Past movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant past movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, psychological, suspense, realistic and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with past, friendship, death, flashback, secret, family relations, female nudity, love, father son relationship and murder plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as past: Beautiful Kate (2009), The Untamed (2019), Esteros (2016), Spider (2002), The Antichrist (1974), Rent-A-Pal (2020), Aftersun (2022), Arthur Newman (2012), The Appeared (2007), The Watcher in the Woods (1980).

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Beautiful Kate (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories ...
Style: stylized, realistic, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: forbidden love, brother sister incest, dysfunctional family, incest, past, brother sister sex, taboo sex, siblings relations, homecoming, haunted by the past, incestuous relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
Is relevant ?
 8.8
 9K
The Untamed (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In a land dominated by the mighty Wen clan, a young man named Wei Wuxian strikes up an unconventional friendship with justice-loving Lan Wangji. When the duo unexpectedly stumbles across evidence implicating the Wen clan’s chief in a plot to bring ...
Style: xianxia, yaoi, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, exorcist, martial artist, young man, past, magical power, coping, heroes, fantasy world, self sacrifice, talent, chinese mythology ...
Place: ancient china, china, thailand
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 5K
Esteros (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
Style: light, captivating, sincere, cute, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay lead character, friendship, male homosexuality, closeted gay, friendship between boys, gay love, homoeroticism, puberty, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, memories ...
Time: 2000s
Place: argentina
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 41K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time: 2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
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The Antichrist (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, classic horror ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, reincarnation, faith, past, danger, paralysis, possession, ghost, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, disability ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 6K
Rent-A-Pal (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, technology, past, 40 year old, bachelor, caregiver, dying man, mental illness, missing mother, man with glasses, mental breakdown, loneliness ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 2020s, year 1976
Place: denver colorado
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 90K
Aftersun (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: vacation, father daughter relationship, coming of age, depression, hotel, memory, teenage daughter, past, childhood memory, 11 year old girl, memories, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s
Place: turkey
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Arthur Newman (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: golf, self discovery, hidden identity, false identity, on the road, past, missing person, unlikely couple, father son relationship, chance meeting, escapades, family problems ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 2K
The Appeared (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: One night Malena and Pablo, a sister and brother traveling together in Argentina, discover a diary that details crimes committed twenty years ago.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, murder, past, kidnapping, politics, supernatural ability, woman in danger, on the road, haunted by the past, estrangement, danger ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: argentina, barcelona, buenos aires argentina
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Genre: Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot: supernatural, solar eclipse, ghost, danger, missing person, children, halloween, secrets, family relations, past, occult, teenage girl ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: england
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 2K
Bis (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, not serious
Plot: changing the past or future, time travel, past life, past, friends, teenager, disorder, buddies, switching roles, midlife crisis, teenage life, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s, year 2015, year 1986, 20th century
Place: france
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A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Style: scary, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, time machine, evolution, danger, alternate reality, heroic mission, laboratory, jungle, experiment gone awry, race against time, killer animal ...
Time: future, prehistory, year 2005, 1900s, prehistoric times
Place: chicago
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Black and White Love (2017)
Genre: Action, 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, light ...
Plot: opposites attract, forced marriage, power of love, rescue, fake marriage, jealousy, love, love story, strong female character, self sacrifice, marriage, doctor ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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Kurt Seyit and Ĺžura (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A Turkish lieutenant and the daughter of Russian nobles fight for their love against forces of family and social expectation and historical events.
Style: captivating, romantic, realistic, historical drama
Plot: friendship, marriage, wedding, world war one, nobleman, trust, jealousy, hopes, betrayal, marriage proposal, deception, secret ...
Time: future, edwardian era, 20th century, 1920s, post world war one
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey, russia, ottoman empire
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 1K
Instinto (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Marco Mur is an attractive, successful businessman, but a trauma from his past prevents him from getting emotionally involved with women. Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club where no one knows anyone else. But his past returns and now ...
Style: romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: intimacy, pain, sex club, ambition, danger, orgy, mother son incest, pleasure, success, past, social differences, friendship ...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: time travel, high school, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, school, classmate, changing the past or future, time loop, coming of age, teenage love, friends ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Bring back alice (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
TV show
Story: After missing social media influencer Alicja Stec returns with no memory of the past year, the drug-dealing brother of another missing teen sets out to prove the cases are connected… and unravel the truth behind his sister’s disappearance.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating ...
Plot: past, teenage girl, missing person, secret past, undercover, disappearance, secret, social problems, missing girl, problem, mysterious disappearance, teenager ...
Is relevant ?
 5.1
 1K
Bright Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, serious, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: swinger, sex scene, swingers, sex talk, female nudity, group of friends, jealousy, infidelity, past, gay, swinger couple, lgbt ...
Place: germany, indiana
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Lions for Lambs (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special ...
Style: serious, political, psychological, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: war on terror, terrorist, propaganda, state affairs, politics, terrorism, iraq war, conservative, war, hopes, danger, soldier ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iraq, washington d.c., usa ...
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 4K
Chronic (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: complaint, architect, patient, introvert, past, character study, terminal illness, fired from the job, illness, friendship, love and romance, death ...
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Project Ithaca (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped aboard an alien spaceship that seems to be harnessing their terror to power the ship. They begin to understand that these species have been abducting humans for decades and possibly centuries.
Style: dark, twist ending, suspense, talky, non-linear ...
Plot: trapped in space, amnesia, alien, torture, science, getting home, supernatural, past, spacecraft, survival, survival horror, struggle for survival ...
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 3K
Extinct (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, China, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The original adventure-comedy follows Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals -- FLUMMELS -- who accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, trans fats, and worst of all, that flummels are now ...
Style: funny, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: past, time travel, changing the future, time traveler, time warp, sent to the past, sent to the future, time jump, time portal, escapades, salvation, creature ...
Time: future, 1830s
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 1K
The Ninth (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public ...
Style: mysterious, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: investigation, occult, ritual, black magic, past, medieval, steampunk, serial killer, storytelling, book of magic, psychic power, love ...
Time: 19th century
Place: st. petersburg russia
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 5.7
 86
Promises (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Latchkey kids lose touch when one of them moves away, only to reconnect years later without realizing it, having changed their names to escape their pasts. Once they realize who each other are; they are able heal the wounds of their pasts.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, affectionate
Plot: love, past, loyalty, secret, friend, promise, fight, lovers, friendship, ptsd, dating show, convention ...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style: road movie, funny, dark comedy, slapstick comedy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prison escape, blues, on the run, treasure hunt, small town, music, great depression, obsessive quest, country music, on the road, runaway, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: mississippi, ancient greece, america, greece, persia ...
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style: suspense, absurd, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: world war two, vengeance, nazi, war, nazism, revenge, violent, dark humor, alternate history, violence, brutality, working undercover ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, germany, america, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 289K
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.
Style: informative, political, dark comedy, social, inspirational ...
Plot: racism, white supremacy, ku klux klan, african american, undercover cop, racial slur, racist cop, black, biopic, black lives matter, black cop, black american ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1972
Place: usa, africa, colorado
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 1K
Boomerang (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, secret, christmas present, family secret, past, father daughter relationship, confronting the past, childhood memory, family relations, car accident, fired from the job ...
Time: year 2015
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 2K
8-Ball (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: hopes, drug addict, starting over, going straight, one more chance, haunted by the past, family relations, single parent, parents and children, love, jail, motherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 749
Body of Water (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, serious ...
Plot: legend, countryside, supernatural, uncover truth, life is a bitch, ghost, river, family secret, secret, past, repressed memory, swimming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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