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Comes a Bright Day (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending, dark comedy, interesting
Plot:
wrong place wrong time, confined, love and romance, fall in love, chases and races, danger, disorder, twists and turns, woman in danger, forced into action, urban, armed robbery, hostage situation, robbery, heist, coercion, cat and mouse, escape attempt, master criminal, hostage, violent content, graphic violence, british humour, hostages, crimes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, chases and races, confined, violent content, rivalry, graphic violence and hostage mostly in Thriller, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Comes a Bright Day: Crisis Point (2012), Surveillance 24/7 (2007), Bullet Train (2012), Daylight Robbery (2008), Banshee (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, michigan, detroit
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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Country: UK, India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a set of Indians, fighting to get what is their own, while another set of Indians working for the Scotland Yard Police chase them hard to stop them from spreading terror. The film in entirety has been been shot in London, ...
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
airport, hostage, bank, gang, isolation, chase, rivalry, cons and scams, police officer, siege, hostage situation, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, london, england, europe, monaco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
british secret service, espionage, terrorism, undercover, female spy, danger, love and romance, dishonesty, secret agent, terrorist attack, syrian war, profanity ...
Time:
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Place:
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65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, illinois
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62%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, China, Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, fall in love, fugitives, love and romance, ocean, ship, isolation, moral ambiguity, suspicion, loneliness, slow burn ...
Place:
poland, china, asia
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62%
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686
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, survival, haunted by the past, danger, confined, criminal heroes, twists and turns, prison life, prison fight, prison rape, supernatural, strong violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, england
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60%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, suspense, disturbing, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
life turned upside down, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, escapades, danger, manhunt, chase, disorder, intrigue, weapons, war in afghanistan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
60%
443
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
syria, middle east
Similarity:
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969
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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604
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Venezuela
Duration: 100 min.
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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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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283
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
dangerous attraction, police investigation, obsession, danger, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, fall in love, mentally unstable, couple relations, stalking, female stalker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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