Movies and TV shows like Liar Game

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Liar Game (2007)
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Liar Game (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story: The Liar Game is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which started airing on April 14, 2007 on Fuji TV, achieving a 11.4 viewership rating in Japan's Kantō region. A sequel, Liar Game 2, ran from 2009 to 2010. It was also adapted into two live action films: Liar Game: The Final Stage in 2010, and Liar Game: Reborn in 2012. The manga has also been translated into Chinese and into Dutch. In Italy the series is licensed by J-Pop and in France it is licensed by TONKAM.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, disturbing, tense, intellectual, captivating, philosophical, dorama, manga ...
Plot: mind game, lie, gambling, genius, betrayal, revenge, game, ex convict, scam, deception, naivete, psychology, greed, con men, money falling through the air, money, conspiracy, risk, criminal, rivalry, gambler, hidden money, rivals, most dangerous game, con trick ...
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Liar Game

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and suspense films and TV series with plots about game, gambling, game of death, gambler, mind game, money and friendship mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Liar Game: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009), Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010), Friend Game (2017), Liar Game: Reborn (2012), Alice in Borderland (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Liar Game (2007)
Genre: Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story: This drama is about various contestants take part in a game show with a prize of 10 billion won wherein contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie. The contestants who able to cheat the others will wins the prize but debt if he/she loses the game. ...
Style: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: genius, lie, deception, game, con trick, strategy, gambling, mind game, betrayal, psychological manipulation, ex convict, fraud ...
Place: korea
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself ...
Style: tense, anime, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: survival, social decay, contests and competitions, rivalry, danger, rich and poor, risk, escapades, deathtrap, job seeking, lifestyle, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: mind game, money, rivals, lie, deception, greed, gambling, risk, game, money falling through the air, gambler, rivalry ...
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Friend Game (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: High school student Katagiri Yuichi cares about friendship more than money because of his mother’s teachings. One day, Yuichi and his close friends, Shiho, Tenji, Makoto and Yutori, are suddenly forced to participate in a mysterious game of wits ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot: game, friendship, high school, mind game, schoolboy, manipulative behavior, abduction, riddles and clues, showdown, schoolgirl, friends, manipulation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Liar Game: Reborn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: game of death, game, lie, deception, psychological manipulation, psychology, ruse, con trick, student, drastic change of life, revenge, intrigue ...
Place: japan
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Alice in Borderland (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to survive.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, dorama, psychotronic ...
Plot: survival, fight, game, mercilessness, game of death, danger, quest, violence, psychology, courage, team, friendship ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
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Bloody Monday (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Bloody Monday is a Japanese manga series written by Ryumon Ryo and illustrated by Megumi Koji. The series had been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha from April 2007 to May 2009, with individual chapters collected into eleven ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: high school student, hacker, genius, investigation, computer genius, terrorist, government, terrorism, computer, race against time, war on terror, counter terrorism ...
Place: japan
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Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: 3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the ...
Style: anime, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: game of death, gambling, debt, gambler, financial problem, bandit, organized crime, criminal, crime boss, money problems, runaway, gambling debt ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Silver and Gold (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named Ginji Hirai, who introduces him to the underworld trade, where billions of yen changes hands every moment, and speculators and other ...
Style: dramatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak
Plot: gambling, criminal underworld, greedy man, influencer, gambler, mishap, speculation, money, greed, misfit
Place: japan
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30%
Ties of Shooting Stars (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Based on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three orphans, whose parents were murdered long ago. Together, the three vowed on a shooting star to one day avenge their parents. After many years, the two ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: siblings, revenge, murder, family relations, siblings relations, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, loss of father, loss of mother, murder mystery
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dicey Business (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Chai Foon-Cheung has not won a single game since his defeat in the World Poker Championship twenty years ago. It is the bad luck he has had all these years that has earned him a job in the casino. Ironically, the man who hires him is one of his then ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, serious
Plot: casino, gambling, poker, card playing, rivalry, money problems, competition, game, poker player, gambler
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Future Diary: Another World (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: This survival action series revolves around the "Future Diary," a cell phone diary that contains entries about future events. Arata Hoshino is a college student who could be the poster boy for "inertia." By chance, Arata gets ...
