Top Complex Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sarocha Chankimha

Becky Armstrong

Torfan Taweema

Siriam Pakdeedumrongrit

Uranus 2324 (2024)

8.1 148 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Thailand

Duration: 148 min.

Story: Bonded in their youth and separated by tragedy, an astronaut and a free diver bend the laws of space and time in their efforts to be together again.

Plot: galaxy, space, planet, complex, loving, lesbian, girls' love (gl), science fiction, ...

Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) TV Show

8.0 217 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers — Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne — the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago's Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth.

Style: tense, intense

Plot: based on novel or book, miniseries, rock music, rock band, complex, serious, dramatic, sentimental, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Jack Reynor

Laia Costa

May Calamawy

Natalie Grace

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)

8.0 2.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Ireland

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

Plot: journalist, monster, ritual, kidnapping, pyramid, investigation, supernatural, mummy, ...

Place: egypt

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017) TV Show

8.0 87 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 108

Story: Animated comedy set in the futuristic year of 201X, where the world is populated by video game and manga-esque characters.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: superhero, child protagonist, complex, loving, playful, hilarious, adoring, appreciative, ...

Cast

Brie Larson

Jacob Tremblay

Joan Allen

Sean Bridgers

Room (2015)

8.0 9.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, Ireland

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, isolation, carpet, kidnapping, imprisonment, grandparents, hospital, ...

Cast

Yuya Yagira

Ayu Kitaura

Hiei Kimura

Momoko Shimizu

Nobody Knows (2004)

8.0 653 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Style: philosophical

Plot: sibling relationship, season, loss of loved one, neglect, family relationships, tokyo, japan, mother child separation, ...

Place: japan

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Fernando Ramos da Silva

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Jorge Juliu00e3o

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Gilberto Moura

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Edilson Lino

Pixote (1980)

7.9 244 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Style: intense

Plot: prostitution, lgbt, disturbed, gay theme, critical, depressing, complicated

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Emma Stone

John Legend

Rosemarie DeWitt

La La Land (2016)

7.9 18.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Style: melancholy

Plot: dancing, dance, jazz, musical, ambition, casting, coffee shop, jazz club, ...

Cast

Sakura Ando

Soya Kurokawa

Hinata Hiiragi

Eita Nagayama

Monster (2023)

7.9 910 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, bullying, elementary school, coming of age, school, teacher student relationship, childhood, lgbt, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Matthew Goode

Chloe Pirrie

Jamie Sives

Alexej Manvelov

Dept. Q (2025) TV Show

7.9 440 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Style: provocative, suspenseful

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, edinburgh, scotland, cop, questioning, grim, cold case, ...

Cast

Tom Sturridge

Vivienne Acheampong

Patton Oswalt

The Sandman (2022) TV Show

7.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

Style: dark

Plot: dreams, mythology, nightmare, superhero, based on comic, based on graphic novel, witchcraft, raven, ...

Cast

Hugh Jackman

Zac Efron

Michelle Williams

Rebecca Ferguson

The Greatest Showman (2017)

7.9 10.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Style: absurd

Plot: adultery, circus, musical, biography, rags to riches, based on true story, outcast, singing, ...

Cast

Frances McDormand

William H. Macy

Steve Buscemi

Peter Stormare

Fargo (1996)

7.9 9.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

Style: absurd

Plot: salesclerk, unsociability, police, cheating, ransom, winter, kidnapping, minnesota, ...

Warrior (2011)

7.8 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

Style: intense

Plot: bank, training, beating, mixed martial arts (mma), teacher, muscleman, combat, alcoholic, ...

Cast

Lily Franky

Sakura Ando

Mayu Matsuoka

Kairi Jo

Shoplifters (2018)

7.8 2.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

Style: philosophical

Plot: family relationships, family drama, tokyo, japan, poverty, orphan, crime family, shoplifting, ...

Place: japan

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Meanwhile, Gendo Ikari and SEELE proceed with a secret project that involves both Rei and Shinji.

Style: philosophical

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, alien, anthropomorphism, tragedy, mecha, giant robot, piloted robot, apocalypse, ...

Castlevania: Nocturne (2023) TV Show

7.8 283 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: As revolution sweeps France, Richter Belmont fights to uphold his family's legacy and prevent the rise of a ruthless, power-hungry vampire ruler.

Plot: vampire, french revolution, vampire hunter (slayer), based on video game, dark fantasy, complex, monster hunter, complicated

Cast

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Michel Seydoux

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Chris Foss

H. R. Giger

Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

7.8 764 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.

Plot: cinema on cinema, movie business, filmmaking, blunt, thoughtful, cinema history, portrait of an artist, complex, ...

Cast

Dr. Dre

Jimmy Iovine

The Defiant Ones (2017) TV Show

7.8 100 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - -- and their improbable partnership and surprising leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.

Style: shocking, provocative, suspenseful

Plot: rap music, questioning, angry, aggressive, zealous, somber, reflective, complex, ...

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