Progress movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant progress movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, period drama, stylized and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with progress, gilded age, society, friendship, family relations, death, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash and photograph plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as progress: Golden Door (2006), Chasing Mavericks (2012), 8 (2008), Tesla (2020), Joy of Techs (2017), Cunk on Earth (2022), Kikoriki: Pin-Code (2012), Ésimésac (2012), New Generation (2021), Eureka! (2022).
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List of progress movies
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, progress, social relations, starting over, society, italian immigrant, tradition, superstition, family history, parent child relationship, hopes, emigrant ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, turn of the century ...
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, europe, palermo italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
surfing, mentor protege relationship, progress, lifestyle, drowning, friends, surfer, surf, dedication, obsessive quest, escapades, youth ...
Time:
year 2012, year 1987, 21st century
Place:
bay area, california, los angeles, usa, monterey california
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
progress, human existence, human relationship, society, life philosophy, multiple storylines, social issues, climate change, warning, contamination, humanity, activism ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
Style:
serious, stylized, factual, inspirational, freeze frame ...
Plot:
inventor, invention, inventions and discoveries, electricity, scientific experiment, rivalry, progress, genius, electrician, scientist, storytelling, science ...
Time:
19th century, 2020s, future, year 1943, 1890s ...
Place:
new york, colorado, pittsburgh, berlin germany, chicago
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Technophobe Marcus Brigstocke and technophile Alexis Conran put the world's top gadgets to the test.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
technology, disagreement, progress, gadget, ridicule, advanced technology, technophobia, satire, entertainment, demonstration, humour, showdown ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows Philomena Cunk as she comically tells the story of our greatest inventions and asks experts hard-hitting questions about humanity's progress.
Style:
mockumentary, satirical, educational, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
progress, satire, science, futuristic technology, advanced technology, stupidity, museum, interview, historian, female protagonist, art, sarcasm ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 13 min.
TV show
Story:
Adventures that develop interest in inventing, programming and science in children from 4 to 14 years of age.
Style:
not serious, light, edutainment, educational, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
friendship, cartoon pig, anthropomorphic animal, animal life, danger, escapades, children, logic, cartoon rabbit, progress, curiosity, technology ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, captivating, fairy tale ...
Plot:
hopes, idealism, family relations, farm, society, youth, human nature, life is a bitch, village life, village, strong man, storytelling ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A six-unit story about the dedication and sacrifice of young citizens in different industries.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, anthology
Plot:
youth, patriotism, dedication, sacrifice, duty, public service, community service, resilience, heroism, progress, communist party, city life ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story:
The story of a young girl inventor who is way ahead of her time. Utilizing creative out-of-the-box thinking, she designs inventions and contraptions in the hopes of making the world a better place and moving her prehistoric community into a more ...
Style:
3d animation, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
inventor, invention, education, elephant, teenager, curiosity, children, creativity, girl power, problem solving, inventions and discoveries, prehistoric man ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age
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Genre: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Get ready to power up! When Barbie magically gets pulled into her favorite video game, she is excited to see she's transformed into a fun roller-skating character. In the game, she meets Cutie, the lovable cloud-shaped friend, and Bella, the ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
barbie, virtual world, female protagonist, video game, team, teamwork, computer game, friend, friendship, female friendship, rescue mission, virtual reality ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Iceland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, suspense, futuristic, realistic ...
Plot:
humanity, mission, dystopia, dystopian future, fate of humanity, generation gap, time travel, architecture, past, civilization, progress, european ...
Time:
future, distant future
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time ...
Style:
brutal, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, bare chested male, wild west, rivalry, violence, brutality, cruelty, friends, duel, society, friendship, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 2010s, 1880s
Place:
usa, south dakota
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of ...
Style:
exciting, intellectual, sexy, captivating, witty ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
renaissance, prodigy, leonardo da vinci, inventions and discoveries, talented, inventor, escapades, shrewd, historical character, sex scene, male nudity, medieval ...
Time:
15th century, medieval times, future
Place:
italy, florence, wales, europe, rome italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Style:
satirical, humorous, stylized, exciting, spoof ...
Plot:
judge, justice, vengeance, gunfight, lawman, lawyer, society, starting over, vigilantism, friendship, corruption, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, san antonio texas, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and ...
Style:
talky, humorous, retro, funny, anime ...
Plot:
prostitute, desert, left to die, loner, survival, death of protagonist, rags to riches, oasis, water, great ending, rattlesnake, homeless ...
Time:
1900s, year 1970, 19th century, 70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, america, nevada, san francisco, new orleans ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
Style:
period piece, talky, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, class differences, progress, gilded age, culture clash, literary, tragic love, class society, moon, couples, power relations, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
america, britain, rome italy, switzerland, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
Style:
funny, retro, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
wild west, saloon girl, old west, mormon, gilded age, con man, progress, gambler, showgirl, partner, disorder, friends ...
Time:
year 1976, 19th century
Place:
america, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century. He escapes with 6 others to exact vengeance on Sam Burgade ...
Style:
perverse, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
gang, sexual assault, cowboy, civil war, rescue, on the run, misery, apache territory, half breed, gilded age, fugitive, outlaw gang ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 19th century, 1900s
Place:
arizona, america, yuma arizona, usa, tucson arizona
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style:
controversial, sexy, erotic, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, innocence lost, nymphet, child prostitution, prostitution, girl man relationship, loss of virginity, world war one, photographer, brothel, child sexual abuse, sexual content ...
Time:
1910s, ancient times, victorian era, year 1978, year 1917 ...
Place:
new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, period piece, controversial, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, immigrant, cattle ranch, epic battle, ranch, skinny dipping, prostitute, brothel, culture clash, gunfight, controversy, female nudity ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 1980, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, harvard university, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style:
touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental ...
Plot:
jazz, music, ship, genius, musician, prodigy, pianist, child prodigy, loneliness, cruise ship, trumpet player, piano ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 90s, year 1998, 1920s ...
Place:
america, italy, new york, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
This movie challenges ones mind to see racism from another perspective. It forces the issue of racism not on a black/white side of things, but an African American and Indian proportionally view.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
interracial couple, interracial romance, tribal chief, tribe, engagement, culture clash, gilded age, progress, black, racism, interracial relations, us military ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
america
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, happy ending, destiny, temptation, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
touching, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, downfall, mischievous children, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, society, human nature, parents and children, dysfunctional family, social differences ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Style:
atmospheric, clever, stylized, detective, costume drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, uncover truth, partners against crime, riddles and clues, twists and turns, victorian england, police investigation, murder investigation, forensics, who done it, police station, unconventional method ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, future, 1890s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada, america
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, period piece, touching, soap opera ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
teacher, small town, lifestyle change, upscale, instructor, character change, social relations, christian, christmas, relationships, love story, rich and poor ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1900s
Place:
america, canada, usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, costume drama ...
Plot:
medicine, hospital, doctor, addiction, workplace situations, surgeon, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, nun, medical, realism, society ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, year 2014, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
usa, new york, america
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 76 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
rise to the top, undercover, performer's life, artists and showbiz, espionage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, magic show, mother son relationship, biopic, swindle, magician ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
america, budapest, san francisco, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
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