Moral Dilemma
"moral dilemma" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Death Note
Synopsis:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into…
Starring:
Nozomu Sasaki,
Mamoru Miyano,
Shido Nakamura
Plot:
police,
secret identity,
detective,
journalism,
supernatural,
battle of wits,
anime,
anti hero,
child prodigy,
moral dilemma
...
#2
Oppenheimer
Synopsis:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Starring:
Cillian Murphy,
Emily Blunt,
Kenneth Branagh
#3
Knock at the Cabin
Synopsis:
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
Starring:
Rupert Grint,
Nikki Amuka-Bird,
Dave Bautista
#4
M3GAN
Synopsis:
A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.
Starring:
Violet McGraw,
Ronny Chieng,
Allison Williams
#5
Twins
Synopsis:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Starring:
Danny DeVito,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
David Caruso
#6
Trainspotting
Synopsis:
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Starring:
Ewen Bremner,
Ewan McGregor,
James Cosmo
Plot:
filthy toilet,
scotland,
drugs,
drug culture,
scottish,
1990s,
heroin,
voice over narration,
female nudity,
heroin addict
...
#7
Traffic
Synopsis:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and i…
Starring:
Dennis Quaid,
Michael Douglas,
Don Cheadle
Plot:
mexico,
judge,
cocaine,
interlinked stories,
drug smuggling,
kidnapping,
drug cartel,
drug trafficking,
color filter,
drug war
...
#8
The Man in the Iron Mask
Synopsis:
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Starring:
Hugh Laurie,
Jeremy Irons,
John Malkovich
Plot:
17th century,
france,
twin,
musketeer,
three musketeers,
two brothers,
outnumbered,
death scene,
twin brothers,
masquerade ball
...
#9
The Firm
Synopsis:
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choi…
Starring:
David Strathairn,
Holly Hunter,
Tom Cruise
#10
The Dead Zone
Synopsis:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Starring:
Tom Skerritt,
Nicholas Campbell,
Christopher Walken
#11
The Crazies
Synopsis:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Starring:
Richard France,
Lynn Lowry,
Lane Carroll
#12
The Core
Synopsis:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate…
Starring:
Stanley Tucci,
Tchéky Karyo,
Bruce Greenwood
#13
The Bone Collector
Synopsis:
Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.
Starring:
Denzel Washington,
Bobby Cannavale,
Luis Guzmán
#14
Stand by Me
Synopsis:
Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.
Starring:
Jerry O'Connell,
Corey Feldman,
Kiefer Sutherland
Plot:
friendship,
coming of age,
childhood friend,
walking on train tracks,
summertime,
treehouse,
boy,
dead body,
woods,
summer
...
#15
Seven Samurai
Synopsis:
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Starring:
Takashi Shimura,
Yoshio Inaba,
Toshirō Mifune
Plot:
samurai,
16th century,
battle,
japan,
epic,
cult favorite,
katana sword,
village,
bandit,
farmer
...
#16
Run Lola Run
Synopsis:
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Starring:
Franka Potente,
Moritz Bleibtreu,
Herbert Knaup
#17
Runaway Jury
Synopsis:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Cliff Curtis,
Rachel Weisz
#18
Point Break
Synopsis:
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Starring:
Keanu Reeves,
John Philbin,
Patrick Swayze
Plot:
bank robbery,
surfer,
title directed by female,
male bonding,
robbery,
gang,
gangster,
criminal,
investigation,
masked robber
...
#19
Platoon
Synopsis:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Starring:
Keith David,
Johnny Depp,
Willem Dafoe
#20
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Synopsis:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Starring:
John Hurt,
Cyril Cusack,
Richard Burton