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The Executioner (2009)
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Original name: 집행자
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find that a cold-blooded colleague of his, Jong-ho, has some humane traits. Written by Pusan International Film Festival
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, dark, tension, grim, surreal
Plot:
prison, security guard, prison warden, execution, life is a bitch, prison life, problem, coworker, workplace, workplace situations, death penalty, confined, dehumanization, character study, violence, brutality, claustrophobia, isolation, humanity, jail cell, realism, moral ambiguity, survival, loneliness, sadism ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
korea, south korea
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 58 min.
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Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert are prison officers and colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison. Their work environment is raw and hostile, and their respective lives outside the prison walls are filled with conflict, secrets, and loneliness ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, trauma, amputation, laundry, kidnapping, illness, madness, insanity, character study, shame, identity crisis, delusion ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A prisoner soon has his guard questioning his own world-view.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, tension, intense, existential ...
Plot:
prisoner, security guard, prison, character study, power, confined, power struggle, claustrophobia, moral dilemma, isolation, identity, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
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190
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Spain, Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, grim ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
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164
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, dark, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
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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Duration: 86 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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Audience:
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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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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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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 103 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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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 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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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
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