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Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Valentine's Day, 1900. Three schoolgirls and their governess mysteriously disappear in Hanging Rock, Australia, without a trace.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, mysterious, period piece, art film, costume drama, historical drama ...
Plot: mysterious disappearance, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, investigation, disappearance, supernatural, unsolved mystery, power relations, teachers and students, suicide, tragedy, orphan, friendship between girls, wilderness, teenager, lesbian, magical, lgbt, boarding school, aspiration, folklore, murder of a woman, woman killed, forest, friendship ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1900, 19th century, 20th century
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, psychological and serious films and TV series with plots about costume, family relations, lesbian, investigation, power relations, secret and society mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Picnic at Hanging Rock: Losing Alice (2020), And Then There Were None (2015), Rebecca (1997), The Cry (2018), Cracks (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style: scenic, atmospheric, surreal, stylized, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, unsolved mystery, coming of age, adolescence, sexuality, boarding school life, private school, folk horror, wilderness, surrealism ...
Time: 1900s, year 1900, victorian era, near future, edwardian era ...
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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Losing Alice (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 381 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Alice, an ambitious 47 year old female film director who becomes obsessed with 24 year old femme-fatale Sophie and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance.
Style: psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: ambitious woman, sex scene, seductress, older woman younger woman relationship, film industry, female protagonist, mysterious disappearance, female nudity, manipulative woman, mind game, femme fatale, lesbian ...
Place: israel
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And Then There Were None (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, island, isolation, plot twist, murder, survival, investigation, bully comeuppance, trapped, accusation, death ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: britain, united kingdom, europe, england
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Rebecca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an ...
Style: gothic, stylized, tense, psychological, realistic ...
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The Cry (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 231 min.
TV show
Story: The disappearance of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young couple as they deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and behind ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, compassionate, tense ...
Plot: missing child, desperation, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, uncover truth, saving a life, husband wife relationship, female warrior, accusation, child in peril, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Place: australia, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cracks (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, serious, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, obsession, lesbian, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, lesbian love, boarding school life, lesbian interest, asthma, teenage crush, teenage girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style: costume drama, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
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Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Last Thing He Told Me (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 275 min.
TV show
Story: A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
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Duration: 180 min.
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Story: Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. The unannounced arrival of Elizabeths wayward sister Lydia, however, brings an abrupt and shocking halt ...
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Audience: girls' night
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Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, georgian era, 18th century ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
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TV show
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Style: captivating, costume drama, sincere, period piece, historical drama ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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TV show
Story: This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, realistic, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Vanishing Triangle (2023)
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Duration: 250 min.
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Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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TV show
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26%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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25%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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TV show
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