Moral dilemma movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant moral dilemma movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, realistic, psychological, thought provoking and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with moral dilemma, death, husband wife relationship, bare chested male, kiss, photograph, flashback, cell phone, murder and violence plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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moral dilemma movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as moral dilemma: The Box (2009), The Children Act (2017), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Snowden (2016), Nerve (2016), Womb (2010), Passengers (2016), The Booth at the End (2011), Watchmen (2009), Last Night (2010).

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 5.6
 95K
The Box (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, mind bending, mindfuck ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: moral dilemma, life & death, supernatural, experiment, psychology, decision, conspiracy, research, mysterious character, gift, husband murders wife, stranger ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: usa, langley virginia, virginia
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The Children Act (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, rough, serious ...
Plot: judge, jehovah's witness, illness, moral dilemma, courtroom, religion, teenager, leukemia, marriage crisis, hospital, cancer, crisis of faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london
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My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, family drama, terminal illness, sisters, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, leukemia, family relations, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, montana, los angeles
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 7.3
 162K
Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, factual, political thriller, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: espionage, journalism, whistleblower, fighting the system, hacking, moral dilemma, internet, surveillance, technology, cia, spying, idealism ...
Time: year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2012 ...
Place: hong kong, geneva switzerland, japan, russia, america ...
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 6.5
 140K
Nerve (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds ...
Style: exciting, suspense, romantic, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, game, internet, hacker, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, rivalry, danger, friendship, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york, seattle
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 6.3
 15K
Womb (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Hungary, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, serious, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nudity, mother son incest, tragic love, parents and children, moral dilemma, couple relations, dealing with death, incest, older woman younger man relationship, cloning, boy, sexual perversion ...
Time: year 2010, future, distant future, 21st century
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 7.0
 443K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, loneliness, trapped in space, love, space station, malfunction, space ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: space western, los angeles, america
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The Booth at the End (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious man sits in the booth at the end who people make a deal with to get what they want. They do the task or they don't - that is up to them, but there are no rule changes.
Style: psychological, captivating, mind bending, mind blowing, independent film ...
Plot: mysterious character, changing lives, wish come true, moral dilemma, deal, human nature, doubts and hesitations, diner, puzzle, anti hero, nypd, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 579K
Watchmen (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style: neo noir, visually stunning, visually appealing, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, alternate reality, vigilante, anti hero, distopia, good versus evil, moral dilemma, mars, masked vigilante, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place: usa, new york, america, washington d.c., los angeles ...
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 6.5
 51K
Last Night (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style: melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, relationships, unfaithful husband, love and romance, old love, unfaithful wife, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, france, philadelphia, new york
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Indecent Proposal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style: sexy, sexual, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: gambling, adultery, husband wife relationship, infidelity, moral dilemma, love triangle, love story, sexual relations, cuckold, millionaire, lust, wealth ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles
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You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Angel of mercy… or murderous “Doctor Death”? Jack Kervorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification. ...
Style: serious, emotional, compassionate, intense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: suicide, terminal illness, euthanasia, suffering, biopic, murder, moral dilemma, eccentricity, greed, legal, lethal injection, judge ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2010, 20th century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan
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 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Hunger Games (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: survival, female protagonist, distopia, death, game of death, contests and competitions, competition, youth, danger, heroine, society, rivalry ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
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Heart of a Lion (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: racism, moral dilemma, skinhead, fascism, fall in love, violent content, psychopath, gang, love and romance, single parent, neo nazi, love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland
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 6.5
 104K
Self/less (2015)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: immortality, body swapping, life philosophy, cloning, soul transference, technology, twists and turns, uncover truth, chase, disorder, moral dilemma, billionaire ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
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 6.5
 20K
The Ledge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
Style: psychological, tense, emotional, sincere, surreal ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, atheist, atheism, religion, moral dilemma, infidelity, life turned upside down, introspection, hopes, cheating on husband, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot: uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
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 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 6.5
 45K
The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
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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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Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 69K
Colossal (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
Style: dark fantasy, absurd, melancholic, dark comedy, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: giant monster, small town, creature, bullying, alcoholic, kaiju, moral dilemma, monster, drinking, alcoholism, childhood, giant robot ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: seoul, new york
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 7.5
 472K
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: realistic, emotional, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, war, soldier, army, bomb squad, marines, terrorist, gulf war, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, america ...
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 8.7
 43K
Monster (2004)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
Style: anime, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: moral dilemma, false accusation, doctor, hospital, murder, mastermind, protagonist as suspect, manipulation, life is a bitch, choice, guilt, society ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, czech republic
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 5.7
 25K
New in Town (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: small town, fish out of water, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, moral dilemma, winter, factory worker, creativity, social relations, life philosophy, prejudice ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: minnesota, miami, usa
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 7.1
 38K
99 Homes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: real estate agent, single father, eviction, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, motel, workplace, human nature, parent child relationship, life is a bitch, workplace situations, financial crisis ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, florida, orlando florida
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 7.5
 73K
Quiz Show (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style: intellectual, clever, period piece, intense, talky ...
Plot: corruption, advertising, cheating, lawyer, investigation, greed, moral dilemma, television, contests and competitions, idealism, business, media ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, washington d.c.
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 8.4
 660K
Oppenheimer (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear, world war two, atomic bomb, scientist, american politics, historical event, mastermind, top secret, physics, moral dilemma, guilt, arizona desert ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: new mexico, netherlands, germany
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Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must ...
Style: thrilling, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home invasion, moral dilemma, vacation gone wrong, father daughter relationship, adopted daughter, tsunami, prediction, self sacrifice, prophecy, sacrifice, race against time, premonition ...
Time: 2020s
Place: philadelphia, nashville tennessee, hawaii, china, oregon ...
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