Movies with clinical vibe

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Realistic Tense Dry Clinical Intense

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Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

Themes

Media scrutiny, Leadership under pressure, Political scandal, Political ambition vs personal cost, Private life vs public life, Public perception and accountability

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Realistic Tense Raw Claustrophobic Bleak

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Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Themes

Survival under oppression, Duty under risk, Memory against erasure, Evidence through photography, Witness to atrocities

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Tense Brutal Atmospheric Procedural Clinical

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After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

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Deception and betrayal, Crime syndicate power, Abusive family dynamics, Vigilantism vs institutions, Sisterly ties and rivalry, Reliance on technology

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Immersive Tense Claustrophobic Dry Clinical

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A scientist becomes obsessed with returning his family to normalcy after a terrible accident.

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Obsession vs family, Authenticity of mind, Military exploitation of science, Memory manipulation consequences, Deception in research, Bioethics under pressure

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Realistic Tense Dry Clinical Satirical

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When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

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Economic precarity, Risk and consequence, Gendered power dynamics, Forgery and authenticity, Deception ethics, Reputation vs reality

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Tense Procedural Clinical Fast-paced Intense

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Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground to prevent a war.

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Leadership under pressure, Trust across loyalties, Military coup dynamics, War avoidance tension, Political conspiracy, Covert operations under threat

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Realistic Tense Bleak Clinical Minimalist

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After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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Family dynamics under pressure, Parental responsibility versus autonomy, Drug addiction cycle, Rehab as a path to stability, Search for personal identity, Generational impact of addiction

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Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Clinical Relentless

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A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

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Deception and manipulation, Vigilante justice, Trauma and memory, Kidnapping and coercion, Moral ambiguity of law, Grief driven vengeance, Forensic ethics under stress

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Realistic Deliberate Clinical Relentless Minimalist

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A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

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Risk management under pressure, Grief-driven perseverance, Duty over personal life, Professional loyalty and sacrifice, Obsession with the mission, Public scrutiny vs private life

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Realistic Claustrophobic Bleak Deliberate Clinical

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When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.

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Moral ambiguity of justice, Small-town paranoia, Obsessive investigation, Child abuse consequences, Evidence tracing tension, Mistrust of authorities

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