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The Net (2016)
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Original name: 그물
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
politics, poverty, human rights, spy, prostitute, money, military, torture, murder, fisherman, corruption, capitalism, breakdown, husband wife relationship, espionage, totalitarian regime, collaboration, inter-korean relations, prospector, sex scene, border, hunger, boat, freedom, resistance ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, seoul, korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, bleak, serious and realistic films with plots about murder, politics, asian, investigation, society, corruption and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Net: Commitment (2013), Red Family (2013), Crocodile (1996), Samaritan Girl (2004), Rough Play (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spy, inter-korean relations, espionage, secret agent, hitman, undercover, danger, secret mission, murder, teenager, kidnapping, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, asia, seoul, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, political thriller ...
Plot:
confrontation, humanity, assassin, spy, inter-korean relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, job, family drama, relationships, empathy, political oppression, coercion ...
Place:
south korea, north korea, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
homosexual rape, monster, suicide, performer's life, life is a bitch, mute or deaf, betrayal, misfit, friends, friendship, woman, street kid ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
korea, seoul, south korea
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, female friendship, revenge, illegal prostitution, family relations, redemption, love and romance ...
Place:
east asia, germany, europe, south korea, korea ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
glory, actor, film industry, arrogance, showbiz, rise and fall, character study, celebrity culture, fame, blind ambition, relationship vs career, price of fame ...
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
October 26, 1979, a presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defense of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in the presidential assassination, lawyer Jung In-hoo enters what would be South Korea's most notorious political ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
assassination, court, justice, judge, problem, legal action, political unrest, politics, political intrigue, courtroom, defense attorney, oppression ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south korea, korea, seoul
Similarity:
40%
161
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
switching roles, lifestyle change, escapades, changing lives, women, clone, fish out of water, relationship problems, lifestyle, fake identity, new identity, female protagonist ...
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sea voyage, cruise ship, rape, social relations, gang, bandit, criminal, cons and scams, cruise, society, sea disaster, organized crime ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, danger, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, lovers, terrorist group, investigation, suspect, group of friends, high school student, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
spy, politics, coup d'etat, inter-korean relations, geopolitics, society, sting operation, danger, rivalry, kickass, covert operation, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, korea, seoul
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
dictatorship, inter-korean relations, undercover agent, political campaign, political corruption, undercover, dictator, top secret, secret mission, government official, military, double agent ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1998, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
north korea, south korea, beijing china, china, asia ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, mistaken identity, insanity, murder, military life, obsession, disorder, social relations, military, brother sister relationship, korean war, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
asia, north korea, korea, seoul, south korea ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, passion, prison, suicide attempt, prison guard, surveillance camera, moving, mission, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
politics, husband wife relationship, dancer, father son relationship, death of father, loss of job, sabotage, village, theater, effeminacy, theatrical troupe, lgbt ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
969
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
fall in love, espionage, rescue, undercover, rivalry, on the run, danger, life is a bitch, conflict, spy, inter-korean relations, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, political drama
Plot:
boy, poverty, father son relationship, realism, escape, refugee, illness, desperation, border crossing, survival, separation, humanitarian ...
Place:
north korea, south korea, china, vancouver
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, rough, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
soldier, haunted by the past, teenage life, wartime life, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, couple relations, social misfits, love and romance, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to ...
Style:
tension, emotional, suspense, bleak, political thriller ...
Plot:
justice, corruption, human rights, oppression, revenge, social injustice, authoritarianism, repression, dictatorship, family tragedy, courage, family drama ...
Place:
paraguay, latin america
Similarity:
35%
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659
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The massive scandal comes to light through a father's unwavering search for the truth behind the sudden death of his family.
Style:
bleak, emotional, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, bereavement, private investigation, family tragedy, family drama, grief, medicine, illness, physician, medical examination, doctor, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
35%
16K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, brutal, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexualized violence, mute, prostitute, violence, brutality, violent, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pleasure, suicide attempt, fishing, sex ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, injustice, culture clash, state affairs, vigilantism, social decay, discrimination, police corruption, african american, blaxploitation, black ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only to be trapped in the illegal sex trade by ...
Style:
bleak, dark drama, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
sex scene, photograph, prostitute, sexploitation, obsession, moral ambiguity, innocence lost, street prostitution, human trafficking, photographer, bandit, gang ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
couples, social differences, starting over, injustice, forceful separation, political corruption, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, state affairs, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Albania, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
desperation, debt, society, life is a bitch, rivalry, money, violence, redemption, escapades, life philosophy, adaptation, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, state affairs, legal, downfall, against humanity, trial, politician, human rights ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place:
latin america, chile, london, england, south america ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, tense, intense ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom, legal investigation, court, justice, legal action, law and order, court case, trial, society, legislation, judge ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Badhshala is a story of torture inside an army barrack during maoist insurgency.
Style:
political thriller, brutal, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
torture, human rights, oppression, political unrest, social commentary, war crime, interrogation, trauma, ethical dilemma, realism, survival, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
nepal
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A repressed artist receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds up within the artist, leading him to embark upon a quest to gain revenge on all those who have ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vengeance, mental illness, violence spree, rivalry, chases and races, artist, asian, murder, revenge, performer's life, female nudity, one day ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a ...
Style:
suspense, tension, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy and birth, pregnancy, birth, desperation, woman, pregnant girlfriend, unwanted pregnancy, woman in danger, women, unplanned pregnancy, danger, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, ...
Style:
tense, political, suspenseful, bleak, touching ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
asian, politics, investigation, tragedy, friendship, soldier, undercover, vengeance, justice, assassination, state affairs, political conspiracy ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea, east asia, asia ...
Similarity:
34%
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