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, suspenseful and interesting films and TV shows about / with moral dilemma, death, twists and turns, murder, dialogue, husband wife relationship, storytelling, bare chested male, mentor and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as moral dilemma: The Box (2009), A Second Chance (2014), Indecent Proposal (1993), Womb (2010), My Sister's Keeper (2009), 99 Homes (2014), Nerve (2016), The Booth at the End (2011), Ca$h (2010), Passengers (2016).
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98K
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, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
moral dilemma, life & death, husband murders wife, experiment, psychology, supernatural, decision, research, mysterious character, gift, mind control, social experiment ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, richmond virginia, virginia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that ...
Style:
tense, touching, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, law enforcement, life turned upside down, family tragedy, babies and infants, moral dilemma, society, injustice, social decay, nordic, grief, suicide of wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, eastern europe
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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, erotic, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
adultery, sexual relations, gambling, sex, husband wife relationship, love triangle, infidelity, love story, money problems, casino, moral dilemma, cuckold ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles, california
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16K
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, serious, touching, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, couple relations, sex scene, mother son incest, nudity, boy, incest, moral dilemma, dealing with death, tragic love, genetic engineering, death ...
Time:
year 2010, future, distant future, 21st century
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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:
touching, sad, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, family drama, sisters, parenthood, lawyer, relationships, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, hospital, leukemia ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
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41K
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:
emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
moral dilemma, real estate agent, eviction, single father, motel, financial crisis, dysfunctional family, human nature, workplace, parent child relationship, workplace situations, finance ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, orlando florida, california, boston ...
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147K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
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:
suspense, exciting, teen, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, game, internet, hacker, danger, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, friendship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
new york, seattle
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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, mind bending, captivating, mind blowing, independent film ...
Plot:
mysterious character, moral dilemma, changing lives, wish come true, human nature, deal, death, encounter, desire, doubts and hesitations, diner, puzzle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the ...
Style:
tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, intelligent ...
Plot:
couples, escapades, heist, rivalry, moral dilemma, chases and races, loan, financial problem, human nature, unlikely criminals, manipulation, bullying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
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491K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
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, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
america, los angeles, space western
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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, rough, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
judge, jehovah's witness, hospital, moral dilemma, illness, courtroom, religion, leukemia, marriage crisis, female judge, cancer, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
london, canada
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172K
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, political thriller, thought provoking, factual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
espionage, journalism, whistleblower, hacking, fighting the system, moral dilemma, internet, spying, cia, technology, cryptography, ethics ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2011 ...
Place:
japan, russia, hawaii, america, pakistan ...
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608K
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 appealing, sexy, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, alternate reality, moral dilemma, anti hero, superhuman powers, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy, human nature, parallel world, masked vigilante, one against many ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., america, los angeles, vietnam ...
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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:
sexy, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, family comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, lovers, love and romance, unfaithful wife, sex, old love, marital infidelity, ex couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, philadelphia, new york, paris france
Is relevant?
77K
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, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot:
greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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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, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
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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, psychological, suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
evidence, lawyer, lie, uncover truth, infidelity, suspect, death, murder suspect, interrogation, strong female character, moral dilemma, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona
Is relevant?
21K
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:
tense, sexy, sincere, psychological, indie film ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, atheism, adultery, atheist, religion, moral dilemma, redemption, hopes, infidelity, life turned upside down, introspection, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
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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:
unusual plot structure, serious, compassionate, witty, talky ...
Plot:
suicide, terminal illness, biopic, murder, moral dilemma, euthanasia, lethal injection, greed, eccentricity, atheism, legal, historical figure ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan, california
Is relevant?
67K
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:
psychological, anime, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, false accusation, doctor, murder, protagonist as suspect, guilt, mastermind, manipulation, choice, hospital, nihilism, investigator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, czech republic
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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, psychological, disturbing, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
game of death, survival, group of strangers, danger, torture, game, deathtrap, mind game, psychopath, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, plot twist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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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, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids
Plot:
survival, female protagonist, dystopian future, death, game of death, dystopia, distopia, competition, contests and competitions, youth, heroine, danger ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
north america, seattle
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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:
moral dilemma, racism, fascism, skinhead, fall in love, violent content, psychopath, single parent, love and romance, gang, nationalism, neo nazi ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
finland
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
Is relevant?
108K
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, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body swapping, immortality, chase, cloning, soul transference, life philosophy, moral dilemma, cyberpunk, disorder, technology, twists and turns, billionaire ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, dark ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, teenage boy, robbery, brothers, sick mother, money, heist gone wrong, burglar, secret, family relations, hidden truth, encounter ...
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1.0M
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:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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402K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Style:
atmospheric, dark comedy, grim, psychological horror, absurd ...
Plot:
experimental drug, fountain of youth, body horror, celebrity, drug, disfigurement, female monster, dark secret, narcissism, moral dilemma, rivalry, fight to the death ...
Place:
california, los angeles
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23K
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:
psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, misogynist, abuse, kidnapping, slave, serial rapist, psychopath, escape attempt, childhood trauma, isolated house, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, canada
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