Life philosophy movies and TV shows – page 4

List of life philosophy movies

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Rocky Balboa (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly, family outing
Plot: boxing, father son relationship, boxer, athlete's life, life, comeback, training, aging, fight, life philosophy, against the odds, determination ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, las vegas
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My Brilliant Friend (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, friendship, children, hopes, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, brutality, parents and children, feminist, friends, girlfriend, relationship problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: syria, usa, italy, naples italy
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Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fresh, unflinching and devastatingly honest, Bill Burr lets loose in this feature length comedy special. Burr shares his essential tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse, exposes how rom-coms ruin great sex and explains how too many childhood hugs ...
Style: unusual plot structure, funny, light, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: life philosophy, childhood, suprisingly clever, comedian, philosophy, storytelling, stand up comedian, transformation, violence, parenthood, mentor, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 37K
The Discovery (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style: enigmatic, psychological, philosophical, intellectual, dark ...
Plot: suicide, afterlife, alternate reality, life after death, macabre, science, self discovery, religion, plot twist, dream, life philosophy, philosophy ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2017
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 5.6
 30K
12 Rounds (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When New Orleans cop Danny Fisher prevents a brilliant thief from successfully carrying out his latest heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. Hungry for revenge, the criminal mastermind breaks out of prison and kidnaps ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, police, life philosophy, danger, brutality, storytelling, mind game, chases and races, twists and turns, woman in danger, wrestler, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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 7.8
 24K
Brother (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, rough, art house ...
Plot: russian mafia, organized crime, vigilante, brutality, mafia, life is a bitch, friendship, anti hero, gangster, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, st. petersburg russia
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 6.4
 9K
Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, ghetto, revenge killing, violence, gangster, character study, life, hip hop, urban, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, life & death, happy ending, reincarnation, animal, police dog, transformation, talking animal, death, love, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 60s, 70s ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
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 8.5
 281K
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
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 7.6
 31K
Mr. Church (2016)
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: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
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 7.2
 10K
Manic (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style: psychological, independent film, disturbing, compassionate, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, depression, addiction, juvenile delinquency, psychiatry, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family, youth, mental health ...
Time: year 2001
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The little prince (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada, Italy, USA, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, computer animated, colorful, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, preschool
Plot: imaginary, stop motion, imaginary kingdom, life philosophy, philosophy, little boy, friends, little girl, children, child, coming of age, surrealism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016
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 7.4
 492K
The Terminal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, feel good, motivational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: airport, culture clash, stranded, loneliness, happy ending, fish out of water, fictional country, passenger, immigrant, nothing goes right, jazz, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, eastern europe, romania ...
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 6.2
 11K
Life in a Year (2020)
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, couple relations, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, life, promise, adolescence, dream, dying, loneliness ...
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 6.9
 321K
The Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, love, love story, love and romance, happy ending, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, unrequited love ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, england, california, london, united kingdom ...
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Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired ...
Style: romantic, satirical, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: relationships, love triangle, adultery, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, women, sisters, womanizer, introspection, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, mexico
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 5.4
 71K
Aloha (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Style: feel good, romantic, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, life philosophy, storytelling, love interest, communication, satellite, love affair, happy ending, air force, soldier, couples, small town life ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Style: light, entertaining, funny, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: wedding, interracial relations, racism, sister sister relationship, stereotypes, happy ending, black man, marriage, family drama, couples, fishing, family bonds ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, africa
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The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style: clever, intellectual, realistic, witty, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: entrepreneur, programmer, business, geek, facebook, computers and web, hacker, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, computer genius, success, college ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s ...
Place: harvard university, california, boston, usa, san francisco ...
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 6.6
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Easy Virtue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Style: witty, sexy, stylized, period piece, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: family relations, high society, culture clash, dysfunctional family, fish out of water, father in law daughter in law relationship, manipulation, parents and children, love and romance, marriage, disorder, meet the parents ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2008, future
Place: england, britain, europe, france
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 6.0
 104K
Jobs (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Style: inspirational, serious, factual, realistic, intense ...
Plot: entrepreneur, business, creativity, rise to the top, inventor, computer, entrepreneurship, biopic, inventions and discoveries, prodigy, believe in yourself, business venture ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 2013, 90s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, india
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Genre: Short, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Horrible, an aspiring supervillain with his own video blog, is attempting to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil (led by the legendary "thoroughbred of sin", Bad Horse), but his plans are usually foiled by the egotistical ...
Style: humorous, witty, light, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mad scientist, unrequited love, villain, unfulfilled love, imaginary, life philosophy, creativity, music, love triangle, rivalry, danger, superhero ...
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Gridiron Gang (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Style: inspirational, hood, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, underdog, youth, redemption, football, competition, life philosophy, teacher ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, unlikely couple, bet, couple relations, relationships, dating, journalist ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 25K
Anna (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: manipulation, psychic power, haunted by the past, uncover truth, twists and turns, mind game, plot twist, brutality, teenager, life is a bitch, murder, false memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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To Rome with Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing ...
Style: feel good, romantic, surreal, ironic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: love story, love, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, architect, newlyweds, love and romance ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
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 6.9
 100K
Another Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style: surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place: usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, clever, melancholic, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: teacher, high school, writers, life & death, single father, father son relationship, grief, family drama, loneliness, suicide, life philosophy, character study ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, nebraska, seattle
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