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A Mistake (2024)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner, a nurse at the hospital, turns her back on her.
Style:
medical drama, suspenseful
Plot:
hospital, ethical dilemma, betrayal, moral ambiguity, isolation, ambition, realism, professional rivalry, peer pressure, loneliness, identity crisis, surgeon, lesbian relationship, grave, gift, malpractice
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense and psychological thriller films with plots about moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, isolation, betrayal, urban, identity crisis and character study mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Mistake: Apothecary (2014), Intellectual Property (2006), Kingmaker (2024), Clean (2004), Honeysuckle (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Dr Vijay Nambiar (Suresh Gopi) is a famous neurosurgeon. His wife Dr Nalini Nambiar (Abhirami) is a gynecologist in the same hospital. They lead a contented and busy family life. 'Appothikkiri' plots the intriguing issues that affect their ...
Style:
medical drama, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
guilt, doctor, accident, ethical dilemma, hospital, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, problem, physician, medical, guilty conscience, medicine ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
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82%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ulrik Torp, once a fearless investigative journalist who is now tackling unemployment and a midlife crisis. He finds himself in the middle of a new political conspiracy.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, thought provoking, crime drama ...
Plot:
investigative journalism, political conspiracy, midlife crisis, investigation, unemployment, corruption, power struggle, surveillance, social commentary, paranoia, betrayal, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
70%
141
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A limo driver attempts to outrun his bad habits.
Style:
dark, crime drama, psychological, dramatic, independent film ...
Plot:
hollywood, addiction, fame, substance abuse, greed, betrayal, celebrity culture, character study, temptation, loss of control, urban, realism ...
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family ...
Style:
anthology, melancholic, existential, multicultural
Plot:
coming of age, moral ambiguity, realism, ethical dilemma, oppression, loneliness, family conflict, loss of innocence, working class, humanism, intimate, identity crisis ...
Place:
hungary, india, budapest
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drifter searching for answers to a mystery from her past takes on a job looking after a sick teen who is undergoing a mysterious transformation her family will do anything to stop.
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
transformation, body horror, drifter, female protagonist, family secret, identity crisis, claustrophobia, slow burn, small town, paranoia, isolation, outsider ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.
Style:
medical drama, intense, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
emergency room, hospital, doctor, ethical dilemma, compassion, teamwork, urban, medical malpractice, empathy, surgery, bureaucracy, medical ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
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60%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A debt-ridden father takes advantage of an unforeseen situation to disappear and live off the grid under a false identity. But a chance event occurs and the temptation to want to know his family resurfaces.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
disappearance, temptation, family bonds, family drama, fatherhood, secret, money problems, problem, social problems, regret, guilt, escape ...
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59%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or not.
Style:
psychological thriller, medical drama, existential, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, uncertainty, unconsciousness, ambiguity, memory, multiple perspectives, identity crisis, missing person, suspicion, character study, amnesia, loss ...
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58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family reunion goes awry when the oldest son makes the accusation that his dying father, a famed psychiatrist who also did work for the CIA, adopted his children for the purposes of psychological experimentation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, serious, dramatic ...
Plot:
family drama, family reunited, family relations, cia, large family, psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, family secret, trauma, character study, psychological manipulation, doctor ...
Similarity:
57%
325
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
redemption, love, new identity, father daughter reunion, therapy, pianist, violence, daughter, vigilante, surgery, manipulation, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The story follows Joanna, a striking forty-year-old woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a wealthy and controlling man. When she meets Ada, an enigmatic and free-spirited young woman, Joanna is drawn into a journey of self-discovery and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, gothic
Plot:
island, power struggle, isolation, claustrophobia, confined, manipulation, domestic drama, sexual awakening, female empowerment, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, seduction ...
Similarity:
55%
114
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, stillbirth, motherhood, trauma, mental disorder, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, family relations, kids in trouble, domestic violence, loss of child, child abuse ...
Similarity:
54%
193
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In their final semester of school, a group of six college friends get together to pull the ultimate prank on a fellow classmate. The joke goes awry, resulting in a series of tragic events. Can they explain their way out of this one?
