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The Bottomless Bag (2017)
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Original name: Мешок без дна
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.
Style:
enigmatic, allegory, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, fairy tale, atmospheric, poetic, philosophical ...
Plot:
palace intrigue, murder, forest, murder mystery, multiple perspectives, prince, emperor, testimony, symbolism, metaphysics, whodunit, investigation, legend, memory, guilt, medieval, palace, honor, revenge, ritual, courtroom drama, russian empire, unreliable narrator, mystery, court intrigue
Time:
19th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, psychological and melancholic films with plots about investigation, murder, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, slow burn, murder investigation and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Mystery and History genres. Some movies like The Bottomless Bag: Reminiscence (2017), Last «Dear Bulgaria» (2021), Manor House (2020), The Shadowless (2009), Gabi (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, childhood friend, investigation, reminiscence, murderer, reunited friends, murder mystery, murder investigation, friends, problem, group of friends, old friends reunited ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, tricky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
evacuation, director, childhood trauma, mysterious disappearance, uncover truth, society, scientist, young girl, flashback, russian history, literary, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
ussr, soviet union, kazakhstan
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, France
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, cerebral, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
culture clash, aristocracy, manor, morality, debate, mansion, high society, cultural difference, relationship problems, intrigue, slow burn, literary ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village ...
Style:
poetic, suspense, surreal, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
disappearance, magic realism, symbolism, character study, loneliness, outsider, mysticism, moral ambiguity, isolation, claustrophobia, loss of innocence, violence ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set towards the end of the 19th century, when coffee was first introduced to Korea, Russian sharpshooter Illichi and Joseon's first barista Danya are manipulated by Japanese officer Sadako into an elaborate plan to assassinate King Gojong.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
power struggle, joseon dynasty, assassination attempt, coffee, assassination, betrayal, political intrigue, assassination plot, king, threat to kill, conspiracy, dynasty ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
In 1950, a young woman named Manikyam was found dead in the village of Paleri. Around 52 years later, Haridas, a private investigator, tries to unravel the truth about her death.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, who done it, crime investigation, murder, secret, undercover, crime solving, murder mystery, uncover truth, murder investigation, plot twist, whodunit ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Director Viktor Schaufler, a student of Marina Razbezhkina's Documentary Film School, comes to Colombia to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his older sister Bertha. The film consists of two seemingly independent parts — "The ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, mysterious disappearance, investigation, disappearance, crime investigation, missing girl, private investigation, searching for the truth, missing woman, missing sister, obsessive quest, vanished man ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style:
detective, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, police investigation, cop, japanese police, police procedural, secret, abduction, puzzle, crime investigation, cold case, missing daughter ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
whodunit, world war two, murder, investigation, assassination plot, murder mystery, forensics, criminal, female writer, murder investigation, murderer, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, investigation, suicide, murder mystery, private investigation, sleuth, loss of child, life is a bitch, uncover truth, bereavement, family drama, grief ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
53%
422
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Park Jae-sang was a royal geomancer, who helps people designate propitious site for houses, store and even graves under the belief that a grave in a good site will bring future fortune for descendants. But he loses his family because he exposed a ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
power struggle, conspiracy, tomb, battles, royal palace, conflict, joseon dynasty, royal family, warrior, fight, betrayal, burial ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Set in the ancient capital Luoyang during the era of 13 dynasties, it revolves around three people who come together to investigate a series of mysterious incidents involving the conspiracy to overthrow Empress Wu Ze Tian. Adapted from the novel ...
Style:
costume drama, dramatic, enigmatic, captivating, harsh ...
Plot:
investigation, falsely accused, palace intrigue, tang dynasty, corruption, conspiracy, revenge, power struggle, vengeance, murder mystery, death, emperor ...
Place:
ancient china, china
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, art house, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, coming of age, child protagonist, nordic, macabre, imagination, boy, mysticism, grief, haunting, family tragedy, folk horror ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An unrecognizable, charred corpse discovered in a remote mountain village in China connects three local stories.
Style:
suspense, dark, captivating, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mountain, domestic violence, murder, secrets, moral ambiguity, village, social relations, relationships, changing lives, lifestyle change, couple relations, power relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, patient, doctor, life, reading someone else's diary, doctors and patients, physician, life & death, magic realism, manuscript, mortality, self discovery ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
prussia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Talented and cutthroat hairstylists at a competition find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls, competitors unspool long-simmering resentments and lies as they search for the killer among them.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, killing, intrigue, secret, murderer, problem, lie, obsession, secrets, mystery killer, betrayal ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.
Style:
neo noir, detective, independent film, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
train travel, investigation, secrets, private detective, private investigator, sleuth, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, character study, confession, guilt, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
samurai, moral dilemma, honor, loyalty, duty, conflict, sibling relationship, medieval, battles, samurai era, fight, murderer ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of The Partition, Byomkesh Bakshi and his assistant Ajit must solve the murder of the head of the dysfunctional Halder family.
Style:
detective, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, uncover truth, problem, teamwork, murder investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, sleuth, who done it, whodunit, literary ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illness, forest, dying father, old man, life & death, parents and children, nursing, multiple storylines, fighting illness, family relations, care ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
An elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
Style:
experimental, independent film, art house, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
choice, identity, responsibility, feminist, ambiguity, memory, minimalism, female bonding, symbolism, portrait, intimate, mature ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is ...
Style:
costume drama, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
victorian england, mysterious death, murder investigation, haunted by the past, amateur sleuth, death, father, puzzle, forensics, murder mystery, uncover truth, confronting the past ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
family problems, supernatural, child custody, creature feature, children, claustrophobia, loneliness, isolation, confined, magic realism, haunting, intimate ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, russian empire, whodunit, palace intrigue, terrorism, imperial russia, murder, military, crime investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, danger ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
bullying, investigation, suicide, mental health, adolescence, crime investigation, secret, murderer, murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, social problems ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where ...
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, physicist, murder, summer, whodunit, coastal town, crime solving, uncover truth, murderer, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, existential, allegory, reflective ...
Plot:
surrealism, metaphysics, identity crisis, literary, fatalism, adaptation, palace intrigue, moral dilemma, spirituality, ritual, dream, shootout ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pretty young songbird found murdered on Hollywood Boulevard. The crusty old Private Eye who was in love with her. A smooth-talking seductress who hires him to solve the crime. A bulldog detective with a nose for the truth and a leash held by city ...
Style:
detective, noir, crime drama, tense, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, whodunit, femme fatale, murder mystery, murder investigation, who done it, crime investigation, police detective, homicide detective, sleuth, hollywood ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Adapted from Japanese film called Rashomon, U Mong Pa Meung (The Outrage) takes place in a wood during Thai’s Lanna period where a mysterious murder happens. The story is told through three witnesses: a young monk, woodcutter and undertaker.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, medieval, society, investigation, life is a bitch, who done it, dishonesty, injustice, under the surface, tunnel, murder mystery ...
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, social problems, political unrest, murder, workplace, assassination, politics, class conflict, social realism, strike, national identity, urban ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
Similarity:
37%
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