Ruin movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant ruin movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, weird, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful and exciting films and TV shows about / with ruins, danger, murder, death, storytelling, nude, revenge, blood, mentor and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
ruin movies
93
TOP 10 movies tagged as ruin: Beanpole (2019), Playing with Love (1977), In Silence (2014), Soldiers Aren't Born (1969), St. Patrick's Day Massacre (2025), Brave (2012), Far from Men (2014), Armageddon (1998), Sinking Sand (2016), South Park (1997).

List of ruin movies

 7.2
 13K
Beanpole (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Style: heartbreaking, cerebral, erotic, costume drama, rough ...
Plot: tall woman, hospital, female soldier, female protagonist, world war two, wartime life, devastation, hopes, lgbt, life is a bitch, lesbian, survival ...
Time: post world war two, year 1945, 2010s, 1940s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, soviet union, germany, berlin germany ...
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Playing with Love (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both ...
Style: erotic, eros, minimal cast, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: underage sex, teenage sex, teenage sexuality, female nudity, love triangle, submission, seduction, teenage girl, lolita, first sex, first love, rape ...
Time: 70s
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 6.9
 45
In Silence (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Slovak musicologist Agata Schindlerová, now settled in Dresden, has spent years mapping out the forgotten destinies of Jewish musicians whose lives were irrevocably marked by the advance of nazism. Scenes from the lives of several of them are ...
Style: melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, tragic, period drama
Plot: musician, pianist, composer, train conductor, memories, oppression, holocaust, nazism, memory, persecution, anti semitism, biopic ...
Time: 1930s
Place: germany, czechoslovakia
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Soldiers Aren't Born (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style: historical drama, serious, period piece, realistic, grim ...
Plot: world war two, red army, stalingrad, great patriotic war, soldier, sacrifice, military, siege, eastern front, battlefield, survival, brutality ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union
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St. Patrick's Day Massacre (2025)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On a trip to Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, four friends agree to spend the night in an abandoned tavern, where they are stalked by an undead killer in search of revenge for a tragedy that occurred centuries before.
Style: suspenseful, tense, creepy, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot: st. patrick's day, undead, supernatural, revenge, ghost, isolation, haunted, superstition, urban legend, survival, local legend, claustrophobia ...
Place: dublin ireland
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 7.1
 475K
Brave (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, computer animated, 3d animation, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, toddlers ...
Plot: princess, witch, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, bravery, happy ending, female protagonist, rebellious daughter, archery, feminism, archer, father daughter relationship ...
Time: middle ages, 10th century, year 2012, 2010s, medieval times
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
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 7.2
 9K
Far from Men (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: teacher, hostage, algerian war, french algerian war, school, forced into action, prisoner, mountain, on the run, danger, misfit partners, on the road ...
Time: 20th century, year 1954, year 2014, 1950s, 50s
Place: algeria, france, nebraska, africa
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 6.7
 476K
Armageddon (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, race against time, self sacrifice, asteroid, nasa, save the world ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place: new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, taj mahal ...
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 5.8
 73
Sinking Sand (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a loving wife murders a blackmailer to protect her husbands flourishing law career, she must watch as he prosecutes another for her crime.
Plot: ruthlessness, lawyer, courtroom, alibi, perjury, blackmail, ruins, honesty, reconciliation, guilt, lie, manipulation ...
Place: savannah georgia
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 8.7
 441K
South Park (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Style: adult animation, animated comedy, parody, dark comedy, adult cartoon ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: gross out humor, social satire, satire, elementary school, young kid, gay slur, young heroes, mischievous children, political humor, adult humor, dysfunctional society, social criticism ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, nova scotia, usa, north america
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Welcome to Essex (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Overnight, the United Kingdom was consumed by an epidemic of terrifying proportions. The majority of the population were killed in a matter of hours as millions of recently-dead people returned to life and began to attack and kill the living. The ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, scary
Plot: epidemic, survival, zombie apocalypse, fear, isolation, violence, death, plague, military, brutality, hell on earth, courage ...
