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Themes labels used: capital punishment, morality, ethics, justice, moral dilemma, innocence and guilt, accountability, wrongful conviction, legal responsibility, truth and evidence, free will, grief, choice, consequences, hypocrisy, public opinion
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A police chief behind a future-crime system discovers he is slated to commit murder and must outrun his own prediction.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · fate · predestination · moral responsibility · state power · justice · civil liberties · surveillance · innocence · ethics of punishment · human rights · institutional abuse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1051
An amnesiac teen becomes the apprentice of a supernatural judge who punishes wrongdoing through terrifying games.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice · morality · good and evil · bullying · consequences · guilt · repentance · judgment · choice · human cruelty · suicide · balance · revenge
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1079
In a near-future justice system, a psychiatrist uncovers a flaw in a rehabilitation program that may let murderers slip through.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice · rehabilitation · punishment · morality · ethics · revenge · crime and punishment · privacy · social control · trauma · addiction · poverty · capitalism · human rights · corruption · dehumanization · vigilantism · psychology · brain science · free will
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1130
A bitter leper is pulled into a magical world where he’s expected to save it, while refusing to believe it’s real.
Why this is here
Themes labels: guilt · redemption · consequences · self-loathing · self-responsibility · reality versus illusion · ethical responsibility · morality · pain · loss · tragedy · despair · depression · free will · social contract · crime and punishment · belief and unbelief · identity · paradox · human spirit · good versus evil · repentance · shame · sacrifice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1208
A hardboiled Nightside P.I. must stop an unstoppable divine enforcer before judgment wipes out the whole city.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice · morality · good vs evil · gray morality · judgment · revenge · religious faith · fanaticism · redemption · mercy · power and corruption · free will · punishment · blind faith
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1215
A covert mutant kill-team hunts a resurrected Apocalypse, only to face a brutal moral choice when their target is a child.
Why this is here
Themes labels: morality · redemption · violence · guilt · choice · duty · identity · preemptive justice · ends justify means · loss of humanity · revenge · mercy · free will · childhood and evil
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1232
A violent youth is forced through a state reform experiment, raising questions about free will, morality, and control.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · evil · morality · violence · juvenile delinquency · punishment · reform · brainwashing · government power · social injustice · societal control · ethics · choice versus coercion · human nature · good and evil · retribution · identity · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1238
A lawyer gets a second chance in space as a judge-and-executioner, where law, action, and moral choices collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice · law and morality · punishment · consequences · corruption · duty · self-worth · redemption · responsibility · truth · leadership
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1252
An 18-year-old death row inmate joins a reality show where America votes on who lives, who dies, and who gets a second chance.
Why this is here
Themes labels: capital punishment · justice system · race · racial injustice · poverty · neglect · trauma · forgiveness · mercy · freedom · redemption · humanity · forgiveness vs punishment · moral ambiguity · social inequality · bullying · colorism · fatphobia · body shaming · state violence · family · belonging · empathy · propaganda · media exploitation · entertainment ethics · nature vs nurture · youth culpability · rehabilitation · second chances
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1258
After a war, the Green Lantern Corps faces new laws, new colors of power, and a rage-fueled enemy on the rise.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice · ethics · capital punishment · rage · hope · fear · willpower · corruption · power and responsibility · moral ambiguity · leadership · vengeance · institutional overreach
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1273
A dark anthology returns to a dystopian world, revisiting old wounds, new angles, and possible futures.
Why this is here
Themes labels: morality · ethics · humanity · body autonomy · social control · power · privilege · class inequality · institutional cruelty · identity · coming of age · justice · revenge · sacrifice · fear · hope · grief · trauma · choice · consequence · moral dilemma · human worth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1296
On a crowded ferry, Eve Dallas investigates a blood-soaked disappearance that turns into a race against time and conscience.
Why this is here
Themes labels: justice vs law · morality · right and wrong · grey areas · revenge · truth and concealment · duty · ethics · trauma · memory
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1307
