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Katalin Varga (2009)
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Katalin Varga (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.
Style: bleak, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, road movie, dark, art house, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, rape victim, obsession, murder, life is a bitch, hidden truth, vengeance, revenge, female warrior, gang rape, rape and revenge, youth, on the road, feminist, folklore, sex crime, male nudity, sexual content, sex, horse, gypsy, cigarette smoking, van, hanging ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, romania, transylvania
Keyword: romanian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about murder, vengeance, deadly, life is a bitch, revenge, rape and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Katalin Varga: Straightheads (2007), People Mountain People Sea (2011), On the Doll (2007), King of the Jungle (2000), Ms .45 (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Straightheads (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: There is instant chemistry between Alice (Gillian Anderson), a businesswoman, and Adam (Danny Dyer), a younger working-class man who installs a security system in her London apartment. She takes him to a party in the country, and they end up making ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bleak ...
Plot: rape and revenge, rape, psychopath, revenge, murder, outdoor sex, gang rape, vigilante, misogynist, rape victim, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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People Mountain People Sea (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, obsession, redemption, murder, poverty, journey, danger, rivalry, chases and races, life is a bitch, hopes, mountain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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On the Doll (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On The Doll is a story of the victims of child abuse, and the pain it visits upon their later lives. With interweaving stories following victims and victimizers, the film depicts the variety of experiences of abuse.
Style: rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, anime ...
Plot: pedophile, victim, lifestyle, life is a bitch, sexual relations, revenge, youth, child abuse, childhood trauma, sex work, rape, prostitution ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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King of the Jungle (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style: psychological, serious, disturbing, tense, independent film ...
Plot: fighting crime, vengeance, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, social decay, disability, society, parents and children, addiction, murder, mental illness, drug abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ms .45 (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, grindhouse, controversial, bloody ...
Plot: rape, revenge, vigilante, femme fatale, rape and revenge, murder, sexual abuse, serial killer, one woman army, female vigilante, vigilantism, killing spree ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Anjaam (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Vijay Agnihotri is a wealthy, spoilt man who lives with his mother in the city of Mumbai. His mother has allowed him everything and more than that he wants. One day on a mishap Vijay manages to reach up with an air-hostess named Shivani Chopra, he ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: obsessive love, vengeance, obsession, murder, stewardess, love triangle, psychopath, women's prison, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, danger, frame up ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Lost Choices (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young women is raped while on her way home. When she is rejected by the police, because they don't believe her, she sets out revenge. But not only on her rapist, but also the police and everybody who did not believe her.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, incompetent police, vengeance, social problems, violent, sexual abuse, violence, violence against women, rape victim, kidnapping ...
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Pieta (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: redemption, vengeance, life is a bitch, revenge, uncover truth, criminal heroes, long lost relative, parents and children, merciless, family reunited, family relations, mother son incest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, east asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Baise-moi (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road ...
Style: sexual, erotic, disturbing, bleak, road movie ...
Audience: adult
Plot: strong sexual content, rape and revenge, explicit sex, rape, nudity, sex, femme fatale, misandry, violent sex, violence against women, depravity, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, woman in danger, redemption, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, deception, justice, police officer, cop ...
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, bullying, brutality, vengeance, mental illness, great ending, justice, cruelty, humiliation, execution, drug abuse, heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Freeze Me (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover ...
Style: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, realistic ...
Plot: rape and revenge, rape victim, revenge, rape, sexual abuse, woman in danger, haunted by the past, exploitation, fear, vigilante, making love, yakuza ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Vulgar (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: clown, revenge, vengeance, rape, alter ego, homosexual rape, gang rape, psychopath, blackmail, dark humor, serial killer, hostage ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blame (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
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Place: australia
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Sin (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burns finds himself subjected to a fiendish and ingenious campaign of revenge by the mysterious Charlie ...
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Audience: boys' night
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A Crime (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, female nudity, sex, neighbor, obsession, vengeance, frame up, haunted by the past, psychotic woman, taxi driver, taxi, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Villa Captive (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: murder, rape, sexual abuse, danger, life is a bitch, woman in danger, violence spree, death, revenge, violence, sexual assault, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: child killer, police investigation, serial killer, missing child, rape, pedophile, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, brutality, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
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43%
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Lipstick (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 173 min.
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Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
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Story: An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
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The Mortician (2011)
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Stolen (2011)
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, serious, tense, realistic, thought provoking ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Traceless (2010)
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Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological ...
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Palabras encadenadas (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 89 min.
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