Movies like Provoked: A True Story
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Provoked: A True Story (2006)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with other women. he also subjected her to spousal rape. After ten years and having two children with him, out of fear, she sets him on fire.
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
murder, hotshot lawyer, hopes, life is a bitch, fighting the system, family problems, courtroom drama, abuse, husband wife relationship, arranged marriage, wedding planning, serial killer, rape, lawyer, abusive relationship, child abuse, immigration, sexual harassment, oppression, law, domestic abuse, domestic violence, prison, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
england, london, europe
Keyword:
punjab, english
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, deadly, murder, true crime, legal, society and courtroom drama mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Provoked: A True Story: An American Crime (2007), Murderous Maids (2000), The Burning Bed (1984), Dance with a Stranger (1985), The Executioner's Song (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin (Sylvie Testud), and Léa Papin (Julie-Marie Parmentier) are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Story:
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