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Mystification (2010)
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Original name: Mistyfikacja
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An expelled university student investigates the suicide of Witkacy and tries to prove that the famous artist is still alive.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
Plot:
artist, polish, fake death, mistress, death, flashback, exhumation, investigation, train, student, writers, nun, rain, photograph, drug addiction, bald woman, portrait, playwright, learning the truth, cigarette smoking, camera, groping, fake suicide, mystery
Time:
1930s, 80s, 60s, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about investigation, murder, deadly, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty and death mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mystification: Nobel's Last Will (2012), Godspeed (2009), A Near Death Experience (2008), Megachurch Murder (2015), Man from Reno (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Story:
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566
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Duration: 99 min.
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Audience:
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Time:
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Duration: 89 min.
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Time:
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely ...
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Place:
usa, san francisco, california
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: Spain, France, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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italy
Similarity:
71%
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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737
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 93 min.
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Time:
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