Here we've displayed a list of the best Moral Dilemma films : The Executioner(1963), Billy Budd(1962), Pickpocket(1959), Electra(1962), Lord of War(2005), Broken Lullaby(1932), The Visit(1964), The Young Philadelphians(1959), The First Circle(1991), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie(1976), American Madness(1932), Force majeure(2014) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Spain|Italy
1963
95 Minutes
Nino Manfredi Emma Penella José Isbert Angel Alvarez Guido Alberti María Luisa Ponte Julia Caba Alba Lola Gaos Félix Fernández Alfredo Landa Jose Luis Coll
executioner undertaker daughter prisoner love child crafty witty offbeat spain prison execution chamber execution unlikely romance work moral dilemma death difficult decision love sacrifice discovery
An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Drama
UK
1962
123 Minutes
Robert Ryan Terence Stamp Melvyn Douglas Peter Ustinov John Neville Ronald Lewis Lee Montague Paul Rogers Niall MacGinnis John Meillon Ray McAnally
captain seaman military officer assistant lieutenant young man tense fascinating profound rousing ship deck mediterranean sea accidental death moral dilemma false accusations schemes law enforcement naval warfare rivalry
Billy Budd is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Crime, Drama
France
1959
75 Minutes
Martin LaSalle Marika Green Pierre Leymarie Jean Pélégri Dolly Scal Kassagi Pierre Etaix César Gattegno
pickpocket mother police detective neighbor friend striking creative france horse track police station funeral self-expression petty crime moral dilemma going straight estrangement discovery temptation 1950s
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
Drama
Greece
1962
110 Minutes
Irene Papas Aleka Katselli Giannis Fertis Theano Ioannidou Notis Peryalis Takis Emmanuel
daughter husband brother mother lover king brooding dreamy emotional raw ancient greece village mountain farmhouse battlefield greek drama moral dilemma grief murder justice
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Action, Drama
France|Germany|USA
2005
122 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Jared Leto Bridget Moynahan Ian Holm Ethan Hawke Eamonn Walker Sammi Rotibi Jared Burke
arms dealer model brother federal agent dictator general brash disturbing outlandish queens, n.y. africa airplane airstrip ukraine beirut, lebanon smuggling political unrest cold war corruption moral dilemma
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
Drama
USA
1932
77 Minutes
Lionel Barrymore Nancy Carroll Phillips Holmes Lucien Littlefield Tom Douglas Frank Sheridan Louise Carter Tully Marshall
musician priest doctor wife daughter crafty touching france church germany small town guilt world war i moral dilemma deception quest transformation love 1910s
French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany|USA
1964
100 Minutes
wealthy woman man doctor painter innkeeper emotional disturbing small town household europe moral dilemma betrayal affair vengeance greed illegitimate child revenge temptation 1960s
An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1959
136 Minutes
Paul Newman Barbara Rush Alexis Smith Brian Keith Diane Brewster Billie Burke John Williams Robert Vaughn Otto Kruger Paul Picerni Robert Douglas
lawyer mother sweetheart alcoholic boss' wife birth father melodramatic fiery striking brash philadelphia house courtroom law office korea moral dilemma adultery social climbing blackmail korean war
A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.
Drama
Ireland
1991
189 Minutes
joseph stalin security head prisoner diplomat scientist gripping dark emotional profound labor camp russia embassy moral dilemma communism espionage technology imprisonment temptation sacrifice quest
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
Crime, Drama
USA
1976
109 Minutes
Ben Gazzara Timothy Agoglia Carey Seymour Cassel Azizi Johari Meade Roberts Alice Friedland Donna Gordon Morgan Woodward
club owner mobster stripper singer bookie thug dark gritty emotional intense hollywood, calif. strip club chinatown restaurant backstage casino moral dilemma debt gambling addiction murder
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
Frank Capra Walter Huston Pat O'Brien Kay Johnson Constance Cummings Gavin Gordon
bank president bank teller wife co-worker criminal detective melodramatic gutsy touching spirited bank vault party family home small town false accusations loyalty bank robbery moral dilemma infidelity
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day.
