Movies like A Mere Mortal

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A Mere Mortal (1991)
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A Mere Mortal (1991)
Original name: Simple mortel
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
Plot: incest, game, hunter, suicide, taxi driver, psychotherapy, radio, car accident, basement, manipulation, linguist, attempted rape, telescope, mugging, father daughter incest, forced incest, heist, brake failure, tape recorder, parking lot, shot in the head, car radio, writing on a wall, talking to oneself in a mirror, talking to self in mirror ...

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Most similar movies to A Mere Mortal

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and independent film films with plots about murder, suicide, female nudity, car accident, dishonesty, danger and death mostly in Thriller genres. Some movies like A Mere Mortal: Body to Body (2003), The Nada Gang (1974), Nevermore (2007), Subway (1985), The Animal (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.0
 783
Body to Body (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up ...
Style: bleak
Plot: car accident, father, stripper, strip club, coma, child's point of view, striptease, police, male nudity, hospital, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Place: marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Nada Gang (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the ...
Style: political, erotic, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, anarchism, anarchist, hostage, kidnapping, countryside, terrorism, politics, scapegoat, nudity, surrender, french algerian war ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, post world war two
Place: paris france, europe, france, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 8.1
 210
Nevermore (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story: The movie stars Judd Nelson as a wealthy but unstable hermit who is convinced he will soon become insane much as his father did; his father actually did go insane and murdered Nelson's character's mother. He hires a private investigator ...
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: paranoia, car trunk, old friend, hospital, deception, train, car accident, failed marriage, suicide, bored housewife, college professor, sheriff ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.5
 16K
Subway (1985)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, neo noir ...
Plot: subway, gangster, train, fighting the system, chase, blackmail, love, murder, car chase, dystopia, hipster, alienation ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 7.0
 83
The Animal (1968)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A voyeuristic, psychotic obscene telephone caller becomes obsessed with an attractive single mother.
Style: independent film, grindhouse
Plot: nudie cutie, bare breasts, lesbian sex, belt whipping, suffocated to death, loneliness, depression, stalking, lsd, telescope, blackmail, panic attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.4
 516
A Million (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 8 contestants compete for a billion wons ($1 Million USD) in a survival reality TV show. The challengers must spend 7 days in the Australian desert. On the second day, one contestant is found dead. The other contestants then find themselves in ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Plot: game of death, survival, exhaustion, manipulation, revenge, murder, revelation, death of wife, desert, rivalry, contests and competitions, mitsubishi ...
Place: australia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.0
 150
Night Owl (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; several of Julie's friends commit suicide while listening to her voice. She fears for ...
Style: gothic horror, mind bending, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, suicide, paranormal, amateur detective, love affair, danger, family problems, curses spells and rituals, radio, jazz, media, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Web of Deception (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Philip Pearloff is a prominent forensic psychiatrist, with a beautiful wife and a successful practice. But when he meets a beautiful woman, his loyalty is tested and he is drawn to her advances. After a night of passion, she becomes ...
Style: independent film
Plot: psychopath, courtroom, adultery, suicide
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 5.2
 194
The Crossing (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the exact same spot. Martin returns to the island to bring her home. His ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: island, disappearance, manipulation, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, father daughter relationship, little girl, death, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
We Still Say Grace (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: suicide, religions or cults, religious fanaticism, problem, faith, father daughter relationship, mass suicide, religious cult, family relations, religious fanatic, religion, stranger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 665
The Key (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: parents and children, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, estrangement, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, investigation, murder, dead father, prostitute, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Breach of Conduct (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Helen attracts the unwanted attention of the commander of her husband's new army base. Colonel Andrew Case arranges to have Helen's husband travel on base business so that he can force Helen to be his new plaything. Helen fights back.
Plot: escape, murder, psychopath, military base, attempted rape, sexism, military, harassment
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 1K
Games (1967)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
Style: suspense, mind bending, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mind game, woman in danger, hagsploitation, plot twist, virus, gambler, game, twists and turns, murder, cons and scams, infidelity, rivalry ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Unwritten Obsession (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bestselling author Skye Chaste hasn't had any success since her hit book, "Maya's Fall", was released years ago. Now desperate for cash, Skye accepts a job to mentor one of her young fans, Holly, who is writing a novel herself.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: best selling author, aspiring writer, suicide, psychological manipulation, relationship problems, psychology, life is a bitch, social problems, psychological trauma, stalker, alcohol abuse, money problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.6