Style: anime, tense, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: predicting the future, prediction, affair, survival, student, flash forward, struggle for survival, mind game, changing the past or future, diary, survival game, game of death
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Flower Shop Without a Rose (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, romantic, captivating, dorama
Plot: florist, male female relationship, couple relations, love story, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, blindness and impaired vision, couples, life, love affair, relationship problems ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Vitthal Teedi (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: Vitthal Tripathi is a man from humble origins and an exceptional skill with playing cards. He is a gambler no one can defeat, winning games against all his opponents. However, when he decides to join the big leagues, get a taste of city life, his ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: gambler, gambling, poker, poker player, ambition, money, escapades, ambitious man, problem
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Jyouou (2005)
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Country: Japan
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Story: Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: debt, family problems, money, competitor, needing money, money problems, high school friend, hostess, college student, female nudity, nude
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Fragile (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Fragile tells the story of two diametrically opposite families: the wealthy, influential Bachands, and the salt-of-the-earth Coutures. It’s also the story of an unlikely friendship, that of Dominic Couture (Pier-Luc Funk) and Félix Bachand ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological
Plot: tragedy, friends, small town, friendship, life is a bitch, small town life, family secret, secret, car accident, psychology, friendship between men, ex convict
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, philosophical
Plot: death sentence, life & death, summary execution, legal, legislation, society, murder, social problems, law and order, social relations, comic book, superhero ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is ...
Style: captivating, touching, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: tragedy, revenge, tragic past, friendship, love, true love, employer employee relationship, male female friendship, female friendship, murder mystery, couple relations, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinetograph (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: A girl named Haru Asagi works as a maid for the Miyanomori family, which is headed by one of Japan's most powerful magnates. However, the family head suddenly announces that he is retiring, so one of his six sons must assume control of the ...
Style: anime, captivating, psychological, disturbing, josei
Plot: master servant relationship, class differences, maid, conspiracy, eccentric family, family life, slice of life, wealthy family, sibling rivalry
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Joo Ah-Ran and Shin Hyun-Woo have an elaborate wedding at a luxurious hotel. Shin Hyun-Woo sincerely loves Joo Ah-Ran, but Joo Ah-Ran has ulterior motives for the marriage. Joo Ah-Rans family was destroyed by Shin Hyun-Woo's parents and, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
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26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Circumstances condemn Oh Soo and Oh Young to loveless lives. After the untimely death of his first love, Oh Soo turns to an ambitionless life as a derelict gambler. The gorgeous Oh Young should be leading the perfect life as an heiress, but when her ...
Style: dorama, captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot: gambler, heiress, living alone, first love, deaf, pretending to be someone else, blind man, blind woman, pretense, rich woman, deception, financial problem ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
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You Taught Me All the Precious Things (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: teacher student relationship, teacher, infidelity, hung over, male female relationship, male teacher female student affair, relationship problems, adultery, unfaithful boyfriend, adulterous husband, couple relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Scent of an Artificial Flower (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: “Zouka no Mitsu” portrays the story of a beautiful criminal (Dan), who makes incomprehensible demands, saying, “If you want to pay, you decide the amount.” Tanabe will play the role of detective Hashiba, who tracks the criminal down.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: crime investigation, criminal, abduction, true crime, kidnapped, investigation, kidnapping, child kidnapping, kidnapped child, child abduction
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Zero: The Bravest Money Game (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story: The winner of a secret survival game stands to win a large sum of money. However, one player does not seem to be in the game for the money.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: The tragic death of Gabrielle and the acquittal of her killer plunges the Dessureaux family into a living hell.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, murderer, murder investigation, criminal, loss of daughter, vengeance, bereavement, judge, dysfunctional family, bandit, life is a bitch ...
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Games People Play (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Three ambitious women navigate the highly competitive world of professional sports.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, detective
Plot: basketball, marriage, gambling, infidelity, money, murder, college, game, police, investigation, escapades, rivalry ...
Place: new york, los angeles
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Dr. Rintaro, Psychiatrist (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A psychiatrist, Rintaro Hino, listens closely to the aching hearts of people, relieving them of their pain. His practice is growing but despite his achievements, Dr. Rintaro himself falls short in one department: love.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: lifestyle change, relationship vs career, relationships, psychiatrist, physician, psychology, male female relationship, changing lives, couple relations, relationship problems, mysterious girl, doctor ...
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Hotelier (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: An incident in the past causes Ogata Kouhei (Tanabe Seiichi) to resign his position and leave the country in shame. Now, at the hotel's 30th anniversary, the hotel is facing a crisis; the president has just been submitted to the hospital, and ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: hotel, workplace, hotel manager, hotel owner, financial problem, love interest, social problems, relationships, couple relations, workplace situations, coworker, business ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Umizaru (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coast guard, workplace situations, frogman, relationships, coworker, life is a bitch, male female relationship, scuba diving, long distance relationship, relationship problems, workplace, friendship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Yokoyama Hideo Suspense (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot: murder, murderer, true crime, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder mystery, private investigation, investigation, murder investigation, crime scene, criminal, killings
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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