Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "introverted-protagonist"

1. Mr. Robot (2015–2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Elliot, a brilliant but unstable cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global chaos when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation his company is paid to protect.

Stars: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin, Martin Wallström

Votes: 418,488

2. The Queen's Gambit (2020)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama

Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.

Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp, Marcin Dorocinski

Votes: 554,138

3. Her (2013)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara

Votes: 669,941 | Gross: $25.57M

4. Last Night in Soho (2021)

R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg

Votes: 177,152

5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama

Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.

Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd

Votes: 548,218 | Gross: $17.74M

6. Amélie (2001)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Romance

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta

Votes: 794,465 | Gross: $33.23M

7. Carrie (1976)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Votes: 206,772 | Gross: $33.80M

8. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A teenage boy finds himself recruited as a member of an elite team of pilots by his father.

Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Spike Spencer

Votes: 85,366

9. Carrie (2013)

R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A shy girl, outcast by her peers and sheltered by her religious mother, unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday

Votes: 148,219 | Gross: $35.27M

10. Rebecca (1940)

Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson

Votes: 146,815 | Gross: $4.36M

11. Eighth Grade (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan

Votes: 82,508 | Gross: $13.54M

12. Ms .45 (1981)

R | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto

Votes: 12,566

13. Powder (1995)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An off-the-charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit.

Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum

Votes: 32,608 | Gross: $30.86M

14. The Night Clerk (2020)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A voyeuristic hotel clerk becomes the subject of a murder investigation.

Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt, John Leguizamo

Votes: 18,665

15. Speak (2004)

PG-13 | 89 min | Drama

After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.

Director: Jessica Sharzer | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Richard Hagerman, Allison Siko

Votes: 29,449

16. Control (2007)

R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to die by suicide at the age of 23.

Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 68,571 | Gross: $0.87M

17. Peeping Tom (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley

Votes: 39,288 | Gross: $0.08M

18. The Half of It (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.

Director: Alice Wu | Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz

Votes: 43,288

19. Repulsion (1965)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux

Votes: 57,291

20. Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)

Not Rated | 186 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Naina, an introverted, perpetually depressed girl's life changes when she meets Aman. But Aman has a secret of his own which changes their lives forever. Embroiled in all this is Rohit, Naina's best friend who conceals his love for her.

Director: Nikkhil Advani | Stars: Preity G Zinta, Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Jaya Bachchan

Votes: 75,507 | Gross: $1.79M

21. Show Me Love (1998)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust

Votes: 55,410 | Gross: $0.17M

22. The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

After being attacked on the street, a young man enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself from future threats.

Director: Riley Stearns | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada

Votes: 40,919 | Gross: $2.41M

23. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 11,469

24. Polaroid (I) (2019)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the Polaroid camera she finds. It doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken with it, soon die.

Director: Lars Klevberg | Stars: Kathryn Prescott, Tyler Young, Samantha Logan, Keenan Tracey

Votes: 16,446

25. Bocchi the Rock! (2022)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Music

Hitori "Bocchi-chan" Goto is a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar; she meets Nijika Ijichi and joins "Kessoku Band." Inspired by legendary artist Tupac Shakur, Bocchi strives to become the greatest guitarist on earth.

Stars: Yoshino Aoyama, Sayumi Suzushiro, Saku Mizuno, Ikumi Hasegawa

Votes: 4,540

26. American Taboo (1983)

R | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Unstable thirty-something introvert, who works as a photographer's assistant, becomes obsessed with his underage female neighbor, who, to his horror, reciprocates his feelings due to possible Electra complex.

Director: Steve Lustgarten | Stars: Jay Horenstein, Nicole Harrison, Hester Schell, Mark Rabiner

Votes: 261

27. Little Voice (1998)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.

Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor

Votes: 17,186 | Gross: $4.60M

28. Bloodline (III) (2018)

R | 97 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Director: Henry Jacobson | Stars: Seann William Scott, Mariela Garriga, Dale Dickey, Christie Herring

Votes: 9,052

29. Brewster McCloud (1970)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy

Votes: 5,609 | Gross: $1.05M

30. The Consequences of Love (2004)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Antonio Ballerio

Votes: 18,695

31. Heavy (1995)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters, Debbie Harry

Votes: 5,924 | Gross: $0.99M

32. Other People (I) (2016)

Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.

Director: Chris Kelly | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow

Votes: 12,606 | Gross: $0.09M

33. Wonder Egg Priority (2021)

TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Drama

While on a midnight stroll, a girl named Ai picks up an egg. A voice coaxes her: "If you want to change the future, you only need to choose now. Now, believe in yourself and break the egg." What awaits Ai after the breaking of the egg?

