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Lamb of God (2008)
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Original name: Cordero de Dios
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, disturbing, realistic, tense, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, state affairs, politics, missing person, confined, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, exile, dictatorship, family drama, moral ambiguity, mature, urban, loss, introspection, political unrest, identity, trauma, revenge, investigation, corruption, retribution, isolation, slow burn, daughter ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Most similar movies to Lamb of God
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about state affairs, confined, kidnapping, society, politics, danger and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Lamb of God: The Assault (2014), Outlaw Country (2012), Traffickers (2012), We Have Your Husband (2011), The Shooter (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, gang rape, abuse, high school, sport team, football team, injustice, youth, evidence, interrogation, investigation, cover up ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
family relations, gang, parents and children, family drama, love and romance, society, danger, country music, organized crime, music industry, tragedy, power struggle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee, tennessee
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, danger, nothing goes right, kidnapping, ship, gang, disorder, organ trafficking, betrayal, organized crime, chase, cat and mouse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapped, ambush, changing lives, family problems, fear, family crisis, extortion ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
sniper, politics, journalism, state affairs, environmentalism, society, media, reporter, hostage situation, die hard, environmental activism, manhunt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, greenland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, high school, youth, high school student, amateur detective, uncover truth, coming of age, teenage life, bullying, guilt, friendship, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, taiwan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unlikely romance occurs when a kidnapped victim falls in love with one of her abductors.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, rivalry, gang, captivity, single parent, confined, hostage, love, hostage situation, abduction, forbidden romance, stockholm syndrome ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Style:
serious, emotional, crime drama, heartbreaking, inspirational ...
Plot:
missing child, family tragedy, child abduction, loss, bereavement, true crime, social issues, activism, biopic, investigation, justice, social justice ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
confined, missing person, danger, isolation, captivity, terrorism, prison life, internet, torture, unsettling, confined space, extreme ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
730
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
aviation, hopes, politics, state affairs, heroes, law enforcement, righting the wronged, danger, uncover truth, military, rivalry, investigation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
captivity, terrorism, journalism, hostage, politics, confined, prison, kidnapping, war on terror, rebellion, danger, negotiation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pakistan, usa
Similarity:
100%
344
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's ...
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, uncover truth, society, confined, police detective, law enforcement, danger, investigation, child in peril, captivity, rescue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
739
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
family relations, society, uncover truth, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, adoption, missing person, political unrest, teenage life, hidden truth, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
latin america, spain, france, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, racism, terrorism, state affairs, political conspiracy, confined, danger, heroes, dishonesty, conspiracy, environmentalism, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, nigeria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
politics, state affairs, dishonesty, society, murder, political corruption, political unrest, government, dictatorship, dictator, manipulation, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
kidnapping, law enforcement, obsessive quest, missing person, murder, drug, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, diner, drug addict, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, emotional, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
father son relationship, ex convict, family drama, second chance, redemption, reconciliation, estranged son, forgiveness, regret, male protagonist, parenting, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
taxi, rivalry, cons and scams, family relations, taxi driver, dishonesty, siblings relations, once in a lifetime opportunity, corruption, crime boss, police corruption, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
amsterdam, holland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, special agent, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, fbi agent, ex husband ex wife relationship, frame up ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
882
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was ...
Style:
sad, political, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, independence movement, murder, kidnapping, state affairs, politics, good versus evil, society, confined, danger, rebellion ...
Time:
70s, year 1970
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
100%
328
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An emotional and thrilling tale of life and death behind the walls of a maximum security prison. From the acclaimed director of 'Bonnie and Clyde', and featuring a powerful international cast.
Style:
independent film, talky, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
prison, retribution, apartheid, political prisoner, prisoner, politics, racism, disintegration, fighting the system, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1996, 80s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, UK, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
amateur detective, uncover truth, missing person, life is a bitch, politics, dishonesty, price of justice, political conspiracy, political corruption, spy, covert operation, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
basque country, new york, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
kidnapping, clinic, dystopia, life is a bitch, politics, against humanity, confined, on the run, danger, state affairs, survival, legal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that ...
Style:
independent film, noir, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
injustice, unemployment, parents and children, kidnapping, against the odds, starting over, dishonesty, hopes, going straight, confined, life is a bitch, ex convict ...
Time:
60s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
56
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, uncover truth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, idealism, social decay, church, society, legal, politics, terrorism, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hostage, rape, stockholm syndrome, showdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, montana, wyoming
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, rebellion, head of state, undercover, state affairs, heroes, dishonesty, cia, intrigue, diplomacy, true crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, russia
Similarity:
100%
606
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
politics, cannibalism, desert, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, starvation, re-education, state affairs, society ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
slave trade, heroes, social differences, slavery, politics, heroic mission, state affairs, society, injustice, mother son relationship, slave, african ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
africa, france, europe, west africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, political ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, legal, murder, injustice, life is a bitch, courtroom, judge, lawyer, italian fascism, sicilian, court case ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1937
Place:
italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
100%
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