Top Reflective Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jay Baruchel

Cate Blanchett

Gerard Butler

Craig Ferguson

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

7.7 10.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless dragon conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

Style: melancholy, nostalgic, philosophical, intimate, intense, ...

Plot: rescue, husband wife relationship, sacrifice, parent child relationship, loss of loved one, villain, vikings (norsemen), sequel, ...

Cast

Tom Holland

Amanda Seyfried

Sasha Lane

Will Chase

The Crowded Room (2023) TV Show

7.7 368 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.

Plot: based on novel or book, miniseries, lgbt, mental health, reflective, gay theme

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, ...

Helluva Boss (2020) TV Show

7.6 97 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 21

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In Hell, imp Blitzø (the 'o' is silent) runs an assassin business targeting the world of the living, using a spell book borrowed from a prince of the underworld. With employees Moxxie, Millie, and Loona, they attempt to survive each other while keeping business afloat.

Style: intense, whimsical

Plot: assassin, bisexuality, musical, hell, workplace, dark comedy, adult humor, lgbt, ...

The Wrestler (2008)

7.5 4.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

Style: shocking, absurd

Plot: daughter, new jersey, supermarket, heart attack, redemption, ambition, barbed wire, stripper, ...

Cast

Gaspard Manesse

Raphael Fejtu00f6

Francine Racette

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Stanislas Carru00e9 de Malberg

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

7.5 734 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Plot: parent child relationship, resistance, vichy regime, holocaust (shoah), deportation, jew persecution, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, national socialism, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: france

Cast

Michael Cera

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Ellen Wong

Kieran Culkin

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

7.5 8.7K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Plot: video game, skateboarding, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, toronto, canada, animated scene, dating, ...

Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Toko Miura

Masaki Okada

Reika Kirishima

Drive My Car (2021)

7.4 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 179 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

Plot: infidelity, loss of loved one, theater play, theater director, road trip, hiroshima, japan, grief, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Rowan Blanchard

Auliu02bbi Cravalho

Isabella Ferreira

Tyler Alvarez

Crush (2022)

7.4 495 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Story: When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.

Style: lighthearted, intimate, witty, whimsical

Plot: high school, love triangle, comedian, coming of age, art, high school friends, lgbt athlete, lgbt, ...

Cast

Miki Imai

Yoko Honna

Toshiro Yanagiba

Yorie Yamashita

Only Yesterday (1991)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Plot: countryside, country life, marriage, folk music, flashback, school, based on manga, anime, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Meryl Streep

Chris Cooper

Tilda Swinton

Adaptation. (2002)

7.3 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

Style: cynical, philosophical, satirical, absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, marriage crisis, alligator, writer's block, orchid, writer, twins, reflective, ...

Cast

Charlie Hunnam

Rami Malek

Christopher Fairbank

Eve Hewson

Papillon (2017)

7.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Country: Czech Republic, Malta

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

Style: shocking, whimsical

Plot: prisoner, based on novel or book, biography, based on true story, guillotine, remake, solitary confinement, wrongful conviction, ...

Place: south america

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Cast

John Krasinski

James Badge Dale

Dominic Fumusa

Max Martini

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

7.3 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Style: provocative, tense

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, libya, assault rifle, grave, mercenary, heroism, biography, ...

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games (2012)

7.2 23.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

Style: cynical, provocative, tense

Plot: based on novel or book, revolution, dystopia, monarchy, female protagonist, fashion, bow and arrow, game, ...

Cast

Sandra Bullock

George Clooney

Ed Harris

Orto Ignatiussen

Gravity (2013)

7.2 16.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

Plot: space mission, loss, space, astronaut, space station, trapped in space, reflective, hopeful

Cast

Frances McDormand

David Strathairn

Linda May

Swankie

Nomadland (2021)

7.2 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Style: intimate

Plot: factory worker, van, based on novel or book, nevada, recession, homelessness, road trip, unemployment, ...

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Rebecca Ferguson

Kyliegh Curran

Cliff Curtis

Doctor Sleep (2019)

7.1 4.9K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: R

Story: Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

Style: melancholy, tense

Plot: hotel, based on novel or book, supernatural, haunted house, sequel, psychic power, reflective, compassionate

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, ...

Cast

Andrew Garfield

Adam Driver

Liam Neeson

Tadanobu Asano

Silence (2016)

7.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Mexico, Taiwan

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Plot: based on novel or book, christianity, missionary, remake, betrayal, torture, martyrdom, crisis of faith, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: japan

Cast

Will Smith

Martin Lawrence

Vanessa Hudgens

Alexander Ludwig

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

7.1 8.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

Plot: miami, florida, detective, women's prison, sequel, prison escape, murder, drug cartel, ...

Place: mexico

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