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Vanangaan (2025)
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Original name: வணங்கான்
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Trouble follows Kottee, a deaf-mute and hot blooded do-gooder, when he gets a job at a special home for the underprivileged and his quest for justice leads him into conflict with the law and strains his relationship with his sister, Devi.
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, dark
Plot:
justice, vigilante, anti hero, revenge, corruption, retribution, confession, underdog, redemption, trauma, tamil, retaliation
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, emotional, tense and intense films with plots about revenge, corruption, vigilante, justice, moral ambiguity, anti hero and urban mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Vanangaan: Saripodhaa Sanivaaram (2024), Maro Prasthanam (2021), Saindhav (2024), Bagheera (2024), Shakthi Thirumagan (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
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Country: India
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Story:
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Audience:
adult
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Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
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Dismayed by corruption and violence, a virtuous police officer becomes a masked vigilante to dliver lethal justice to criminals and crooked cops alike.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A tribal woman is brutally assaulted and killed. Her newborn is mercilessly abandoned in a dump yard, left to die. But fate intervenes — an old man discovers the infant and decides to raise him as his own. The child, named Kittu,After the old ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, realistic, tense, emotional, suspense
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After Nanda's sister is brutally raped and burnt in front of him, he becomes an amnesiac. When some goons try to do the same to his girlfriend Siri, he seeks revenge.
Style:
intense, suspense, dark, action drama, emotional
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
india
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47%
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Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
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Audience:
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Duration: 144 min.
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Duration: 98 min.
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Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
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Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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