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A halálügyész (2020)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The Death Prosecutor (...) [focuses] on a significant court case in the period of the post-1956 retaliations, through the true story of a newly graduated prosecutor, Endre Grátz.
https://english.nmhh.hu/article/195551/Online_media_has_gained_ground_as_a_source_of_information_on_the_Hungarian_parliamentary_elections
Style:
tense, serious, historical drama, bleak, period piece, suspenseful, tragic, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prosecutor, political repression, courtroom drama, justice, cold war era, social commentary, biopic, ethical dilemma, investigation, morality, bureaucracy, victimization, surveillance, coming of age
Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary, budapest
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, tragic and period piece films with plots about investigation, biopic, corruption, courtroom drama, social commentary, ethical dilemma and courtroom mostly in Drama and Short genres. Some movies like A halálügyész: Law of Courage (1994), Rani (2025), The Challenger Disaster (2019), Selling Innocence (2005), Nightbreaker (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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406
Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
connecticut
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Style:
political, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mia Sampson's dreams to be a model come true when she's asked to pose for photographs to be displayed on an Internet website for "members only." However, when the owner of the website uses her pictures for exploitation purposes, ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man ...
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
nuclear testing, cold war, ethical dilemma, guilt, conspiracy, whistleblower, investigation, conscience, regret, corruption, flashback, biopic ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, intense, suspenseful, realistic, tragic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 1996, the entire nation was politically facing a serious issue. In addition, the country was suffering from another dangerous problem. In this scenario, a Government Employee took up the responsibility.
Style:
serious, realistic, dramatic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, political intrigue, power struggle, government corruption, conspiracy, whistleblower, investigation, activism, legal battle, urban
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
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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Similarity:
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Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 42 min.
Story:
Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 720 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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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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Place:
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Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
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: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
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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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, dark, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fresh president of Hungary find himself in trouble with taxi drivers. The taxi drives are disappointed in the democracy and protesting against the drasticly raising gas prices. The drivers build blockades all over the capital.
Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, political drama
Plot:
protest, blockade, civil unrest, urban, social conflict, civil disobedience, social realism, media coverage, political satire, public transport
Time:
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Place:
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100
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Spain, 1982. Marisa decides to take her daughter to Madrid to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy. Lucia ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for pregnant teenagers. There, she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, tense, period piece ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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