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Deadendz (2023)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using avant-garde methods.
Style:
bleak, art house, dark, contemplative, avant garde, independent film, grim, slow cinema, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
ex convict, character study, minimalism, moral ambiguity, revenge, isolation, alienation, downbeat ending, violence, drug deal, criminal underworld, gun
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, psychological and bleak films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, character study, urban, violence, isolation and alienation mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Deadendz: They Had It Coming (2015), The Assassin (2007), Hidden Identity (2015), Two Step (2014), American Bomber (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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95%
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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805
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Recently released from military prison with a dishonorable discharge and a broken heart, John Hidell decides to travel to New York City. However his preparations are complicated by an unexpected relationship.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When a criminal imprisoned by detectives Ron Fugate and Morris Brinson is released and puts a hit out on them, both their partnership and their very existence quickly begins to decay... Who will survive, and at what cost?
Style:
detective, dark, noir, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, law enforcement, revenge, murder, violence, corruption, investigation, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, partnership, hitman, vengeance ...
Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Battling insomnia and undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, and violence.
Style:
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224
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. ...
Style:
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Plot:
road trip, character study, loneliness, affair, alienation, moral ambiguity, waitress, robbery, ex convict, sexploitation, college, landscape ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Style:
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Plot:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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913
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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