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The Father Who Moves Mountains (2021)
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Original name: Tata mută munții
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, bleak, emotional, dark ...
Plot:
search and rescue, father son relationship, mountain, missing person, lost, rescue mission, father, rescue, family relations, squad, tragic event, investigation, obsession, mature, isolation, manhunt, grief, moral ambiguity, survival, prospector, vigilante, law enforcement, secrets, suspicion, man versus nature ...
Place:
romania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, dark and captivating films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, isolation, investigation, slow burn, grief and obsession mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Father Who Moves Mountains: The Girl on the Mountain (2022), Puzhu (2022), The Riot (2021), No Beast So Fierce (2016), The Final Code (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
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tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe
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75%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Released after 20 years in prison, ex-con Charlie Sundstrom (Bailey Chase) returns to his home town to find that his estranged son, who has disappeared into the criminal underworld, is being hunted by a ruthless gang leader. Charlie enlists the help ...
Style:
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Plot:
ex convict, father son relationship, gang, prison, estranged son, criminal gang, street gang, criminal, gang member, social problems, family relations, bandit ...
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A captive daughter endures around two decades of abuse at the hands of a sadistic father. One day, destiny presents her with an opportunity to break free.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An ordinary suburban girl faces the biggest battle of her life when her sudden disappearance for a brief period leads to a desperate search by her loved ones.
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
survival, alone, search and rescue, missing person, family relations, love of one's life, tragedy, family tragedy, investigation, love, mysterious disappearance, family drama ...
Place:
india
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59%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A former Marine, Chuck, copes with PTSD by living alone in the woods. He's a work-for-hire contractor taking care of peoples' problems. When a teenage girl mysteriously disappears, her desperate parents hire Chuck to find her. They tell ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
ptsd, backwoods, investigation, moral ambiguity, anti hero, haunting, vigilante, lone wolves, search and rescue, family tragedy, manhunt, private investigator ...
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181
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, emotional breakdown, infidelity, grief, mental disorder, character study, obsession, loss, introspection, cheating on husband, adultery, lovers ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ustanička ulica is a Serbian political thriller. Dušan Ilić (Gordan Kičić), employed at the Serbian state prosecutor's office, gets a top secret case to investigate a war crime committed by a disbanded paramilitary unit. He manages to ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, memories, redemption, war crime, post war, father and son, investigator, father, ex soldier, son, father son relationship, crime investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
serbia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, family problems, domestic disturbance, youth, domestic abuse, family drama, resilience, survival, courage, female empowerment ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
A mother who unfairly lost her young son, takes revenge against the perpetrator who has been forgiven by the law and heals her wounds.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.
Style:
tense, suspense, detective, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One day, Hye Lin, the five-year old daughter of a devoted pastor, Joo Young Soo, is kidnapped. Pastor Joo, who has a rock solid faith in God at this time, prays wholeheartedly for her safe comeback, but she does not return. Eight years later, Joo ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 194 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
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Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, danger, drug, desperation, loss, regret, anti hero ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, bleak, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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