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37 (2016)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably remained passive observers. The film is a convincing portrayal of a borough in change and a time characterized by racism, the Civil Rights Movement and political shifts. The actual event that inspired the film’s plot has been called a symbol for the moment when America lost its innocence. The director Puk Grasten skillfully weaves into her feature film debut various fates, dreams and family conflicts by leading us through an apartment building that comes to bear a collective failure.
Style:
independent film, thought provoking, bleak, tense, atmospheric, period piece, historical drama, intense, art house, sad ...
Plot:
apathy, silence, guilt, moral ambiguity, character study, social commentary, neighborhood, fear, family conflict, realism, apartment building, racial tension, isolation, urban decay, slow burn, rape, murder, feminist, woman, investigation, racism, loss of innocence, indifference, witness, psychological drama ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, intense and suspense films with plots about moral ambiguity, character study, guilt, isolation, psychological drama, investigation and slow burn mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like 37: Recommendation for Mercy (1975), One Floor Below (2015), Montauk, AZ (2009), The Killing Yard (2001), Invisible (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
Style:
serious, juvenile, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rape, murder, justice, wrongful accusation, miscarriage of justice, trauma, courtroom, investigation, moral dilemma, teenager, guilt, social commentary ...
Time:
70s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
Style:
art house, suspenseful
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, bleak, noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, loneliness, small town, isolation, character study, violence, alcoholism, moral ambiguity, serial killer, male protagonist, desperation, criminal psychology ...
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Style:
tense, historical drama, realistic, intense, political ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom, riot, injustice, social commentary, trial, violence, lawyer, defense attorney, civil rights, corruption, racial tension ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot:
serial rapist, sex crime, mother daughter relationship, women, husband wife conflict, research, police station, political activist, trauma, repression, survivor, female friendship ...
Place:
israel
Similarity:
21%
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the ...
Style:
psychological, political, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalinism, torture, catholic, character study, biopic, faith, physical torture, problem, male female relationship, abuse of power, interrogation, totalitarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accident and so the murder remains undiscovered for the time being.
Style:
independent film, bleak, tense, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, guilt, moral ambiguity, character study, ethical dilemma, accidental killing, cover up, working class, aftermath, social realism, realism, secrets ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity crisis, urban, character study, social commentary, escape, murder, social realism, loneliness, isolation, suspicion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Style:
bleak, poignant, black and white, art house, noir ...
Plot:
revenge, rape, female victim, grief, murder, social injustice, social realism, realism, widower, retribution, justice, vengeance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
Style:
intense, melancholic, emotional, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
depression, surveillance camera, missing daughter, missing child, grief, obsession, father daughter relationship, loss, bereavement, investigation, routine, small town ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of ...
Style:
intense, grim, art house, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
family drama, trauma, family secret, fear, guilt, slow burn, realism, symbolism, regret, small town, isolation, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Colombia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, nazism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, tragedy, guilt, survival, totalitarianism, collaboration, compromise, conscience ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
love, innocence, flashback, memory, murder, wrongful conviction, investigation, prison, justice, moral ambiguity, guilt, character study ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's a movie about a subject that captivates me. And I can see that it also captivates the world and people and has done it at all times. It is the meeting with the stranger. Why is it so difficult to relate to those who's not like ...
Style:
thought provoking, art house, contemplative, tense, intercultural ...
Plot:
prejudice, xenophobia, social commentary, alienation, immigration, empathy, identity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban, psychological drama
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
interrogation, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, suspect, character study, murder, revenge, accusation, claustrophobia, guilt, police procedural ...
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Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, dark, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Coutrroom drama: after being victimized by an abusive boyfriend, a woman goes on trial for murder. Sequel to Historia de un canalla.
Style:
period piece, tense, atmospheric, art house, tragic
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
18%
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Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, intense, crime drama, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style:
serious, bleak, historical drama, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, nurse, vivisection, guilt, accomplice, mature, atrocity, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, war crime, mental disorder, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
japan
Similarity:
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301
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chernobyl, soviet union, ussr, ukraine
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. It was actually three teenagers who stole Peugeot 404 to drive around for fun, but the girl who hitch-hiked them left the car ...
Style:
suspense, tragic ending, intense, tension, crime drama ...
Plot:
highway, road accident, car theft, police chase, tragedy, reckless driving, investigation, suspicion, death, moral ambiguity, peer pressure, loss of innocence ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random
Style:
disturbing, intense, tense, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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