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Stuff and Dough (2001)
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Original name: Marfa și banii
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
Style:
road movie, art house, crime drama, tense, melancholic, noir
Plot:
journey, moral dilemma, coming of age, realism, transformation, moral ambiguity, character study, social commentary, survival, betrayal, smuggling, minimalism, poverty, existential crisis, ambition, urban decay, friendship, isolation, greed, small town life, underworld, slow burn, artist, dogme 95, humility ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary
Place:
transylvania, romania, black sea, bucharest
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, crime drama, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about betrayal, moral ambiguity, survival, character study, isolation, slow burn and corruption mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Stuff and Dough: Aaja Mexico Challiye (2022), Clean (2004), Centaur (2023), Seaburners (2014), Kurangu Bommai (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
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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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
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Style:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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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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Duration: 111 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
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Style:
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Duration: 92 min.
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