Promise movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant promise movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, touching, thought provoking, realistic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with promise, drinking alcohol, friendship, family relations, photograph, drink, husband wife relationship, nude, kiss and crying woman plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as promise: Isi & Ossi (2020), Life in a Year (2020), Queen of Earth (2015), The Pledge (2001), 45 Years (2015), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), It Chapter Two (2019), The Frozen Ground (2013), The Crying Game (1992), Aliens (1986).
Best films
List of promise movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage ...
Style:
sweet, light, entertaining, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male female relationship, relationships, promise, friendship, male female friendship, boxing, love, rivalry, boxer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, aspiration, ambitious woman ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, clever
Plot:
terminal illness, teenager, cancer, dream, couple relations, loneliness, promise, life, adolescence, romantic friendship, dying, life philosophy ...
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and ...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, redemption, vengeance, desert, small town, revenge, justice, murder, promise, loss of friend, racial slur, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, mexico, california, austin texas, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
Style:
tense, captivating, enigmatic, slasher, cerebral ...
Plot:
vacation, friendship, promise, depression, party, lesbian subtext, paranoia, mental illness, memory, doctor, jealousy, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
bleak, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, twists and turns, child murder investigation, murder mystery, small town, suspense, obsession, promise, psychology, child murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada, turkey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, psychological, touching, cerebral ...
Plot:
old woman, marriage, secret, anniversary, aging, childless couple, death, promise, character study, haunted by the past, elderly, jealousy ...
Time:
year 1962, 21st century
Place:
england, tokyo, usa, switzerland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, ambition, communism, promise, immigrants, self fulfillment, human spirit, follow your dream ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1986 ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, epic, splatter ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
killer clown, evil clown, clown, fear, evil, creature, villain, panic, carnival, murder, group of friends, kids in trouble ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
maine, new york, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, psychopath, kidnapping, winter, murder investigation, sexual predator, drug overdose, manhunt, rape and murder, suspense, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, year 1983
Place:
alaska, usa, boston
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
Style:
erotic, sexy, factual, sad, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
polyamory, lgbt, lesbian, lesbianism, psychologist, superheroine, bdsm, husband wife relationship, harvard, college professor, marriage, bisexual ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1972, year 1947, year 1985 ...
Place:
ancient greece, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york, england, ireland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. ...
Style:
funny, sex comedy, humorous, romantic, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, pretending to be someone else, brother brother relationship, erotic massage, sex scene, topless woman, party, stupidity, farce, deception, friendship, dumb ...
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). ...
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
transsexual, terrorism, tragic love, kidnapping, sexuality, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance, hostage, irish republican army, gender, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
alien, strong female character, survival, space travel, monster, space, space and aliens, female warrior, human versus alien, strong female lead, deadly creature, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Self made millionaire Rolando Dominguez (Carlos Guerrero) could not resist the tempting pleasures that came with his success and now finds himself homeless, demented, and tormented by flashbacks of his regretful mistakes and broken promises to his ...
Style:
psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
parent child relationship, post traumatic stress disorder, riches to rags, millionaire, promise, family relations, father son relationship, wealth, money, crazy, rich, homeless ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, obsession, love, couples, friendship, destiny, adaptation, promise, youth ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
Style:
sentimental, disturbing, captivating, light
Plot:
promise, riot, hopes, escapades, diaspora, pirate, train, fire, boat, flashback, church, refugee camp ...
Time:
year 1947, year 1983, year 2010, year 1964
Place:
india
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
touching, sexy, compassionate, erotic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
disability, first sexual experience, near death experience, sexual activity, sexuality, loss of virginity, doctors, virginity, sexual awakening, erotica, oral sex, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, boston, san francisco, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style:
touching, emotional, dramatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war one, war, missing person, redemption, destiny, courage, world war two, parents and children, family relations, graphic violence, escapades, military ...
Time:
1910s, year 1919, 1920s, year 1915, 20th century
Place:
australia, ottoman empire, england, istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The love story of Zuleyha, who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one ordinary night will turn ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, psychological, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
promise, hopes, husband wife relationship, trust, secret, love, court, jealousy, small town, family farm, police, love and romance ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, non-linear, art film
Plot:
social problems, track and field, foster home, african american, trust, public speaking, politics, injustice, drunkenness, promise, doubt, independence day ...
Place:
ohio, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
country music, women's prison, mother daughter relationship, musician, single mother, party, bigger dreams, promise, rehearsal, mother daughter reunion, released from prison, depression ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
nashville tennessee, glasgow scotland, scotland, london
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, social, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lgbt, lesbian romance, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian interest, double murder, oppression ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
massachusetts, new england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, female nudity, terminal illness, promise, femme fatale, dying, breast cancer, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, love ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
liverpool, new york, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, tense, realistic
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, family relations, friendship, promise, teenage boy, jealousy, death of brother, fear, husband wife relationship, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sincere, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
painter, adultery, doctor, artist, marriage, cheating wife, love affair, portrait, thief, sex scene, affair, trust ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, father son relationship, holiday, toys, childhood, christmas party, family life, parents and children, postman, nothing goes right, goofy hero ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, minnesota, canada, minneapolis minnesota
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked ...
Style:
sad
Plot:
dog, animals, best friend, painting, promise, friend, loneliness, wedding, love, marriage proposal, school, marriage ...
Place:
japan, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, promise, friendship, terminal illness, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, addiction, gay, cancer, self destructing ...
Time:
year 1983, year 2000, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
suspicion, friendship, paranoia, promise, professor, chase, violence, lecture, money, husband wife relationship, lie, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, friendship, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, hopes, youth, best friends, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
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