Top Assertive Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Will Ferrell

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Dustin Hoffman

Emma Thompson

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

7.3 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

Plot: literature, professor, writer's block, love, fate, author, death, dying, ...

Cast

Bruce Willis

Jeremy Irons

Samuel L. Jackson

Larry Bryggman

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

7.3 6.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

Plot: new york city, taxi, gold, helicopter, robbery, police, bomb, riddle, ...

Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld (2025) TV Show

7.2 126 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Two outlaws must navigate the galaxy's dangerous underworld as they chart their destinies.

Plot: miniseries, criminal underworld, based on movie, egotistical, assertive, audacious

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games (2012)

7.2 23.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

Style: cynical, provocative, tense

Plot: based on novel or book, revolution, dystopia, monarchy, female protagonist, fashion, bow and arrow, game, ...

Cast

John Cena

Kate McKinnon

Anthony Anderson

Bobby Cannavale

Ferdinand (2017)

7.2 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

Plot: friendship, madrid, spain, europe, anthropomorphism, remake, bull, based on children's book, ...

Place: spain

Cast

Scott Adkins

Teodora Duhovnikova

Alon Aboutboul

Julian Vergov

Boyka: Undisputed IV (2016)

7.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Bulgaria, United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.

Style: intense

Plot: prison, martial arts, sports, wife, affectation, sequel, accidental death, fighting, ...

Cast

Julianne Moore

Elliot Page

Steve Carell

Michael Shannon

Freeheld (2015)

7.2 677 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Plot: new jersey, equality, lesbian relationship, cancer, lesbian, assertive

Cast

Pamela Adlon

Celia Imrie

Mikey Madison

Hannah Riley

Better Things (2016) TV Show

7.2 201 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Sam Fox is a single, working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters – Max, Frankie and Duke – in Los Angeles. She is mom, dad, referee and the cops.

Style: irreverent

Plot: single parent, parent child relationship, coming of age, hollywood, single mother, biting, candid, voiceover, ...

Marley & Me (2008)

7.2 4.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

Style: melancholy, nostalgic

Plot: journalist, based on novel or book, puppy, love, dog, duringcreditsstinger, pets, columnist, ...

Cast

Terrence Howard

Taraji P. Henson

Bryshere Y. Gray

Trai Byers

Empire (2015) TV Show

7.1 757 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 102

Audience: TV-14

Story: A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

Plot: hip-hop, sibling rivalry, music, assertive

Cast

Julianne Moore

Dennis Quaid

Dennis Haysbert

Patricia Clarkson

Far from Heaven (2002)

7.1 677 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Style: intimate

Plot: husband wife relationship, housewife, botanist, connecticut, interracial relationship, male homosexuality, relationship, suburb, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Michael B. Jordan

Tessa Thompson

Jonathan Majors

Phylicia Rashu0101d

Creed III (2023)

7.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

Style: intense

Plot: husband wife relationship, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sports, deaf, sequel, orphan, former best friend, ...

Cast

Sam Rockwell

Juno Temple

Haley Lu Richardson

Michael Peu00f1a

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

7.1 710 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), time travel, diner, transhumanism, blunt, dark future, reflective, mother son relationship, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Donald Gibb

Leah Ayres

Norman Burton

Bloodsport (1988)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

Plot: martial arts, sports, biography, fistfight, sensei, mixed martial arts (mma), tournament, underground fighting, ...

Place: hong kong

Cast

Amy Adams

Javier Bardem

Patrick Wilson

Joe Anders

Cape Fear (2026) TV Show

7.0 70 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When convicted murderer Max Cady is released from prison, he begins infiltrating the family of the married attorneys who helped put him behind bars.

Plot: based on novel or book, stalker, revenge, dysfunctional family, psychological thriller, ex-con, troubled teen, revenge thriller, ...

Cast

Lily Sullivan

Alyssa Sutherland

Morgan Davies

Gabrielle Echols

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

6.9 3.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: New Zealand, Ireland

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Plot: sibling relationship, pregnancy, supernatural, earthquake, gore, sequel, demon, spin off, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Dane DeHaan

Alex Russell

Michael B. Jordan

Michael Kelly

Chronicle (2012)

6.9 5.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Style: intense

Plot: friendship, flying, seattle, washington, telekinesis, coming of age, outcast, loneliness, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Bradley Cooper

Amy Adams

Jeremy Renner

American Hustle (2013)

6.9 7.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

Plot: new jersey, fbi, mayor, con artist, mobster, scam, hair, century, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Emma Stone

Steve Carell

Andrea Riseborough

Sarah Silverman

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

6.8 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Plot: sports, tennis, tennis player, biography, based on true story, femme fatale, female athlete, determination, ...

Time: 1970s

Ali (2001)

6.8 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Ghana

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

Plot: transporter, boxer, affectation, biography, angry, detached, boxing, candid, ...

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