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Paris Under Watch (2012)
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Original name: Aux yeux de tous
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, computer hacker, politics, danger, rivalry, police, surveillance, mind game, voyeurism, state affairs, hacker, murder, chase, chases and races, urban, city life, lifestyle, dishonesty, internet, computer, telephone call, video surveillance, laptop, computers and web, deadly ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, murder, deadly, rivalry, chases and races, dishonesty and law enforcement mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Paris Under Watch: Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008), Papillon Noir (2008), Time Lapse (2001), Fatwa (2006), The Devil's in the Details (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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511
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 85 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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27%
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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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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Similarity:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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494
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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boys' night
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