Suffering movies and TV shows – page 4
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| Thanal (2025) | 5.4 | |
| Pearl (2022) | 7.0 | |
| Man of God (2021) | 7.1 |
List of suffering movies
12K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense thriller
Plot:
disaster, survival, rescue team, trapped, endurance, tunnel, rescue attempt, faith, rescue, little girl, husband wife relationship, suffering ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One dark room. Two bound strangers. And, a whole lot of blood.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
torture, abduction, anger, fear, kidnapping, abuse, stranger, darkness, suffering, evil, revenge, obsession ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their first child. He has a temporary job in construction to make ends meet, but the dusty, dirty job exhausts him. Across town, Mary is a manager in a tony ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, sincere, contemplative, tension
Plot:
husband wife relationship, couples, double life, suburbs, secret relationship, pregnancy, suffering, urban setting, twists and turns, resentment, theatre director, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Rome, in 73 B.C. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators wich saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against the roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them ...
Style:
slasher, dark, brutal, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
crucifix, sexual sadism, held captive, darkness, serial killer, brutality, revenge, evil man, psycho, violence, rape, sadism ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, smart ...
Plot:
saint, meaning of life, christian, religious, religion, christianity, religious faith, defamation, preacher, teaching the ways of the world, accusation, suffering ...
Time:
19th century, 1920s, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s
Place:
tibet, greece, egypt, europe, athens greece ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, depressing, romantic drama, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian sex, sex scene, forbidden love, infidelity, funeral, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
london, middle east, israel
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, frightening, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, violence, victim, physical abuse, cruelty, helplessness, abuse, childhood, unsettling ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
TV show
Story:
The TV series "Your Name Is Varvara" reveals to the viewer what is hidden in the shadows of life, i.e. what human life (according to the latest findings) looks like in the modern world today. Without a classic main character, and with ...
Style:
thought provoking, existential, philosophical, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
suffering, character study, trauma, identity, healing, intimate, female protagonist, resilience, spirituality, redemption, urban, symbolism ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, illness, immigration, adolescence, compassion, father son relationship, empathy, suffering, humanism, fighting illness, coping, life is a bitch ...
Place:
milan italy, north africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, medical horror, period piece, historical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, suffering, holocaust, jewish family, persecution, oppression, survival, deportation, anti war, loss of innocence, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Style:
emotional, poignant, historical drama, educational, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
slavery, black slave, racial injustice, oppression, injustice, suffering, bondage, civil war, african american, family bonds, resilience, plantation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
kentucky, new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
The sequel to Kireedam (1989), Chenkol continues the story of Sethumadavan who hopes to regain his lost life after 8 years in prison.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
tragedy, father son relationship, family conflict, male protagonist, loss, suffering, tragic hero, character study, realism, family tragedy, identity crisis, fate ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the guards and of their fellow inmates.
Style:
bleak, tense, intense, emotional, period piece
Plot:
humiliation, dehumanization, oppression, suffering, concentration camp, survival, totalitarianism, desperation, abuse of power, forced labor, brutality, trauma ...
Place:
north korea
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
world war two, war crime, suffering, sexual abuse, mass murder, trauma, brutality, rape, loss, political conflict, prisoners of war, occupation ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, year 1938
Place:
china, shanghai
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre ...
Style:
thrilling, semi autobiographical, captivating, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
saint, faith, world war one, church, monastery, catholic church, religious, spiritual journey, catholicism, biopic, suffering, belief in god ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy, southern italy
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Genre: Romance, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, poignant, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, death, survival, trauma, suffering, pow, loss, haunting, moral ambiguity, regret, sacrifice, military hospital ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
pacific ocean, burma
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. ...
Plot:
gulag, political repression, labor camp, memory, coercion, slave labor, prisoner of war camp, communist, bolshevik, communism, industrialization, russian revolution ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who ...
Style:
visually appealing, spectacular, tense, visually stunning, action packed ...
Audience:
girls' night, manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, martial arts, mentor, female protagonist, one man army, heroine, yakuza, fight, sword, dark hero, female warrior ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 90s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, austin texas, texas, persia ...
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6K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
virus, deadly virus, epidemic, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, virus outbreak, danger, fate of humanity, infected ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, stylized, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue mission, military, war, battlefield, battles, chaos and mayhem, battle zone, violent, rescue, squad, danger, courage ...
Place:
afghanistan
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16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, female secret agent, espionage, war crime, love ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1946, year 1941, year 2019, 1940s ...
Place:
soviet union, canada, russia, hiroshima japan, montreal ...
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Genre: Adventure, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
After nearly 20 years in prison, Edmond Dantes escapes the fortress Chateau d'If. He returns as the Count of Monte Cristo and recognizes that his love Mercedes has married another man. Now, he is only driven by revenge on the people who falsely ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
betrayal, aristocracy, convict, false accusation, treasure, conspiracy, haunted by the past, millionaire, revenge, time machine, chivalry, prison ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
europe, marseille, provence, france, paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, USA, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style:
road movie, breathtaking, touching, political, cerebral ...
Plot:
self discovery, motorcycle, revolutionary, poverty, on the road, road trip, journey, travel, politics, idealism, revolution, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 50s, 1950s, y2k ...
Place:
latin america, south america, chile, bolivia, argentina ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Six sorority girls escape to the countryside for a weekend getaway with their new pledge, Dawn. But, unbeknownst to them, an evil force from World War II is waiting for them - Dawn's great-grandfather, a notorious Nazi murderer. When they ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi, nazi zombie, evil wins, gory, folk horror, pagan, supernatural horror, friends, plot twist, torture chamber, local legend, life & death ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of girls are terrorized by violent vagrants before succumbing to a horrific supernatural evil.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, kidnapping, unsettling, life is a bitch, life & death, twists and turns, child abuse, gory, sadistic horror, violence, haunted by the past, occult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A 28-year-old singer Woen, who has a crush on a beautiful girl in his village named Ploy. When Woen and Ploy's parents arrange the couple's marriage, Woen is thrilled. However, on the night of their wedding, Ploy suddenly changes into a ...
Style:
dark, suspense, spooky, scary, bad ending ...
Plot:
twists and turns, nudity, witch, witchcraft, torture victim, puzzle, father son relationship, mutilation, monster, corpse, trapped, mind game ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the bleak, smoke-choked Keiko Town, a gang of boys forms the Hikari Club to destroy the corrupt adult world. But as they build an AI to carry out their mission, they can’t stop the one thing they fear most—growing up themselves.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, captivating, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot:
killer robot, robot, torture, graphic violence, kidnapping, sadistic horror, robot as menace, robotics, serial killer, sentient robot, supernatural, afterlife ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Kasane Fuchi (Kyoko Yoshine) is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills as well, but she is not attractive. She has a hard time due to her unattractiveness. Kasane has a lipstick left behind by her late ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
body swapping, mother and daughter, body transformation, photograph, stage play, japanese girl, drinking alcohol, daughter, agent, aunt niece relationship, mother, rehearsal ...
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