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Retaliation (2017)
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Original name: Romans
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, psychological thriller, crying, f word
Plot:
male rape victim, sex scene, male nudity, childhood trauma, trauma, revenge, bare butt, haunted by the past, boy, rage, storytelling, traumatized man, pedophile priest, male rape, hot and sexy, dark past, fight, psychopath, priest, child abuse, brutality, borderline personality disorder, confession, self mutilation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, serious, disturbing and realistic films with plots about violence, blood, sex, murder, nude, nudity and male nudity mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Retaliation: The Secrets We Keep (2020), The Mauritanian (2021), Red White & Blue (2010), The King (2005), The War Zone (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is ...
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Duration: 98 min.
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Time:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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36%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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502
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Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Similarity:
35%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Audience:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Duration: 96 min.
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Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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