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Dossier K. (2009)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, detective, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
police detective, mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, murder, law enforcement, gangster, mob boss, chases and races, urban, partner, partners against crime, uninhibited rivalry, violent content, graphic violence, hollywood, deadly, mob, crime, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
belgium, antwerp, europe, albania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about rivalry, danger, murder, deadly, law enforcement, gangster and vengeance mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dossier K.: The Loner (1987), The Memory of a Killer (2003), The Ministers (2009), Women of Mafia 2 (2019), Black Ransom (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Story:
A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo (Fala Chen) decides to recruit the help of Mann (Simon Yam), a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he ...
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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543
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, korea
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
south korea, asia, korea
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Story:
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