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Brazil Avenue (2012)
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Brazil Avenue (2012)
Original name: Avenida Brasil
Genre: Comedy, 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: novela, serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, exciting, tense, suspenseful, telenovela
Plot: revenge, love triangle, femme fatale, female protagonist, betrayal, rivalry, danger, step parent, hidden identity, dishonesty, righting the wronged, false identity, murder, adultery, mother son relationship, strong female lead, unrequited love, middle class, intrigue, vengeance, gay, orphan, forgiveness, buried alive, polygamy ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films and TV series with plots about rivalry, dishonesty, murder, family relations, betrayal, vengeance and revenge mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Brazil Avenue: Return to Eden (1983), Passione (2010), Femme Fatales (2011), Revenge (2011), Lady of Steel (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Return to Eden (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 267 min.
TV show
Story: Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her. Stephanie believes that she has found true love with tennis pro Greg Marsden, but after the wedding, Greg promptly begins an affair with Stephanie’s ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, relaxing, suspenseful ...
Plot: attempted murder, dishonesty, betrayal, hidden identity, presumed dead, boat, crocodile, rivalry, crumbling marriage, plastic surgery, fashion model, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Passione (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: The rough efforts of an ambitious young woman of poor origin, a she enters the life of an Italian man, son of a wealthy Brazilian family.
Style: novela, soap opera, suspense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: ambition, revenge, betrayal, sister sister relationship, wealth, murder, twists and turns, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, female villain, villainess, stealing ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Femme Fatales (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: sexy, erotic, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, murder, dangerous attraction, power relations, coping, female killer, danger, rivalry, escapades, vengeance, seduction, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
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Revenge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
Style: captivating, serious, soap opera, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: high society, vengeance, pretense, hidden identity, strong female character, twists and turns, revenge, enemy, half sister, suspicion, haunted by the past, victim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lady of Steel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia
TV show
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: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, female protagonist, love and romance, crime boss, drug smuggling, danger, rivalry, criminal, strong female presence, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Mother's Love (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lurdes is a mother of five who tirelessly seeks for Domenico, a child of hers who was sold by his own father 26 years ago; Thelma is an overprotective mother who finds out she has a terminal illness, and must race against time to make her dreams ...
Style: novela, disturbing, psychological, captivating, telenovela
Plot: sick mother, missing son, family relations, motherhood, pregnant woman, parenthood, fighting illness, life is a bitch, female protagonist, black people, illness, relationships ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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Widows (2002)
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, serious, exciting, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, betrayal, vengeance, rivalry, widow, heist, strong female presence, criminal heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, crime gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rubí (2020)
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: femme fatale, female protagonist, jealousy, unfulfillment, up and down relationship, social differences, betrayal, journalism, ambition, manipulation, love and romance, society ...
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Teresa (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Teresa Chavez is a young woman with an obsession for money and ambition. Despite her beauty and the fact that she was raised in the bosom of a loving family, she is resentful; her one desire is to leave her humble but poor neighbourhood.
Style: captivating, realistic, soap opera, novela, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, ambition, rich and poor, blind ambition, society, breakup, greed, sex, strong female lead, shallowness, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
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: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Young and the Restless (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story: The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, rivalry, couple relations, infidelity, family life, couples, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, soap opera ...
Plot: love triangle, forbidden love, family relations, rivalry, parents and children, uninhibited rivalry, workplace, love and romance, true love, master and servant, step siblings, spoiled brat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 671
Trust Me (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mari is a talented but insecure chef who dreams of running her own restaurant. She goes through a challenging professional time, taking orders from an authoritarian boss who inhibits her talent. One day she meets Caio, a charming young man who ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, cons and scams, betrayal, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, restaurant, twists and turns, love, revenge plot, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, murder, witnessing a crime, danger, gangster, haunted by the past, on the run, woman in danger, dishonesty, hitman, chases and races, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lady Altagracia (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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: captivating, psychological, suspense, novela, telenovela
Plot: femme fatale, businesswoman, violence against women, murder, revenge, manipulation, seduction, deception, justice, violence, violent, ambition ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cornered (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, soap opera ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.6
 2K
Silver Spoon (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Forced to become an apprentice cop, cocky playboy Igor finds he's got a knack for police work. But his job soon takes him down a dark personal path.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wealth, investigation, love triangle, clubbing, rivalry, romantic relationship, friendship, murder, danger, nightclub, betrayal, rich father ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 778
The Favorite (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: A Favorita is a telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo from June 2, 2008 to January 17, 2009. A Favorita storylines examine two friends, Donatela and Flora, who became rivals. One of them committed a crime and is lying, so there are ...
Style: novela, soap opera, surprise ending, twisted, telenovela
Plot: revenge, prison, whodunit, rivalry, injustice, lesbian, female rivalry, villainess, strong female lead, female protagonist, female villain, ex convict ...
Place: sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Above Justice (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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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: bleak, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mad Dogs (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
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Story: When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
Style: tense, captivating, humorous, light, exciting ...
Plot: murder, group of friends, friendship, disorder, dark humor, dishonesty, celebration, investigation, drug lord, friendship between men, conspiracy, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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22%
The Thorn and the Rose (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: O Cravo e a Rosa is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It ran from June 26, 2000 to March 10, 2001. It is based on the Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew. It is currently being broadcast in Portugal, on SIC.
Style: novela, soap opera, captivating, humorous, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Rules of the Game (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.
Style: novela, soap opera, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
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 7.0
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Fearless Heart (2012)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.5
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A young man falls for a seductive, confident woman who performs as a mermaid, and actually believes to be one.
Style: novela, soap opera, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: When Marta Walraven's mob husband is brutally murdered, she takes on gangsters and the FBI to unveil the truth about his death. As she digs into this dark underworld, she'll test her own strength, relying on her resourcefulness, ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: family relations, unlikely criminals, vengeance, parents and children, single mother, organized crime, suburbs, drug lord, rivalry, escapades, scheming, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Behind Closed Doors (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: La Casa de al Lado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This mystery is a remake of Chilean telenovela La familia de al lado produced by TVN in 2010-2011 and is being adapted by the ...
Style: captivating, serious, sentimental, suspense, novela ...
Plot: family feud, rivalry, family problems, couples, family life, couple relations, uncover truth, estate, family in crisis, dishonesty, femme fatale, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Puerta 7 (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: A determined woman works to rid an Argentine soccer club of the violent crime and corruption surrounding its intense fanbase.
Style: political, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: soccer, football, violence, mafia, female protagonist, ambition, rivalry, determination, lifestyle, teamwork, political corruption, rise to the top ...
Place: argentina
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Fearless (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, rough ...
Plot: defense attorney, lawyer, investigation, lie, legal action, female lawyer, justice, danger, dishonesty, innocent, murder, rivalry ...
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