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Jigar Thanda (2016)
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Original name: Jigarthanda
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
An aspiring director targets a ruthless gangster for making a violent gangster film. His discreet attempts to research the gangster fail miserably. Finally when he gets caught snooping, the tables are turned on him.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, crime drama, suspense, intense, tension, psychological, neo noir, masala
Plot:
gangster, mafia, dark humor, violence, organized crime, investigation, undercover, deception, director, ambition, urban, satire, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, character study, obsession, betrayal, identity, friendship, experimental narrative, film within a film, tamil, stylized violence
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, crime drama and dark films with plots about moral ambiguity, urban, betrayal, revenge, corruption, violence and cat and mouse mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Jigar Thanda: To Topple an Empire (2015), Dead Wrong (2024), Wild 90 (1968), Docteur Chance (1997), Mafia (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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