Morality movies and TV shows – page 2

List of morality movies

 4.7
 729
Textiles (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sophie and Olivier are a young married couple who work in Paris as bakers. Out of the blue, they decide to buy a summer house on the seaside, but without actually seing it. When Sophie, along with her two kids, arrives first on the premices, she ...
Style: sexy, captivating, entertaining, humorous, sex comedy
Plot: nudism, nudist camp, nudist, real estate, naturist, nude beach, morality, female nudity, holiday, marriage, family vacation, sexual promiscuity ...
Place: mediterranean sea, france
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 6.3
 10K
Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style: atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot: poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time: year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place: spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: thought provoking, touching, emotional, sad, depressing ...
Plot: death row, prison, rape, death sentence, nun, death penalty, violence, prison life, court, murder, redemption, catholic ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style: serious, cerebral, epic, visually stunning, gloomy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, character study, greed, money, capitalism, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, father son relationship, abusive father, impostor, mission ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century, middle ages, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, pacific ocean, los angeles, america ...
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 7.5
 77K
Quiz Show (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style: intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot: greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place: new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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 7.4
 626K
Looper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time: future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place: shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
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 7.7
 4K
Nanking (2007)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, japanese occupation of china, atrocity, against humanity, japanese history, rescue, rape, testimony, daring rescue, life is a bitch, danger, survival ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1937
Place: china, asia, japan, shanghai
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style: realistic, serious, neo noir, intercultural, bleak ...
Plot: guilty conscience, guilt, murder, police, morality, loneliness, life is a bitch, law enforcement, down on your luck, crime and punishment, friend, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: helsinki finland, europe, finland
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 6.8
 18K
Big Bad Wolves (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a ...
Style: dark, suspense, tense, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, violence, vigilante, serial killer, violent, vengeance, vigilantism, death, brutality, murder, torture, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, tel aviv israel
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 7.7
 59K
Adam's Apples (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: priest, church, dark humor, religion, funeral, faith, belief, cynic, skinhead, neo nazism, neo nazi, prejudice ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, denmark, saudi arabia, indonesia
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 6.9
 29K
School Ties (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, friendship, preparatory school, anti semitism, american football, justice, boarding school life, prejudice, judaism, working class, youth ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1992, 80s
Place: israel, massachusetts, harvard university, usa, boston
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The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, closeted homosexual, murder, true crime, police investigation, legal, death sentence, trial, moral ambiguity, manipulation, morality, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
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 6.4
 58K
Hart's War (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style: tense, realistic, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, racism, war, prison, prisoner of war camp, court martial, pow, moral dilemma, prison escape, soldier, propaganda ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2002, post world war two
Place: germany, europe, belgium, poland
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 7.8
 512K
Training Day (2001)
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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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style: disturbing, harsh, political, heartbreaking, brutal ...
Plot: journalism, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, adoption, orphan, genocide, family relations, morality, military, anti war, rescue ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, year 1992
Place: bosnia, england, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, europe ...
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 5.4
 3K
The Ticket (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.
Style: disturbing, touching, psychological, serious
Plot: unfaithful husband, blind man, friendship, obsession, greed, morality, betrayal, loss, regret, blindness, husband and wife, disability ...
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 7.6
 273K
The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, holocaust, nazi, first love, trial, world war two, older woman younger man sex, sex, unlikely couple ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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The Emperor's Club (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style: inspirational, realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, coming of age, boarding school life, ethics, school teacher, schoolboy, boarding school, teachers and students, youth, hardcase students, boys' school ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s, future
Place: washington d.c., pennsylvania, new jersey
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 5.5
 11K
Sightless (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After an attack renders her blind, Ellen withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: blind character, blind woman, violin, victim, deception, intrigue, characters in danger, society, morality, villain, manipulation, price of justice ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle
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Comedians Giving Lectures (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Some of the funniest people in British comedy deliver a hilarious stand up presentation in the guise of a lecture in this stand-up competition. Not only have they got to impress the audience with their usual comedy chops, they will also be marked on ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, funny, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: satire, female comedian, lecture, morality, comedian, british, stand up comedian, humour, competition, public speaking, variety show, social commentary ...
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 8.2
 217K
The Good Place (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, touching ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: afterlife, ethics, karma, death, paradise, utopia, self sacrifice, hell, deception, female protagonist, soul mate, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s
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 7.2
 10K
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style: neo noir, controversial, grindhouse, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: prostitute, hospital, small town, social commentary, marriage proposal, sex, hooker, nurse, abortion, pedophilia, bald woman, prostitution ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 1961
Place: america, switzerland, usa, venice
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Indecent Proposal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style: sexy, sexual, emotional, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: adultery, sexual relations, gambling, sex, husband wife relationship, love triangle, infidelity, love story, money problems, casino, moral dilemma, cuckold ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles, california
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place: germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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 8.6
 1.5M
The Green Mile (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: death penalty, prison, stephen king, death row, death sentence, convict, supernatural, false accusation, prison life, life philosophy, electric chair, execution ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, 20th century, 90s, year 1935
Place: southern usa, usa, louisiana, america, persia
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style: surreal, satirical, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, sadomasochism, monk, chaos, religion, courtroom, society, mistaken identity, greed, visceral, estrangement ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe, spain
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A Perfect World (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style: suspense, road movie, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, prison, fugitives, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, child abuse, road trip, small town, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, year 1993
Place: texas, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska, usa ...
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 7.0
 100K
Unthinkable (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, sexy, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorism, nuclear bomb, spy, counter terrorism, torture, expert, terrorist, violence, politics, cia, dehumanization, interrogation ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iran, akron ohio, usa, middle east
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 7.2
 111K
Election (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, political, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: teacher, high school, politics, election, teenage girl, satire, jealousy, school, coming of age, campaign, adultery, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k, 20th century
Place: nebraska, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york, usa ...
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 7.5
 82K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, realistic, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snow, bag of money, crime gone awry, small town, greed, twists and turns, betrayal, fbi, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, wisconsin, north america, usa
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