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Calm in the Canopy (2023)
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Original name: Noční klid
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A wealthy middle-aged man at the airport witnesses a tiny incident involving an unknown, perhaps Arab, young man and airport staff. After the young man is confronted directly at the airport toilets, he feels himself subject to an indefinable but increasingly serious sense of danger. The fear of the evil that had, as it were, encircled the man since then, gradually becomes an obsession. The urgent desire to see the evil, to confront it and destroy it.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense
Plot:
paranoia, obsession, suspicion, stalking, airport, cat and mouse, surveillance, confrontation, claustrophobia, isolation, existential crisis, alienation, moral ambiguity, character study, slow burn, minimalism, urban, racial tension, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coworker relationship, middle class, psychological drama, spiral staircase
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful and dark films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, urban, character study, claustrophobia, obsession and slow burn mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Calm in the Canopy: Silent Land (2021), The Collectress (2008), 24 Hours (2002), Restless (2024), Heads on Fire (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Film by Erwin Michelberger.
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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