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Aalavandhan (2001)
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Aalavandhan (2001)
Original name: ஆளவந்தான்
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Aalavandhan is a action and thriller movie. Vijay (Kamal Haasan) is the commander of an anti-terrorist squad. He gets engaged to Tejaswini (Raveena Tandon) who is pregnant with their child. Vijay's brother Nandu (also played by Haasan) is psychotic and is in a mental asylum. Vijay takes Tejaswini to the asylum so that Nandu can meet her. In his delusions, Nandu decides that she is his evil stepmother. Nandu, who killed his stepmother when he was twelve, decides that he must kill Tejaswini to protect Vijay.Nandu escapes from the asylum and begins to look for Tejaswini. In the...
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, exciting, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, suspense thriller
Plot: psychopath, brother, violence, murder, mental institution, brutality, good versus evil, dual role, serial killer, psycho, villain, killer, schizophrenia, identical twins, spider, truck, mental patient, stepmother, elevator, hallucination, blood, commando, surrealism, on the run, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place: india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting and tense films with plots about murder, violence, revenge, vengeance, chase, police officer and tamil mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Aalavandhan: Virumaandi (2004), Thani Oruvan (2015), Hindustani (1996), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006), Thoongaavanam (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Virumaandi (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Thani Oruvan (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hindustani (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
Style: patriotic, political thriller, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dual role, integration, superhero, independence, hindu, indians, patriotism, investigation, bribery, freedom fighter, society, vengeance ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, india, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Raghavan (Kamal Haasan) is an honest cop in Tamil Nadu. His wife Kayalvizhi (Kamalinee Mukerji) dies in a violent incident. Raghavan is deputized to investigate the murder of Rani, the daughter of his colleague Arokiya Raj (Prakash Raj) in a remote ...
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Place: new york
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Thoongaavanam (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of ...
Style: tense, disturbing, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, erotic ...
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Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Spyder (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Plot is Unknown
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Company (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of ...
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Time: 21st century
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Dushman (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: According to police records, a daredevil, Gokul Pandit is on the loose. He would attempts to rape and kill young and beautiful girls who are alone.
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Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
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58%
 7.9
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Vishwaroopam (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is in a rather happy marriage with Nirupama who is a nuclear oncologist. Nirupama is from a middle class family in Chennai, she marries Vishwanath (a dance master) to pursue her higher studies in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, masala ...
Plot: terrorist, undercover, suspicion, muslim, double life, working undercover, terrorist plot, secret, marriage, fbi agent, bomb, traitor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., india, new jersey, new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
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Duration: 133 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
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Mumbai Mirror (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
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Style: brutal, disturbing, suspense, exciting, suspenseful
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 138 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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