Top Complex Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Patti LuPone

Amy Ryan

Nathan Lane

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

6.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America, Finland

Duration: 179 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

Style: absurdist

Plot: suicide, nightmare, funeral, therapist, paranoia, orgasm, trauma, dark comedy, ...

Cast

Dominic West

Maura Tierney

Julia Goldani Telles

Jadon Sand

The Affair (2014) TV Show

6.7 415 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Israel

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 53

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.

Plot: husband wife relationship, infidelity, murderer, extramarital affair, complicated relationships

Cast

Scott Adkins

Ashley Greene

Ryan Phillippe

Emmanuel Imani

One Shot (2021)

6.7 916 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.

Plot: war on terror, affectation, u.s. navy seal, detached, aggressive, seige, complex, ambivalent, ...

Cast

Kirsten Dunst

Jason Schwartzman

Steve Coogan

Judy Davis

Marie Antoinette (2006)

6.7 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Style: intimate, romantic, whimsical

Plot: infidelity, arranged marriage, affectation, french revolution, marie antoinette, versailles, period drama, theatre audience, ...

Cast

Ethan Herisse

Brandon Wilson

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Hamish Linklater

Nickel Boys (2024)

6.6 357 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Plot: new york city, sexual abuse, based on novel or book, alligator, male friendship, racial segregation, martin luther king, based on true story, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: florida

Cast

Chris Pratt

Bryce Dallas Howard

Laura Dern

Sam Neill

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

6.6 7.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

Plot: paleontology, giant monster, sequel, survival, dinosaur, scientist, child kidnapping, aggressive, ...

May December (2023)

6.6 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Style: provocative, tense

Plot: infidelity, sexual abuse, dark comedy, based on true story, statutory rape, pedophile, boundary violations, older woman younger man relationship, ...

Cast

Rafael Cardoso

Jou00e3o Gabriel Vasconcellos

Ju00falia Lemmertz

Fu00e1bio Assunu00e7u00e3o

From Beginning to End (2009)

6.6 185 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil

Duration: 96 min.

Story: Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.

Style: intimate

Plot: affectation, buenos aires, argentina, half-brother, family relationships, romance, male homosexuality, incest, ...

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Colin Farrell

Matthew Davis

Clifton Collins Jr.

Tom Guiry

Tigerland (2000)

6.6 627 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Plot: louisiana, kansas, usa, guitar player, awol, exhaustion, military discharge, stockade, ...

Time: 1970s

Hitchcock (2012)

6.6 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.

Plot: husband wife relationship, movie business, biography, hollywood, psycho, movie set, domineering, complex, ...

Red Sparrow (2018)

6.5 6.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), sexual abuse, budapest, hungary, based on novel or book, self sacrifice, spy, patriotism, ...

Cast

Maika Monroe

Nicolas Cage

Blair Underwood

Alicia Witt

Longlegs (2024)

6.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

Style: haunting

Plot: homicide, fbi, religion and supernatural, satanism, barn, satanist, code, oregon, ...

Time: 1990s

Liar (2017) TV Show

6.5 119 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A teacher and a surgeon are rocked by scandalous accusations after they enjoy a seemingly innocent date.

Plot: rape, surgeon, investigation, police, liar, psychological thriller, schoolteacher, mysterious, ...

Cast

Kate Box

Madeleine Sami

Nina Oyama

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Alicia Gardiner

Deadloch (2023) TV Show

6.5 137 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: Australia, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: detective, murder, mysterious, complex, dramatic, hilarious, cheerful, embarrassed, ...

Cast

Hugh Jackman

Rebecca Ferguson

Thandiwe Newton

Cliff Curtis

Reminiscence (2021)

6.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Plot: miami, florida, drug addiction, new orleans, louisiana, flashback, murder, memory, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Cate Blanchett

Marcus Carl Franklin

Richard Gere

I'm Not There (2007)

6.5 783 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: rock 'n' roll, advancement, john f. kennedy, success, beatnik, biography, motorcycle crash, drag, ...

Cast

Alice Orr-Ewing

Joe Doyle

Eveline Hall

Peter Mensah

The Devil Conspiracy (2023)

6.5 478 votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Czech Republic, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

Plot: jesus christ, supernatural horror, complicated, farcical, melodramatic, ridiculous

Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Robert Englund

Miko Hughes

Wes Craven

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

6.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

Style: satirical, intense

Plot: fire, dreams, nightmare, sadism, kidnapping, psychopath, movie business, supernatural, ...

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Abbie Cornish

Colin Farrell

Solace (2015)

6.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

Style: provocative, suspenseful

Plot: fbi, investigation, autopsy, terminal illness, premonition, murder, cancer, psychologist, ...

Cast

Tim Robinson

Paul Rudd

Kate Mara

Jack Dylan Grazer

Friendship (2025)

6.4 301 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

Style: absurd

Plot: drug dealer, jealousy, husband wife relationship, marriage crisis, obsession, florist, dark comedy, male friendship, ...

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