Best Moral Ambiguity Movies

1966 • Rating 8.5 • western

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Genre: Western

Style:

Audience: Adult

Plot: Gold, Army, Bounty Hunter, Hitman, Refugee, Anti Hero, Moral Ambiguity, Gallows, Outlaw, Gun Battle

Time: Year 1966, 1960S, 1966-12-23

Place: United States Of America, Italy, Spain, Germany, Italian

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov

1954 • Rating 8.5 • action, drama

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Genre: Action, Drama

Style:

Audience: Date Night

Plot: Martial Arts, Japan, Samurai, Sword, Peasant, Village, Looting, Rice, Fencing, Moral Ambiguity

Time: Year 1954, 1950S, 1954-04-26

Place: Japan, Japanese

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō