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Villain (2010)
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Villain (2010)
Original name: 悪人
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shimizu Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino (Mitsushima Hikari) who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo (Okada Masaki), berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense, psychological thriller, heavy, serious, gloomy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, murder, couples, socially awkward woman, misfit, social misfits, romancing a suspect, young, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love affair, murder, couple relations and society mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Villain: Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008), Your Next Life (2004), Salvo (2013), Swann (1996), Tajomaru: Avenging Blade (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: High school student Jung-Won (Cha Ye-Ryeon]) works at an amusement park, dressed up as Dragon cartoon character. Then one day, a guy, standing among his friends, twists her dragon mask around, causing her to fall flat on her back. Shortly ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, asia
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Your Next Life (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and another fearful of arrest. He and his daughter Val conspire to keep the cause of death quiet, but ...
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Salvo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house to eliminate a man, he discovers Rita, a young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. Salvo tries to close those ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, mafia, gang war, blind girl, murder, danger, fall in love, couples, blind woman, mobster, gay, assassin ...
Time: 21st century
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Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
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Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
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Tajomaru: Avenging Blade (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures ...
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Plot: save the kingdom, rivalry, escapades, medieval, heroes, martial arts, bandit, revenge, danger, woods, murder, love and romance ...
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Place: japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
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Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
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Last Chance Cafe (2006)
Genre: Crime, Family, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After uncovering evidence that her stepfather was murdered by her D.A. ex-husband and a ring of corrupt cops, a young woman is forced to flee with her daughter. She winds up hiding in a small, rural town, and things take a turn for the better when ...
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Plot: danger, on the run, fall in love, small town, farm, murder, corrupt cop, couples, chases and races, woman in danger, dishonesty, love and romance
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Place: usa
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Mystery (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
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Plot: infidelity, double life, dishonesty, car accident, uncover truth, murder, danger, couples, affair, accident, flashback, police investigation ...
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Blue (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo. Kayako Kirishima of the third year at a high ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, romantic drama
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Duration: 98 min.
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Another Life (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love ...
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The Sea Is Watching (2002)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
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Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
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