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Edge of Desire (2017)
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Original name: A Força do Querer
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A young man falls for a seductive, confident woman who performs as a mermaid, and actually believes to be one.
Style:
novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
Plot:
professional wrestling, police officer, police, criminal, policewoman, female fighter, female protagonist, female antagonist, direction and purpose, ambition, ambitious woman, women, fall in love, in love, multiple storylines, fighting crime, prison, gambling, mermaid, lgbt, drug lord, pregnancy, businessman, love triangle, addiction ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, tense and psychological films and TV series with plots about female protagonist, investigation, criminal, police, police investigation, police officer and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Edge of Desire: A Mother's Love (2019), The Clone (2010), Brazil Avenue (2012), Rules of the Game (2015), Black Sands (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
novela, captivating, disturbing, psychological, telenovela
Plot:
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Place:
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525
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Brazil
Duration: 43 min.
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Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, ...
Style:
novela, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, soap opera, exciting ...
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, hidden identity, evil stepmother, female protagonist, love triangle, femme fatale, step parent, rivalry, danger, righting the wronged, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
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Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.
Style:
novela, soap opera, humorous, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
mysterious villain, police, violence, love, crime boss, murder, death, hostage, murder investigation, family relations, mystery killer, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
A troubled police officer is forced back to her hometown. Confronting her abusive mother is inescapable but the discovery of a body changes everything. She's forced to search for a dangerous serial killer while stuck in a dark pit.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
iceland
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54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
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Opposite Lives tells the story of Miguel (Leo Rosa), a young rich man of a traditional family, and Joana (Maytê Piragibe), a student and tourist guide who lives in a slum. Although dating an elegant and rich fashion designer, Erínia (Lavínia ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, exciting, novela ...
Plot:
relationship problems, fall in love, romantic relationship, criminal, romantic obsession, gang member, in love, love interest, male female relationship, couple relations, tragic love, crime boss ...
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53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
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Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot:
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237
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
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A complicated tangle of crimes. A female police inspector accidentally uncovers the connection between the state, the service and crime. A man who tries to prove that his brother is not guilty of the murder everyone claims he committed.
Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, bleak, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, police officer, corruption, police procedural, criminal, policewoman, murder, police detective, true crime, police, police investigation, police inspector ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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The mystery surrounding the murder of a seductive and ambitious axé performer during one of her concerts.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, intellectual, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
northeast brazil, brazil
Similarity:
40%
379
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Uruguay, Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
When a renowned criminal lawyer sees one of the people she loves most become a victim of the Brazilian penitentiary system, she must decide whether to cross the line that separates her between looking for justice or committing an unforgivable crime.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 30 min.
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In the 1950s, Ali, a young man, arrives at the Grand Hotel in the beautiful city of Aswan to investigate the disappearance of his younger sister. He gets a job as a waiter and falls in love with the daughter of the owner "Nazly". Nazly ...
Style:
enigmatic, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Crime drama in which policeman John Paxton is framed for murder after he is caught up in the plans of colleagues to take drastic action after a killer is set free on a legal technicality.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, detective, psychological, independent film
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
detective, disturbing, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
east end london, london
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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yorkshire
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37%
131K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
serial killer, female detective, police detective, police investigation, policewoman, forensics, law enforcement, victim, murder mystery, crime investigation, violence against women, evidence ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, united kingdom, belfast
Similarity:
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303
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
novela, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
detective, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot:
female detective, female police detective, forensics, investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, unsolved crime, homicide detective, secret revealed, murder mystery, cold case, sleuth ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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Eduardo Borges is a young man above all suspicion: handsome, smart, and sensitive. However, his perfect man appearance is simply a mask that covers up his fearsome personality: a dangerous psychopath behind a number of crimes that have caught the ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Duration: 45 min.
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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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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
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Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
liverpool
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Esperança is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by TV Globo between June 17, 2002 and February 15, 2003.
With Reynaldo Gianecchini, Priscila Fantin, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Ana Paula Arósio, Raul Cortez, Antonio Fagundes, José Mayer and ...
Style:
novela, soap opera, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
italy
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648
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Wanted was a 2005 American primetime police drama television series broadcast on the TNT network. The series was created by Louis St. Clair and Jorge Zamacona, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Jorge Zamacona.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective
Plot:
task force, police, partners against crime, sleuth, fighting crime, forensics, police officer, investigation, teamwork, criminal, police partner, police investigation ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
british police, policewoman, police protagonist, police investigation, investigator, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, law enforcement, businessman, rapist, grandmother grandson relationship, ex convict ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
"La querida del Centauro" chronicles the life of Yolanda, an attractive and intelligent prisoner, that becomes the mistress of one of the most important drug traffickers of Mexico, Benedictino García, alias "El Centauro". This ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 192 min.
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Story:
Convinced of her daughter's innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
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The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to ...
Style:
soap opera, novela, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
love triangle, class differences, love story, changing lives, lifestyle change, women, lifestyle, love affair, unrequited love, love interest, tragic love, female protagonist ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1870s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, UK, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Robert Kastell returns to Sweden after having been presumed dead for thirty years. A personal tragedy has made him leave his exile, and sent him on a last journey of revenge
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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