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Everything about Mustafa (2004)
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Everything about Mustafa (2004)
Original name: Mustafa Hakkında Her Şey
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, art house, exciting, realistic, non-linear, tense
Plot: taxi driver, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, investigation, who to trust, kidnapping, cheating wife, confined, disorder, past, hospital, cemetery, car accident, funeral, male full rear nudity, death of wife, flashback, sex in car, firefly, human nature, kidnapped man, brother murders brother, crying woman, urinating on someone, flashbacks ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, life turned upside down, danger, kidnapping, investigation, life is a bitch and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Everything about Mustafa: Final Recourse (2013), Ghosted (2011), Rapt (2009), Everything Will Be Fine (2010), Blood and Ties (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Final Recourse (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Ghosted (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
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Place: europe, england
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Rapt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, paris france
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Everything Will Be Fine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers.Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: uncover truth, chase, dishonesty, state affairs, life turned upside down, disorder, obsession, eye, on the road, nordic, on the run, chases and races ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Avalon (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nicole Lauker unexpectedly loses her husband to a boating explosion accident that claims the lives of two people. An FBI investigation sparks speculation that it may not have been an accident after all.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Tucked Away (2007)
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
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In Bar (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
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Place: turkey
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Innocence (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious felony. Innocence is hard to prove, especially when in desperation to try to save oneself, we sacrifice ...
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Duration: 96 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, tense ...
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Blame (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
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Place: australia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: One of the greatest conspiracies of all time, and one lone man is trying to uncover it.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
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Place: france, barcelona, spain
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Leave (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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Fog and Night (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
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Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Captive (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological thriller, serious
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, danger, captivity, rescue, journalist, hostage, murder, muslim, religion, military, jungle ...
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Place: the philippines, asia
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The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Key (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: parents and children, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, estrangement, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, investigation, murder, dead father, prostitute, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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