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Movies: Best "ethical dilemma" Movies


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The Farewell(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 646 votes)

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Directed by Lulu Wang - With Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Zhao Shuzhen

Graduation(2016)

2h 7min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 122 votes)

Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding. Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.

Party Girl(1958)

3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Comedians(2021)

1h 36min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyone this is the great opportunity to change their life, for some it could be the last one. The performances begin and each comedian takes the stage with a great dilemma: to respect the teachings of their master, devoted to intelligent and uncompromising comedy, or to twist their numbers to satisfy the much less refined taste of the examiner? Or maybe look for a third way, one of absolute originality? Through the stories of six comedians, Comedians is a reflection on the very meaning of comedy in our time, facing absolutely topical issues.

Directed by Gabriele Salvatores - With Alessandro Besentini, Francesco Villa, Natalino Balasso, Vincenzo Zampa, Walter Leonardi, Christian De Sica, ...

The Henderson Monster(1980)

A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.

Runoff(2015)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desperate lengths to save her family when they are threatened with being forced from their land.

Headstand(1982)

1h 42min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital.

The Antarctic Syndrome(2019)

1h 13min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Does doctor Jan Terelak belong to an “elitist” group of the most unethical experimenters? The Polish scientist tested boundaries of human mental resilience in extreme conditions of solitude in Antarctica. The starting point for Piotr Jaworski's documentary is the psychologist's journal. The project from forty years ago was focused on studying the mental condition of polar explorers at the Polish station. Men were in the situation of confinement, comparable to a space mission. The film reconstructs these events, referring to the then contemporary context and changes in the perception of science.

Nuclearvision(1982)

The dilemmas of a journalist when he accepts a contract to make a Civil Defence film for showing on TV in the event of nuclear war.

Directed by James Jacobs, Günter Seltmann - With Peter Ambach, Jutta Ilzhöfer, Hans-Dieter Asner, Werner Eichhorn, Roland Eisenmenger

Janus Head(1972)

1h 35min | Drama

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to harm humanity, he immigrates to the USA in 1933 in protest against Nazi racial politics.