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Exploring the Human Condition: Top Coward-Themed Movies and TV Shows

Delve into the complexities of human nature with our curated list of the best movies and TV shows that feature cowards as main characters. From historical dramas to psychological thrillers, these stories showcase the inner struggles and external consequences of being a coward. Discover the most compelling portrayals of cowardice and its effects on individuals and society.

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Ralph Meeker

Adolphe Menjou

George Macready

Paths of Glory (1957)

8.3 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Plot: army, based on novel or book, general, patriotism, cowardice, idealism, idealist, black and white, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Place: france, germany

Cast

Tom Hanks

Tom Sizemore

Edward Burns

Barry Pepper

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

8.2 17.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 169 min.

Audience: R

Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Plot: dying and death, self sacrifice, bravery, duty, troops, waffen ss, omaha beach, rescue mission, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: normandy, france

Cast

Tom Skerritt

Sigourney Weaver

Veronica Cartwright

Harry Dean Stanton

Alien (1979)

8.2 16.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Plot: android, spacecraft, space marine, biology, dystopia, countdown, space suit, beheading, ...

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

Anita Ekberg

Anouk Aimu00e9e

Yvonne Furneaux

La Dolce Vita (1960)

8.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 174 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

Plot: dying and death, sea, newspaper, lovesickness, sunrise, unsociability, rome, italy, ...

Cast

Bruce Willis

Haley Joel Osment

Toni Collette

Olivia Williams

The Sixth Sense (1999)

8.0 13.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: dying and death, child abuse, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sense of guilt, afterlife, marriage crisis, loss of loved one, ...

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: G

Story: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Plot: witch, adolescence, dreams, secret identity, lion, tornado, twister, scarecrow, ...

Cast

Dennis Weaver

Jacqueline Scott

Eddie Firestone

Gene Dynarski

Duel (1971)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Plot: panic, chase, gas station, falsely accused, cliff, deputy, car crash, truck, ...

Place: california

Cast

Amy Adams

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michael Shannon

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

7.4 8.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, China

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

Plot: based on novel or book, cheating, parent child relationship, hostage, insomnia, cowardice, flashback, revenge, ...

Cast

Gregory Peck

Lee Remick

David Warner

Billie Whitelaw

The Omen (1976)

7.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

Plot: ambassador, prophecy, monk, photography, nanny, paranormal phenomena, rottweiler, devil's son, ...

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, ...

Cast

Klaus Kinski

Isabelle Adjani

Bruno Ganz

Roland Topor

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

7.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Style: melancholy

Plot: small town, ship, based on novel or book, transylvania, vampire, bite, coffin, bed, ...

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Robert Francis

Van Johnson

Fred MacMurray

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

7.2 369 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Plot: mutiny, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), war ship, paranoia, mental breakdown, cowardice, military court, u.s. navy, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Tippi Hedren

Sean Connery

Diane Baker

Martin Gabel

Marnie (1964)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

Plot: prostitute, rape, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), chase, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Kelly McGillis

Val Kilmer

Anthony Edwards

Top Gun (1986)

7.1 9.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

Plot: dying and death, secret love, lovesickness, airplane, loss of loved one, self-discovery, hostility, fighter pilot, ...

Cast

Elijah Wood

Christopher Plummer

Martin Landau

John C. Reilly

9 (2009)

7.0 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 79 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.

Plot: friendship, man vs machine, hope, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, steampunk, coward, end of world, ...

Cast

Johannes Bah Kuhnke

Lisa Loven Kongsli

Clara Wettergren

Vincent Wettergren

Force Majeure (2014)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Plot: husband wife relationship, dark comedy, family relationships, cowardliness, family vacation, coward, avalanche, running away, ...

Cast

Bill Hader

Kristen Wiig

Luke Wilson

Ty Burrell

The Skeleton Twins (2014)

6.7 698 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

Plot: adultery, infidelity, new york city, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, confession, bisexuality, cowardice, ...

Cast

Zach Galligan

Phoebe Cates

John Glover

Robert Prosky

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

6.5 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

Plot: dying and death, new york city, monster, mutation, cleverness, skyscraper, mutant, human animal relationship, ...

Cast

Jane Horrocks

Brenda Blethyn

Michael Caine

Ewan McGregor

Little Voice (1998)

6.5 199 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: 15

Story: After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

Plot: daughter, mother, northern england, parent child relationship, talent, father, yorkshire, singer, ...

Cast

Mike Myers

Eddie Murphy

Cameron Diaz

Antonio Banderas

Shrek the Third (2007)

6.3 9.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After the King of Far Far Away dies, Shrek and Fiona are to succede. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace and quiet, so when he finds out there is another heir to the throne, he and Donkey set off to bring him back to rule the kingdom.

Style: satirical, witty

Plot: ship, island, ambush, kingdom, boarding school, liberation of prisoners, pregnancy, traitor, ...

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