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The Closed Circuit (2013)
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Original name: Układ zamknięty
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open a high-tech factory. This comes to the attention of the local state ‘mafia’, the local Prosecutor, played by Janusz Gajos, and tax office boss, played by Kasimierz Kaczor, who are both jealous and would like to make money for themselves. We are in Poland, so success must be punished.
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, sincere
Plot:
false accusation, rise and fall, corporate crime, political corruption, dishonesty, cons and scams, justice, investigation, frame up, injustice, law enforcement, legal investigation, uncover truth, business, prosecutor, jail, innocence, husband wife relationship, big business, victim, life is a bitch, society, ambition, hopes, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
poland
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Most similar movies to The Closed Circuit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, law enforcement, life is a bitch, society, murder, investigation and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Closed Circuit: The PyraMMMid (2011), Interrogation (1989), Guilt by Association (2002), Red Corner (1997), Reversible Errors (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
rise to the top, ambition, corporate crime, downfall, rise and fall, cons and scams, political corruption, society, rivalry, dishonesty, money, big business ...
Time:
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Place:
russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, thinking, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, communism, false accusation, anti communist, cell, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, injustice, society, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
false accusation, wrongful conviction, drug dealing, injustice, prison, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, society, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, legal, hopes ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, death penalty, frame up, justice, political corruption, murder mystery, lawyer, male victim, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
china, asia, california
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The promise of a better life is pivotal in ten-year-old Fee’s decision to travel from her home in Romania to Germany. But she falls victim to child traffickers and is forced to work as a prostitute in a Berlin sex club. She is freed, however, ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
frame up, murder, wrestling, chase, chases and races, life is a bitch, dishonesty, criminal heroes, on the run, confined, law enforcement, prison life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police officer, cop, pig killer, exploitation, berlin wall, stasi, gang, friendship, partner, gangster, drug dealing, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
28%
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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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490
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young law student finds his strongly held ideals clashing with the work he has to undertake, leading to a crisis of confidence in this 2001 Bollywood feature from director Ashok Mehta.
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
false accusation, protagonist as suspect, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, frame up, dishonesty, legal investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, dedicated lawyer, society ...
Time:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
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445
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Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tech noir
Plot:
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Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
legal investigation, rehabilitation, legal, courtroom, injustice, family problems, law enforcement, dishonesty, estrangement, false accusation, police corruption, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot:
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730
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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:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
The women in a Seattle serial killer's life often had an unpleasant way of turning up dead - from his girlfriend to his mother-in-law to his second wife. The police and FBI knew who the killer was, but were never prepared to face a bizarre ...
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff's guns and takes the whole jury hostage and insists that the prosecuting attorney ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
hotshot lawyer, hostage, courtroom, uncover truth, false accusation, legal action, legal investigation, injustice, price of justice, society, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sicily, europe, italy
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Three friends from Delhi go missing in a small village - Jhanjhar, in Bihar. It's 2 months and there is no clue about their disappearance. The media and students movement demand action from the authorities. It's then that the government ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
police corruption, medieval, political corruption, injustice, police investigation, state affairs, uncover truth, partner, discrimination, racism, tough law enforcer, partners against crime ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, violence, twists and turns, gang, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, dirty cop, justice, nudity, police ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, sexual abuse, uncover truth, murder, lie, love, memory loss, danger, blackmail, police detective ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, male objectification, murder, private detective, investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, nothing to lose, private investigator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, bleak, dramatic, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, justice, law enforcement, mission, good versus evil, police, village, uncover truth, twists and turns, police officer, fight, smuggling ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
709
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.
Style:
thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, mathematics, life is a bitch, courtroom drama, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, society, legal action, injustice, courtroom, law, archer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A reporter researching the death penalty in India is recounted the story of a farm owner Virumandi whose role in a clan feud between Naicker and Kothalla Devar leads him to death row. As the story unfolds, there is a riot in the jail, and the only ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
prison riot, frame up, death row, death sentence, interview, false accusation, prison, life is a bitch, journalism, society, social relations, forceful separation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
21%
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