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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
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Original name: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
Style:
atmospheric, meditative, art house, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal, lyrical, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot:
police investigation, murder, twists and turns, suspense, brutality, isolation, road trip, character study, forensics, law enforcement, everyday life, introspection, existentialism, survival, catastrophe, serial killer, doctors, psychology, nature, winter, dark humor, loneliness, police officer, investigation, macabre ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out talky, enigmatic, thought provoking and cerebral films with plots about runaway, storytelling, dialogue, pornography, obsession, murder and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: The American Friend (1977), Distant (2002), The Element of Crime (1984), A Pure Formality (1994), A Short Film About Killing (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 108 min.
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Onoff (Depardieu,) is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski,) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 84 min.
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Duration: 93 min.
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: South Korea
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