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Lawful Killing: Mark Duggan (2016)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 90-minute documentary with dramatic reconstructions of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham in August 2011.
Style:
controversial, political, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
protest, interview, investigation, controversy, civil unrest, interracial relations, urban violence, anger, grief, media coverage, trauma, police officer, criminal, racism, riot, testimony, inquest, youth culture, police chase, travel and leisure, gun violence, firearm, code name, surveillance footage, reenactment ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, serious and suspenseful films with plots about investigation, trauma, grief, moral ambiguity, small town, biopic and interracial relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lawful Killing: Mark Duggan: The Wind of Change (1961), Where Are My Children? (1994), Sirens (1999), Blockade (2022), The Thieving Headmistress (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film ...
Style:
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Plot:
racism, racial violence, racial tension, racial prejudice, working class, youth, xenophobia, immigration, teenager, rebellion, social realism, civil unrest ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, crime drama, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
georgia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
colonialism, african, civil war, racial injustice, interracial relations, racial tension, life is a bitch, social problems, post colonialism, british colonialism, colony, choice ...
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271
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a ...
Style:
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Plot:
police brutality, racism, police corruption, corruption, interracial relations, racial injustice, racial tension, female protagonist, social commentary, investigation, vigilante justice, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fresh president of Hungary find himself in trouble with taxi drivers. The taxi drives are disappointed in the democracy and protesting against the drasticly raising gas prices. The drivers build blockades all over the capital.
Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, political drama
Plot:
protest, blockade, civil unrest, urban, social conflict, civil disobedience, social realism, media coverage, political satire, public transport
Time:
90s
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, period drama
Plot:
corruption, school, director, theft, fraud, crisis of faith, stealing money, con artists, female protagonist, money, stolen money, loss of faith ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
london
Similarity:
71%
407
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The three stories within Genesis explore the notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is saved from the fate she was forced to endure; a ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in ...
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, political drama
Plot:
revolution, social realism, uncertainty, grief, iron curtain, civil unrest, political violence, identity crisis, repression, protest, alienation, family conflict ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, teenager, couples, terrorist attack, economic crisis, struggle, youth, police, terrorism, conflict, riot, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York
Style:
tense, suspenseful, historical drama, bleak, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, world trade center manhattan new york city, rescue, terrorism, bombing, skyscraper, disaster, bomb threat, evacuation, search and rescue, resilience, urban ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american, native, massacre, indigenous people, civil rights, indians, racism, political activism, resistance, american indian, solidarity, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
south dakota
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, independent film, emotional, tense
Plot:
prison escape, civil rights, activism, interracial relations, biopic, social justice, revolutionary, black panthers, interview, moral ambiguity, fugitive, media coverage ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
cuba, harlem, new jersey
Similarity:
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537
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style:
tense, serious, sincere, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
racism, vandalism, violence, interracial relations, police investigation, uncover truth, murder, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, racial tension, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, africa, canada
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Style:
tense, historical drama, realistic, intense, political ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom, riot, injustice, social commentary, trial, violence, lawyer, defense attorney, civil rights, corruption, racial tension ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On August 12th, 1967, in Montana's Glacier National Park, the unthinkable happened: On the same night, nine miles apart, there were not one-but two-fatal grizzly bear attacks.
Style:
tension, tense, suspense, historical drama, independent film
Plot:
man versus nature, grizzly bear, isolation, danger, wilderness, survival, predator, trauma, panic, investigation, ranger, national park ...
Time:
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Place:
montana
Similarity:
57%
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Country: Canada
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
winnipeg
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, educational, f word
Plot:
air disaster, thunderstorm, plane crash, grief, survivor, investigation, rescue attempt, aviation, airplane crash, disaster, crash, airplane accident ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
dallas texas, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Similarity:
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Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, tension, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teenager, fatal accident, school, accident, trauma, grief, tragedy, guilt, social problems, political unrest, politics, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
Style:
period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, historical drama, tense, political drama, tragic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four best friends, Yong-bi, Ji-gong, Sang-woo and Doo-man who just turned twenty and just came of age took the road to Pohang, a small city near the beach—since one of the friends, Sang-woo, is enlisting in the marine corps the day after. On the ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea
Similarity:
48%
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512
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
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110
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM ...
Style:
political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
conspiracy, controversy, power struggle, corruption, political corruption, covert operation, espionage, true crime, investigation, international law, smuggling, coup d'etat ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual assault, true crime, fugitive, biopic, convict, investigation, trial, justice, courtroom, legal battle, media coverage ...
Time:
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Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Style:
historical drama, political, inspirational, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
apartheid, racial segregation, biopic, racial injustice, prison, civil rights, activism, legacy, human rights, resilience, leadership, reconciliation ...
Time:
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Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pesticide, mourning, loss, poisoning, tragedy, trauma, grief, redemption, healing, small town, family conflict, public health ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a 12-year-old boy escapes from the home he's been raised in by a popular parent influencer, police discover that viral fame was a cover for a house of horrors.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
child abuse, trauma, true crime, betrayal of trust, police investigation, coercion, manipulation, investigation, escape, isolation, small town, interview ...
Similarity:
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