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The Philanthropist (2009)
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The Philanthropist (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Philanthropist is an American action drama series that premiered on NBC on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The program was a limited summer series, principally filmed in South Africa. It opened to strong ratings, but saw a drop in viewers in subsequent weeks. The Philanthropist is a Carnival Films production in association with The Levinson/Fontana Company and Original Media. Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Peter Horton, Charlie Corwin, Gareth Neame, and Teri Weinberg served as executive producers. On October 21, 2009, the series was canceled by NBC. Fans attempts to keep the show on the air using Facebook and a charitable cause called "Save The Philanthropist through Charity" were unsuccessful.
Style: feel good, serious, contemplative, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: rescue, danger, haunted by the past, self discovery, treatment, loss of child, selflessness, disorder, ex couple relations, hopes, billionaire, rich man, good deed, society, goodhearted, redemption, social activist, idealism, hotshot, life turned upside down, dedication, traveler, hebrew, show
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films and TV series with plots about danger, hopes, disorder, family relations, society, life turned upside down and heroes mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Philanthropist: High Mountain Rangers (1987), One Bad Choice (2015), Chosen (2013), I Am (2010), Off the Map (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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High Mountain Rangers (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: High Mountain Rangers was a weekly television series about a group of highly trained wilderness search and rescue/law enforcement officers in Tahoe, Nevada. It starred Robert Conrad as Jesse Hawkes and also starred his two sons, Christian Conrad ...
Audience: kids
Plot: rescue team, mountain, rescue, forest ranger, police, search and rescue, wilderness, family relations
Place: nevada
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One Bad Choice (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: How one bad decision can change where your life goes.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: life turned upside down, redemption, juvenile delinquent, hopes, haunted by the past, unlikely criminals, twists and turns, life, reenactment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
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Chosen (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen ...
Style: serious, realistic, teen, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, mind game, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, disorder, danger, family in danger, who to trust, rivalry, chases and races, torture, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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39%
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I Am (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, society, religions or cults, unfulfillment, police, journalist, inheritance, cryogenics, faith, hopes, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Off the Map (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: La Ciudad de las Estrellas, a tiny town in the South American jungle, is home to an understaffed, understocked medical clinic where three idealistic doctors come looking for change.
Style: medical drama, sincere, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nurse, doctor, doctors and patients, medical, patient, workplace, idealism, surgery, career, love and romance, cure, clinic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, latin america
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33%
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Trauma (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco City Hospital is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their victims in time. From the heights of the city's Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San ...
Style: medical drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: rescue, paramedic, medical, hospital, doctor, partner, workplace situations, workplace, coworker, determination, team, responsibility ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Cleaner (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: addiction, belief, rescue, hopes, going straight, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Hiding (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In order to survive, Lincoln Swift must take his family into witness protection and give evidence against his former employer, vicious crime boss Nils Vandenberg. With new names and fresh identities, the Swifts are ripped from their Gold Coast home ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: witness protection, family in danger, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, life turned upside down, master criminal, hopes, dishonesty, parents and children, family relations, starting over, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Book of Jer3miah (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, accepts the undertaking to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box. When Jeremiah's parents are mysteriously murdered, Jeremiah learns that he is the target of a frightening conspiracy. Every facet of his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: conspiracy, chase, riddles and clues, life turned upside down, young heroes, uncover truth, religions or cults, heroic mission, destiny, heroes, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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31%
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Flipper (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Flipper, is an American revival television series of the original 1964 Flipper television series. The first two seasons aired in first-run syndication; seasons 3 and 4 aired on the PAX network. The 1995 version brought back Bud Ricks as a scientist ...
Style: feel good, realistic, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ocean, rescue, family relations, danger, escapades, friendship, animal actor, animal, investigation, beach, heartwarming, creature ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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CHAOS (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A comedic drama about a group of rogue CIA spies in the Office of Disruptive Services (ODS), who combat threats to national security amidst bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting.
