Top Complex Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jared Leto

Sarah Polley

Diane Kruger

Linh-Dan Pham

Mr. Nobody (2009)

7.8 6.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Belgium, Canada

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Style: shocking

Plot: time travel, surrealism, time, choice, free will, multiple storylines, curious, complex, ...

Time: 2090s

Cast

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

7.8 15.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

Plot: empire, army, prophecy, dystopia, emperor, sand, spice, chosen one, ...

Time: future

Star Trek: Voyager (1995) TV Show

7.8 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 169

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Style: philosophical

Plot: time warp, spacecraft, hologram, space travel, galaxy, space, alien, alien planet, ...

School Spirits (2023) TV Show

7.8 275 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

Style: nostalgic, philosophical

Plot: supernatural, high school, based on graphic novel, lgbt, lgbt teen, speculative, curious, mysterious, ...

Cast

Eden Dambrine

Gustav De Waele

u00c9milie Dequenne

Lu00e9a Drucker

Close (2022)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

Plot: friendship, suicide, forgiveness, male friendship, bullying, ice hockey, coming of age, grief, ...

Cast

Amy Adams

Patricia Clarkson

Chris Messina

Eliza Scanlen

Sharp Objects (2018) TV Show

7.8 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

Style: intimate

Plot: based on novel or book, child murder, self-destruction, trauma, police chief, missouri, dysfunctional family, reporter, ...

Cast

Brendan Fraser

Sadie Sink

Ty Simpkins

Hong Chau

The Whale (2022)

7.8 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Plot: depression, nurse, missionary, bible, overweight man, based on play or musical, dying man, obesity, ...

Place: idaho

V (1983) TV Show

7.8 989 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Audience: TV-14

Story: Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to survive. And for its future survival, unsuspecting humankind will need... a miracle!

Style: tense

Plot: resistance, spacecraft, cover-up, extraterrestrial, alien, miniseries, alien invasion, mother ship, ...

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Cast

Jay Baruchel

America Ferrera

F. Murray Abraham

Cate Blanchett

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

7.8 7.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, intimate, suspenseful, witty, ...

Plot: based on novel or book, flying, villain, vikings (norsemen), sequel, overpopulation, dragon, love interest, ...

Cast

Michelle Yeoh

Stephanie Hsu

Ke Huy Quan

James Hong

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

7.7 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

Style: intense

Plot: mother, martial arts, kung fu, nihilism, philosophy, generations conflict, chinese woman, surrealism, ...

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Kenneth Branagh

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

7.7 23.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: witch, flying car, based on novel or book, elves, magic, sword, diary, child hero, ...

Cast

Peng Yuchang

Wang Yuwen

Zhang Yu

Li Congxi

An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

7.7 233 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China

Duration: 230 min.

Audience: 12

Story: In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.

Style: cynical, philosophical

Plot: thoughtful, complex, harsh

Cast

Adam Driver

Scarlett Johansson

Laura Dern

Alan Alda

Marriage Story (2019)

7.7 7.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: R

Story: A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Style: intense

Plot: infidelity, new york city, husband wife relationship, parent child relationship, theatre group, theater director, lawyer, los angeles, ...

Cast

Ginnifer Goodwin

Jason Bateman

Ke Huy Quan

Fortune Feimster

Zootopia 2 (2025)

7.7 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

Plot: snake, bunny, fox, cop, sequel, anthropomorphism, animals, displacement, ...

Cast

Amy Adams

Jeremy Renner

Forest Whitaker

Michael Stuhlbarg

Arrival (2016)

7.6 19.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Plot: spacecraft, extraterrestrial technology, loss, time, alien, language, female protagonist, scientist, ...

Cast

Oksana Akinshina

Artyom Bogucharsky

Ljubov Agapova

Liilia u0160inkarjova

Lilya 4-ever (2002)

7.6 671 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Style: intense

Plot: suicide, escape, underground, despair, nightclub, human trafficking, based on true story, poverty, ...

Place: sweden

Cast

Michael Dorman

Terry O'Quinn

Kurtwood Smith

Michael Chernus

Patriot (2015) TV Show

7.6 189 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, suspenseful, romantic, whimsical

Plot: undercover, dark comedy, curious, dramedy, thoughtful, somber, spy thriller, reflective, ...

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

7.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the first six episodes of GAINAX’s famous 1996 anime series. The film was retitled “Evangelion: 1.01” for its DVD release and “Evangelion: 1.11” for a release with additional scenes.

Style: philosophical

Plot: parent child relationship, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, remake, mecha, giant robot, alien invasion, military, ...

Cast

Ben Schwartz

Jim Carrey

Keanu Reeves

Idris Elba

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

7.6 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

Plot: moon, sequel, based on video game, psychotic, dual role, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, hedgehog, ...

Cast

Taylor Schilling

Laura Prepon

Kate Mulgrew

Natasha Lyonne

Orange Is the New Black (2013) TV Show

7.6 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

Plot: prison, women's prison, based on true story, lesbian relationship, dark comedy, based on memoir or autobiography, inmate, semi autobiographical, ...

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