Movies and TV shows like Brazil Avenue
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Brazil Avenue (2012)
3K
Original name: Avenida Brasil
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, exciting, tense, suspenseful, novela, telenovela
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, hidden identity, evil stepmother, female protagonist, love triangle, femme fatale, rivalry, danger, step parent, dishonesty, righting the wronged, false identity, murder, adultery, strong female lead, unrequited love, middle class, intrigue, vengeance, gay, orphan, forgiveness, buried alive, polygamy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
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Most similar movies to Brazil Avenue
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films and TV series with plots about murder, betrayal, rivalry, revenge, female protagonist, vengeance and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Brazil Avenue: Revenge (2011), Return to Eden (1983), Femme Fatales (2011), A Mother's Love (2019), Lady of Steel (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 30 min.
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Femme Fatales is an anthology TV series, inspired by the men's magazine of the same name, with each episode focusing on an antihero woman, intercut with softcore pornographic scenes and produced by Cinemax.
Lilith, introduces each episode Rod ...
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Plot:
femme fatale, murder, coping, sex, deception, dangerous attraction, power relations, female killer, escapades, vengeance, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Plot:
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia
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Story:
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
Style:
sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, female protagonist, love and romance, crime boss, drug smuggling, rivalry, danger, criminal, strong female presence, wedding ...
Time:
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mexico, latin america
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100%
292
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story:
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, investigation, betrayal, rivalry, vengeance, widow, heist, strong female presence, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston
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100%
243
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Young journalist Carla Rangel is tasked with interviewing a wealthy, mysterious woman named Rubí about her storied past involving passion, seduction, betrayal and greed.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, telenovela
Plot:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
Similarity:
100%
43K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
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Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
murder, danger, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, on the run, haunted by the past, gangster, identity, witness protection, secret, female protagonist, new identity ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, chicago, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
611
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
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Amores verdaderos is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz Gonzalez for Televisa. It is based on Amor en Custodia, produced in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot:
forbidden love, true love, love triangle, family relations, rivalry, parents and children, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, workplace, master and servant, step siblings, spoiled brat ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
236
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
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Plot:
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Duration: 37 min.
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Plot:
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100%
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Time:
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290
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Acorralada is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión. Univision aired Acorralada from January 2007 to October 2007 on weekday afternoons at 2 pm central. It was rebroadcast in late 2011 through April 2012 on Univision's sister network, ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four ordinary people under arrest in one single night in different stories of crime, justice and revenge that will intertwine and forever haunt the lives of those involved.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, rough, serious ...
Plot:
justice, revenge, murder, female nudity, infidelity, cheating girlfriend, sex scene, vigilantism, life, life is a bitch, prison, depression ...
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northeast brazil, europe, montana, portugal, greece ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, family relations, unlikely criminals, parents and children, single mother, organized crime, drug lord, rivalry, suburbs, scheming, escapades, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
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A Favorita is a telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo from June 2, 2008 to January 17, 2009.
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
novela, soap opera, humorous, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, novela, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
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Style:
twisted, suspense, intense, crime drama, soap opera ...
Plot:
murder, secrets, obsession, love triangle, friendship, female friendship, obsessive love, rivalry, jealousy, class differences, betrayal, accomplice ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
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Story:
A big-time social media influencer plunges headfirst into the lives of four women fueled by a thirst for the truth about her birth — and revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
rape, abandoned baby, secret, teenage pregnancy, murder, influencer, social media, male female relationship, relationships, couples, parents and children, couple relations ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
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Story:
After causing the death of her millionaire husband Carlos, Catalina Creel, whose great beauty is only surpassed by her cruelty, will go to any lengths to secure her fortune and bloodline.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
wealth, money, power struggle, greed, villainess, manipulation, cruelty, family drama, scheming, female assassin, cold blooded killer, death of husband ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime Inspector Maria Wern returns to duty at the Police Department on the island of Gotland, and is immediately thrown into a murder investigation.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
police investigation, island, single parent, family relations, law enforcement, lesbian, murder, rivalry, danger, female police officer, swedish police, swedish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
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Story:
The young Amanda Monteverde, after losing her mother and her brother, has to take care of her three younger sisters. To escape from that stormy past, they move to Nueva Esperanza, a small town that is starting in the oil industry. There he will ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, novela, dramatic ...
Plot:
love and romance, couples, love triangle, female protagonist, impossible love, strong female lead, survival, passion, forbidden love, resilience, sisters, prostitution ...
Time:
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Place:
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