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Ivy (2015)
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Original name: Sarmaşık
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After months without pay, the already disgruntled crew on a Turkish cargo ship arrives in an Egyptian port and learns that the Port Authority is foreclosing on them. Ordered to anchor offshore, the remaining skeleton crew has their passports seized and must maintain the vessel until its owner’s debts are paid. Tensions quickly arise between the authoritarian Cypriot captain, his devoutly religious second-in-command, an affable cook, and a trio of newcomers to the ship—a pair of druggie ne’er-do-wells and the near-mute, hulking Kurd. As months pass, food and entertainment dwindle, alliances shift, and the men take out their raw frustration on one another.
Style:
realistic, captivating, rough, serious, art house, psychological, mind bending, surreal, weird
Plot:
ship, society, workplace intrigue, isolation, working class, confined, realism, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, mental disorder, survival, art, trapped, ocean, surrealism, nature, psychological drama, deadly
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about danger, confined, isolation, deadly, dishonesty, survival and workplace mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Ivy: Locked in a Room (2012), Watchtower (2012), Not Safe for Work (2014), Closed Curtain (2013), The Crew (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man, his dog, a young woman and a filmmaker in a house by the Caspian Sea. All three are wanted, but they are also in search of each other. Thus begins an absurd game in which reality and fiction merge.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, confined, danger, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, somalia
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73%
352
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
desert, soldier, survival, danger, isolation, confined, deathtrap, minefield, war in afghanistan, holocaust, landmine, trapped ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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295
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, suspense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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4K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, surreal, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, China, Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ...
Style:
captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, fall in love, fugitives, love and romance, ocean, ship, isolation, moral ambiguity, suspicion, loneliness, slow burn ...
Place:
poland, china, asia
Similarity:
45%
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