| Arrival (2016) | 7.9 | |
| Doctor Strange (2016) | 7.5 | |
| Moana (2016) | 7.6 | |
| Moonlight (2016) | 7.4 | |
| La La Land (2016) | 8.0 |
Year 2016 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 2016 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out visually appealing, exciting, entertaining, intense, suspense and weird films and TV shows about / with dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe, exodus, mentor, flashback, betrayal, mission, vengeance and redemption plots mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 2016: Nocturnal Animals (2016), Arrival (2016), Passengers (2016), The Accountant (2016), Lion (2016), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Now You See Me 2 (2016), Sully (2016), La La Land (2016), The Angry Birds Movie (2016).
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New films
List of year 2016 movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Is relevant?
852K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
491K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style:
futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
america, los angeles, space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
autism, accountant, assassin, mathematics, lone hero, organized crime, twists and turns, vigilante, justice, hitman, violence, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1989, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
washington d.c., chicago, illinois, new hampshire, germany ...
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265K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Style:
futuristic, visually stunning, saga, scenic, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, adult
Plot:
star wars, space opera, female protagonist, robot, strong female lead, rebel, space travel, tough girl, self sacrifice, redemption, jedi, rebellion ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
space western, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
Style:
entertaining, clever, surprise ending, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
heist, illusionist, con men, manipulation, twists and turns, con artists, wizard, magic, caper, magician, stage magic, card trick ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1984, 80s
Place:
london, macau, south america, new york, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the ...
Style:
fairy tale, light, entertaining, dark fantasy, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, witch, fantasy world, good versus evil, wizard, friendship, magical creature, sorcerer, magic wand, harry potter, chase, teleportation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
new york, london, arizona, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
320K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as ...
Style:
inspirational, factual, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
aviation, airplane accident, pilot, airplane, courage, crash landing, investigation, accident, plane crash, air traffic controller, catastrophe, co pilot ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2009, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, persia, north america, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
750K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot:
music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, paris france, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Finland, Canada, India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green ...
Style:
humorous, 3d animation, entertaining, funny, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
bird, creativity, talking animal, egg, computer game, storytelling, video game, anger management, island, pig, good versus evil, race against time ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand, France, Canada, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Style:
visually stunning, entertaining, motion capture, scenic, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
jungle, animal, boy, human animal relationship, orphan, talking animal, tiger, wild animal, friendship, courage, greed, wolf ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2015
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, touching, exciting, polynesian ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, ocean, girl, happy ending, island, disney princess, mythology, destiny, good versus evil, princess, little girl, friendship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
polynesia, pacific ocean, fictional island, oceania, new zealand
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Nepal
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Style:
entertaining, visually stunning, witty, breathtaking, saga ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, magic, parallel universe, wizard, sorcerer, fantasy world, time, good versus evil, time loop, multiverse, mentor, neurosurgeon ...
Time:
year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, hong kong, london, north america, nepal ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: China, Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Style:
exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, epic, stylized ...
Plot:
monster, great wall of china, creature, mythology, archer, warrior, invasion, friendship, siege, good versus evil, battlefield, courage ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, year 2016, 2010s, medieval times ...
Place:
china, tibet, asia, ancient china, egypt ...
Is relevant?
530K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style:
realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Style:
humorous, parody, absurd, not serious, exciting ...
Plot:
spy, satire, sarcasm, stupidity, farce, virus, love, espionage, culture clash, male pubic hair, secret service, secret agent ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, south africa, northern england, santiago chile ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things ...
Style:
satirical, erotic, captivating, semi serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
small town, porn star, car crash, hometown, dating, getting home, ex husband ex wife relationship, seduction, relationship problems, male female relationship, satire, ex boyfriend ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 2020s, year 2001, year 2008
Place:
texas
Is relevant?
755K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Style:
entertaining, intense, absurd, saga, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
superhero, comic book, super villain, villain, dark hero, creature, female warrior, mission, villain turns good, avenger, villainess, one against many ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., louisiana, pentagon
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series of reality TV stars, while the media and general public in turn begin to question if society is better off without them. A biting, social satire about ...
Style:
slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
serial killer, guts, murder, satire, psychopath, surveillance, missing child, daughter, child abduction, child, psycho killer, parents ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
74K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic drama, art house, psychological, controversial ...
Plot:
rape, rape and revenge, perversion, strong female character, older woman younger man relationship, masturbation, revenge, sexual abuse, female protagonist, car accident, video game, cat ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, christian film, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, survival, us military, combat, american soldier, religion, bible, military, pacifist ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, 20th century, middle ages, year 1945 ...
Place:
okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman ...
Style:
visually stunning, epic, philosophical, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, batman, superhuman powers, revenge, justice, vigilante, heroes, violence, good versus evil, superman, death, super powers ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 1981 ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., kansas, africa, tijuana mexico ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Style:
intense, exciting, entertaining, epic, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
superhero team, superhero, comic book, superpower, mutant, x men, revenge, apocalypse, technology, disguise, portal, immortality ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 1983, 2010s, 80s
Place:
cairo egypt, poland, egypt, west berlin west germany, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Iceland, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, ...
Style:
saga, humorous, action adventure, epic, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, revenge, disagreement, vigilante, costumed hero, ex soldier, heroes, super powers, female agent, friendship between men, supernatural power, chase ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1991, future, 90s
Place:
africa, eastern europe, vienna, europe, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
409K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style:
neo noir, action comedy, funny, buddy comedy, entertaining ...
Plot:
private detective, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, murder, teenage girl, party, private investigator, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, buddy cop, revenge ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 70s, year 1977, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Monaco, Romania, France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.
Style:
emotional, philosophical, cerebral, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
estranged daughter, father daughter relationship, father daughter conflict, ambitious woman, birthday party, practical joke, culture clash, parenthood, capitalism, life, awkward situation, team building ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
romania, germany, bucharest, bulgaria
Is relevant?
350K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style:
sexy, inspirational, lgbt cinema, visually stunning, art house ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
forgiveness, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, lgbt, african american, homosexuality, gay, gay interest, dysfunctional family, drug addict, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place:
florida, atlanta georgia, indiana, idaho, miami
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