American films about pain

List of the best American films about pain according to the audience: Hellraiser, Evidence, Christine, Waves, The Man with the Iron Heart, Goat, A Vigilante, Mohawk, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, General Education.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

This remake of the 1987 supernatural horror film of the same name will return to re-interpret the source novella "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:36

Christine is an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion, unrequited love for a coworker and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue-based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self-doubt and give the people what they want.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, sport
CountryUSA, Canada

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, military, biography
CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary
Duration02:07

With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, western, military, history
CountryUSA

A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:35

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. General Education is a quirky comedy about a family learning to grow together.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Mexico

Nolan Mack, a soft-spoken bank employee, undoubtedly loves his wife Joy, though their cavernous empty house only underscores how disconnected they’ve always been from each other. Nolan finds himself drifting from his familiar present-day life in pursuit of lost time after meeting a troubled young man named Leo on his drive home. What begins as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering series of events.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA

A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical super stardom.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, family
CountryUSA

Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager daughter. His life is in a slow downward spiral when it is suddenly awakened and invigorated by the most unlikely person – Produce, a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

It's Donald Trump's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Does time exist when nothing changes? That is the question for the picturesque Village of Rockwell, where time has frozen. Nobody gets sick; nobody ages, and nobody dies due to a tragic bus crash that took the lives of the 1977 undefeated Rockwell High School Basketball Team.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:35

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration02:27

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada, Australia
Duration01:51

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA

A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation in ruins.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

It's Roseanne Barr's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.

Markimdb: 9
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Worried that he has gotten the free-spirited Mindy pregnant after an unprotected one-night stand, Fred feigns romantic interest and sticks by her side for twelve hours to make sure she takes both doses of the morning-after pill.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

A college student gets involved in the wild partying lifestyle of a professional freestyle moto-x rider.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

    Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky, beginning a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience, prudence, legality and reason.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    After an unexpected incident, Beth starts having flashbacks to her teen self and learns how she became who she is and who she wants to become.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, cartoon, detective, anime
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration02:39

    Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one system of minds and personalities known as ghosts, the biggest threat to civilization is the cyber terrorists capable of hijacking people's bodies and memories. When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. As they delve deeper and deeper into their investigation, they uncover traces of government corruption and a shadowy broker that bears an all-too-familiar face. The film is a continuation to the plot of the Pyrophoric Cult episode of Arise, and ties up loose ends from that arc.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
    CountryCanada, Germany, USA, Bulgaria
    Duration01:31

    A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

    Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, community, and joy the three-day music festival created.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    "Stonewall" is a drama about a young man in New York caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event widely considered the starting point for the modern gay civil rights movement.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:14

    A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.




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