Movies with driving vibe

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Immersive Fast-paced Stylish Intense Oppressive

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Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

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Loyalty vs ambition, Creative ambition under constraint, Fame under pressure, Public image vs authenticity, Media scrutiny and rumor, Sexual identity conflict

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Relentless Fast-paced

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When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

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Survival under pressure, Pandemic outbreak, Survival horror, Group hostility under stress, Ethical responsibility in chaos, Betrayal and trust under crisis

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Relentless Oppressive

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A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

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Isolation and vulnerability, Deception under duress, Survival through quick decisions, Home as trap, Lip-reading as leverage, Stalking and siege dynamics

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Realistic Claustrophobic Deliberate Intense Measured

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Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.

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Class inequality, Deception in performance, Racial stigma, Spectacle and exploitation, Fame versus marginalization, Power imbalance in entertainment

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Dry Deliberate Stylish Intense Measured

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Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.

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Artistic pretension and hypocrisy, Bourgeois expectations and performance, Deception and social image, Gendered artistry and expectations, Surrealism in performance, Teacher-student dynamic in singing

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Brutal Relentless

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Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

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Loyalty under threat, Childhood under siege, Survival through violence, Dehumanization in war, Militia recruitment and coercion, Trauma and withdrawal

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Tense Dry Deliberate Clinical Slow-burn

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One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.

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Health risk of sugar, Perceived healthy foods, Bliss point manipulation, Food industry influence, Experimental dieting, Public health implications

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Realistic Intimate Procedural Minimalist Measured

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Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the interesting turns and travails of the improbable saga of John Maloof's discovery of Vivian Maier, unravelling this mysterious tale through her documentary films, photographs, odd collections and personal accounts from the people that knew her. What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book and this documentary film.

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Undiscovered talent through photography, Street photography in public view, Posthumous recognition via art exhibition, Archival discovery and preservation, Collector access through discovery, Biography of unseen work

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Realistic Dry Deliberate Clinical Minimalist

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Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

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Military school discipline, Chosen one pressure, War strategy ethics, Alien invasion resilience, Child prodigy isolation, Starship duty conflicts

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Realistic Tense Intimate Dry Restrained

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Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

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Loyalty and betrayal, Loneliness and longing, Resistance against dictatorship, Romance under political risk, Pursuit of meaning, Memory and inquiry

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