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Tungsten (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor, the scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day. One day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout, caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity company. A day during which, six people's lives are being crossed and diverted.
Style:
tense, bleak, melancholic, suspenseful, existential, surreal, weird
Plot:
electricity, darkness, urban, blackout, teenager, strike, moral ambiguity, social commentary, claustrophobia, isolation, alienation, urban decay, slice of life, intimate, greek, power, couples, power outage, cityscape, public transport, psychological drama, teenagers
Place:
athens greece, greece, athens
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, existential, tense and bleak films with plots about moral ambiguity, alienation, isolation, urban, psychological drama, character study and minimalism mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Tungsten: Burning Shadow (2018), Madraskaaran (2025), Lines (2016), Eden (2016), 7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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