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Repeat Shoe (2022)
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Original name: Repeat ஷு
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A crew involved in child sex trafficking who kidnaps girl children, abusing them and torturing those who does not comply. These girls feeling trapped and having no way out are in desperation. After many experimentation a scientist successfully end up making a Time Travelling Shoe. While testing it he gets arrested by police, so he ends up hiding invention in a safer place.
Style:
tense, bleak, crime drama, suspense, psychological horror, cliffhanger
Plot:
kidnapping, torture, child abuse, sex trafficking, child trafficking, survival, travel, desperation, trauma, victimization, escape, rescue mission, investigation, urban, police arrest, moral ambiguity, pursuit, ethical dilemma, revenge, hopes
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, dark and crime drama films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, urban, investigation, cat and mouse, corruption and survival mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Repeat Shoe: Ace (2025), Sodara Sodarimanulara (2023), Psycho (2020), Adharma Kadhaigal (2024), Parigettu Parigettu (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Audience:
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