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Games People Play (2019)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Three ambitious women navigate the highly competitive world of professional sports.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, detective
Plot:
gambling, marriage, game, money, police, investigation, college, murder, infidelity, escapades, rivalry, society, danger, friendship, youth, family relations, disorder, black cast, girl, black, rape, police officer, african american, black woman, instagram ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, sincere and psychological films and TV series with plots about society, friendship, rivalry, danger, escapades, youth and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Sport genres. Some movies like Games People Play: Dear White People (2017), Exit (2019), Beats (2019), The Chi (2018), The Usurper (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 45 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A humble young woman allows herself be manipulated by her twin sister to replace her so she can leave with another man.
Style:
sincere, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance.
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
chicago
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Duration: 261 min.
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Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
Style:
psychological, sincere, tense, suspense, disturbing
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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312
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, tense, humorous, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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The Black Family a once powerful respected family has lost power in the city of Jacksonville.11 years has past and now the city is controlled by 4 family's.Young Antonio must return to the city and reclaim the Black family's respect and ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, enigmatic, disturbing
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rivalry, vengeance, danger, organized crime, revenge, dishonesty, murder, betrayal, death, violence, friendship, culture clash ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 53 min.
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Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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An only child finds her life turned upside down when her father reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children, including two new sisters.
Style:
tense, psychological, sincere, disturbing, exciting
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Plot:
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sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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TV show
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23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
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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: 88 min.
Story:
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psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, love, rivalry, youth, escapades, society, adaptation, friendship, mentor, ambition, life is a bitch ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The police officers at South Korea's busiest patrol division toil day and night as keepers of law and peace -- but the reality is far from orderly.
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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TV show
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The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.
Style:
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Plot:
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