Comedy, Drama
Sweden|France|Norway|Denmark
2014
120 Minutes
Johannes Kuhnke Lisa Loven Kongsli Clara Wettergren Vincent Wettergren Kristofer Hivju Fanni Metelius Brady Corbet Karin Myrenberg
patriarch friend parent adulterer family child amusing gripping suspenseful dark the alps french alps hotel room balcony ski slopes ski resort disaster holidays children left for dead
A family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
Drama
Romania|France|Belgium
2016
128 Minutes
Adrian Titieni Maria-Victoria Dragus Rares Andrici Lia Bugnar Malina Manovici Vlad Ivanov Petre Ciubotaru David Hodorog Gheorghe Ifrim Lucian Ifrim
father daughter attacker police officer brutal disheartening disturbing emotional gripping uneasy transylvania small town rape rape aftermath revenge moral dilemma father/daughter relationship fatherhood love revenge
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
Action, Western, Drama
Australia|UK
2005
104 Minutes
Guy Pearce Ray Winstone Emily Watson Danny Huston John Hurt David Wenham Noah Taylor David Gulpilil Leah Purcell Richard Wilson Tom E. Lewis
outlaw murderer captain brother dark gritty australia outback farm missing persons moral dilemma family assault chase pursuit sacrifice revenge 1880s
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
Drama
UK
1957
91 Minutes
Stanley Baker Herbert Lom Peggy Cummins Patrick McGoohan Jill Ireland Gordon Jackson David McCallum Sean Connery
ex-convict truck driver foreman secretary friend gritty raw intense england construction site country road truck office corruption dangerous job moral dilemma truck driving crime discovery rivalry
A rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1958
93 Minutes
Eddie Albert Paul Massie Lillian Gish James Robertson Justice Irene Worth Leslie French John Crawford Lionel Jeffries Sandra Dorne Nicholas Phipps Anne Blake
pilot lawyer traitor assassin double agent husband gripping melodramatic bleak france hospital espionage world war ii moral dilemma french resistance kidnapping murder adventure quest transformation
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
Comedy, Drama
Israel|Germany
2014
90 Minutes
Tal Granit Ilan Dar Levana Finkelstein Ze'ev Revach Hanna Rieber Aliza Rosen Rafi Tabor Yosef Carmon Ruth Geller Michael Koresh Idit Teperson
israeli terminally ill person senior citizen death veterinarian teamwork spirited gutsy positive inspiring retirement home israel unlikely allies honor life story moral dilemma free will mortality 2010s
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Drama, War
Germany|Luxembourg|Czech Republic
2003
97 Minutes
Ulrich Matthes August Diehl Germain Wagner Bibiana Beglau Jean-Paul Raths Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka Adolf Filip Vladimir Fiser Peter Varga Petr Janis
catholic priest inmate dissident ss officer bishop brother somber disturbing gripping powerful dachau concentration camp luxembourg difficult decision nazis world war ii moral dilemma holocaust repression temptation sacrifice
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Drama
West Germany|France
1981
110 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Hanna Schygulla Jean Carmet Jerzy Skolimowski Gila von Weitershausen
foreign correspondent photographer lover wife journalist sniper intense spirited gutsy fiery beirut hotel west germany bedroom orphanage lebanese civil war israeli-palestinian conflict journalism ethics moral dilemma
Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he... See full summary »
Drama
Finland
1983
91 Minutes
Markku Toikka Aino Seppo Esko Nikkari Matti Pellonpää Pentti Auer Kari Sorvali Olli Tuominen Hannu Lauri
young man witness driver police detective fiancée bleak gripping touching finland apartment slaughterhouse crime punishment murder unusual romance moral dilemma mourning love revenge sacrifice
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
War, Drama, Action
USA
1965
123 Minutes
Marlon Brando Yul Brynner Janet Margolin Trevor Howard Martin Benrath Hans Christian Blech Wally Cox Max Haufler Rainer Penkert William Redfield
