Movies with clinical vibe

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Realistic Tense Intimate Bleak Clinical

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Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

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Caregiving under crisis, Activism under pressure, Tensions within movements, Pharmaceutical ethics and transparency, Public protest vs negotiation, Identity and community in crisis

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Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Dry Clinical

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In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

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Political manipulation, Population control ethics, Secret identities under policy, State surveillance and secrecy, Institutional betrayal, Family secrecy and risk

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Tense Raw Brutal Atmospheric Bleak

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A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

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State violence, Institutional bias, Racial injustice, Collective trauma, Police overreach, Civil unrest

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Tense Claustrophobic Clinical Relentless Fast-paced

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An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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Loyalty under pressure, Undercover deception, Surveillance and manipulation, Information warfare, Polarized loyalties, Covert alliances

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Tense Atmospheric Bleak Clinical Oppressive

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Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.

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Trust under threat, Amnesia-driven uncertainty, Co-dependency under pressure, Proximity danger, Police pursuit risk, Twin sister absence

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Restrained Clinical

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London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

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Crisis negotiation under pressure, Media influence during crisis, Military intervention vs diplomacy, Political leadership under crisis, Hostage dynamics and leverage

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Realistic Tense Atmospheric Procedural Dry

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Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.

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Power and influence, Moral ambiguity in justice, Systemic corruption, Witness manipulation, Blackmail economy, Police ethics under pressure

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Claustrophobic Bleak Dry Deliberate Clinical

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Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands.

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Child abuse dynamics, Single mother pressure, Protection vs accountability, Custody anxieties, Institutional friction, Moral responsibility shifts

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Immersive Tense Dynamic Claustrophobic Atmospheric

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Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

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Time manipulation ethics, Memory as reality, Corporate control of science, Confinement by technology, Overpopulation pressure, Government use of science

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Restrained Deliberate Clinical Measured High-pressure

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While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.

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Governance under pressure, State-sponsored doping, Ethics of science in sport, Whistleblower risk and protection, Accountability and oversight, Sports integrity under scrutiny

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