Movies and TV shows like Revival
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Revival (2025)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story, as the 'revived' appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she's left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, mystical, suspenseful, moody
Plot:
supernatural, resurrection, murder mystery, rebirth, small town, investigation, macabre, female protagonist, secrets, police procedural, moral ambiguity, single mother, grief, identity, social commentary, ethical dilemma, slow burn, religion, faith, conspiracy, isolation, scandal, murder, officer
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 55 min.
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Place:
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78%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 47 min.
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Smart, capable and by the book Grace Narayan was flying high as an inner-city police sergeant before being forced into a 'punishment posting' on the small, antiquated island of St. Jory. Confronted by the forgotten and unsolved case of ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 50 min.
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On the run from her troubled past, a young mother is accused of killing her new boss at a flower farm just before discovering he's actually her father.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
tense, detective, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
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63%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
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Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, dark, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 44 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 35 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 370 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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Audience:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Time:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, enigmatic ...
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 410 min.
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Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
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Duration: 15 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
turkey
Similarity:
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Duration: 172 min.
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Style:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 40 min.
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A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.
Style:
mystical, teen horror, mystic, teen, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
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At the height of the refugee crisis in Bulgaria, a competent DANS employee and an ambitious local investigator are investigating the murder of a retired police officer in the border town of Smolyan. The clues are gradually turning them into a ...
Style:
suspense, tense, bleak, enigmatic, mystical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min.
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Budding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Style:
suspense, emotional, suspenseful, tension, twisted ...
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; ...
Style:
creepy, dark, tense, atmospheric, supernatural thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, secrets, macabre, paranoia, small town, ghost, death, grief, investigation, addiction, immortality, sleep disorder ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, ...
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
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investigation, murder, suspicion, small town, police procedural, secrets, mentor protege relationship, justice, betrayal, dark past, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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