305 Best Character-driven Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch
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If you're less about adventurous plots, and more about the emotional journey and relationship arcs, we've got you covered. Here are the best character-driven movies and shows to stream right now.
The Novelist’s Film (2022)
8.8
A deeply meaningful and uncommonly tender high point in director Hong Sang-soo's prolific career
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (2023)
7.5
A dying criminal kills to be the most wanted in this Taiwanese Western-esque gangster drama
Monster (2023)
9.4
Remarkably sensitive and well-told, this twisty Japanese drama unveils layers upon layers of different truths
Leave the World Behind (2023)
8.2
Shyamalan meets Black Mirror in this hugely entertaining, visually inventive apocalyptic thriller with a killer ending
The Parades (2024)
7.2
Michihito Fujii reimagines a peaceful, communal afterlife in this slice-of-life supernatural drama
Saltburn (2023)
8.5
A black comedy of perilous desire that's perfectly acted and rightfully unhinged
The Madness of King George (1994)
7.3
Nigel Hawthorne shines through this adaptation depicting the British Crown at its maddest
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
8.4
A haunting, magnificently performed courtroom drama that expertly builds an atmosphere of distrust
Career Girls (1997)
7.2
Two women rekindle their college friendship in this simple yet intimate slice of life comedy
The Holdovers (2023)
8.6
A cozy and tenderly acted dramedy about the loneliness of the holidays
Society of the Snow (2023)
8.2
J.A. Bayona remembers the humanity, not the sensationalism, of the Andes miracle
Nightmare Alley (2021)
9.0
A psychological thriller of the highest quality, masked as an adult fairytale, by the great Guillermo del Toro