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Theerkadarishi (2023)
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Original name: தீர்க்கதரிசி
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A stranger keeps calling the police control room to hint about various crimes and accidents that are about to occur in the near future. Can the police department stop an accident based on his information and also find out who their mysterious informer actually is?
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, indie film, thrilling, tension, detective, twisted
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, fight, police officer, criminal, battles, fighting crime, investigation, law enforcement, police procedural, urban, cat and mouse, informant, catastrophe, conspiracy, stranger, foreshadowing, surveillance, motive, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, tamil, control room
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, dark, tense and psychological films with plots about investigation, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, urban, police procedural, revenge and corruption mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Theerkadarishi: Garudan (2023), Iru Dhuruvam (2019), Antakshari (2022), Wolf (2021), August 15 (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 122 min.
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