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Buried Alive (1990)
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Buried Alive (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money. Only trouble the drug overdose they give him doesn't kill him. Lucky for Clint he's buried in a cheap wooden box and he unburies himself. Just remember, Hell hath no fury like a man buried alive!
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, slasher, atmospheric, classic horror, spooky, nostalgic
Plot: buried alive, poison, poisoning, betrayal, infidelity, lethal injection, revenge, love affair, rottweiler, investigation, vengeance, survival, killer, supernatural, cheating wife, wench, extramarital affair, heart attack, stalking, couples, rivalry, family problems, mind game, confined, overdose ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: persia, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, dishonesty, danger, deadly, couples, infidelity and investigation mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Buried Alive: An Unfinished Affair (1996), Premature Burial (1962), What Lies Beneath (2000), Forever Mine (1999), The Killing Time (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Buried Alive II (1997)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't ...
Style: classic horror, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: vengeance, couples, love and romance, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, love triangle, infidelity, murder, revenge, adulterous husband, niece ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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An Unfinished Affair (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: erotica, love, infidelity, affair, unfaithful husband, terminal illness, love affair, power relations, couples, dishonesty, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Premature Burial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style: gothic horror, psychological, bleak, gothic, slasher ...
Plot: obsession, tomb, fear, edgar allan poe, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, buried alive, cemetery, mental illness, wedding, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, persia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Forever Mine (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, haunted by the past, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, murder, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: florida, new york, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Killing Time (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, frame up, small town, disorder, investigation, hidden identity, mistaken identity, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, love triangle, small town life ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: california, usa
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Coffin (2011)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, detective ...
Plot: survival, confined, twists and turns, danger, save the day, on the run, wrestling, chases and races, buried alive, race against time, mysterious character, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sister, Sister (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A congressional aide (Eric Stoltz) explores an old Louisiana mansion two kooky sisters (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey) run as a guest house.
Style: independent film, sex comedy, gothic horror, southern gothic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: swamp, murder, redneck, mental illness, ghost, psychopath, siblings relations, deep south, erotica, exploitation, family relations, peeping ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Choose (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
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Across the Hall (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Convinced that his fiancee is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
Style: neo noir, realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
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Duration: 113 min.
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Style: tense, sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, homecoming, social relations, unlikely criminals, manipulation, small town life, under the surface, small town, dishonesty, murder, love and romance ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blood Simple (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, independent film, tense ...
Audience: manly, date night
Plot: murder, private detective, murder mystery, extramarital affair, adultery, crime gone awry, twists and turns, hired killer, betrayal, investigation, moral ambiguity, gunfight ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, obsession ...
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A Kiss to Die For (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: erotic, psychological, realistic, sexy, mind bending ...
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 3.6
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed before marrying attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins). He plans to kill her to resolve the ...
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The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted ...
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Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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Deceiver (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
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Place: usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Nightwaves (2003)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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N-Secure (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: N-Secure is a no holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals. This film sheds light on a man's downfall from the pinnacles of success into the depths of his damaged character. His ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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