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Illusion (2022)
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Original name: Iluzja
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, bleak, serious, dramatic, disturbing, tense, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, missing child, mysterious disappearance, missing girl, private investigation, reality versus fantasy, obsession, female protagonist, grief, memory, isolation, paranoia, delusion, symbolism, slow burn, transcendence, urban, single parent, mother, disappearance ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, melancholic, psychological and emotional films with plots about grief, obsession, isolation, investigation, female protagonist, slow burn and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Illusion: Heaven in Hell (2023), The Punishment (2022), Noise (2022), The Awakening of Lilith (2021), The Return (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 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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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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353
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: China
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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49%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
new york
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
852
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 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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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
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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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 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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Country: USA
Duration: 110 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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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Story:
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