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Friendly Rivalry (2025)
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Original name: 선의의 경쟁
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
A high-teen mystery thriller about a close relationship between teenage girls in a harsher survival competition than entrance examinations.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, psychological
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female friendship, rivalry, adolescence, coming of age, suspicion, school, claustrophobia, isolation, manipulation, power struggle, mind game, teen angst, moral ambiguity, peer pressure, social commentary, urban, investigation, high school, lesbian, obsession
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspenseful and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, urban, corruption, cat and mouse, revenge and manipulation mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Action genres. Some movies like Friendly Rivalry: Connection (2024), Undercover High School (2025), BITCH X RICH (2023), Solomon's Perjury (2021), Gangnam B-Side (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Audience:
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Duration: 150 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
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Country: Sweden
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