Movies like Ghajini
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Ghajini (2008)
72K
Original name: गजनी
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
Sanjay a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend's murder. Because of this his memory can only last for 15 minutes and he doesn't remember events or incidents that have happened before in his life.
Style:
rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological thriller, psychological, romantic, entertaining, cult classic ...
Plot:
memory loss, diary, loss of loved one, fall in love, revenge, businessman, death of lover, tragic romance, rage, murder, vengeance, uncover truth, love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, danger, disorder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, police officer, villain, brutality, love at first sight, medical student, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, fight, revenge, vengeance, violence, police officer and flashback mostly in Thriller, Action and Mystery genres. Some movies like Ghajini: Ek Villain (2014), Fanaa (2006), Memento (2000), Zinda (2005), Holiday (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When his lover becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, couple relations, insomnia, uncover truth, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, great ending, murder investigation, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
71%
37K
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, feel good, emotional ...
Plot:
first love, blind character, terrorist, terrorism, hopes, muslim, self discovery, blindness and impaired vision, life changing experience, love and romance, tragic love, blindness ...
Time:
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Place:
kashmir, india, new delhi, asia, delhi
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
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Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is about a man, who has been imprisoned for 14 years, who has been released and has four days to figure out why he was imprisoned in the first place.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mysterious villain, vengeance, kidnapping, tragic event, secret, retribution, voice over narration, violence, flashback, anti hero, torture ...
Time:
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Place:
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32K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A soldier on vacation finds himself hunting down a terrorist. A military officer attempts to hunt down a terrorist, destroy a terrorist gang and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, amnesia, espionage, hitman, revenge, on the run, chase, assassin, dark past, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against – after being held up at a local convenience store – threatens him.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
langley virginia, new york, moscow russia, tangier morocco, paris france ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Five people trapped in a factory where two hostages and three are kidnappers but they them self do not know who are kidnappers and hostages.As they all are suffering from temporary memory loss.
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, disorder, environmentalism, factory, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, danger, undercover, memory loss, disaster, escape, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style:
tense, brutal, suspenseful, political thriller, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, violence, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, vigilantism, fighting the system, investigation, corruption, riddles and clues, political corruption, conspiracy ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 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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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough ...
Plot:
countdown, wrestling, race against time, police, kidnapping, hostage, child in peril, danger, bomb squad, criminal, brutality, violence ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
bloody, brutal, exciting, fast paced, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mumbai, the financial capital of India, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fast paced and ever changing, home to Bollywood! A City of beauty but also a city that got scarred! A city whose foundation is slowly crumbling beneath its ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
middle east, asia, india, mumbai india
Similarity:
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709K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 172 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, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, thailand, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago, vietnam, usa, illinois, las vegas ...
Similarity:
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389K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
detective, exciting, suspenseful, serious, saga ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
loner, sniper, one man army, investigation, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, lone hero, hitman, tough guy, expert, gunfight ...
Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, iraq, seattle, pennsylvania, usa ...
Similarity:
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9K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A vengeful drug-dealer/gangster targets and terrorizes an entire police unit and their families.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 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, Spain, UK, France
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south africa, europe, london, barcelona, africa
Similarity:
20%
26K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Ambi, a meek lawyer, ends up being a vigilante named Anniyan, and a supermodel named Remo, after suffering with multiple personality disorder due to the society.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
split personality, vigilante, multiple personality disorder, lawyer, alter ego, psychiatrist, unrequited love, punishment, mental illness, anguish, vigilantism, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
20%
818K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style:
stylized, exciting, neo noir, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
hitman, vengeance, revenge, one man army, assassin, vigilante, shooting, gunfight, lone hero, tough guy, dog, killer ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, north america
Similarity:
20%
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