One day movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant one day movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, interesting, weird, independent film, clever and humorous films and TV shows about / with one day, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, brutality, violence, night, catastrophe, life philosophy and suprisingly clever plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Austria and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as one day: One Fine Day (1996), Before Sunset (2004), Before Sunrise (1995), Behold Homolka (1970), Man Up (2015), Escape from New York (1981), Training Day (2001), 24 (2001), Friday (1995), 100 Bloody Acres (2012).
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List of one day movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
single parent, architect, opposites attract, couples, love and romance, nothing goes right, parents and children, one day, single mother, father daughter relationship, girl, love ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style:
philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse ...
Plot:
argument, father in law daughter in law relationship, quarrel, overweight woman, grandparents, family life, one day, smoking, father son relationship, anger, husband wife relationship, female nudity ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague
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59K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
blind date, single woman, seduction, love, destiny, happy ending, one day, stranger, looking for love, self discovery, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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512K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, harsh, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
police corruption, ghetto, gang, corrupt cop, drug dealer, african american, rookie, dirty cop, mentor, twists and turns, gunfight, gang member ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, usa
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206K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method ...
Style:
cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, president, political conspiracy, terrorist, terrorist plot, secret service, government agency, race against time, assassination of president, bodyguard, twists and turns, assassination attempt ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, new york, usa ...
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136K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style:
hood, funny, independent film, feel good, light ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, hip hop, weed, marijuana, friendship, drug, rap, friends, rapper, friendship between men, drug dealer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Style:
horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, dark humor, family business, male nudity, brother, murder, countryside, murderous pair, kidnapping, marijuana, secret, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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134K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, talky, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
slacker, jay and silent bob, friendship, weed, youth, life philosophy, bare butt, videotaped sex, dumped by girlfriend, superhero, coming of age, one day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, seattle, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
240K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style:
clever, funny, philosophical, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, sarcasm, satire, slacker, workplace, everyday life, weed, stupidity, loser, stoner, one day, hipster ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa, north america
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191K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style:
bleak, cerebral, clever, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, drug lord, organized crime, drug dealer, drug, melancholy, 9/11, freedom, redemption, paranoia, hopes, profanity ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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211K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Style:
funny, romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
time loop, time travel, time, wedding, love and romance, repeated event, time warp, earthquake, dark humor, dying repeatedly, desert, time traveler ...
Time:
2020s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, palm springs california, hawaii, austin texas, texas ...
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25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style:
independent film, cerebral, philosophical, satirical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anarchist, slacker, subculture, coming of age, anarchism, philosophy, loser, one day, existentialism, twenty something, teenager, hangout ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, dallas texas ...
Is relevant?
348K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, christmas special, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, terrorism, revenge, race against time, lone hero, heist, police, buddy cop, car chase, terrorist, police officer, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus beings an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, teenage love, nightlife, love, homosexual, youth, love story, teenage life, teenage boy, high school, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, cannibalism, chainsaw, masked killer, murder, homicidal maniac, psychopath, danger, macabre, killer, maniac ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
alcoholism, male nudity, depression, dysfunctional family, addiction, drinking, alcoholic, greed, introspection, human nature, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time:
1930s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses ...
Style:
anthology, scary, suspenseful, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
witch, transformation, stephen king, hitman, mummy, gargoyle, macabre, child in peril, revenge, murder, witchery, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style:
cult classic, suspense, neo noir, dark comedy, intense ...
Plot:
office, manipulation, business, closeted homosexual, greed, workplace, career, real estate agent, dialogue, entrepreneurship, rain, entrepreneur ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
chicago, brooklyn new york city, new york, illinois, arizona ...
Is relevant?
103K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, teacher, bullying, teenage girl, mass murder, violent, high school, teenager, youth, school, rage ...
Time:
year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style:
teen, cult classic, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, adolescence, teenager, friendship, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, party, last day of school, bullying, student, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, seattle, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Style:
stylized, entertaining, breathtaking, cult classic, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
violence, revenge, lone hero, tough guy, sex scene, hitman, sexual content, outdoor sex, murder of a nude woman, voyeur, assassin, one man army ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, tokyo
Is relevant?
110K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, cell phone, lone hero, violence, race against time, home invasion, kidnapped, telephone call, family in danger, psychopath, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Netherlands
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
taxi driver, birthday, parents and children, satire, down on your luck, one day, justice, father and daughter, love, society, unemployment, gift ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
'Drop Box' is a comedy about a spoiled pop princess who accidentally returns her sex tape to a local video store, then must try everything to get it back from an uncooperative clerk. Fearing that if she fails, her next big hit won't ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
lifestyle, love and romance, store, twentysomething life, fame, pop star, sex tape, celebrity, one day, computers and web, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
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