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Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
Plot:
serial killer, nude model, playboy, obsession, death, murder, career, domestic violence, hollywood, self destructing, actress, ambition, husband wife relationship, rise and fall, modeling, tragic event, marital rape, cynicism, price of fame, true crime, dying young, playboy magazine, husband murders wife, bikini, female director
Time:
70s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and sentimental films with plots about murder, hollywood, serial killer, ambition, husband wife relationship, actress and death mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story: Star 80 (1983), The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980), The Pastor's Wife (2011), Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee home, his wife and young daughters missing. Authorities soon zeroed in on Matthew's wife, Mary, as the prime suspect ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, marital rape, investigation, social relations, small town, domestic violence, serial killer, preacher, court, under the surface, love, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Plot:
serial killer, flashback, adultery, lawyer, courtroom, judge, murder, true crime, court, talking to the camera, looking at the camera
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police, lovers on the run, court, frame up, police corruption, policewoman
Place:
ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
one man show
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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