 454
Suicide Note (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ambitious psych major Molly White is on top of the world as she preps for her grad program entry exams. After celebrating with boyfriend Brady, Molly finds her roommate Emma crying after an incident she had with her boyfriend Adam. The next morning, ...
Plot: love, suicide, bare chested male, adolescence, jealousy, dream, nightmare, bully, party, loyalty, drinking, dressing room ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dear Diary, I Died (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Rebbeca' sister Diana returns home after being away for a while things seem odd. Diana's desperately trying to hide secrets from her sister. Rebbeca takes the detective approach to work out what's going on only to find Diana Is ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: undercover, suicide, school, sister, murder, investigation, secret, sleuth, murder investigation, private investigation, loss of sister, woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 26K
Till Death (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: trapped, snow, infidelity, hired killer, dead husband, lawyer, hitman, revenge plot, revenge, survival horror, trap, dead body ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Secrets of State (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense ...
Plot: counter terrorism, terrorist, espionage, politics, terrorism, spy, secret agent, political conspiracy, state affairs, race against time, good versus evil, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 5.3
 110
Touch and Die (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: journalist, smuggling, newspaper, atomic bomb, police officer killed, murder, suicide, father daughter relationship, scientist, political campaign, investigation, contamination ...
Time: year 1992
Place: rome italy, dallas texas, europe, africa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Diary of a Murderess (1975)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
Style: erotic
Plot: house, suicide, seduction, ex husband, blackmail, diary, psychology, jewelry, monastery, thief, eroticism, mute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hunting Season (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Five friends must fight for survival, salvation and sanity when a local hunter mistakenly kills one of them in barren Canadian wilderness.
Plot: friend, woods, fear, darkness, forest, hunter, shooting, tree, wilderness, terror, blindness, hunted
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 227
Season of Fear (1989)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A famous inventor marries a beautiful but much younger woman. His son becomes romantically involved with her.
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: incest, infidelity, husband wife relationship, deception, cruelty, inventor, danger, risk, intrigue, son, jeopardy, absent father ...
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39%
 5.8
 767
Trapped (1982)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.
Style: slasher, retro, independent film
Plot: backwoods, redneck, exploitation, nightmare, hicksploitation, canuxploitation, freak, adultery, murder, chase, college, attempted rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My Guardian Angel (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Hannah's parents took her to a new school, they said it was to give her a new start. However, Hannah is 11, autistic, and due to her condition, unable to speak. She had a twin called Angel, but when Angel died, Hannah was forbidden to ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, child, school, suicide, autism, sister, bullying, abuse, loss, mistreatment
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Deadly Strangers (1975)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a ...
Style: road movie, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, psychopath, terror, escaped mental patient, chase, exploitation, chases and races, mentally unstable, mental illness, escapee, trauma, insane asylum ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 334
Mascara (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Directed by Patrick Conrad. A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very own sister. When he learns that his wife ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse
Plot: transsexual, cannon, transgender, transvestite, serial killer, nudity, woman getting dressed, transgender woman, police, murder of a nude woman, police station, strangulation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Deep Red Love (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody ...
Style: suspense, mystical
Plot: schoolgirl, teenage girl, monster, ghost, suicide, mysticism, japanese teenager, golf, friend, high school, skirt, japanese schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.6
 698
The Wrong Son (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Thirteen years after disappearing and presumed drowned, Matt returns home to his mother Sarah. Suspicions grow when her older son Ian is injured in a car accident similar to the one that recently killed his father.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: family problems, family relations, getting home, accident, secret, hidden identity, mother son relationship, car accident, mysterious disappearance, child, psychopath, car ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Crimen en familia (1985)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A wife and her kids plan the killing of the abusive husband and father. Based on a real crime.
Plot: dysfunctional family, murder, wife, husband, killing an animal, domineering father, fascist, hunting, rape, female nudity, male nudity, shot in the head
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Cover Girl Murders (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The scene is a remote tropical island, where several top swimsuit models converge for a magazine photo shoot, orchestrated by publisher Lee Majors. The girls are lovely, the scenery gorgeous, the weather couldn't be pleasanter. Only one hitch: ...
Plot: murder, model, fashion, attempted rape, modeling, tropical island, revenge, fraud, photography, swimsuit, bikini
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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