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Samantaral (2017)
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Original name: সমান্তরাল
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, tense, dark, melancholic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family drama, mental health, life is a bitch, family secret, social problems, family problems, secret, uncle nephew relationship, eccentric family, isolation, compassion, abuse, locked room, empathy, intimate, investigation, claustrophobia, oppression, guilt, family honor, misunderstanding, slow burn, betrayal, grief ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
india, kolkata
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about life is a bitch, isolation, family problems, small town, family drama, grief and slow burn mostly in Drama, Horror and Family genres. Some movies like Samantaral: No Bed of Roses (2017), Sleeping Beauty (2008), Downeast (2021), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2017), A Silence (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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