| Cashback (2006) | 7.1 | |
| Down by Law (1986) | 7.6 | |
| Bottom (1991) | 8.3 | |
| Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) | 7.6 | |
| Chronopolis (1982) | 6.7 |
Boredom movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant boredom movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, semi serious, realistic, psychological, humorous and art house films and TV shows about / with boredom, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, character study, female nudity, slice of life, urban, marriage and isolation plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as boredom: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Inside Out 2 (2024), Cashback (2006), Happy End (2017), The Green Ray (1986), Lost in Translation (2003), Down by Law (1986), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), My Mother Frank (2000), Blocked (2015).
Best films
List of boredom movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
Style:
sexy, detective, visual, romantic, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, millionaire, boredom, caper, investigation, betrayal, police detective, cemetery, flirting, robbery, beach ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
boston, geneva switzerland, connecticut, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, ...
Style:
3d animation, computer animated, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
joy, puberty, coming of age, anxiety, anger, teenager, 13 year old, sadness, mind, friendship, memory, fear ...
Place:
san francisco, california
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94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Style:
sexy, humorous, surreal, philosophical, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
breakup, introspection, artist, supermarket, stopped time, sexual attraction, nudity, girlfriend, insomnia, workplace, time freeze, time ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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18K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A middle-class family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Style:
parody, art house, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, boredom, emptiness, refugee, family relations, suicide attempt, mother daughter relationship, millionaire, father daughter relationship, accident, birthday ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
english channel, europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Style:
cute, talky, realistic, anthology, aesthetic ...
Plot:
female nudity, boredom, solitude, dialogue, summer, summer vacation, crazy love, self discovery, friendship, children, holiday, isolation ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, normandy, alps ...
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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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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, swamp, pimp, escape, prison life, on the road, serendipity, prostitute, fight, misfit, partner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style:
feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, love, boredom, self discovery, fall in love, overprotective parent, youth, society, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, college life, against the odds ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story:
Two guys interpreted by the Casseurs Flowters (Orelsan & Gringe) discuss in a sofa until something happens. Created by the team of Bref, this short program speaks of boredom whith funny moments like : "What's the name of Hitchcock ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, boredom, lifestyle, laziness, male friendship, everyday life, youth culture, deadpan, slice of life, minimalism, urban, friends ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, social, disturbing ...
Plot:
seductive woman, isolated place, locked in, psychoanalysis, boredom, couples, secret, relationships, social isolation, family problems, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
The nightly exploits of our boys and girls in blue, and their shady criminal counterparts, through an unfolding kidnapping investigation. Truth is, being a cop or a crook is nowhere near as exciting as Hollywood would have us believe. Long nights ...
Style:
dark comedy, parody, satirical, buddy comedy, offbeat ...
Plot:
partner, undercover, criminal, coworker, boredom, ambush, deadpan, irreverent, slice of life, urban, slow burn, kidnapping ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three couples, connected by friendship, love and work, are each stuck in their respective homes in Los Angeles during the beginning of lockdown. Finally forced to face their spouses, friends, lovers, and eventually themselves head on, their lives ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical
Plot:
boredom, quarantine, husband wife relationship, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, marital problem, marital crisis, love affair, self discovery, marriage crisis, satire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The film is a sequel to Tanu Weds Manu (2011), in which stars Kangana Ranaut (Tanu) and R. Madhavan (Manu) reprise their roles from the original. Tanu and Manu's marriage collapses. What happens when Manu meets Tanu's lookalike Kusum - and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
strong female character, nervous breakdown, husband wife reunion, dysfunctional marriage, midlife crisis, boredom, marital separation, rejection, love at first sight, crumbling marriage, faithfulness, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, existential ...
Plot:
bittersweet, childhood, best friend, thirtysomething life, friends, unhappiness, unfulfillment, idealism, society, grudge, thirty something, boredom ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, melancholic, reflective, existential ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, house, boredom, adolescence, teenager, teenage life, relationship problems, life is a bitch, escape, drifting ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A pandemic strikes the world. What does quarantine do to a lonely woman's mind? Follow her from sense to insanity. No filters. Just you, her, and her more and more twisted mind.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, absurd, dramatic ...
Plot:
depression, isolation, loneliness, female protagonist, mental breakdown, quarantine, driven mad, character study, anxiety, boredom, social isolation, woman ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. (telemagazyn.pl)
Style:
suspense, mysterious, tension, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, affair, boredom, intrigue, espionage, infidelity, adultery, loneliness, marital crisis, character study, moral ambiguity, suspicion ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...
Style:
melancholic, tense, art house
Plot:
recruit, military service, soldier, military, boredom, imagination, introspection, loneliness, isolation, military base, training, dreaming ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, poetic realism
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, existential, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, immortality, eternal life, boredom, waiting, melancholy, architecture, loneliness, metaphysics, haunting, construction, creativity ...
Time:
80s, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
Style:
captivating, exciting, psychological, surreal, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
mysterious disappearance, alone, loneliness, female nudity, journalist, nightclub, father son relationship, sex scene, surrealism, post punk, male protagonist, grandmother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
sarcasm, routine, identity crisis, retirement, meaning of life, marriage, pension, elderly man, irony, new life, crumbling marriage, complex characters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, funny, existential ...
Plot:
male female relationship, love affair, relationships, couple relations, friends, camping, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, boredom, character study, alienation, slice of life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Terese is a young woman with Cystic Fibrosis stuck in the time loop of quarantine. She fights her boredom with beer, weed, and an unstoppable internal dialogue. When her self-interested roommate returns and fails to practice safe social distancing, ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
pandemic, loneliness, isolation, time warp, neighbor, flatmate, lifestyle, social problems, social issues, time loop, female protagonist, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 13 min.
TV show
Story:
Lockdown is an event series that follows a group of bored quarantined teens working together online to solve a mystery involving one of their neighbors - a mystery which ultimately places them all in danger.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, tension
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
quarantine, social media, found footage, internet, isolation, pandemic, friends, teenage protagonist, secret, friendship, crime solving, uncover truth ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, tragicomedy, period drama
Plot:
marriage, divorce, mature, character study, relationships, anger, heartbreak, everyday life, middle class, slice of life, suburban life, passion ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece
Plot:
sexual deviant, sex, infidelity, adultery, erotica, betrayal, seduction, lust, sexuality, marriage, call girl, desire ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his ...
Style:
realistic, reflective, melancholic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, character study, alienation, identity crisis, alcoholism, male protagonist, social realism, domestic drama, slow burn, boredom, intimate, mature ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Sitcom in which admin workers at a law firm spend their time flirting, fighting and dodging work.
Style:
funny, sitcom, feel good, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
law firm, satire, workplace, workplace situations, teamwork, advocate, lawyers and clients, lawyer, escapades, problem, office politics, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance ...
Style:
psychological, existential, erotic, independent film, moody
Plot:
writers, obsession, making love, infidelity, affair, toxic relationship, character study, cheating, boredom, self destructing, marriage, sexual tension ...
Time:
2000s
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