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3 Cold Dishes (2025)
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, France, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three women from Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Benin reunite seventeen years after surviving sex trafficking to dismantle the powerful men behind their pain. From the streets of Lagos to the shadows of Abidjan and Cotonou, they execute a cold, calculated mission — each move sharpened by trauma, sisterhood and strategy. What begins as vengeance becomes a fight for identity, justice and survival in a world that never expected them to rise.
Style:
tense, emotional, dark, suspenseful, crime drama, noir, political thriller
Plot:
revenge, vigilante, survival, justice, human trafficking, sisterhood, urban, female bonding, trauma, heist, organized crime, strategy, identity, moral ambiguity, social commentary, underworld, investigation, violent, slow burn, gunfight, hunger, retribution, sex trafficking, showdown, psychological drama ...
Place:
west africa, africa, nigeria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, tense, noir and suspenseful films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, urban, investigation, vigilante, violent and justice mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like 3 Cold Dishes: Hassel 03 - Slavhandlarna (1989), Vengeance (2020), Sayara (2024), Other Monsters (2022), Kaapa (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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