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Bad Influencer (2025)
399
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A single mother — and luxury bag counterfeiter — finds herself teaming up with a self-obsessed influencer to sell her bags and scrape her way out of debt.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, crime thriller, noir, exciting, intense, dark comedy
Plot:
forgery, social media, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, fraud, survival, betrayal, motherhood, manipulation, law enforcement, urban, single parent, scam, vanity, consumerism, ethical dilemma, female friendship, organized crime, fashion industry, morality, ambition, cat and mouse, single mother, identity, streetwise ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, crime drama, noir and tense films and TV series with plots about moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban, organized crime, investigation, revenge and corruption mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bad Influencer: The Graft (2025), As You Stood By (2025), Joan (2024), Lucky (2026), Sara - Woman in the Shadows (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Audience:
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Story:
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188
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Duration: 30 min.
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Duration: 290 min.
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
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suspense, period drama
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316
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 40 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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