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DNA (2025)
3K
Original name: டி என் ஏ
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A young woman with borderline personality disorder, fights a lonely battle when she believes her newborn baby was swapped with someone else’s minutes after her delivery. Her loving husband, who initially doubts, eventually believes and starts investigating with an experienced cop.
Style:
tense, suspenseful
Plot:
mental illness, borderline personality disorder, character study, hospital, parenthood, family bonds, loneliness, isolation, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, psychological drama, gaslight
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Following a mysterious car accident in the desert, Dafne suffers from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake, the first person she sees when she regains consciousness, tells her he's her husband.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Krish and Chitra are in love. After Chitra goes missing, Krish starts killing people. But one day Akshara befriends him and get to know more about his life. What will happen when Akshara is revealed to be an undercover cop?
Style:
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Plot:
undercover cop, obsession, male protagonist, depression, mental illness, character study, suspicion, revenge, double life, investigation, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
india
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89%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program at a research facility, it's revealed that he'll be able to receive, control and send information based on the senses of others.
Style:
suspenseful, surreal, tense, dark
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
safecracker, heist, slow burn, obsession, minimalism, double life, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia, isolation, cat and mouse, urban ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, tense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conflict, escalation, chance meeting, realism, character study, social commentary, misunderstanding, slice of life, city life, urban, suspicion, morality ...
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160
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Ambiguous is a 2003 Japanese Pink film directed by Toshiya Ueno. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Five suicidal people meet on the Internet and form a 'suicide group'. They all have reasons for which ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, tense, medical drama, independent film ...
Plot:
transplant, mad scientist, reanimation, body horror, ethical dilemma, macabre, moral ambiguity, obsession, taboo, gory, identity crisis, isolation ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Serbia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, tense, suspense
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
neuroscience, mental illness, isolation, paranoia, ethical dilemma, obsession, social commentary, activism, moral ambiguity, slow burn
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
medical drama, intense, emotional, dark, suspense
Plot:
moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, ambition, obsession, sacrifice, redemption, hospital, character study, child prodigy, family conflict, grief, love story ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, suspenseful
Plot:
manipulation, privacy invasion, power struggle, character study, suspicion, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, revenge, femme fatale, psychological drama, dialogue driven
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Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 46 min.
Story:
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Style:
metafiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, character study, unsettling, transformation, paranoia, mental illness, claustrophobia, identity crisis, split personality, isolation, moral ambiguity, urban ...
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Story:
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