, musician's life ...
Place:
seoul
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113
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A decade after her mother's murder, Riley Canterbury must return home, after her neglectful, carnival owner father has gone missing. She soon realizes things in this small New England town are much stranger and sinister than she remembered.
Style:
creepy, sinister, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
carnival, cursed object, occult, supernatural, nightmare, small town, missing person, dream, macabre, ritual sacrifice, secrets, investigation ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, psychological, art house, tension ...
Plot:
schoolgirl, japanese teenager, divorce, loneliness, midlife crisis, character study, relationships, family relations, family problems, drastic change of life, life, couple relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1947, a magician, Seok-jin plans the most elaborate trick to find out hidden conspiracy in his fiance's death.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, twisted ...
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, deception, crime investigation, murder, secrets, mystery woman, problem, male female relationship, relationships, magic trick, secret ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
character study, machismo, coming of age, isolation, family problems, grownups, life is a bitch, social problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, social misfits, teenager ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work. His situation seems bleak, with his editor seeming to not care about him anymore and his ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, dramatic, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
infidelity, desperation, relationships, prostitute, secret, job, life, business, melancholy, writer's block, loneliness, downfall ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer murders a girl from his neighborhood. The residents begin to suspect him one by one, as he tries to cover his tracks and plans another kill before escape.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, fear, murder, suspicion, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, secrets, neighborhood, grief, missing person, investigation, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, ...
Style:
romantic drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bipolar disorder, coming of age, photography, mental illness, star crossed lovers, love affair, love interest, photographer, romantic relationship, fall in love, pretense, split personality ...
Place:
estonia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, investigation, loneliness, missing person, suspect, moral ambiguity, character study, tennis, male protagonist, alcoholism, regret, isolation ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Celebrated fiction writer and former priest, Colin Hampstead, and his wife, Kayleigh, are tormented by the ghost of her late sister, as the details of her grisly death are slowly uncovered.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic, rough, psychological horror ...
Plot:
ghost, investigation, paranormal, terror, uncover truth, haunting, supernatural, priest, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, death of sister, grief ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The series of shocking murders are forcing two absolutely opposite detectives to unite. Working as a team helping them to solve the crime but they understand that winning the war never means that war is over.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
mysticism, superstition, undercover, friendship, crime investigation, uncle nephew relationship, macabre, mature, complex characters, criminal psychology, moral ambiguity, police procedural ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An action-packed love story on the Mexican border featuring oppression, revenge, reincarnation and rebirth.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder, reincarnation, revenge, chase, isolation, identity, supernatural, a vision, oppression, rebirth, manhunt, guilt ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Elmer's mother used his lack of feelings to turn him into a hitman. But when he falls for his next victim, their cover as calm local gardeners wavers.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, melancholic, dark comedy, grim ...
Plot:
contract killing, hitman, mother son relationship, manipulation, intimate, character study, secrets, moral ambiguity, assassin, forbidden romance, slow burn, identity crisis ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When a man is found dead, the investigation shatters his widow's perfect facade and exposes a hidden double life in this thriller based on real events.
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, suspense, dark, twisted ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, double life, widow, secrets, prime suspect, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, deception, paranoia, interrogation ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the chambers of the Edo harem, two newcomers uncover political intrigue, rivalry and a vengeful spirit only one traveling medicine seller can vanquish.
Style:
anime, captivating, dark, spiritual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
occult, japanese mythology, magic, demon, feudal japan, supernatural, haunting, exorcism, ghost story, occultist, battles, magical ...
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