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From the Ashes (2024)
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Original name: جرس إنذار
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At a strict girls’ school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling, intense, tension, emotional, dark
Plot:
student, school, chaos, basement, fire, girls' school, investigation, campus, panic, schoolgirl, problem, house fire, disaster, fear, whodunit, survival, claustrophobia, smoking, evacuation, suspicion, trauma, aftermath, loss, moral ambiguity, misogyny ...
Place:
saudi arabia
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 89 min.
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Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 194 min.
Story:
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tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
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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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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
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Place:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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