Top Ambiguity Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Keiichi Noda

Mako Hyodo

Jinpachi Nezu

Angel's Egg (1985)

7.7 596 votes

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery

Country: Japan

Duration: 71 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.

Style: philosophical

Plot: philosophy, dystopia, gothic, adult animation, anime, original video animation (ova), avant garde, ambiguous, ...

Cast

Anna Sawai

Kiersey Clemons

Ren Watabe

Mari Yamamoto

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) TV Show

7.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

Style: tense

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), secret organization, family secrets, family drama, spin off, kaiju, based on movie, search for father, ...

Time: 1950s, 2010s

Cast

Eric Edelstein

Demetri Martin

Bobby Moynihan

We Bare Bears (2015) TV Show

7.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 138

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Three brother bears awkwardly attempt to find their place in civilized society, whether they're looking for food, trying to make human friends, or scheming to become famous on the internet. Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear stack atop one another when they leave their cave and explore the hipster environs of the San Francisco Bay Area, and it's clear the siblings have a lot to learn about a technologically driven world. By their side on many adventures are best friend Chloe (the only human character in the cast), fame-obsessed panda Nom Nom, and Charlie, aka Bigfoot.

Plot: cartoon, bear, adventurer, calm, ambiguous, enchant

Cast

Gabriel Basso

Fola Evans-Akingbola

Louis Herthum

Genesis Rodriguez

The Night Agent (2023) TV Show

7.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.

Plot: based on novel or book, the white house, fbi, oval office, conspiracy, aggressive, political, fbi agent, ...

Cast

Won Bin

Kim Sae-ron

Kim Tae-hun

Kim Hie-won

The Man from Nowhere (2010)

7.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.

Plot: friendship, martial arts, assassin, hero, hitman, child labour, human trafficking, protection, ...

Cast

Jonathan Pryce

Robert De Niro

Katherine Helmond

Ian Holm

Brazil (1985)

7.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: R

Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Style: irreverent, witty

Plot: dreams, government, bureaucracy, police state, technology, dystopia, office, dark comedy, ...

Place: great britain

Cast

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

7.6 6.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

Plot: elves, magic, dead father, dead parent, fantasy world, teenage protagonist, brother brother relationship, 3d animation, ...

JFK (1991)

7.6 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Style: shocking

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), assassination, usa president, government, politics, homophobia, new orleans, louisiana, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Place: texas, america

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Mark Ruffalo

Anthony Edwards

Robert Downey Jr.

Zodiac (2007)

7.5 11.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

Plot: newspaper, journalist, based on novel or book, police, san francisco, california, killing, detective, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Place: california

Lost Highway (1997)

7.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Plot: prison, pornography, jealousy, dreams, dual identity, nightmare, police, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Colin Farrell

Brendan Gleeson

Ralph Fiennes

Clu00e9mence Pou00e9sy

In Bruges (2008)

7.5 5.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Plot: drug dealer, hitman, tourist, dark comedy, bruges, belgium, church, guilt, ...

Cast

Cate Blanchett

Rooney Mara

Kyle Chandler

Jake Lacy

Carol (2015)

7.5 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, chicago, illinois, new york city, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, age difference, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Michael Rennie

Patricia Neal

Billy Gray

Sam Jaffe

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

7.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: G

Story: An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

Plot: spacecraft, flying saucer, peace, remote control, ufo, social commentary, giant robot, black and white, ...

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Rachel McAdams

Benedict Wong

Doctor Strange (2016)

7.4 23.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

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.

Plot: magic, superhero, training, based on comic, sorcerer, doctor, neurosurgeon, injury, ...

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

7.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

Style: absurd

Plot: diplomat, naivety, based on novel or book, general, kidnapping, dictator, africa, mass murder, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Amy Adams

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michael Shannon

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

7.4 8.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, China

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

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 vacation turns violent.

Plot: based on novel or book, cheating, parent child relationship, hostage, insomnia, cowardice, flashback, revenge, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Justin Theroux

Josh Lucas

Bill Sage

American Psycho (2000)

7.4 12.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Plot: new york city, based on novel or book, businessman, psychopath, dark comedy, satire, wall street, serial killer, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Atsuko Tanaka

Akio Otsuka

Koichi Yamadera

Tamio Ohki

Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)

7.4 465 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Story: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.

Style: philosophical

Plot: android, cyborg, dystopia, cyberpunk, cybercrime, anime, ambiguous

Time: future

Cast

Anthony Perkins

Romy Schneider

Orson Welles

Akim Tamiroff

The Trial (1962)

7.4 564 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

Style: surreal

Plot: bureaucracy, based on novel or book, court, society, sexuality, paranoia, dystopia, fascism, ...

Cast

Kwak Do-won

Hwang Jung-min

Chun Woo-hee

Jun Kunimura

The Wailing (2016)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Plot: daughter, small town, police, investigation, exorcism, possession, murder, priest, ...

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