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Court of Lonely Royals (2006)
169
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of disaffected twenty-somethings occupy a dystopic, hyper-urban Australia. They spend their time eating udon noodles, listening to Swedish pop music and committing mass executions for the police.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot:
life is a bitch, vengeance, rivalry, society, danger, estrangement, hitman, destiny, dystopia, dystopian future, drug use, gang bang, prostitute, prostitution, distopia, lovers on the run, explicit sex, deadly, crimes, future dystopia
Time:
future
Place:
asia, hong kong
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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 rivalry, danger, deadly, murder, life is a bitch, vengeance and society mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Court of Lonely Royals: Blame (2010), Race Against Time (2000), Wide Awake (2007), One on One (2014), The Insurgents (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
690
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, suspenseful, bleak, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, assassination attempt, injustice, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, vigilante, revenge, assassination plot, postman, suicide, isolated house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hospital, on the run, race against time, chase, rivalry, fugitives, danger, self sacrifice, father son relationship, terminator, star wars, organ transplant ...
Time:
future
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, hospital, doctors and patients, investigation, childhood trauma, murder, killer, surgery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, danger, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, lovers, terrorist group, investigation, suspect, group of friends, high school student, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, danger, society, vengeance, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) is a Professor in Urdu literature in Dr. Zakir Hussain's College. He resides in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife, Roma Mathur (Shefali Shah). Professor Mathur comes across a young boy called Numair Qazi (Anurag ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorism, recruitment, hidden identity, danger, introspection, society, police, bomb, working undercover, rivalry, escapades, terrorist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new delhi, india, asia
Similarity:
23%
570
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, heavy ...
Plot:
gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, down on your luck, life is a bitch, danger, society, gay, gangster, disorder, dangerous animal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, working class, social decay, society, workplace, injustice, factory worker, factory, danger, rivalry, friendship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangster, introspection, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, assassin ...
Place:
usa, cuba, florida, new york, miami
Similarity:
22%
511
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, terrorism, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, murder, terrorist, propaganda ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a small, wooded town, a young man struggles to leave a secret militia started by his father.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
militia, small town, injustice, vigilantism, society, father son relationship, guilt, execution, good versus evil, guilty verdict, murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
slum, fighting crime, working undercover, drug dealing, danger, undercover, race against time, urban ghetto, society, law enforcement, trapped, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, heroes, vengeance, profanity, shootout ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This atmospheric, violent thriller revolves around a hitman called Kyoji who has just killed his lover, Seiko. She was the wife of Kyoji’s boss, Wiwat, who, when he heard about the affair, hired his rival to murder the unfaithful Seiko. Kyoji ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
betrayal, chases and races, hitman, single parent, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, adultery, accidental killing, shark, murder of a nude woman, outsider ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During Gorbachev's perestroika, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a precious icon.
Style:
captivating, cynical, suspense, entertaining, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, sex, danger, escapades, dishonesty, culture clash, life is a bitch, rivalry, violence, betrayal, friendship, spy ...
Time:
year 1992, 80s
Place:
ussr, russia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Greed, lust and anger collide and threaten to rip apart the lives of two disparate women on the run to seek refuge. Vidiyum Munn explores the darker side of life and the emotional imbalance it can create in the hearts of those who succumb to it.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
child in peril, on the run, hopes, life is a bitch, youth, prostitute, danger, redemption, gangster, chance, strong female presence, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, tense, bleak
Plot:
jungle, life is a bitch, boy, adultery, rivalry, society, friendship, family relations, deforestation, destiny, parents and children, danger ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
20%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, clergy, who done it, danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, rivalry, society, teachers and students, boarding school, school ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, conspiracy, sex trafficking, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, estrangement, identity, violence, revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, rivalry, hotel, danger, professional killer, murder, assassin, martial arts, woman with a gun, killer, chinese mafia, triad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After an alcohol induced blacked-out night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he attempts to redeem himself to her she must decide whether or not she will take him back as her mother, Angela, continuously ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
hitman, siblings relations, crime gone awry, danger, disorder, revenge, brutality, mental illness, life is a bitch, abusive relationship, domestic violence, marital abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The serenity of another quiet evening is shattered for an amateur photographer when a desperate woman takes refuge in his humble suburban home. Reluctantly, he is pulled into a cat and mouse game with her pursuers. Only dawn will reveal the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
chase, on the run, danger, mysterious character, rivalry, suburbs, revenge, murder, pursuit, chases and races, vengeance, unlikely partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, vigilantism, hospital, store, revenge, murder, abduction, paralysis, investigation, danger, twins, wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, obsession, redemption, murder, poverty, journey, rivalry, danger, life is a bitch, hopes, chases and races, mountain ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ageing hit man, Harry, has just botched a job and is now the target. His daughter is also in the assassin trade and is now a target too. A young hit man called Billy is sent to take Harry out but they form an uneasy alliance...
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, rough ...
Plot:
killer, hitman, professional killer, rivalry, family relations, danger, partner, parents and children, terminal illness, contract killer, save the day, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, violence, vengeance, friendship, heroes, redemption ...
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19%
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