Style: realistic, semi serious, thrilling, humorous
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, national security, secret agent, law enforcement, against the rules, workplace, state affairs, disorder, working undercover, danger, top secret, new job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Cape (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: "The Cape" is a drama series following Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife Dana and son, Trip. Fueled ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero, secret identity, fighting crime, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, undercover, frame up, superpower, circus, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
American Odyssey (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: military, twists and turns, uncover truth, violent content, corporate crime, dishonesty, left to die, spy, family relations, state affairs, society, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Raven (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Raven is an American TV series
Style: detective, suspenseful, humorous, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: ninja, martial arts, vigilante, revenge, ex special forces, special forces, private detective, secret movement, rivalry, missing child, heroes, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Jekyll and Hyde (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde is set in 1930s London and follows Robert Jekyll, the grandson of Henry Jekyll, on his quest to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: split personality, superhuman powers, self discovery, transformation, double life, anti hero, heroes, experiment gone awry, danger, escapades, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 1930s, 19th century, 20th century, victorian era
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Ben Hur (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: About the struggle between the Roman Empire and its rebellious conquest Judaea, and two best friends caught in a terrible moment in history.
Style: captivating, rough, exciting, epic, historical drama ...
Plot: ancient history, roman empire, betrayal, rebellion, vengeance, military, rivalry, danger, slavery, state affairs, political unrest, society ...
Time: 1st century
Place: jerusalem, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.5
 503
Moving On (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: introspection, starting over, parents and children, optimism, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, couple relations, redemption, hopes, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Cult (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story: The Cult is a New Zealand serial drama television series in which a group of people try to rescue their loved ones from a mysterious cult called Two Gardens. The Cult held the 8:30-9:30 spot on TV2 in New Zealand. The series debuted in New Zealand ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: rescue, secret movement, danger, confined, family relations, isolation, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, couples, rivalry, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997–1999 The show was about an elite team who performed "unofficial" missions for the US Government. During the first season, the ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex soldier, spy, mission, military, tough heroes, soldier, fighting crime, escapades, partners against crime, heroes, danger, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Agent X (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, spy, heroic mission, politics, state affairs, undercover, vice president, heroes, conspiracy, strong female presence, daughter
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Copper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: law enforcement, fighting crime, gunfight, american civil war, power struggle, ex military, society, priest, african american, racial slur, black american, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Hysteria (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An investigative thriller about a haunted young doctor who is summoned back to her hometown to investigate an epidemic that may be linked to social media - and her own tragic past.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: plague, investigation, computers and web, haunted by the past, youth, danger, doctors and patients, hospital, society, social relations, supernatural, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 8.0
 64K
Chicago Fire (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: firefighter, rescue, fire brigade, fire department, emergency, paramedic, responsibility, danger, life risking, lifesaver, chief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Zatoichi monogatari (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: zatoichi, handicapped, ronin, martial arts, one man army, danger, attempted murder, heroes, escapades, wise man, village, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
In the Beginning (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
TV show
Story: Biblical tales from the books of Genesis and Exodus, including the stories of Abraham's devotion and Joseph's betrayal.
Style: biblical, christian film, captivating, serious, semi serious ...
Plot: bible, moses, heroic mission, religions or cults, human spirit, miraculous event, danger, rescue, redemption, state affairs, hopes, imaginary ...
Place: middle east, egypt, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 229
Counterstrike (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, 007, crime fighter, espionage, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, vengeance, fighting crime, private detective ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 9K
Hunted (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.
Style: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
Plot: female spy, agent as target, who to trust, betrayal, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, haunted by the past, squad, woman with a gun, apocalypse, badass ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Go with Peace Jamil (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is ...
Style: contemplative, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: chase, social relations, introspection, society, rivalry, immigrant, gangster, profanity, death wish, disorder, danger, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Mysterious Island (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot: ocean, manipulation, friends, disorder, wise man, mind game, mysterious character, leadership, danger, escapades, survival, uncover truth ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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