deserter government official ship captain nazi british intelligence agent sailor tense suspenseful thrilling ship india japan ocean working undercover moral dilemma world war ii espionage mutiny blackmail quest
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Drama
Ireland|USA
1959
110 Minutes
James Cagney Don Murray Dana Wynter Glynis Johns Michael Redgrave Sybil Thorndike Marianne Benet John Breslin Harry Brogan Robert Brown Lewis Casson
professor student woman smuggler poet terrorist tense emotional ireland dublin college pub farm hostage situation moral dilemma political repression irish republican army nationalism torture sacrifice
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Comedy
UK
1960
101 Minutes
Terry-Thomas Athene Seyler Hattie Jacques Billie Whitelaw Elspeth Duxbury Irene Handl Jack Hedley Kenneth Williams Caroline Leigh Denis Shaw Michael Peake
landlady major maid boarder police officer witty quirky winsome cheeky boarding house england theft unlikely criminal friendship moral dilemma thrill seeking adventure underdog 1960s
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK|Hungary|Israel
2010
112 Minutes
Helen Mirren Sam Worthington Tom Wilkinson Ciarán Hinds Jessica Chastain Marton Csokas Jesper Christensen Romi Aboulafia
agent partner young woman nazi elderly person suspenseful engaging ukraine israel berlin assassination secret mission reputation moral dilemma discovery revenge 2000s
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
Drama, History
UK
2016
89 Minutes
Florence Pugh Cosmo Jarvis Paul Hilton Naomi Ackie Christopher Fairbank Bill Fellows Joseph Teague Ian Conningham Fleur Houdijk
lord adulterer maid father bride servant tense bleak brutal frightening family estate bedroom woods relationships moral dilemma desire manipulation illegitimate child dangerous romance transformation
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
Comedy
Philippines
2003
111 Minutes
Hilda Koronel Angel Aquino Sharon Cuneta Eric Quizon Ricky Davao Julio Pacheco Shamaine Centenera
mourner adulterer actress hustler child amusing positive manila market bedroom stage bus funeral gambling mourning moral dilemma custody battle affair unusual occupations adventure
A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.
Drama
USA
2010
115 Minutes
Ben Affleck Chris Cooper Kevin Costner Tommy Lee Jones Maria Bello Rosemarie DeWitt Craig T. Nelson John Doman Liam Ferguson Cady Huffman Tonye Patano
businessman colleague boss wife brother-in-law son touching inspiring charming office house construction site career economy recession family pride moral dilemma underdog fall
The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
Comedy
UK
1969
88 Minutes
Sidney James Kenneth Williams Bernard Bresslaw Joan Sims Barbara Windsor Terry Scott Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Julian Holloway Dilys Laye Peter Butterworth
friend girlfriend camper college student best friend farmer amusing charming cheery playful melodramatic outlandish camp tent field office united kingdom camping relationships romance
Farcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre.
Western
USA
1957
90 Minutes
James Stewart Audie Murphy Dan Duryea Dianne Foster Elaine Stewart Brandon de Wilde Jay C. Flippen Herb Anderson Robert Wilke Hugh Beaumont Jack Elam
outlaw gunslinger lawman railroad tycoon brother robber gritty suspenseful wild west colorado train train robbery brotherhood theft old west moral dilemma pursuit quest 19th century
A fired railroad man is re-hired and trusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|Germany|Canada|France
2015
136 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence Josh Hutcherson Liam Hemsworth Woody Harrelson Donald Sutherland Philip Seymour Hoffman Julianne Moore Willow Shields Sam Claflin Elizabeth Banks Mahershala Ali
young woman friend citizen president enemy rebel brooding dark intense wedding bunker destroyed city airship arena ballroom dystopia rebellion assassination survival danger
Katniss and a team of rebels from District 13 prepare for the final battle that will decide the fate of Panem.