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Theerppu (2022)
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Original name: തീർപ്പ്...
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Four friends, Ramkumar, Kalyan, Parameshwaran and Abdulla, who share a troubled history and familial strife, meet at a place owned by Ramkumar. This happenstance get-together ends up in fresh tension, leading to unforeseen consequences.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, dark, intense, emotional
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, vengeance, conflict, family conflict, moral ambiguity, confrontation, retribution, secrets, payback, family drama, mistrust, revenge motive, friendship, violence, house, isolation, flashback, slow burn, friend, malayalam, reunion, flashbacks
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, intense and dark films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, betrayal, isolation, malayalam, slow burn and violence mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Theerppu: Puzhu (2022), Martin (2017), Udal (2022), 22 Female Kottayam (2012), Udumb (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Kuttan, an annoyingly disciplined and a bigoted upper-caste retired police officer, is living with his son Kichu. After Bharati, Kuttan’s younger sister, falls in love with lower caste Kuttappan and elopes with him against her family’s wish, the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, father, class conflict, family drama, paranoia, bigotry, family problems, problem, relationships, life is a bitch, father and son ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
22 Female Kottayam, also known as 22FK, is a 2012 Indian rape and revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu and starring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil in the lead roles. The film deals with the travails of a nurse who was victimised for no fault of hers ...
Style:
intense, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The events that happen in the life of Ani after he gets convicted for a murder.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological, intense, tense ...
Plot:
convict, murder, prison, guilt, moral ambiguity, justice, male protagonist, family conflict, family drama, suspicion, isolation, suspect ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hari and his two friends who get embroiled in a murder case under unusual circumstances. They deal with the power-play, haplessness and trauma.
Style:
intense, crime drama, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
When his family gets killed by corrupt business tycoon, Soorya (Prithviraj) decides to take revenge, all by himself
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, murderer, vengeance, fight, witness, witnessing a crime, male female relationship, loss of brother, murder witness, battles, bereavement, lone hero ...
Place:
india
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187
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The journey of a woman who overcomes her personal anguish to help deliver justice to another woman trapped in a web of deceit and deception.
Style:
suspense, psychological, dark, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, village, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, fear, betrayal, anguish, grief, deception, secrets, psychological trauma ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
While there is an old-fashioned feel to the story telling, it moves along new paths that are twisted enough to keep us interested and also has us clenching our fists.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
business, betrayal, corruption, money, money problems, investor, investments, fraud, politics, real estate, working class, greed ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The story of the Indian immigrant community in Detroit, where a garage mechanic gets unwillingly involved in the criminal world as a getaway driver.
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crime drama, tense, intercultural, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
organized crime, underworld, redemption, moral ambiguity, friendship, identity, second chance, violence, outsider, working class, gang, urban decay ...
Place:
detroit
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62%
534
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dave is young and rebellious. A self-proclaimed King, influenced but not unconscious. As he sets out to find the stranger who danced with his girlfriend grabbing her ass, as if nothing had happened, he decides to take justice into his hands. Between ...
Style:
tense, intense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
relationship problems, criminal, gang, betrayal, bandit, anger, youth, machismo, violence, revenge, anti hero, confrontation ...
Place:
montreal
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60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An ex-marine with PTSD storms into a gallery, taking hostages and forcing them to confront their complex past and looming mortality, as time ticks by.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, dark
Plot:
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59%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
outsider, scandal, conflict, countryside, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, problem, relationships, family relations, threat, moral ambiguity, reputation ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Stranded on her way home, Sruthi hitches a long ride with KK who turns out to be her dad's buddy. Sruthi's mother seems to be reassured hearing that KK is with her daughter now. However her husband is troubled on hearing the news. ...
Style:
tense, dread, suspense, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a failed musician, sunny takes a dramatic turn as he smuggles himself back from Dubai to Kerala in midst of a global pandemic and shuts himself from the society.
Style:
emotional, intense, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, desperation, character study, survival, regret, redemption, isolation, homecoming, secrets, getting home, resilience, hopes ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, dubai
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52%
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
bullying, friendship, revenge, character study, confrontation, loyalty, social commentary, mental breakdown, isolation, loss, moral ambiguity, male camaraderie ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
Style:
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anna looks for revenge against a pimp for her young sister death's while working out a complicated relationship with her lover.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, intense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
conflict, police, power struggle, law enforcement, ego clash, police officer, fight, conflict of interest, battles, machismo, revenge, village ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
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50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After losing his job, Aby and his wife, Priya, move back to the latter's family estate in Kerala. However, things go from bad to worse for the couple as they encounter a new set of challenges..
Style:
dark, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
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Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, crime drama, tension, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
49%
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Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, political thriller, crime drama, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india
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Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
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Style:
suspense, dark, tense, sinister, grim ...
Plot:
haunting, revenge, isolation, investigation, secrets, family tragedy, trespassing, moral ambiguity, cold case, local legend, woods, legacy ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
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48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, twisted, ambiguous ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
character study, loneliness, moral ambiguity, mysterious stranger, slow burn, journalism, isolation, psychological manipulation, realism, obsession, investigation, guilt ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, harsh, intense, dark, brutal ...
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends end up on opposite extremes of morality, and face each other in a good vs evil war.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Back in his high school days, Joon-Seok (Joo Sang-Wook) was bullied by Chang-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun). Because of this, Joon-Seok's high school days were like a nightmare. Now, Joon-Seok finds it difficult to live a normal life due to the bullying. ...
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psychological thriller, tense, intense, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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