Regret movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant regret movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, sentimental, melancholic, realistic, crying and serious films and TV shows about / with regret, mentor, redemption, storytelling, dialogue, runaway, catastrophe, friendship, flashback and death plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as regret: Click (2006), The Past (2013), All the Real Girls (2003), 25th Hour (2002), Field of Dreams (1989), Lorna's Silence (2008), The Son's Room (2001), The Sea of Trees (2015), The Invisible (2007), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009).
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384K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
Time:
year 2006, future, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
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52K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters ...
Style:
sincere, cerebral, captivating, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
coma, depression, dysfunctional family, relationships, divorce, parenthood, muslim, childhood, suicide, love and romance, haunted by the past, family reunited ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, iran, middle east, persia, maghreb ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
womanizer, small town, coming of age, regret, depression, existentialism, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, southern usa, usa, california
Is relevant?
191K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style:
bleak, cerebral, clever, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, drug lord, organized crime, drug dealer, drug, melancholy, 9/11, freedom, redemption, paranoia, hopes, profanity ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style:
inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, hearing voices, regret, farmer, ghost, farm, small town, time travel, happy ending, doctor, magic realism, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, harsh, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigrant, loneliness, marriage, divorce, manipulation, attempted murder, danger, life is a bitch, wedding planning, couples, regret, overdose ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style:
touching, sad, sincere, depressing, meditative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychoanalysis, loss of son, regret, family problems, hopes, family in crisis, grief, psychology, parents and children, overcoming, redemption, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Style:
sad, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
forest, spirituality, aeroplane, doctor, regret, suicidal, survival, mental disorder, loss of wife, professor, anger, rescue ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, coma, afterlife, invisibility, out of body experience, ghost, regret, friendship, existentialism, family relations, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, sweet, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
ghost, womanizer, love, wedding, true love, love story, lifestyle change, love and romance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, supernatural, introspection ...
Time:
80s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey, hawaii
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, doctor, poetry, chemotherapy, hopes, dying, nurse, terminal illness, philosophy, regret ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Style:
depressing, emotional, melancholic, surreal, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide attempt, depression, mental illness, self discovery, life, coming of age, regret, loneliness, direction and purpose, low lives, relationships, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
y2k
Place:
new jersey, new york
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33K
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, touching, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, wedding, first love, coma, love, children, elevator, regret, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, couples, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo, taipei ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling ...
Style:
anime, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot:
death, morality, memory loss, regret, gambling, afterlife, game, game of death, desperation, fear, heaven and hell, unhappiness ...
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113K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
Style:
3d animation, light, touching, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, adult
Plot:
christmas, new year, happy ending, holiday, regret, dog, guard dog, mountain, christmas season, best friend, winter, optimism ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style:
christmas special, christmas classics, christmas horror, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, scrooge, miser, redemption, regret, ghost, charles dickens, christmas carol, clerk, benefactor, transformation, holiday ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, future, 1800s
Place:
turkey, london
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626K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place:
shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the ...
Style:
weeping, realistic, cult classic, rom com, happy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, funeral, midlife crisis, group of friends, regret, suicide, relationships, reunited friends, yuppie, coming of age, outdoor sex, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s, 70s
Place:
south carolina, middle east, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style:
black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
bare butt, nudity, skinny dipping, interracial relations, immigrant, regret, writers, opposites attract, love affair, writer's life, fall in love, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
los angeles, italy, california, usa, mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, love, memory, nostalgia, friendship, suicide, regret, summer, reminiscence, homecoming, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
Style:
weeping, talky, clever, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, advertising, marriage, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, amputation, surgery, advertising executive, marital separation, dysfunctional family, employer employee relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, serious, powerful, crying ...
Plot:
lgbt, police officer, gay interest, gay, closeted homosexual, love, gay affair, relationships, lost love, secret relationship, male male relationship, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, year 1958, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
venice, brighton, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then ...
Style:
splatter, funny, black comedy, independent film, cult classic ...
Plot:
mummy, nightmare, dark humor, undead, mental illness, president, elvis impersonator, old age, profanity, roommate, musician, satire ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa, austin texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, rom com, light, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
high school, prom, friendship, journalism, love and romance, teenage girl, popularity, bullying, journalist, high school life, teen romance, humiliation ...
Time:
90s, y2k, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, melancholic, unusual plot structure, existential ...
Plot:
bullying, isolated house, existentialism, meaning of life, beach, regret, bicycle, destiny, humanity, solitude, life & death, life philosophy ...
Place:
tibet
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Style:
lgbt cinema, romantic, captivating, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay love, gay couple, gay asian, gay relationship, homosexual, lgbt, gay interest, gay lead character, first love, gay romance ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 2000s, 2020s
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei, ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style:
funny, feel good, hilarious, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
thanksgiving, senior citizen, snow, old age, chess, feud, wedding, ice fishing, love triangle, winter, christmas, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1978, 1930s
Place:
minnesota, usa, california
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