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Fair Play (2006)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building tensions between co-workers might actually explode during this trip.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, controversial, cynical, clever
Plot:
manipulation, career, tennis, rise to the top, legal, rivalry, dishonesty, blind ambition, workplace situations, survival, politics, golf, office, ambition, workplace intrigue, workplace, wooing, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, lonely, problem, struggle, cave, obsession, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, rivalry, workplace situations, ambition, politics, workplace and power relations mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Fair Play: Trader Games (2010), Supercapitalist (2012), The Method (2005), President (2006), To Mathieu (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
wall street, ambition, office, trading, dishonesty, rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, stock broker, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
fish out of water, ambition, dishonesty, misfit, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, culture clash, rivalry, society, stock broker, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia, usa
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72%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time:
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632
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
head of state, ambition, intern, fall in love, idealism, parents and children, state affairs, family relations, hopes, politics, society, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Malaysia, USA, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
3 brother return to the village of Bunohan with three very different reasons; they will encounter death, deceit and a very grim revelation.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ambition, medieval, hitman, athlete's life, rivalry, siblings relations, blind ambition, danger, estrangement, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malaysia, asia
Similarity:
65%
822
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Story:
The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
french president, politics, rivalry, head of state, campaign, rise to the top, media, ambition, workplace situations, french politics, white house, president ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, stylized, neo noir, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, serial killer, psycho, obsession, office, redheaded woman, sexual tension, corporate america, seduction, food, investigation, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, portland oregon
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
TV reporter Shivajirao gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day, after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his successful one-day stint, he attempts to get back to his normal life, but it is not ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, political ...
Plot:
political activism, politics, election, attempted murder, love and romance, ambition, rise to the top, fall in love, righting the wronged, dishonesty, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, workplace, workplace romance, life is a bitch, workplace intrigue, love and romance, disorder, dishonesty, unsupportive coworkers, loan shark, risk, addiction ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul ...
Style:
serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary ...
Plot:
wine, family business, favoritism, rivalry, workplace, intrigue, countryside, family problems, introspection, father son relationship, favoritism among siblings, vineyard ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Antigua and Barbuda, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a world of ambition and powerful politicians, Andy Hernandez (Shashi Balooja), an ambitious NYC Assistant District Attorney with political aspirations is recently engaged to Ann Kim, the latest partner in a profitable risk management firm. As a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Plot:
sex scene, political intrigue, power relations, ambition, state affairs, photojournalist, downfall, rise and fall, blind ambition, unfulfillment, dishonesty, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On the night of September 29, 2008, the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system.'The Guarantee' tells the story of that night, and what led to it.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
finance, politics, corporate crime, state affairs, rivalry, uncover truth, legal, political intrigue, dishonesty, wall street, economics, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to ...
Style:
cynical, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Plot:
amateur detective, sexual attraction, french algerian war, airport, murder, frame up, private detective, assassination, workplace intrigue, political intrigue, workplace situations, fascism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
paris france, france, harvard university
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
boss and employee, politics, office, workplace, gender, power relations, state affairs, workplace situations, campaign, introspection, obnoxious boss, health ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, political, edutainment ...
Plot:
evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, rise and fall, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, uncover truth, power relations, whistleblower, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, revenge, conspiracy, government, gang, gangster, rivalry, danger, blackmail, evidence, mind game, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dida Diafat plays himself in this story based around his thai boxing career.
Style:
rough, sincere, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, athlete and trainer, rise to the top, going straight, ambition, starting over, athlete's life, rivalry, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, prison life, fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, europe, france, bangkok thailand
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous
Plot:
politics, ambition, rise to the top, political corruption, redemption, political conspiracy, rivalry, campaign, state affairs, family relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, conspiracy, sex trafficking, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, estrangement, identity, violence, revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, lawyer, legal, master criminal, moral dilemma, hotshot lawyer, prodigy, gangster, twists and turns, innocence lost, moral ambiguity, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manipulation, gang, dishonesty, rivalry, media, law enforcement, criminal heroes, journalism, criminal's revenge, police officer, dystopia, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Style:
independent film, biting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder, politics, female politician, manipulation, strong female presence, couples, relationship vs career, infidelity, love affair, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, legal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, london
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Plot:
injustice, legal, society, legal investigation, courtroom drama, legal action, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, fighting the system, workplace, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, infidelity, betrayal, state affairs, dishonesty, relationship vs career, moral dilemma, couple relations, workplace, legal, workplace situations ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love triangle, male female relationship, dangerous attraction, wedding, love and romance, dishonesty, infidelity, extramarital affair, wife, couple relations, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
forbidden love, incest, politics, cousins in love, haunted by the past, womanizer, murder, bourgeoisie, society, family problems, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
vichy, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, who done it, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, murder, confined, legal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, rome italy
Similarity:
54%
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