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Unmasked (2025)
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Original name: 트리거
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
In modern-day Seoul, a crack team of investigative journalists fight for their careers after broadcasting a controversial story. With time running out, the team are given an impossible task if they want to save their jobs – solve a twenty-year-old cold case involving a famous actor who disappeared without a trace.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, noir
Plot:
cold case, investigation, investigative journalism, urban, conspiracy, corruption, danger, realism, obsession, missing person, investigative reporter, journalist, criminal, secret, case, investigative journalist
Place:
seoul
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, noir, suspenseful and dark films and TV series with plots about investigation, urban, moral ambiguity, corruption, conspiracy, police procedural and investigative journalism mostly in Crime, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Unmasked: Gangnam B-Side (2024), Connection (2024), Mammon (2014), We Got This (2020), Irai (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 58 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 47 min.
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tense, psychological, detective, crime thriller, thrilling ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
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private detective, missing person, investigation, mysterious disappearance, hollywood, vanished man, private investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, secret, who done it, crime solving ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 50 min.
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Duration: 24 min.
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Style:
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46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Audience:
adult
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Time:
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Place:
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tense, suspenseful, psychological, detective, captivating ...
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Country: Serbia
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Duration: 92 min.
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Duration: 50 min.
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Duration: 120 min.
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Country: Slovakia
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Style:
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Audience:
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