Reluctant movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant reluctant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, entertaining, touching, feel good and captivating films and TV shows about / with family relations, profanity, danger, rivalry, male protagonist, live action, friendship, death, time travel and heroes plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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reluctant movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as reluctant: Trouble with the Curve (2012), Chuck (2007), Real Humans (2012), John Carter (2012), Royal Pains (2009), The Visitor (2007), The Patriot (2000), Las Vegas (2003), Secondhand Lions (2003), Closer (2004).

List of reluctant movies

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Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style: inspirational, touching, melancholic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, baseball, aging, blind character, lawyer, pitcher, kids and family, good versus evil, parents and children, ambitious, accident, career ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 146K
Chuck (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an ...
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: geek, double life, cia, secret agent, espionage, enemy, peril, spy, lifestyle change, misfit, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 7K
Real Humans (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a parallel universe, Real Humans imagines a world where robots have become so human that they're barely distinguishable from real humans and follows the resulting emotional effects on two families as well as the trials of a group of ...
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, family relations, freedom, human nature, conflict, civil rights, gynoid, power relations, society, lawyer ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 285K
John Carter (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and ...
Style: epic, entertaining, exciting, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: mars, alien, monster, space travel, heroic mission, danger, space opera, mysterious planet, distant planet, imaginary kingdom, steampunk, battles ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, future, 19th century, 1870s ...
Place: virginia, arizona, new york, space western
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 23K
Royal Pains (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to ...
Style: medical drama, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: doctor, medical, doctors and patients, family relations, physician, high society, starting over, rich, flirting, millionaire, mogul, health situation ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 44K
The Visitor (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Style: realistic, depressing, touching, independent film, philosophical ...
Plot: immigrant, professor, life, friendship, self discovery, loneliness, society, jazz, lawyer, existentialism, midlife crisis, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007
Place: new york, michigan, connecticut, senegal, syria ...
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 7.2
 292K
The Patriot (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style: period piece, dramatic, rough, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: american revolution, war, freedom, revolution, military, battles, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, heroic mission, wartime, combat ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k, 1780s ...
Place: south carolina, america, southern usa, virginia, britain ...
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 7.4
 30K
Las Vegas (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Las Vegas is an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the fictional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working ...
Style: sexy, stylized, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, hot and sexy, friends, boss and employee, cons and scams, team, businessman, parents and children, sin, buddies, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
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Secondhand Lions (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, inspirational, period piece ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, coming of age, fish out of water, greed, childhood, misfit, youth, bittersweet, courage, aging, suicidal, family relations ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 1910s, 60s
Place: texas, africa, austin texas, usa, france ...
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 235K
Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, marriage, love at first sight, passion, sex, stripper, photographer, sexuality, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 27K
Nashville (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: country music, music, fame, musician, music industry, family relations, celebrity, lifestyle, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, musician's life, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee, southern usa, tennessee
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 728K
Shrek (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, funny, 3d animation, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: princess, dragon, friendship, magic, stereotypes, talking animal, reluctant partners, love and romance, magical, anthropomorphism, imaginary kingdom, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 2001, middle ages, medieval times, 16th century, 2000s
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 7.2
 401
Arthur's Law (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Unemployed Arthur Ahnepol wants his obnoxious wife to die to claim the life insurance and start a new life with his mistress, which sets off a series of disastrous events.
Style: humorous, psychological, cynical, tragicomedy, captivating
Plot: misogyny, older man younger woman relationship, lifestyle change, unlikely partners, morality, criminal, family life, peril, family problems, life turned upside down, unlikely criminals, character change ...
Place: germany
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 509K
Hancock (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: superhero, immortality, supernatural ability, invulnerability, black superhero, memory loss, anti hero, super powers, superhuman, superhuman powers, heroes, prison ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
Is relevant ?
In-Lawfully Yours (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Following both the death of her father-in-law and a divorce, Jesse, a New Yorker, returns to a small town to live with her now widowed mother-in-law. Jesse struggles to fit in with the local townsfolk who don’t welcome her with open arms to say ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: pastor, love and romance, in love, relatives, family life, fall in love, relationship problems, love interest, love triangle, ex couple relations, male female relationship, sibling relationship ...
Place: new york
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 2K
Afterlife (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: psychic, psychic power, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, paranormal activity, research, danger, unlikely partners, nobody believes, supernatural ability, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 687
Peacemakers (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
TV show
Story: Peacemakers is an American crime fiction television series about forensic science in the Old West. It was filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered July 30, 2003, on the USA Network. The show was cancelled after one ...
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot: forensics, partner, law enforcement, sheriff, investigation, small town, old west, mortician, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, murder ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman ...
Style: exciting, suspense, thrilling, visually stunning, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, manly, date night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, good versus evil, secret identity, double life, chaos and mayhem, terrorism, villainess, self sacrifice, terrorist plot, revenge ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, london, italy, pentagon
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 7.0
 44K
People Like Us (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: family secret, salesman, family bonds, relationships, father son relationship, family relations, funeral, single mother, introspection, family problems, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 13K
Wonderfalls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004. The show centers on Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, good deed, niagara falls, disorder, young woman, youth, imaginary, heroine, boss, young man, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 117K
Weeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marijuana, drug dealing, drug dealer, single mother, smuggling, eccentric family, widow, unlikely criminals, family relations, dark humor, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
Is relevant ?
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Style: sentimental, touching, factual, compassionate, sad ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: childhood, filmmaking, biopic, hollywood, writer's life, family drama, love, family relations, showbiz, success, parents and children, writers ...
Time: year 2013, edwardian era, 60s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: california, los angeles, australia, usa, london
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 123K
Nebraska (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style: road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: aging, road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, elderly, on the road, old age, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, usa
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Eastbound & Down (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, desire for fame, teacher, ambition, lifestyle, ex athlete, obsession, stupidity, dark humor, loser, delusion, coach ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, hawaii, mexico, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 136K
Doubt (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style: period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic ...
Plot: priest, religion, pedophilia, clergy, nun, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, teacher, catholic, pedophile, catholic church, boy ...
Time: 60s, year 2008, victorian era, 90s, year 1964 ...
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 244K
Rambo (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...
Style: brutal, bloody, action packed, grindhouse, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, rambo, violent, lone hero, jungle, warrior, sniper, mercenary, heroes, army, military, survival ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: burma, asia, thailand, arizona, southeast asia
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 131K
30 Rock (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: 30 Rock is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013, and was created by Tina Fey. The series, which is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, parody, not serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: workplace, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, showbiz, topical humor, comedian, pop culture, friendship, actor, feminist, nothing goes right, entertainment ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 179K
The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: political, suspense, cerebral, fast paced, intense ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, courtroom, corruption, reporter, politics, journalist, business, conspiracy, lawyer, legal, media ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, washington d.c., kentucky, south carolina, mississippi ...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 201 min.
Story: Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, breathtaking, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, manly ...
Plot: sword fight, wizard, magic, magical, battles, creature, courage, monster, friendship, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran
Is relevant ?
 9.5
 2.1M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
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