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A Woman Who Swallowed the Sun (2025)
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Original name: 태양을 삼킨 여자
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Depicts the story of Baek Seol Hui, a single mother who runs a snack bar and raises her daughter alone, confronting a chaebol family for her daughter's revenge.
Style:
tense, dark, intense, dark drama, suspenseful
Plot:
single mother, mother daughter relationship, mother love, family drama, female protagonist, determination, revenge motive, social inequality, revenge, corruption, family secret, grief, urban, class struggle, moral ambiguity, class conflict, trauma, vigilante justice, restaurant, empowerment, courtroom drama, small business owner, legal battle, family secrets
Time:
contemporary
Place:
seoul
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Most similar movies to A Woman Who Swallowed the Sun
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, tense, suspenseful and noir films and TV series with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, investigation, urban, corruption, family drama and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Woman Who Swallowed the Sun: Iqtidar (2024), The Resurrected (2025), Nine Puzzles (2025), Resurrection (2005), Wonderful World (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 40 min.
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After her brother's murder, Mehrunisa seeks justice against influential figures trying to cover up the truth, facing deceit and corruption along the way.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 50 min.
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To avenge their daughters who fell victim to fraud, two mothers make a desperate bid: resurrecting the dead ringleader of a phishing scam.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tense, emotional, mysterious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
east asia
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84%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Ten years after discovering her murdered uncle, Ena and Detective Hansaem must cooperate to stop a series of similar murders - each linked by strange puzzle pieces.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, cold case, investigation, female protagonist, trauma, cat and mouse, obsession, revenge, moral ambiguity, family tragedy, slow burn, urban ...
Place:
seoul
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81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Yu Gang Hyuk was only 7 years old when his father was murdered in a car "accident" and separated from his identical twin, Yu Shin Hyuk. He forgot his name and family and given the name Suh Ha Eun by his adopted father Suh Jae Soo. He falls ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, twin brother, family secret, revenge, murder, identity, secret, sleuth, brother, vengeance, crime solving, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
A mother who unfairly lost her young son, takes revenge against the perpetrator who has been forgiven by the law and heals her wounds.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, loss, motherhood, female protagonist, grief, vigilante justice, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, investigation, obsession, empathy, secrets ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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A young mother's life is upended when she finds herself hiding behind a secret identity to escape the Bucharest gang responsible for her fiancé's death.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, neo noir, tech noir
Plot:
undercover, organized crime, gang, secret identity, urban, family drama, motherhood, betrayal, identity, cat and mouse, trauma, double life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
bucharest, romania
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang ...
Style:
tense, psychological, crime drama, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
child abduction, revenge, father son relationship, kidnapping, family secret, fatherhood, family drama, family problems, father and son, family relations, male female relationship, parents and children ...
Place:
korea
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62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Gray Parish is a good man with a troubled past who gave up his life of crime for life as a family man. But when his son is violently murdered, old habits return, sending him on a relentless quest with moral intentions and dangerous consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Place:
new orleans, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
On the run from her troubled past, a young mother is accused of killing her new boss at a flower farm just before discovering he's actually her father.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, false accusation, identity, investigation, moral ambiguity, single mother, betrayal, motherhood, escape, identity crisis, domestic drama ...
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62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
The police psychologist and brilliant interrogator Richard Brock gets into a hostage situation. It's not about money, but a desperate act.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
bookstore, suspicion, murder, suicide, grief, investigation, guilt, trauma, hostage situation, police procedural, secrets, family drama ...
Place:
vienna, austria
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 270 min.
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Style:
suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, crime drama, intense ...
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58%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 212 min.
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Depiction of a sensational real-life crime that shook the entire country.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, dark, emotional ...
Plot:
true crime, murder, media frenzy, investigation, scandal, social commentary, justice, journalism, police procedural, violence, moral ambiguity, corruption ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
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When Jaehee, a top call girl at a club in Gangnam, goes missing, Detective Kang Dongwoo returns to crack the case. Prosecutor Min Seojin aims to rise in rank, while the notorious pimp, Yoon Gilho becomes a prime suspect. They unravel a web of ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, dark, noir ...
Plot:
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Place:
seoul
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
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seoul
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
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Laura (Vanessa Aleksander) returns to her hometown after many years in connection with the death of her mother - Maria (Malgorzata Foremniak). This unplanned meeting awakens demons from the past and sheds new light on family secrets, while Laura ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
poland
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53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, intense, emotional, dark ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
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tense, suspenseful, dark, tragic
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, action drama, tense ...
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A successful and renowned novelist — haunted by trauma and a mysterious blackmailer — returns to his hometown to reckon with his unresolved past.
Style:
dark, psychological, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
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139
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min.
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Story:
The story of a man who fights against greed, and experiences every hardship and adversity known to man in order to make something of himself and find love.
Style:
tense, dark, intense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 87 min.
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Kubozuka Yosuke and Kamenashi Kazuya play the roles of an avenger duo tied to their dark past. They are not champions of justice, moral teachers, or preachers. Instead, they are professional avengers. Behind the facade of running a small and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Seo Dong-ju, who hacked a political slush fund worth two trillion won, risks it all for revenge.
Style:
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Plot:
revenge, betrayal, hacking, corruption, heist, conspiracy, power struggle, moral ambiguity, greed, investigation, survival, danger ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, detective, dark ...
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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Mizuno Asumi is a doctor at the University Hospital. Her only objective in life is to avenge the death of her father, a death caused by immoral and negligent doctors.
Style:
suspense, medical drama, disturbing, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, doctor, vengeance, female protagonist, life is a bitch, loss of family member, bereavement, family problems, loss of father, medicine, hospital, corruption ...
Place:
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Duration: 45 min.
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When Detective Kat Donovan matches on a dating app with the fiancé who disappeared years before, she learns that some secrets are best left in the past.
Style:
detective, tense, dark, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
An action noir about the life of Cha Woo-sol, who was born again after meeting martial arts champion Jeong Do-hyeon in a juvenile prison.
Style:
noir, crime drama, intense, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seoul
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370
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.
Style:
suspense, captivating, crime drama, disturbing, dark ...
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