Style:
tense, dark, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prank, college student, tragedy, revenge, cover up, guilt, college, secrets, ethical dilemma, accidental death, moral ambiguity, betrayal ...
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51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A gripping psychological thriller where a paranoid husband, Panos and his cunning sister plot against his unsuspecting wife. A dream of a life in the country turns into a dystopian nightmare.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, survival, dysfunctional family, paranoia, family relations, family conflict, conspiracy, farm, female protagonist, psychological abuse, manipulation, farmhouse ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
boxer, boxing, murder, restaurant, revenge, character study, moral ambiguity, rivalry, danger, ethical dilemma, ambition, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
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49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
"Tenth of a Second" is the account of one man's desperate attempt to fight the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. This political thriller centres around Michael Wilder (James Whyle), a schoolteacher and political activist, ...
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, psychological thriller, dark, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apartheid, guilt, terrorism, bomb, political oppression, social injustice, identity crisis, trauma, moral ambiguity, desperation, ethical dilemma, activism ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Petr, a top cardiac surgeon, is a very reserved and introverted man. His 21-year-old daughter Lucie has a congenital heart defect, and Petr decides to operate on her himself during a scheduled surgery. After the operation, they embark on an ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, collapse, surgeon, doctor, father daughter relationship, family drama, husband wife relationship, relationships, life & death, wilderness, ethical dilemma, domestic drama ...
Place:
iceland
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48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of city dwellers make a trip of three days and two nights into the isolated countryside to visit a friend in the hills. Their true nature begins to reveal itself: love hidden but never forgotten, primitive desires suppressed in the city, ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
human nature, isolation, betrayal, jealousy, survival, character study, moral ambiguity, mature, slow burn, class differences, small community, dog ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to do them for someone else, which he feels qualifies him to practice medicine privately. Dispensing ...
Style:
crime drama, medical drama, realistic, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, fraud, police operation, deception, forgery, secret police, moral ambiguity, investigation, crime family, underworld, greed, character study ...
Similarity:
46%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A disheartened motivational speaker gets hired by a corporate to become a preacher until his live stint on television puts him and his service under the scanner.
Style:
satirical, intense, dark comedy, spiritual
Plot:
motivational speaker, identity crisis, charisma, religious hypocrisy, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, urban, scandal, publicity stunt, character study, social commentary, crisis of conscience ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A student with blood complications believes that his medication is the cause of his recent hallucinations. Desperate to find out what they mean, he collides with and injures an innocent woman, sparking her son to pursue the identity of the man ...
Style:
independent film, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, art house ...
Plot:
hallucination, addiction, aggression, paranoia, mental health, identity, moral ambiguity, isolation, suspicion, family conflict, family drama, confrontation ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Kuntol and Sudarshan meet at the railway track where they have come to commit suicide.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
life, desperation, suicide attempt, problem, game, escapades, threat, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, suicide, fatalism, isolation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
38%
576
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, dark, intense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
serial killer, children, investigation, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, child murder, suspicion, small town, female victim, obsession, forest, police procedural ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
An ex-convict forges signature of a deceased medical student to get enrolled in a medical college. He kills his roommate by accident in a dispute and fears that his identity will be revealed.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, dark, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
body swapping, identity theft, deception, impersonation, identity crisis, cover up, moral ambiguity, murder, mature, ethical dilemma, accidental death, fugitive ...
Similarity:
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139
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Five top level staff of a company are selected for a retreat where the new CEO of a global company will be chosen. What starts off as cordial soon goes sour as they attempt to outdo one another to be named The CEO.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
ambition, power struggle, office politics, coworker, vacation gone wrong, career, rivalry, intrigue, ambitious, co worker co worker relationship, professional rivalry, vacation ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After losing everything and his wife's disappearance, Siddharth faces arrest. While investigating, he uncovers widespread societal crimes and vulnerabilities.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, missing person, conspiracy, social realism, ethical dilemma, family tragedy, urban, underworld, moral ambiguity, organized crime, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
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