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, suspense, realistic, f word and touching films and TV shows about / with promise, friendship, bare chested male, husband wife relationship, nude, family relations, kiss, photograph, fight and friend plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as promise: Isi & Ossi (2020), Life in a Year (2020), Kwaidan (1964), The Last Suit (2017), The Stonebreaker (2020), Baasha (1995), The Crying Game (1992), Aliens (1986), Queen of Earth (2015), The Pledge (2001).
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, entertaining, captivating, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male female relationship, relationships, boxing, promise, fake relationship, friendship, male female friendship, love, rivalry, boxer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, 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, romantic drama ...
Plot:
couple relations, terminal illness, loneliness, life philosophy, romantic friendship, teenager, cancer, promise, adolescence, life, romantic relationship, dream ...
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23K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, road movie ...
Plot:
promise, elderly man, friendship, holocaust survivor, aging, tailor, journey, memory, friends, elderly, old man, bittersweet ...
Time:
future
Place:
poland, argentina, buenos aires argentina, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, single parent, promise, grief, poverty, loss, mourning, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
southern italy
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13K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Auto rickshaw driver Manickam avoids violence at all costs. When some thugs begin to intimidate Manickam's family, it triggers the revival of Manickam's old self.
Style:
epic, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
faked death, stepmother stepson relationship, presumed dead, promise, crime boss, death of father, smuggler, brother brother relationship, gangster, pacifist, street fight, superstar ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india, asia, bombay india
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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:
sexy, suspenseful, psychological, controversial, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
transgender, tragic love, terrorism, gender, kidnapping, lgbtq, hostage, sexuality, transsexual, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, london, england, europe
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835K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, 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:
futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time:
22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place:
space western
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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:
cerebral, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian subtext, mental breakdown, jealousy, friendship, vacation, depression, promise, party, mental disorder, memory, doctor, 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:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, child murder investigation, investigation, murder mystery, child murder, plot twist, justice, private investigation, violent, small town, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
nevada, turkey, reno nevada
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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:
slasher, scary, spooky, epic, psychological horror ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
clown, killer clown, stephen king, evil clown, fear, asthma, group of friends, supernatural horror, villain, evil, carnival, panic ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2019, 80s, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
maine, los angeles, new york, usa
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
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:
suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, psychopath, winter, investigation, homicide detective, murder investigation, manhunt, kidnapping, drug overdose, rape and murder, rape ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place:
alaska, usa, boston
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
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:
sexy, polyamorous, eros, factual, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
polyamory, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian, lesbianism, bdsm, superheroine, sadomasochism, husband wife relationship, college professor, sexual fantasy, orgasm ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1941, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place:
new york, france, connecticut, louisiana, 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, rom com, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, erotic massage, sex scene, sexual attraction, topless woman, foul language, stupidity, sexual humor, public nudity, masseuse, caught having sex, female masturbation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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37K
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:
cerebral, art house, melancholic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
old woman, marriage, childless couple, anniversary, aging, elderly, anniversary party, jealousy, promise, character study, haunted by the past, family secret ...
Time:
2010s, year 1962, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, switzerland, berlin germany, tokyo
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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:
serious, touching, emotional, independent film, powerful ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
communism, interracial romance, dancer, ballet, against the odds, hopes, dancing, ambition, ballerina, promise, immigrant, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1989, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, asia, usa ...
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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, sexy, touching, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, obsession, destiny, love affair, fall in love, love, friendship, couples, promise, life philosophy, youth ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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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, emotional, touching, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, missing child, riches to rags, parent child relationship, promise, millionaire, family relations, wealth, money, loss, guilt, regret ...
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34K
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:
disturbing, sentimental, captivating, light, fast
Plot:
promise, riot, hopes, escapades, pirate, diaspora, voice over narration, fire, wedding, train, circus, motorcycle ...
Time:
year 1964, year 1983, year 2010, year 1947
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:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, woman on top, oral sex, therapist, sexual awakening ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, Turkey
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:
inspirational, emotional, reflective, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war one, redemption, war, missing person, courage, greco turkish war, family drama, parents and children, family relations, escapades, turkish history, wartime ...
Time:
year 1919, 1910s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1915 ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, australia, gallipoli, ottoman empire ...
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16K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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, suspense, non-linear, art film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social problems, track and field, cheerleader, interracial, african american, trust, doubt, politics, injustice, drinking, promise, teenager ...
Place:
middle east, ohio
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Takatoshi Minamiyama (Sota Fukushi) majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju (Nana Komatsu) and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, touching, sentimental, light ...
Plot:
time travel, love at first sight, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, art student, promise, couples, school, memory, diary, painting, college, prediction ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, kyoto japan
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, queer horror, historical drama, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, sex scene, maid, last will and testament, father daughter relationship, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, friendship, caught having sex, tragic event, extramarital affair, attorney ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
massachusetts, new england
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experience of Billy Moore who survived his Thai prison ordeal by becoming a Muay Thai boxing champion.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
boxing, prison, brutality, prison rape, tattoo, violence, male rape, boxing match, friendship, drug addict, muay thai, martial arts ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, year 2010
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Latchkey kids lose touch when one of them moves away, only to reconnect years later without realizing it, having changed their names to escape their pasts. Once they realize who each other are; they are able heal the wounds of their pasts.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, affectionate
Plot:
love, past, loyalty, friend, fight, lovers, secret, promise, friendship, ptsd, dating show, fan ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, raunchy, rom com, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, female protagonist, woman punches a man in the face, black, female bonding, motel, african american, african american woman, bare chested male, male nudity, women, promise ...
Time:
year 2017, future, year 2011, year 2000, year 2012 ...
Place:
louisiana, indiana, new orleans, usa
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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, realistic, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, promise, friendship, family relations, death of brother, fear, husband wife relationship, jealousy, teenage boy, 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:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
17th century, year 2017
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, hilarious, slapstick, melancholic, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, father son relationship, holiday, christmas time, chase, santa claus, postman, shopping, toys, motorcycle, neighbor, xmas ...
Time:
90s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, canada
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