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Dead Write (2007)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After driving husband Martin to infidelity and catching him with another, mentally unstable author Jade returns to her New Zealand home. The plan is to write a book based on the town's history, helped by the local school teacher and her college thesis protégée, and visit her father Christopher. As her editor later explains, her suspicions concerning ever more locals stem from a pathological mental condition. However, more then just paranoia comes with the horse riding incident which killed her ma, an obsessive guilt matter for her and Christopher.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, suspense, dark, gothic, moody
Plot:
infidelity, mental illness, guilt, paranoia, obsession, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, grief, family drama, small town, memory, isolation, regret, tragic past, writer's block, domestic drama, writers, investigation, school teacher, identity crisis, flashback, slow burn, adultery, unreliable narrator, flashbacks
Place:
new zealand
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, suspense, tense and dark films with plots about isolation, obsession, investigation, paranoia, slow burn, identity crisis and claustrophobia mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Dead Write: Sila Nodigalil (2023), Twisted (2022), Exit 0 (2019), To Thy Rest (2025), Outbreak (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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147
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Story:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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