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Cast

Taraji P. Henson

Sherri Shepherd

Teyana Taylor

Sinbad

STRAW (2025)

7.7 977 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.

Style: provocative, absurd

Plot: bank manager, arrest, loss of job, sick child, angry, aggressive, hopeless, traffic ticket, ...

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

George Segal

Sandy Dennis

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

7.7 923 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Style: provocative

Plot: adultery, professor, married couple, guest, black humor, based on play or musical, campus, dysfunctional marriage, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Ulrich Thomsen

Henning Moritzen

Thomas Bo Larsen

Paprika Steen

The Celebration (1998)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Style: intense

Plot: daughter, depression, infidelity, child abuse, suicide, parent child relationship, birthday, country house, ...

Cast

Amy Poehler

Maya Hawke

Kensington Tallman

Liza Lapira

Inside Out 2 (2024)

7.5 6.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

Style: witty

Plot: sadness, disgust, sequel, computer animation, teenage girl, fear, anger, envy, ...

Cast

Mason Thames

Madeleine McGraw

Ethan Hawke

Jeremy Davies

The Black Phone (2022)

7.5 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Plot: mask, small town, child abuse, dreams, sibling relationship, kidnapping, sadistic, supernatural, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Tilda Swinton

John C. Reilly

Ezra Miller

Jasper Newell

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

7.5 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

Plot: based on novel or book, psychopath, mass murder, pregnancy, violence in schools, robin hood, connecticut, flashback, ...

Miller's Crossing (1990)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

Plot: street gang, corruption, gun, gambling debt, gangster, loyalty, irish-american, irish mob, ...

Time: prohibition era, 1920s

Cast

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

Ricardo Montalban

DeForest Kelley

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

7.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

Style: cynical

Plot: spacecraft, life and death, genetics, asteroid, self sacrifice, teleportation, genesis, midlife crisis, ...

Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu

Christian Berkel

Justus von Dohnu00e1nyi

Maren Eggert

The Experiment (2001)

7.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany

Duration: 120 min.

Story: 20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, journalist, rape, prisoner, experiment, based on novel or book, authority, prison cell, ...

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

Mel Gibson

Bruce Spence

Michael Preston

Max Phipps

Mad Max 2 (1981)

7.4 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

Style: exploitation

Plot: mask, chase, explosive, dystopia, boomerang, deal, post-apocalyptic future, pilot, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Michael Douglas

Robert Duvall

Barbara Hershey

Rachel Ticotin

Falling Down (1993)

7.4 4.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Style: cynical, philosophical, suspenseful, intense

Plot: detective, rocket launcher, fast food restaurant, retirement, traffic jam, gang, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Billy Barratt

Sally Hawkins

Mischa Heywood

Jonah Wren Phillips

Bring Her Back (2025)

7.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

Plot: sibling relationship, ritual, supernatural, death of father, grief, death, death of daughter, angry, ...

Cast

Susan Sarandon

Sean Penn

Robert Prosky

Raymond J. Barry

Dead Man Walking (1995)

7.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Plot: prison, death penalty, right and justice, rape, rage and hate, unsociability, court case, court, ...

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Style: cynical

Plot: rape, aids, illiteracy, unwillingly pregnant, balloon, school, crying, motorcycle, ...

Time: 1980s

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Cast

John Krasinski

James Badge Dale

Dominic Fumusa

Max Martini

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

7.3 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Style: provocative, tense

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, libya, assault rifle, grave, mercenary, heroism, biography, ...

Cast

Willem Dafoe

Sean Patrick Flanery

Norman Reedus

David Della Rocco

The Boondock Saints (1999)

7.3 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

Plot: bratva (russian mafia), boston, massachusetts, detective, irish-american, prologue, shootout, police station, ...

48 Hours (1988) TV Show

7.2 55 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 39

Episodes: 1167

Audience: TV-14

Story: This newsmagazine series investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening — and resolution — of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: biting, true crime, disturbed, angry, magazine show, complex, suspicious, anxious, ...

Cast

Emilia Clarke

Henry Golding

Michelle Yeoh

Emma Thompson

Last Christmas (2019)

7.2 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.

Style: intimate, intense

Plot: london, england, holiday, romcom, singing, homeless shelter, holiday season, angry, ...