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The Price of Confession (2025)
4K
Original name: 자백의 대가
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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, tense, suspense, crime thriller, grim, noir, neo noir, surreal
Plot:
murder, confession, moral dilemma, guilt, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, manipulation, contract killing, investigation, betrayal, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, slow burn, body swapping, corruption, family drama, anti hero, revenge, urban, small town, mind game, lawyer, criminal, prosecutor, murder for hire
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspense and psychological thriller films and TV series with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, revenge, urban, cat and mouse, murder and slow burn mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Price of Confession: Karma (2025), As You Stood By (2025), Nine Puzzles (2025), Witness Number 3 (2022), Two Sides of the Abyss (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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seoul
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63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 15 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
turkey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
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When an ominous photo mysteriously surfaces, Greta must confront buried truths — and her hazy memory — to save her husband from his dark secrets.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, twist ending ...
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748
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
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Style:
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47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
mumbai india, india
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
detective, tense, dark, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
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Place:
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Style:
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Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, intense, psychological thriller ...
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