Society movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant society movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, stylized, captivating, realistic, philosophical and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with society, death, dystopia, murder, friendship, love, life is a bitch, violence, love and romance and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as society: Black Mirror (2011), V for Vendetta (2005), The Leftovers (2014), The Fool (2014), Elite (2018), The Class (2007), The Purge (2013), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Lobster (2015), The Boys (2019).

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 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, social decay, society, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: england, london
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 8.2
 1.2M
V for Vendetta (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, stylized, captivating, intense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, dystopia, fighting the system, freedom, vigilante, anti hero, society, protest, mentor ...
Time: future, year 2005, near future, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place: london, england, britain, big ben london, europe
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 8.3
 111K
The Leftovers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style: captivating, mind bending, offbeat, serious, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: life turned upside down, society, disappearance, haunted by the past, apocalypse, missing person, post apocalypse, depression, small town sheriff, chief of police, small town, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, syria, new york state, new york
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 8.0
 16K
The Fool (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, suspense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, society, apartment building, corruption, injustice, tragedy, rebellion, moral dilemma, violence, small town, courage, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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 7.2
 90K
Elite (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.
Style: sexy, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: jealousy, friendship, classmate, youth, lgbt, school, murder, love and romance, seduction, new school, infidelity, gay ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
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 7.9
 16K
The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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 5.7
 239K
The Purge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, psychological, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, danger, survival horror, family in danger, society, social decay, security system, dystopia, killing spree ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, near future ...
Place: california, usa
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
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, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
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 7.1
 291K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas
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 8.7
 637K
The Boys (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Style: entertaining, tense, satirical, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: superhero, superhero team, murder, dark humor, society, super speed, vengeance, superhuman, superheroine, corruption, supernatural power, investigation ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2010s
Place: new york
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The Man from Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style: philosophical, psychological, sincere, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: philosophy, immortality, religion, atheism, society, professor, storytelling, hidden identity, christianity, existentialism, atheist, conversation ...
Time: future, 2000s, prehistory, medieval times, prehistoric times ...
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 7.2
 94K
Gosford Park (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style: suspense, period piece, biting, detective, costume drama ...
Plot: murder, country estate, society, estate, high society, murder investigation, murder mystery, butler, servant, twists and turns, unrequited love, hunting ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place: england, detroit
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 6.7
 443K
In Time (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, distopia, dystopic future, dystopia, class differences, life & death, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
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 7.0
 268K
The Platform (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot: struggle for survival, survival, confined, food shortage, prison, cannibalism, social injustice, social differences, rivalry, social relations, danger, fear ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula
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 7.1
 36K
The Society (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, murder, small town, society, death, friendship, survival, trapped, gay, gay teenager, separation, fantasy world ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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 7.3
 33K
Belle (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet ...
Style: period piece, inspirational, sentimental, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: slavery, racism, interracial relations, society, interracial romance, high society, social differences, aristocracy, white male black female relationship, love and romance, interracial couple, biracial ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, regency period, victorian era ...
Place: england, indiana, europe
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 8.6
 35K
North & South (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, rich and poor, young woman, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, unlikely couple ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 50s, 1850s, 1800s
Place: england, britain, london
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 8.0
 158K
Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
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 7.1
 25K
Salem (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, 'Salem' explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth hiding behind the veil of this infamous period in American ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic horror, stylized ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, evil force, danger, society, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, devil, love affair, religions or cults, witch hunt ...
Time: 17th century
Place: new england, hawaii, salem massachusetts, usa, massachusetts
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 8.3
 36K
Poldark (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style: captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, master and servant, social differences, family relations, village life ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era, 1800s ...
Place: england, cornwall, britain
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 7.4
 165K
Bridgerton (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, aristocracy, love and romance, society, love story, marriage, eligible bachelor, sex scene, couple relations, intrigue, relationships, class differences ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: england, london
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 6.4
 125K
The Giver (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, atmospheric, exciting, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: distopia, youth, dystopia, community, utopia, post apocalypse, society, life is a bitch, humanity, memory, danger, rebelliousness ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2014, 2040s
Place: peru
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La Belle verte (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, light, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ecology, utopia, society, spirituality, human nature, nature, space and aliens, environmental issue, benign alien, peaceful mission, consciousness, anarchist ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 8.1
 26K
War & Peace (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 380 min.
TV show
Story: Sumptuous BBC mini-series following the fortunes and the rise and fall of five aristocratic families in the waning days of imperial Russia.
Style: epic, captivating, stylized, serious, emotional ...
Plot: imperial russia, napoleonic wars, society, inheritance, love story, tragic love, wartime life, love and romance, illegitimate son, courage, aristocracy, couples ...
Time: 1800s, 18th century, 19th century, regency period
Place: russia
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 7.6
 274K
The 100 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity, human existence, leadership, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, outer space, rivalry, society ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa
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Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Avid bookworm and college student Motosu Urano ends up dying in an unforeseen accident. This came right after the news that she would finally be able to work as a librarian as she had always dreamed of. When she regained consciousness, she was ...
Style: anime, captivating, unusual plot structure, exciting, light
Audience: teens, preschool
Plot: reincarnation, writers, society, friendship, librarian, magic, fictional country, teenage girl, fantasy world, teenager, sister sister relationship, isekai ...
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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