Stars: Kanata Aikawa, Yûya Uchida, Hiroki Takahashi, Ian Sinclair

Votes: 4,047

34. So I'm a Spider, So What? (2021– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Something mysterious happens and an entire class finds themselves reincarnated in a RPG-game-like fantasy world. The main character, a girl, finds herself reincarnated in a spider. Will she able to survive and to find out what happened?

Stars: Aoi Yûki, Shun Horie, Kaito Ishikawa, Nao Tôyama

Votes: 1,995

35. The Laws of the Border (2021)

TV-MA | 127 min | Thriller

Introverted Gerona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

Director: Daniel Monzón | Stars: Marcos Ruiz, Begoña Vargas, Chechu Salgado, Xavier Martín

Votes: 5,137

36. Me and You (2012)

103 min | Drama

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar

Votes: 5,886

37. Romantics Anonymous (2010)

PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie

Votes: 12,039

38. Apartment Zero (1988)

R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.

Director: Martin Donovan | Stars: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith

Votes: 4,239 | Gross: $0.67M

39. Office Killer (1997)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A mousy office worker accidentally kills one of her coworkers, then proceeds to bump off a few others.

Director: Cindy Sherman | Stars: Florina Rodov, Jason Brill, Eddie Malavarca, Carol Kane

Votes: 2,392 | Gross: $0.04M

40. Getting It Right (1989)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Gavin is thirty-one-years-old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy, but before he knows it, there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of ... See full summary »

Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horrocks, Pat Heywood

Votes: 767 | Gross: $0.96M

41. The Outside Story (2020)

85 min | Drama

An introverted editor living a vertical life in his 2nd-floor apartment, locks himself out of his building and is forced to go horizontal and confront the world he's been avoiding in search... See full summary »

Director: Casimir Nozkowski | Stars: Brian Tyree Henry, Sonequa Martin-Green, Sunita Mani, Olivia Edward

Votes: 640

42. Toon (2016–2017)

25 min | Comedy

A reclusive, socially awkward jingle composer finds himself navigating the nightmarish world of show business after a viral video skyrockets him to fame overnight.

Stars: Joep Vermolen, Amy van der Weerden, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Bleij

Votes: 1,053

43. Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu (2019)

23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In order to reconcile with her childhood friend, a very shy girl aims to befriend everyone in her class.

Stars: Chisaki Morishita, Minami Tanaka, Akari Kitô, Yûko Kurose

Votes: 485

44. Kamikaze (II) (2014)

TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Slastan, from Karadjistan, is willing to immolate himself on a plane from Moscow to Madrid, but a storm forces a change in his plans.

Director: Álex Pina | Stars: Álex García, Eduardo Blanco, Verónica Echegui, Carmen Machi

Votes: 1,593

45. The Cleaner (2015)

94 min | Drama

He is lacking social relationships. Observing other lives from behind the closet doors makes him feel safe and quiets down his solitude. Everything changes, when he decides to come out.

Director: Peter Bebjak | Stars: Éva Bandor, Noel Czuczor, Henrieta Kecerová, Kamil Kollarik

Votes: 100

46. Loners (2019)

90 min | Comedy

A satire about a group of introverts who are scapegoated for violence and forced into a government group therapy program as part of its "War On Loneliness." Caught up in a conspiracy they stand up for their right to be alone - together.

Director: Eryc Tramonn | Stars: Brian Letscher, Tyson Turrou, David Christian Welborn, Melissa Paladino

Votes: 263

47. Sacred Hearts, Holy Souls (2014)

39 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Two teenage misfits at an all-boys Catholic boarding school become unlikely comrades in a struggle against hormonal bullies and dinosaur-aged priests.

Director: Mark Thiedeman | Stars: Harrison Tanner Dean, Quinn Gasaway, Schafer Bourne, Tucker Steinmetz

Votes: 30

48. Hero Worship (II) (2019– )

Comedy

A shy sixth form student dreams of becoming a comic book writer and artist, but has to overcome various obstacles first .

Star: Adam Quigley-Nixon

49. Alcoholic (2013)

33 min | Short, Drama

Alina was abandoned by her mother, so now she lives with her aunt, Alina thinks she is spiteful and doesn't love her. The only one who loves Alina is her doll. Accidentally girl found an ... See full summary »

Director: Yuliia Hontaruk | Stars: Klimenko Alina, Luschyk Andriy, Edhzibia Davyd, Izbash Igor

Votes: 34

50. Toon (2016–2017)
Episode: Feest (2016)

26 min | Comedy

Painfully shy and socially awkward, Toon just wants to play his new video game at home for his birthday, but his sister, newly returned to Holland, plans a big party.

Director: Beer ten Kate | Stars: Joep Vermolen, Amy van der Weerden, Loulou Hameleers, Marijn Klaver

Votes: 31