Top Reflective Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Elizabeth Olsen

Miles Teller

Callum Turner

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Eternity (2025)

7.1 739 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Plot: afterlife, widow, marriage, romcom, woman between two men, first love, death of husband, eternity, ...

Cast

Sam Rockwell

Juno Temple

Haley Lu Richardson

Michael Peu00f1a

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

7.1 710 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), time travel, diner, transhumanism, blunt, dark future, reflective, mother son relationship, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

John Goodman

J.K. Simmons

Kevin Bacon

Patriots Day (2016)

7.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.

Plot: boston, massachusetts, massachusetts, police chief, based on true story, terrorism, reflective, manhunt, ...

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Jennifer Lawrence

Meryl Streep

Cate Blanchett

Don't Look Up (2021)

7.1 9.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), the white house, asteroid, climate change, satire, global warming, comet, end of the world, ...

Cast

Michael B. Jordan

Sylvester Stallone

Tessa Thompson

Wood Harris

Creed II (2018)

7.0 5.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.

Plot: sports, rivalry, sequel, los angeles, california, angry, boxing, thoughtful, ...

Place: ukraine

Cast

Shu Qi

Jack Kao

Duan Chun-hao

Doze Niu Cheng-Tse

Millennium Mambo (2001)

7.0 252 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Taiwan, France

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 2011, Vicky looks back on her life a decade earlier, recalling her turbulent relationship with her controlling boyfriend Hao Hao and her growing connection to a compassionate gangster amid the neon haze of Taipei's nightlife.

Style: melancholy, nostalgic

Plot: ecstasy, techno, meditative, reflective, lyrical, wistful, euphoric

Place: japan, taiwan

Cast

Wang Tingwen

Su Xin

Kuixing Teng

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Yang Ting

Deep Sea (2023)

7.0 153 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: China

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Shenxiu has felt a deep sadness since her mother left. A storm plunges her into a dreamlike world of swirling colour. Led by the Hyjinx, and joined by inventive underwater chef Nanhe, she embarks on a quest to find solace in the Eye of the Deep Sea.

Plot: female protagonist, curious, reflective, 3d animation, grand, understated, 幻境, 深海, ...

Cast

Charlton Heston

Leigh Taylor-Young

Chuck Connors

Joseph Cotten

Soylent Green (1973)

6.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

Plot: based on novel or book, paranoia, dystopia, greenhouse effect, global warming, overpopulation, water shortage, cannibal, ...

Time: 21st century

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, ...

Cast

Tom Hardy

Noomi Rapace

James Gandolfini

Matthias Schoenaerts

The Drop (2014)

6.8 2.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

Style: satirical, witty, whimsical

Plot: robbery, hitman, winter, blackmail, crime boss, bartender, mobster, organized crime, ...

Cast

Tom Hanks

Audrey Tautou

Ian McKellen

Jean Reno

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

6.7 10.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, irreverent, intimate, romantic

Plot: paris, france, based on novel or book, holy grail, christianity, monk, secret society, louvre museum, ...

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

Mark Wahlberg

LaKeith Stanfield

Rosa Salazar

Keegan-Michael Key

Play Dirty (2025)

6.6 653 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Expert thief Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world's richest man.

Plot: heist, thief, insecure, reflective, wonder, awestruck

Cast

Federico Ielapi

Roberto Benigni

Marine Vacth

Gigi Proietti

Pinocchio (2019)

6.6 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

Style: whimsical

Plot: based on novel or book, based on children's book, calm, reflective, pinocchio

Cast

Jesse Plemons

Jessie Buckley

Toni Collette

David Thewlis

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

6.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

Style: melancholy, suspenseful

Plot: farm, suicide, based on novel or book, winter, philosophy, poetry, dementia, surrealism, ...

Cast

Dakota Johnson

Sonoya Mizuno

Jermaine Fowler

Kiersey Clemons

Am I OK? (2024)

6.4 347 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.

Plot: coming out, friendship, female friendship, lgbt, woman director, reflective, lesbian

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Rose Byrne

Chandler Canterbury

Ben Mendelsohn

Knowing (2009)

6.3 5.9K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

Style: melancholy, suspenseful

Plot: cataclysm, code, alien, time capsule, end of the world, astrophysicist, grieving widower, lexington massachusetts, ...

Cast

Kim Da-mi

Park Hae-soo

Kwon Eun-seong

Jeon Hye-jin

The Great Flood (2025)

6.0 730 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.

Style: philosophical, provocative

Plot: climate change, natural disaster, global warming, transhumanism, flood, meditative, detached, vexed, ...