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Swiped (2025)
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Swiped (2025)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.
Style: motivational, tense, fast paced
Plot: entrepreneurship, female empowerment, biopic, feminism, ambition, inspiration, sexism, resilience, innovation, silicon valley, woman, urban, urban setting, social media, friendship, legal battle, online dating, interrogation, business, female protagonist, based on real people, questioning
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out inspirational, historical drama, period drama and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, ambition, female protagonist, entrepreneurship, women, friendship and inspiration mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Swiped: Hidden Figures (2016), Margarete Steiff (2005), Bezos (2023), Sarah's Oil (2025), Joy (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hidden Figures (2016)
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Duration: 95 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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Duration: 103 min.
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Style: political, inspirational, factual, thought provoking, uplifting
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Style: tension, period drama
Audience: adult
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