Top Ambiguity Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Malin u00c5kerman

Patrick Wilson

Billy Crudup

Matthew Goode

Watchmen (2009)

7.4 10.1K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

Style: melancholy, cynical, intense

Plot: usa president, nuclear war, mass murder, secret identity, narration, soviet union, retirement, based on comic, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Diego Calva

Margot Robbie

Brad Pitt

Jovan Adepo

Babylon (2022)

7.3 3.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Style: melancholy, absurd

Plot: elephant, gambling, gambling debt, movie business, orgy, cocaine, champagne, alcoholism, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Emmanuelle Seigner

Mathieu Amalric

Venus in Fur (2013)

7.2 755 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Poland

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.

Plot: eroticism, feminism, seduction, masochism, theater play, machismo, audition, bdsm, ...

Cast

Aaron Eckhart

Maria Bello

Cameron Bright

Adam Brody

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

7.2 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

Style: absurd

Plot: research, based on novel or book, capitalism, politics, smoking, cigarette, lie, affectation, ...

Cast

Kathryn Beaumont

Ed Wynn

Richard Haydn

Sterling Holloway

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

7.2 6.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 75 min.

Audience: G

Story: On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.

Style: whimsical

Plot: dreams, based on novel or book, heart, queen, villain, time, based on children's book, cartoon cat, ...

Cast

David Dastmalchian

Laura Gordon

Ian Bliss

Fayssal Bazzi

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, talk show, supernatural, halloween, possession, hallucination, hypnosis, gore, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Josephine Langford

Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Shane Paul McGhie

Khadijha Red Thunder

After (2019)

7.1 8.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

Plot: based on novel or book, love, teenage crush, teenage girl, teenage romance, bad boy, mysterious, angry, ...

Cast

Lim Soo-jung

Moon Geun-young

Yum Jung-ah

Kim Kap-soo

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

7.1 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

Plot: amnesia, drug abuse, loss of loved one, homicide, drug addiction, stepmother, menstruation, sister, ...

Cast

Orlando Bloom

Eva Green

Jeremy Irons

David Thewlis

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

7.1 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Plot: blacksmith, muslim, crusade, catapult, swordsman, battlefield, knight, religion, ...

Time: 12th century

Place: jerusalem

Take Shelter (2011)

7.1 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

Plot: small town, beach, schizophrenia, nightmare, obsession, deaf, ohio, shelter, ...

Cast

Woody Harrelson

Juliette Lewis

Robert Downey Jr.

Tommy Lee Jones

Natural Born Killers (1994)

7.1 3.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Style: tense

Plot: daughter, journalist, sadistic, mass murder, yellow press, pop culture, trauma, controversy, ...

Cast

Dan Castellaneta

Julie Kavner

Nancy Cartwright

Yeardley Smith

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

7.0 8.6K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

Plot: garbage, pollution, quarantine, environmental protection agency, parent child relationship, villain, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, ...

Place: alaska

Cast

Paul Walker

Vin Diesel

Michelle Rodriguez

Jordana Brewster

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

7.0 10.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

Style: romantic

Plot: street gang, undercover, car race, auto-tuning, street race, los angeles, california, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Mark Fischbach

Caroline Kaplan

Troy Baker

Elsie Lovelock

Iron Lung (2026)

7.0 333 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

Style: claustrophobic, slow burn, intimate, suspenseful, tense, ...

Plot: moon, submarine, expedition, post-apocalyptic future, hallucination, gore, space, underwater, ...

Time: future

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Rose Byrne

Chris Evans

Michelle Yeoh

Sunshine (2007)

7.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: space marine, saving the world, bomb, sun, space suit, sunlight, space travel, space mission, ...

Time: 2050s

Cast

Ivan Massaguu00e9

Antonia San Juan

Zorion Eguileor

Emilio Buale

The Platform (2019)

7.0 7.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Spain

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

Plot: capitalism, survival, anarchism, secret prison, food shortage, social experiment, cautionary, ambiguous, ...

Cast

Lupita Nyong'o

Winston Duke

Elisabeth Moss

Tim Heidecker

Us (2019)

6.9 8.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

Plot: mask, boardwalk, murder, psychological thriller, fear, family vacation, home invasion, amusement park, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Zendaya

Mike Faist

Josh O'Connor

Darnell Appling

Challengers (2024)

6.9 2.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Italy, United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, love triangle, sports, tennis, competition, eroticism, tennis player, ...

Time: 2000s, 2010s

Place: atlanta

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Robert Duvall

Colin Farrell

Crazy Heart (2009)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.

Plot: journalist, taxi, country music, guitar, musician, alcoholism, singer, memory, ...

Cast

Kate Winslet

Saoirse Ronan

Gemma Jones

James McArdle

Ammonite (2020)

6.9 647 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

Style: melancholy, absurd

Plot: beach, paleontology, affectation, paleontologist, biography, grief, lesbian relationship, period drama, ...

Time: 19th century

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