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Dear X (2025)
2K
Original name: 친애하는 X
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Behind a beautiful face hides a cruel nature—Baek Ah-jin, who sees through and manipulates others' hearts. After stepping on the sacrifices of many to reach the top, everything begins to change the moment she arrives there. A woman wearing a mask to escape hell and climb to the highest place. And the story of the Xs being brutally crushed by her.
Style:
psychological thriller, grim, noir, bleak, crime drama
Plot:
deception, manipulation, femme fatale, revenge, sociopath, ambition, power struggle, cruelty, moral ambiguity, rise to power, childhood trauma, cat and mouse, list, urban, domestic abuse, school bullying, incest, school, female protagonist, brother sister relationship, stylized violence, romance
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, dark, tense and crime drama films and TV series with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, urban, cat and mouse, investigation, betrayal and manipulation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Dear X: Karma (2025), Blue Blood (2020), As You Stood By (2025), The Dogs of Karma (2024), The Asset (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 87 min.
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Kubozuka Yosuke and Kamenashi Kazuya play the roles of an avenger duo tied to their dark past. They are not champions of justice, moral teachers, or preachers. Instead, they are professional avengers. Behind the facade of running a small and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 50 min.
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Infiltrating a criminal empire, undercover agent Tea becomes torn between her mission and a desire to help the ringleader's girlfriend escape.
Style:
crime drama, tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, undercover, criminal organization, reconnaissance, espionage, deception, double life, female protagonist, betrayal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, danger ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 40 min.
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When a police officer with a tablet addiction sees a dead boy, she questions her sanity, but she realizes that she is facing victims of unsolved crimes and that her past can help to catch a killer on the loose.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, psychological thriller, intense, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, police station, justice, police procedural, female detective, guilt, trauma, paranoia, cat and mouse, serial killer, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
eastern europe
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69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Ten years after discovering her murdered uncle, Ena and Detective Hansaem must cooperate to stop a series of similar murders - each linked by strange puzzle pieces.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
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Place:
seoul
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68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Accused of killing her husband, a woman is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger: in exchange for a confession in her place, she must commit murder.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime thriller, suspense, tense, grim ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
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A suspenseful revenge drama about a woman whose life was destroyed by the friends she trusted most. After making up her mind to take revenge on those who betrayed her, she returns to reclaim the life that was stolen from her.
Style:
suspense, twisted, dark, crime drama
Plot:
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62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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A prominent female forensic investigator suffers from antisocial personality disorder and the process in which the shadow of the father she killed threatens her honor and life.
Style:
tense, crime drama, grim, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
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A foreign woman returns to her hometown with another identity. Her presence raises suspicions, but no one imagines the truth: she is the key piece of a bloody revenge. Having everyone's trust, she puts her plan into action and commits the most ...
Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, revenge, betrayal, manipulation, violent, moral ambiguity, investigation, small town, impersonation, identity
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57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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A mother who unfairly lost her young son, takes revenge against the perpetrator who has been forgiven by the law and heals her wounds.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
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188
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 30 min.
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The story tells about the irreconcilable family war between the Donkovi brothers - the investigator from the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime Boris Donkov, head of the anti-drug department. turned into an unscrupulous, cynical, ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful, noir
Plot:
sibling rivalry, brothers, family drama, drug lord, manipulation, family secret, revenge, police, betrayal, love triangle, organized crime, moral ambiguity ...
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56%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Kisaragi Minori, who thought she had a happy family with her pure love since they were students and was married to her husband Yudai, was blessed with children, but the story begins when she finds out that her husband Yudai has been cheating on her ...
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
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Police officer Luise Berg heads for an inevitable catastrophe after her daughter’s murderer is released early from prison. A psychologically complex game of confusion begins in which the boundaries of guilt and innocence, perpetrators and victims, ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, dark, captivating, bleak ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 20 min.
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psychological thriller, bleak, crime thriller, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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Duration: 56 min.
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Duration: 70 min.
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Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
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revenge, manipulation, wrongful imprisonment, betrayal, conspiracy, vengeance, corruption, retribution, scheming, suspicion, cat and mouse, investigation ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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A perverse aristocrat takes advantage of the investigation on a kidnapper who is threatening him with death to get revenge on the judge who jailed him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, psychological thriller, captivating ...
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Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
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