Top Empathy Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Melissa Benoist

Chyler Leigh

David Harewood

Katie McGrath

Supergirl (2015) TV Show

7.3 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 126

Audience: TV-14

Story: Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

Style: intimate

Plot: superhero, based on comic, alien, female protagonist, meditative, candid, thoughtful, loving, ...

NCIS: New Orleans (2014) TV Show

7.3 467 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 155

Audience: TV-14

Story: A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.

Plot: new orleans, louisiana, navy, spin off, military, crime investigation, candid, empathetic, ...

Cast

Mia Goth

David Corenswet

Tandi Wright

Matthew Sunderland

Pearl (2022)

7.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

Style: nostalgic, whimsical

Plot: farm, pornography, dance performance, confession, alligator, barn, prequel, murder, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: texas

Cast

John Cena

Kate McKinnon

Anthony Anderson

Bobby Cannavale

Ferdinand (2017)

7.2 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

Plot: friendship, madrid, spain, europe, anthropomorphism, remake, bull, based on children's book, ...

Place: spain

Cast

Scott Adkins

Teodora Duhovnikova

Alon Aboutboul

Julian Vergov

Boyka: Undisputed IV (2016)

7.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Bulgaria, United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.

Style: intense

Plot: prison, martial arts, sports, wife, affectation, sequel, accidental death, fighting, ...

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

James Sweeney

Aisling Franciosi

Lauren Graham

Twinless (2025)

7.2 164 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two men who lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. However, both harbor long-hidden secrets that threaten to tear them apart.

Plot: friendship, jealousy, support group, obsession, lie, male friendship, stalker, deception, ...

Sean Combs: The Reckoning (2025) TV Show

7.2 73 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A revealing look at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' journey from music mogul to high-profile sexual offender, featuring footage and insider accounts that expose both his groundbreaking success with Bad Boy Entertainment and the troubling shadows behind his empire.

Plot: rape, hip-hop, investigation, miniseries, sex trafficking, true crime, sexual assault, meditative, ...

Marley & Me (2008)

7.2 4.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

Style: melancholy, nostalgic

Plot: journalist, based on novel or book, puppy, love, dog, duringcreditsstinger, pets, columnist, ...

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland

Maggie Q

Kal Penn

Adan Canto

Designated Survivor (2016) TV Show

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 53

Audience: TV-14

Story: Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

Style: philosophical, irreverent, intimate, provocative, suspenseful, ...

Plot: usa president, affectation, politics, president, conspiracy, terrorism, biting, mourning, ...

Moonwalker (1988)

7.1 671 votes

Genre: Fantasy, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Story: This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.

Plot: dancing, drug crime, gangster, entertainer, parody, stop motion, live performance, robot, ...

Cast

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Tucker Albrizzi

Anna Kendrick

Casey Affleck

ParaNorman (2012)

7.0 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.

Plot: medium, jock, stop motion, curse, zombie, ghost, communicating with the dead, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Jude Law

Nicole Kidman

Renu00e9e Zellweger

Eileen Atkins

Cold Mountain (2003)

6.9 2.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, History, Romance

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 154 min.

Audience: R

Story: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Style: intimate

Plot: civil war, love of one's life, loss of loved one, desertion, north carolina, rape attempt, somber, early america, ...

Cast

Nicholas Hoult

Toni Collette

J.K. Simmons

Chris Messina

Juror #2 (2024)

6.9 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

Style: philosophical, suspenseful

Plot: jury duty, moral dilemma, murder trial, courtroom drama, depressing, apathetic, apologetic, empathetic

Fences (2016)

6.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

Style: intense

Plot: garbageman, war veteran, baseball, father, based on play or musical, family relationships, racism, pittsburgh, ...

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

DTF St. Louis (2026) TV Show

6.9 103 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise leads to one of them ending up dead.

Style: provocative

Plot: love triangle, dark comedy, miniseries, serious, depressing, empathetic, tragic, middle-aged, ...

Cast

Laura Linney

Elliot Page

Paul Gross

Murray Bartlett

Tales of the City (2019) TV Show

6.8 93 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: san francisco, california, based on novel or book, apartment building, lgbt, eclectic, thoughtful, reflective, ...

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

6.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Plot: time travel, time machine, loss of virginity, womanizer, mumblecore, dreamer, intern, repressed memory, ...

Ali (2001)

6.8 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Ghana

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

Plot: transporter, boxer, affectation, biography, angry, detached, boxing, candid, ...

Cast

Ashley Greene

Ellie O'Brien

Shawn Ashmore

Juno Rinaldi

It Feeds (2025)

6.7 233 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Canada

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.

Plot: suicide, trauma, buried alive, childhood trauma, murder, single mother, single father, clairvoyant, ...

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