Top Defiant Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Amanda Seyfried

Justin Timberlake

Cillian Murphy

Vincent Kartheiser

In Time (2011)

7.0 12.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

Plot: race against time, immortality, bank, dystopia, time, love, on the run, class differences, ...

Time: future

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Sebastian Stan

Jojo T. Gibbs

Charlotte Le Bon

Fresh (2022)

7.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.

Style: shocking, philosophical, provocative, suspenseful, tense

Plot: date, kidnapping, female friendship, meat, love, dating, cannibal, body mutilation, ...

Cast

Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni

Jenny Slate

Brandon Sklenar

It Ends with Us (2024)

7.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

Style: satirical, absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, love triangle, abusive father, trauma, florist, flashback, love, domestic abuse, ...

Cast

Varun Dhawan

Banita Sandhu

Gitanjali Rao

Sahil Vedoliyaa

October (2018)

6.9 116 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Dan, a 21-year-old carefree boy is always surrounded by a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns who feed off each other's everyday moments, their ups and downs. Shiuli is also an intern working in the same hotel, who at times is at a receiving end of Dan's audaciousness. Everything was normal in their life until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli's lives together, into a bond.

Plot: defiant

Cast

Frank Grillo

Mel Gibson

Naomi Watts

Will Sasso

Boss Level (2021)

6.9 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.

Style: philosophical, satirical, absurd

Plot: video game, time loop, audacious, defiant, scathing

Cast

Christopher Lambert

Roxanne Hart

Clancy Brown

Sean Connery

Highlander (1986)

6.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: new york city, martial arts, swordplay, immortality, sword, sword fight, fictional war, dark fantasy, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Naomi Watts

Chris Cooper

Judah Lewis

Demolition (2016)

6.8 2.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

Plot: infidelity, new york city, loss of loved one, pregnancy, dark comedy, carousel, father-in-law, car crash, ...

Dirty John (2018) TV Show

6.8 138 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.

Style: cynical, shocking

Plot: psychotic, angry, malicious, anxious, vindictive, cautionary, antagonistic, apathetic, ...

Cast

Liu Yifei

Donnie Yen

Gong Li

Jet Li

Mulan (2020)

6.8 7.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

Plot: martial arts, hero, fake identity, honor, east asian lead, heroine, based on myths, legends or folklore, ...

Place: china

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Dennis Alexio

Dennis Chan Kwok-San

Haskell V. Anderson III

Kickboxer (1989)

6.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, China

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

Plot: martial arts, showdown, rape, sibling relationship, sports, fight, wheelchair, bangkok, ...

Place: thailand

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Charlize Theron

Edward Norton

Seth Green

The Italian Job (2003)

6.8 6.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: gold, helicopter, hacker, venice, italy, chase, subway, master thief, ...

Place: california

Cast

Rachel Sennott

Ayo Edebiri

Ruby Cruz

Havana Rose Liu

Bottoms (2023)

6.8 878 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.

Style: provocative, witty

Plot: high school, cheerleader, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, teenage girl, school assembly, high school student, ...

Cast

Megu Fujiura

Yui Aikawa

Asami

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Mikoto

Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 4 (2014)

6.8 58 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 87 min.

Story: In a devastated, post-apocalyptic world, all men have turned into rape demons. The only hope for the future is to travel to the past and prevent the outbreak, the source of which still remains a mystery.

Plot: zombie, softcore, defiant

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

Johnny Depp

Heather Graham

Ian Holm

Robbie Coltrane

From Hell (2001)

6.7 3.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Style: absurd

Plot: london, england, loss of loved one, drug addiction, jack the ripper, based on comic, macabre, aggressive, ...

Place: united kingdom

Cast

Paul Dano

Shailene Woodley

America Ferrera

Pete Davidson

Dumb Money (2023)

6.7 828 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

Style: philosophical, intense

Plot: massachusetts, manipulation of the media, based on true story, securities, stocks and bonds, stock price, social media, stock market, ...

Time: 2020s

Cast

Emilio Estevez

Kiefer Sutherland

Lou Diamond Phillips

Charlie Sheen

Young Guns (1988)

6.7 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Style: absurd, whimsical

Plot: sheriff, bounty hunter, corruption, deputy sheriff, anti hero, ranch, based on true story, outlaw, ...

Time: 1870s

Cast

Henry Cavill

Amy Adams

Michael Shannon

Diane Lane

Man of Steel (2013)

6.7 16.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Plot: saving the world, flying, hope, superhero, based on comic, alien planet, superhuman, alien invasion, ...

Cast

George Clooney

Mark Wahlberg

Ice Cube

Spike Jonze

Three Kings (1999)

6.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

Plot: rescue, gold, gulf war, three kings, treasure map, kuwait, interracial relationship, soldier, ...

Place: iraq

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

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