Mess movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mess movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, intense and realistic films and TV shows about / with mother, teenager, girl, fight, death, dog, cell phone, car, woman and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mess: HowToBasic (2011), High & Low: The Worst X (2022), Made in Britain (1983), Brubaker (1980), Toy Story 3 (2010), The Housemaid (2025), The Day After (1983), Masha and the Bear (2007), End Day (2005), Wavelength (1967).
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List of mess movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
A man with an outlandish approach and an eggs fixation makes tutorial "how-to" videos.
Style:
absurd, surreal, sketch comedy, slapstick, parody ...
Plot:
egg, irreverent, internet culture, satire, young adult, teenager, dark humor, minimal dialogue, unsettling, meme, food, nihilism ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story revolves around battle between two high school in SWORD area, Oya High School and Senomon Technical High School. The Head of Senomon Technical High School build a "three-school alliance" with two other school, Kamasaka High ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, action packed
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, teenage gang, high school, youth, juvenile delinquent, rivalry, martial arts, streetfighting, brutality, fight, illegal fistfight, criminal ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Trevor sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, controversial, powerful, terrifying ...
Plot:
skinhead, juvenile delinquency, racism, urban ghetto life, hooligan, neo nazi, warning, social realism, subculture, punk, neo nazism, social worker ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
europe, england, britain
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21K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style:
realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
prison, corruption, prison warden, abuse of power, undercover, prison escape, fighting the system, justice, abuse, liberal, murder, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
arkansas, louisiana, columbus ohio, southern usa, california ...
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961K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home ...
Style:
feel good, funny, touching, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot:
toys, escape, objects come to life, friendship, friends, toy story, dinosaur, toy comes to life, anthropomorphism, dog, betrayal, doll ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, north america, ohio
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A woman with a troubled past accepts a job as a live-in maid for a wealthy, seemingly perfect family.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, twisted ...
Plot:
rape, abusive relationship, abusive husband, psychological manipulation, manipulation, betrayal, claustrophobia, class conflict, female nudity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, female rivalry ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 7 min.
TV show
Story:
Masha is an energetic three-year-old who can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. Bear is a warm, fatherly figure that does his best to guide his friend and keep her from harm, often ending up the unintended victim of her misadventures.
Style:
colorful, humorous, not serious, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschool
Plot:
bear, friendship, cartoon bear, animal that acts human, troublemaker, little girl, parent child relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, childhood, family relations, odd couple, disorder ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
633
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
An exploration into the various ways in which, within the circumstances of one day, civilisation could be brought to an abrupt end..
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
volcano, disaster, natural disaster, epidemic, black hole, experiment, apocalypse, destruction, danger, chaos, catastrophe, meteorite ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, europe, middle east, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. Snow’s intent for the film was “a ...
Style:
experimental, contemplative, underground film, surreal, avant garde ...
Plot:
art, fetish, underground, estrangement, introspection, human nature, dealing with death, boredom, symbolism, confusion, pretense, elitism ...
Time:
year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
Is relevant?
419K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, destruction, human existence, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, year 2010, year 2012 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, british columbia, london, pasadena california ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
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204K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
Is relevant?
250K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, twister, weatherman, divorce, survival, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, storm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, north america, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the top of the most brutal ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
character change, time travel, time paradox, time portal, revenge, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, gang, gangster, changing the past or future, back in time, changing lives ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.
Style:
slasher, sexy, horror comedy, grindhouse, spoof ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, monster, exploitation, killer, guts, lake, fishing, nudity, strong violent content, ocean, river ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, escapades, youth, self discovery, missing person, coming of age, chases and races, hopes, judaism, third world, nun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Brazilian comedy about two couples living next to each other in the same building. This show explores the antics between the two couples.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, neighbor, husband wife relationship, couples, love interest, satire, multiple storylines, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, couple relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, love affair, love and romance ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician is missing. Ryo realizes Yuri was also the magician’s lover and he learns magic. The story that crosses over two identities, illusion and magic.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
mental illness, magician, first love, amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, wheelchair bound, search and rescue, lie, brother sister relationship, suicide, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic love ...
Place:
tokyo, hokkaido
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Because of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her guard around her pet parrot and ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful, crying ...
Plot:
friendship, missing person, deception, teenage girl, lie, mother daughter relationship, transformation, trial, fraud, teenager, japanese teenager, dating ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
father son relationship, private detective, lottery ticket, writers, gambling, slice of life, novelist, money problems, easy woman, mother son relationship, storm, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
east asia, japan, india
Is relevant?
120K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a ...
Style:
tense, cyber, futuristic, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
cold war, hacker, computer genius, computer hacker, computer, chess, computer cracker, nuclear threat, hacking, artificial intelligence, nuclear war, computer system ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
seattle, oregon, ussr, washington state, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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66K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
Style:
psychological, social, indie film, heartfelt, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
motherhood, depression, mother, female protagonist, plot twist, nanny, baby, marriage, sister in law, baby girl, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 1977, 1950s, 80s, 50s
Place:
usa, new york, portland oregon, saudi arabia, phoenix arizona ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating ...
Plot:
videotaping, connection, lodger, affair, husband, taxi, sister, womanizer, accountant, greek, brother, passion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
Style:
detective, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vigilante, home invasion, vigilantism, dark hero, father daughter relationship, justice, attempted rape, death of wife, vengeance, revenge, hottie, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chicago, usa, new york, illinois
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A photo reporter, shortly before leaving for a job in Cyprus, becomes unwittingly the recipient of a golden owl, who stole a gang from the archaeological museum, who are following him in order to take the owl back.
Plot:
assistant, team, sun, paparazzi, trafficking, photographer, mission, gossip, smuggler, treasure, stutterer, womanizer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
athens greece, cyprus, greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An unstable young woman pines for the ex boyfriend who nearly beat her to death - and who has mysteriously disappeared - in this gripping tale of lust, devotion and redemption.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
sluttiness, wench, love affair, slutty attitude, love, unrequited love, japanese woman, relationships, extramarital affair, infidelity, adultery, promiscuous woman ...
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