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Archangel (2005)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist bodyguard leads to the uncovering of one of the world's most dangerous and best kept secrets. He is led unwittingly through murder and intrigue towards his own personal "Holy Grail" - Joseph Stalin's secret legacy - a legacy that could change the face of Russian history forever.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sensual, epic, political, gloomy
Plot:
josef stalin, conspiracy, college professor, murder, murder witness, investigation, obsession, uncover truth, politics, soldier, missing person, intrigue, state affairs, life is a bitch, spy, cold war, journalist, historian, world war two, mysticism, espionage, conspiracy theory, 007, soviet spy, political intrigue ...
Time:
year 1953, contemporary
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
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Time:
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Place:
britain, england, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, noir, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: Spain, UK, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, France
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic
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Time:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, yale university
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
political thriller, political, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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