Protective male movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant protective male movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sexy and romantic films and TV shows about / with protective male, love, betrayal, couples, friendship, mentor, fall in love, dialogue, relationships and runaway plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as protective male: Black and White Love (2017), Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000), Endless Love (2014), Safe Haven (2013), The High Cost of Living (2010), Speak (2004), Moonlight (2007), Taken (2008), Good Dick (2008), Shadows & Lies (2010).
Best films
New films
| Lazare (2020) | 5.9 | |
| Love and Destiny (2019) | 8.0 | |
| The Shade Shepherd (2019) | 4.6 | |
| Endless Love (2014) | 6.2 | |
| Baby (2024) | 7.1 |
List of protective male movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min.
TV show
Story:
Ferhat is a hitman working for his criminal uncle. Aslı is a young and idealistic doctor. One day, their roads crossed in the most unexpected way: Aslı is forced to operate on a man that Ferhat had shot.
Style:
emotional, touching, disturbing, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
opposites attract, forced marriage, power of love, fake marriage, jealousy, love, love story, marriage, self sacrifice, rescue, strong female character, doctor ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rape, obsession, sexualized violence, murder, suburbs, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, friendship, protective male, youth ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style:
romantic, unusual plot structure, teen, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
love story, love, forbidden love, teenage love, teen romance, love affair, teenager, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, couples, teenage life ...
Place:
ireland
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121K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style:
romantic, touching, teen, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
small town, love story, obsession, starting over, love, small town life, love and romance, single father, power of love, domestic violence, fall in love, abusive husband ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, boston, south carolina, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnant woman, protective male, drug dealer, hopes, fall in love, pregnancy, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch, introspection, redemption, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
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26K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living.
Style:
light, witty, suspenseful, gothic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, fall in love, reporter, investigation, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability, immortality, imaginary, vampire human love, impossible love, supernatural romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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668K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, action thriller, entertaining, fast ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, one man army, vigilantism, chase, secret service, human trafficking, cia, vigilante, violence, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, north america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style:
indie film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, opposites attract, relationships, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, passionate love, passion ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in exile, to rescue a woman he scarcely knows, Ann, from the vague crime syndicate that first brought ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
danger, love and romance, fall in love, rescue, criminal heroes, dishonesty, lovers on the run, woman in danger, criminal, gangster, rivalry, girl ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo is the remake of Chinese drama Bu Bu Jing Xin that stars IU as a woman who gets time-warped back to the Goryeo dynasty, and becomes involved with a very large family of princes, some of whom are vying for the throne, or her ...
Style:
touching, romantic, captivating, dorama, costume drama ...
Plot:
sweetheart, love triangle, time travel, broken heart, mad love, palace, royal family, rivalry, throne, romantic triangle, palace intrigue, love ...
Time:
10th century, 21st century
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Style:
romantic drama, teen, romantic, intense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, teenager, young lovers, culture clash, relationships, high school, protective male, father daughter relationship, interracial love relationship, unhappiness, self destructing ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated ...
Style:
romantic, teen, sexy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, teenager, love and romance, vampire human love, supernatural romance, fall in love, forbidden love, interspecies romance, teenage love, love, high school ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington state, usa, washington d.c., phoenix arizona, arizona
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526K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine ...
Style:
emotional, tense, inspirational, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
martial arts, courage, mixed martial arts, fight scenes, boxing, fistfight, estrangement, muscleman, happy ending, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, fight ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, iraq, atlantic city new jersey, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style:
romantic, teen, romantic comedy, rom com, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teen romance, teenage life, enemies to lovers, love and romance, teenage love, initially antagonists ...
Time:
y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
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46K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
teen, sexy, controversial, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, teenager, father daughter relationship, child abuse, teenage life, youth, rape, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, rape and revenge, pedophile ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, cleveland ohio, chicago ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her ...
Style:
romantic, teen, touching, saga, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, werewolf, supernatural romance, fantasy world, vampire human love, love triangle, teen romance, teenage girl, supernatural power, supernatural, beautiful scenery, supernatural being ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington state, seattle, washington d.c., usa, florida
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
"If it's a request from my precious wife, then I will give you the moon and the stars." He flashes his gorgeous tattoos at me as he makes passionate love to me. This is bad! Something's coming...!!
Style:
romantic drama, anime, erotic, josei
Plot:
seduction, forbidden love, virginity, chance meeting, protective male, urban, secret identity
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Bai Xin Xin is a first-year medical intern who crosses paths with Shen Yi Zhen, a man from a wealthy family. When Xin Xin is roped into becoming the personal attending physician for Yi Zhen, she doesn’t understand what she signed up for until ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, romantic, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, multiple personality disorder, fall in love, couples, male female relationship, doctors and patients, heir ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally ...
Style:
romantic, teen, touching, saga, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, werewolf, supernatural romance, wedding, vampire human love, dangerous attraction, supernatural, pregnancy, hybrid, childbirth, vampirism, female vampire ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, washington d.c., usa, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and ...
Style:
romantic, touching, atmospheric, teen, saga ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, werewolf, vampire human love, supernatural romance, supernatural, supernatural power, high school, love story, transformation, teen romance, teenage girl, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
washington state, italy, washington d.c., usa, tuscany
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11K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the ...
Style:
sexy, bleak, psychological, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, prostitution, eroticism, obsessive love, pimp, deaf, red light district, sex worker, domination, forced prostitution, fetish, revenge ...
Place:
south korea, seoul, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, murder, home invasion, revenge, rape, violent, rape and revenge, sex, sexual assault, vigilante, rape turns to consensual sex, protective male ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
england, cornwall, britain, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, cult classic, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night, teen drama
Plot:
ex convict, lgbtq, cemetery, little boy, starting over, small town, lgbt, tough guy, death of grandmother, funeral, grandmother grandson relationship, friendship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
forbidden love, immigration, moral dilemma, extramarital affair, xenophobia, identity, political conflict, social realism, adultery, marriage crisis, domestic drama, class differences ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The story of a father, his 23-year-old daughter who goes back home one day because she has just been dumped, and his new girlfriend, who is also 23 and lives with him.
Style:
captivating, rough, bleak, suspenseful, black and white ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, lovers, infidelity, father daughter relationship, betrayal, love, lie, age difference, sex scene, nudity, women, coming of age ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
poliziottesco, suspense
Plot:
casino, world war two, organized crime, prison, gang warfare, french police, mobster, male female relationship, male protagonist, protective male, female protagonist, outlaw ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1934
Place:
paris france, marseille
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Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A thriller starring and directed by Alain Delon about ex-cop who is after a drug pusher gang.
Style:
neo noir, detective, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sex with secretary, erotica, ex cop, female nudity, private detective, crime investigation, blind woman, car chase, promiscuous woman, implied rape, bad guy, guy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Faith is a 2012 South Korean fusion fantasy-historical-medical television series broadcast by SBS from August 13 to October 30, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. It is about a modern-day plastic surgeon who gets kidnapped and ...
Style:
romantic, suspenseful, semi serious, dorama, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, supernatural ability, military officer, friendship, murder, doctor, chess, medicine, political intrigue, korean history, king, asian ...
Time:
14th century
Place:
korea
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, romantic, touching, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
royal family, queen of england, marriage, royalty, queen, politics, queen victoria, royal court, aristocracy, love and romance, princess, love story ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
london, buckingham palace, england, britain, europe ...
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