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Road to Nowhere (2010)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, neo noir, suspense, surreal, meta, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, murder, investigation, twists and turns, love and romance, femme fatale, political corruption, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, filmmaker, passion, woman peeing, fall in love, power relations, bare chested male, woman urinating, film within a film, young, female sitting on a toilet, crimes, romance, neo-noir
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
north carolina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, dishonesty, investigation, deadly, law enforcement, femme fatale and couples mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Road to Nowhere: Uncle John (2015), Ricochet (2011), Posers (2002), Cause of Death (2001), A Private Affair (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 107 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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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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983
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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