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Torquemada's Curse (2022)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Italy
Style: detective
Plot: ruins, curse, murder, gun
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 4.5
 674
In the Room (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
Style: erotic, sexual, sexy, anthology, heartbreaking
Plot: hotel room, group sex, sexuality, sex scene, watching sex, transgender woman, sex, one night stand, sex party, true love, transsexual, drug abuse ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 90s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: singapore
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Porto of My Childhood (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Style: semi documentary, serious, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: lifestyle, society, introspection, social relations, city life, filmmaking, first love, biopic, artists and showbiz, urban, bittersweet, childhood home ...
Time: year 2001, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: portugal, europe
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Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.
Style: touching, romantic, exciting, period piece, fairy tale ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, medieval, love affair, knight, forbidden love, true love, sword and shield, love and romance, star crossed lovers, swords and armor, legends and myths, infidelity ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, 6th century, 50s ...
Place: ireland, cornwall, england, britain, europe ...
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 5.6
 46K
The Reaping (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, religious horror, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disaster, swamp, apocalypse, supernatural, small town, religion, danger, save the world, occult, sacrifice, devil, satanic cult ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, egypt
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place: romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
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Merlin's Apprentice (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot, a kingdom now vulnerable to ill fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail, its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack, an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly ...
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, humorous, arthurian, costume drama ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: camelot, magic, wizards and magicians, arthurian legend, holy grail, true love, curses spells and rituals, apprentice, heroic mission, sword and sorcery, imaginary kingdom, heroes ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 5th century, 6th century
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a ...
Style: funny, visually stunning, sexy, witty, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: ocean, submarine, revenge, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, mission, filmmaking, expedition, rivalry, vengeance, sea voyage, adventurer ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: italy, fictional island, seattle
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style: gothic, fairy tale, offbeat, dark comedy, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: children, orphan, death in the family, child in peril, danger, dishonesty, steampunk, child, boy, siblings relations, destiny, nobility ...
Time: year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place: peru
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The Jungle Book (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can ...
Style: cute, intense, tense, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, self discovery, survival, orphan, tiger, destiny, animal, wilderness, friendship, jungle adventure, fish out of water ...
Time: 90s, victorian era, 19th century, year 1994, 1880s
Place: india, asia, africa
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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught ...
Style: exciting, epic fantasy, tense, epic, talky ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: greek mythology, giant monster, monster, skeleton, dragon, mythology, adventurer, sword and sorcery, prophecy, ancient world, stop motion, giant ...
Time: ancient times, year 1963
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy, hellas
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 6.0
 15K
Half Light (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: ghost, supernatural, lighthouse, murder, death of child, woman in danger, mentally unstable, death, female protagonist, danger, loss of child, death in the family ...
Place: scotland, london, san francisco
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 5.2
 18K
Freedomland (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: hospital, racism, missing child, kidnapping, vengeance, police detective, lone hero, multiple storylines, police corruption, psychopath, investigation, missing person ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, new jersey, paris france
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Colombia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor ...
Style: contemplative, sincere, gloomy, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, female nudity, canceled wedding, rain forest, investigation, erotica, wedding, village, couples, social relations, family relations, prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: colombia, latin america
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 8.0
 224K
Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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 5.5
 412
48 Angels (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage life, on the run, self discovery, human spirit, danger, hopes, life is a bitch, child illness, friendship, religion, fight, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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 7.5
 538K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time: distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place: london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
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Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A heart-warming tale about friendship, honour & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Style: 3d animation, humorous, semi serious, feel good, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: follow your dream, friendship, obsessive quest, save the day, bravery, escapades, danger, betrayal, dishonesty, imaginary kingdom, girl heroine, kingdom ...
Place: england
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I Start Counting (1970)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jenny Agutter plays Wynne, an adopted 14-year-old girl who has a crush on her 32-year-old stepbrother, George, played by Bryan Marshall. While spying on George in the bathroom, Wynne notices George has several scratches on his back, and finds a ...
Style: crying, offbeat, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: teenage girl, serial killer, suspicion, voyeur, psychopath, stalker, stalking, murder, swing, brother sister incest, sexual tension, man hits a woman ...
Time: 60s
Place: england
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