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Vritta (2025)
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Original name: ವೃತ್ತ
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Journey filled with problems and his fight for survival.
Style:
tense, realistic, road movie, existential
Plot:
survival, journey, struggle for survival, struggle, human spirit, determination, perseverance, resilience, peril, man versus nature, isolation, self discovery, loneliness, desperation, redemption, hopes, minimalism, moral ambiguity
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about isolation, survival, moral ambiguity, desperation, slow burn, claustrophobia and cat and mouse mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Vritta: To Die Alone (2024), Follow the Crows (2018), Tank Cleaner (2021), Kaliyugam 2064 (2025), Under the Sky (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After suffering a terrible injury while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Irving must find a way to escape the woods alive and confront her inner demons with the help of a stranger.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspenseful, contemplative, surreal
Plot:
isolation, wilderness, survival, hiking, man versus nature, stranded, loneliness, character study, danger, self discovery, female protagonist, empathy ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible ...
Style:
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Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, end of the world, violence, isolation, wasteland, desolation, ruins, desperation, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
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72%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A young orphan boy working as a tank cleaner is trapped in a water tank by someone. He struggles for his life for four days in this tank full of water.
Style:
suspense, tense, emotional, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
survival, entrapment, claustrophobia, isolation, desperation, perseverance, resilience, orphan, single, hopes, poverty, realism ...
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65%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in a dystopian future, Kaliyugam 2064 explores themes of survival, morality, and human resilience in the aftermath of a catastrophic event. The story follows a group of individuals navigating a harsh, unforgiving world, struggling with external ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, futuristic, tense
Plot:
survival, food shortage, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, dystopia, wasteland, end of civilization, desperation, violence, moral ambiguity, urban decay, human nature ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nisa opens her eyes under the wreckage right after an earthquake. While she is struggling to survive and find a solution from under the narrow space where she is stuck, she glimpses the sky from a tiny hole above her, which helps her stay alive. In ...
Style:
tension, existential
Audience:
adult
Plot:
earthquake, claustrophobia, trapped, survival, perseverance, isolation, resilience, hopes, female protagonist, realism, rescue, desperation ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a failed musician, sunny takes a dramatic turn as he smuggles himself back from Dubai to Kerala in midst of a global pandemic and shuts himself from the society.
Style:
emotional, intense, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, desperation, character study, survival, regret, redemption, isolation, homecoming, secrets, getting home, resilience, hopes ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, dubai
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53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Five friends must fight for survival, salvation and sanity when a local hunter mistakenly kills one of them in barren Canadian wilderness.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, intense, dark ...
Plot:
wilderness, forest, survival, isolation, hunting, man versus nature, moral ambiguity, suspicion, violence, panic, guilt, camping ...
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51%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After escaping a Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.
Style:
brutal, tense, intense, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, escape, winter, man versus nature, struggle for survival, cold, wilderness, desperation, snowstorm, isolation, betrayal, violent ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, surreal, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hunter, survival, cannibalism, extreme violence, man versus nature, desperation, isolation, ghost town, bloodbath, claustrophobia, post soviet, lawlessness ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman who excels at reading body language realizes that something is deeply wrong during a quiet night at home, turning a peaceful night into a terrifying fight for her own survival.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot:
home invasion, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, paranoia, survival, mind game, isolation, claustrophobia, struggle for survival, home alone, character study, single ...
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49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
David and Suju are a newlywed couple,soon expecting a baby. David is knee-deep in debt, gets embroiled in an unforeseen financial dilemma during the lockdown, attempts handling it in his own maniacal ways
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
debt, suicide attempt, financial crisis, businessman, destiny, lifestyle, crisis, desperation, survival, loss of control, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
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46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
border patrol, conspiracy, border guard, journey, race against time, agent, threat to kill, life risking, corruption, moral ambiguity, isolation, law enforcement ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
45%
836
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teenage girl's wilderness hike with friends spirals after they stumble upon a crashed drug plane, forcing her to outwit a ruthless gang and face an enemy far worse than drug smugglers.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
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45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
'Evolution of Evil' is the story of Lori and Christopher, a Pacific Northwest couple wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city into the wilderness. The couple makes their way past the usual campsites, and backpack into the ...
Style:
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Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, forest, danger, backpacking, man versus nature, couples, paranoia, camping, threat, fear ...
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44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After witnessing a brutal murder in a cabin, a man hides in a crawlspace while the killers scour the property for a hidden fortune. As they draw nearer, he must decide if the crawlspace will be his tomb or the battleground in his fight for survival.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, intense, grim ...
Plot:
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Place:
oregon
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This story with a suspense thriller plot.A beautiful couple named Julie and Robert goes for a long drive on the highway On the way. Robert gives a lift to a beautiful girl named Moni, which Julie doesn't like.Julie does not like the interest he ...
Style:
suspense thriller, tense, psychological thriller, intense, twist ending ...
Plot:
revenge, survival, mysterious stranger, highway, isolation, cat and mouse, violent, female antagonist, betrayal, jealousy, trauma, moral ambiguity ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, dark, tense, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
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Story:
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tense, suspense, intense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, tension ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When tragedy strikes twice, Bhavya refuses to remain a victim. Visually impaired, she is drawn into a perilous hunt for the truth behind the mysterious deaths of her husband & twin sister - uncovering a dark world where nothing is as it seems.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, tension, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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