Storytelling movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant storytelling movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out inspirational, thought provoking, touching, visually appealing, crying and interesting films and TV shows about / with storytelling, mentor, destiny, dialogue, death, friendship, love, life & death, runaway and redemption plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as storytelling: The Man from Earth (2007), Pulp Fiction (1994), Schindler's List (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Atonement (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), The Help (2011), Fight Club (1999), Mr. Church (2016), The Cider House Rules (1999).
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New films
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, reflective, mindfuck, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, immortality, atheism, religion, storytelling, immortal, dialogue, professor, society, myth, heart attack, eternal youth ...
Time:
future, medieval times, 2000s, prehistory, 17th century ...
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2.4M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, witty, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
dark humor, gunfight, violence, hitman, gangster, organized crime, overdose, storytelling, violent, professional killer, multiple storylines, foul language ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, america, britain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, tragic love, injustice, love story, unfulfilled love, sex scene, forbidden love, love and romance, false accusation, innocence ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1940s, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, dunkirk, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love story, single father, true love, storytelling, daughter, father, love, best friends in love, fall in love, male female friendship, relationships ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1994, year 1992, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin, usa ...
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525K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
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2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, compassionate, reflective ...
Plot:
african american, life philosophy, food, relationships, family bonds, friendship, interracial friendship, love story, childhood, life, cooking, cancer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 80s, year 1977, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sentimental, visually stunning, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
abortion, coming of age, orphan, adoption, childhood, mentor protege relationship, storytelling, justice, love triangle, sexual attraction, unwanted pregnancy, sick child ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, year 1999, 90s, year 1943 ...
Place:
maine, usa, new england, atlantic ocean, north america ...
Is relevant?
477K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
surrealism, fish, journey, storytelling, fantasy world, father son relationship, childhood, mermaid, magic, loneliness, adventurer, free spirited ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, southern usa, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style:
touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
destiny, true love, life philosophy, life & death, aging, existentialism, love and romance, life changing, melancholy, magic realism, love, life lesson ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
southern usa, cambodia, usa, new orleans, russia ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, stylized, offbeat, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
childhood, children, fantasy world, chocolate, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, imagination, poverty, food ...
Time:
year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
bavaria, new delhi, japan, europe, georgia ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Is relevant?
348K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style:
touching, visually appealing, period piece, visually stunning, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, orphan, friendship, filmmaking, boy, childhood, street kid, longing, robot, harry potter, magical, destiny ...
Time:
year 2011, post world war one, 20th century, year 1931, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, france, madagascar, iran, europe
Is relevant?
199K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style:
road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot:
buddhism, road trip, magic, storytelling, monk, on the road, buddhist, illusion, self discovery, clergy, introspection, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tibet
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA, UK
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make ...
Style:
epic, scenic, atmospheric, breathtaking, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, manly, chick flick ...
Plot:
sword fight, fantasy world, friendship, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, wizard, magic, middle earth, lord of the rings, mythology, hobbit, magical ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place:
iran, detroit, new zealand
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696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
127K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style:
surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, cerebral, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, imagination, escape from reality, suicide, desert, storytelling, stuntman, magic realism, imaginary kingdom, friendship ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
Is relevant?
864K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death ...
Style:
fairy tale, touching, romantic, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
sword fight, revenge, swashbuckler, true love, love and romance, pirate, medieval, imaginary kingdom, love, love story, prince, lovers apart ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 20th century, year 1987, victorian era ...
Place:
seattle, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, witty, surreal, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
hotel, art theft, mentor, mentor protege relationship, prison escape, murder, escapades, twists and turns, gunfight, painting, fictional country, lawyer ...
Time:
1930s, year 2014, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
eastern europe, alps, europe, persia, america ...
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16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, thought provoking, philosophical, talky ...
Plot:
evolution, atheism, biopic, atheist, storytelling, loss of daughter, science, scientist, family relations, haunted by the past, religion, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, ancient times, 19th century, year 2009, 1850s ...
Place:
england, europe, borneo, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, disturbing, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
death, zoo, car accident, amputation, bestiality, storytelling, surrealism, obsession, absurdism, grief, amputee, zoologist ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
tokyo, poland
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23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Is relevant?
261K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, dark, atmospheric, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, storytelling, monster, fire, love, flashback, blind man, butterfly, captain, ship, north pole ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, vienna, london
Is relevant?
422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Masha, it turns out, loves to tell stories! And she tells them, as would any child with creativity, a little in her own way - because children see the world, not as we, adults.
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
storytelling, little girl, friendship, child, childhood, listener, house, kindergarten, puppet, bedtime story, storyteller
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ...
Style:
breathtaking, epic, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, samurai, gory, vengeance, medieval, visceral, brutality, storytelling, kung fu, sword, heroes ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, ancient china, asia, tokyo
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