| The Dirties (2013) | 6.8 | |
| Spider-Man (2002) | 7.4 | |
| Straw Dogs (1971) | 7.4 | |
| Skirt Day (2008) | 6.9 | |
| In Darkness (2011) | 7.3 |
Breaking point movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant breaking point movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, serious, weird, psychological and feel good films and TV shows about / with breaking point, profanity, mentor, dialogue, unfulfillment, father son relationship, life philosophy, death, storytelling and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as breaking point: Rampage (2009), A Perfect Day (2008), Fight Club (1999), Spider-Man (2002), My Father's Guests (2010), Me and My Sister (2004), Two Days (2003), Lesson of the Evil (2012), Tanguy (2001), Scenic Route (2013).
Best films
New films
| 1992 (2022) | 5.7 | |
| Udal (2022) | 6.3 | |
| Dangerous (2021) | 5.2 | |
| A Friendly Tale... (2020) | 6.1 | |
| Zero Charisma (2013) | 6.3 |
List of breaking point movies
21K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The boredom of small town life is eating Bill Williamson alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of everyday life and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. His ...
Style:
psychological, brutal, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence spree, killing spree, bad guy wins, violence, violent, chase, vengeance, murder, mass murder, serial killer, breaking point, massacre ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, obsession, ex husband, life is a bitch, breaking point, parents and children, mentally unstable, danger, family problems, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Is relevant?
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
957K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers.
Style:
exciting, serious, entertaining, saga, intense ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, spider man, secret identity, courage, vigilante, selflessness, super villain, heroes, transformation, fighting crime, good versus evil ...
Time:
2000s, y2k, year 2001, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, turkey, north america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-old.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, family relations, breaking point, couple relations, love and romance, undocumented immigrant, immigrant, couples, fall in love, misfit, society, elderly ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story of two sisters, one from the country with simpler attitudes who comes to stay for a short while with her sophisticated sister who lives in the big city.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, breaking point, family relations, dull life, parents and children, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, frigidity, housewife, family problems, living together ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot:
filmmaking, introspection, actor's life, change of heart, lifestyle, breaking point, life is a bitch, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot:
high school, psychopath, teacher, massacre, serial killer, breaking point, under the surface, power relations, mental disorder, high school teacher, school shooting, sexual blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
mama's boy, nothing goes right, psychoanalysis, family life, living with parents, breaking point, family problems, dark humor, leaving home, parents and children, independence, separation from family ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, china, beijing china
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Stranded on an isolated desert road, two life-long friends fight for survival as their already strained relationship spirals into knife-wielding madness.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, twisted, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, friends, stupidity, on the road, survival, breaking point, murder, mental disorder, fight, road trip, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' ...
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, cerebral, cynical, intellectual ...
Plot:
alienation, social differences, life is a bitch, society, misfit, breaking point, social decay, homeless, existentialism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, refugee, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
germany, france, kosovo, europe, africa ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, touching, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
self discovery, betrayal by friend, nothing goes right, adultery, father daughter relationship, infidelity, chaos, breaking point, disorder, human nature, love triangle, fatherhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
135K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, light, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, couple relations, love, blogger, blog, relationships, cookbook ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
775K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style:
sincere, exciting, saga, visually stunning, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, boys' night, kids ...
Plot:
superhero, mad scientist, superhuman powers, double life, disguise, vigilante, spider man, super villain, good versus evil, friendship, experiment gone awry, fantasy world ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, psychological, art house, cult classic ...
Plot:
war photographer, art, photograph, breaking point, poisoning, american abroad, frustration, corruption, lifestyle, journalism, photography, true crime ...
Time:
2020s, year 1971, 70s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.
Style:
witty, slasher, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, serial killer, medieval, misfit, vengeance, social misfits, rivalry, twists and turns, breaking point, violence spree, basketball, socially awkward ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Style:
not serious, humorous, independent film, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family relations, punishment, confinement indoors, teenage life, danger, weekend, breaking point, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Style:
horror comedy, suspenseful, not serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, creature, losing-it hero, dark humor, life turned upside down, danger, deadly creature, disorder, breaking point, revenge, split personality, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
soldier, conspiracy, obsession, rivalry, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, breaking point, losing-it hero, dishonesty, isolation, military, locked in a room ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An obsessive fantasy nerd gradually becomes unhinged when a charismatic hipster joins his role-playing game
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
nerd, misfit, grandmother grandson relationship, social misfits, breaking point, buddies, uninhibited rivalry, loser, board game, dungeons and dragons, geek, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, crime gone awry, confined, partner, breaking point, disorder, danger, unlikely criminals, blood, cell phone, forest, unemployed ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
female teacher, hostage, teachers and students, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, youth, mentally unstable, high school, life is a bitch, society, breaking point, police ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond ...
Style:
sexy, romantic drama, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, boys' night, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
love, love story, officers and cadets, military life, navy, unwanted pregnancy, happy ending, u.s. navy, passion, father son relationship, suicide by hanging, class differences ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, the philippines, washington state, manila philippines
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
humorous, cult classic, dark comedy, harsh, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, dark humor, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, disorder, friendship, infidelity, crumbling relationship, instructor, school ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, emotional, humorous, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, closeted homosexual, vacation, beach, repressed homosexual, beach house, gay interest, unrequited love, accident, gay, restaurant, secret ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
324K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to ...
Style:
funny, romantic, sweet, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night ...
Plot:
wedding, best friend, friendship, female friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding dress, friends, sex scene, bachelorette party, fear of commitment, single woman, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, milwaukee wisconsin, paris france, wisconsin
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place:
florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
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