Movies and TV shows like We Were Liars
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We Were Liars (2025)
17K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
One year after a mysterious accident left her with amnesia, 17-year-old Cadence returns to Beechwood, an island off Martha's Vineyard, seeking answers. As three generations of the distinguished Sinclair family gather at their private summer utopia, no one will talk about the accident – neither her childhood friends "The Liars" nor her first love Gat, forcing her to uncover the truth herself.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, gothic, suspense, suspense thriller, moody
Plot:
amnesia, island, young adult, memory loss, family secret, dark past, identity, trauma, betrayal, repression, isolation, grief, coming of age, guilt, flashback, forbidden love, investigation, macabre, wealthy family, teen angst, privilege, haunting, teen romance, female nudity, girl ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, psychological thriller and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about investigation, isolation, slow burn, grief, psychological drama, moral ambiguity and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like We Were Liars: The Girl Before (2021), Platform 7 (2023), Open Your Eyes (2021), A Familiar Stranger (2021), Playing Gracie Darling (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
A traumatized woman falls in love with an extraordinary minimalist house, which remains under the spell of the architect who originally designed it, but everything may not be as it seems.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, tense, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, architect, house, minimalism, puzzle, multiple storylines, trauma, obsession, control, psychological trauma, macabre ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Lisa, after witnessing a cataclysmic event on Platform 7 of a railway station, finds her own fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed.
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
train station, witness, memory, memory loss, tragic event, tragedy, character study, trauma, female protagonist, flashback, macabre, guilt ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, investigation, trauma, teenager, secret, amnesiac, teenage girl, psychological trauma, problem, uncover truth, memory lapse ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 410 min.
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Story:
Nine years after little Marina went missing along a highway near Dunkerque, a young woman with amnesia who looks just like her reappears in practically the same spot.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
missing child, disappearance, amnesia, memory loss, missing person, secret past, accident, female protagonist, amnesiac, uncover truth, memory lapse, identity ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Some 27 years on, the local kids in a small town get their kicks with a game of 'Playing Gracie Darling' – but the seemingly innocent game turns sinister when ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
small town, missing person, seance, guilt, childhood trauma, macabre, grief, investigation, family secret, haunting, supernatural, cold case ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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In 1994, at the age of sixteen, Clotilde Idrissi suffered a road accident. Clotilde is the only survivor, unlike her brother Nicolas and his parents, who died instantly. Twenty-five years later, she returns to the scene of the tragedy with her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
family secret, life is a bitch, troubled past, confronting the past, learning the truth, uncover truth, secret, changing lives, female protagonist, self discovery, introspection, haunting ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
After tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.
Style:
psychological thriller, emotional, serious, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
loss, grief, trauma, suicide, loss of spouse, guilt, grieving father, mental illness, haunting, mourning, child protagonist, memory ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
A traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces of her life back together—with help from her husband and friends—Sophie begins to question the truth behind her picture-perfect life.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, self discovery, female protagonist, amnesia, memory loss, suicide, life is a bitch, introspection, psychological trauma, suicide threat, problem, social problems ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran
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Story:
Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, psychological thriller, intercultural ...
Plot:
iranian, identity, secrets, family drama, identity crisis, mistaken identity, family secret, loss, amnesia, memory loss, getting home, disorientation ...
Place:
tehran
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Coronet Blue is an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4, 1967.
It starred Frank Converse as Michael Alden, an amnesiac in search of his identity, with Brian Bedford his co-star. The show's 13 episodes were ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, retro, cult classic ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, conspiracy, identity, investigation, danger, identity crisis, man on the run, espionage, paranoia, cat and mouse, secret organization ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, emotional, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
mysterious death, cold case, guilt, haunting, grief, coastal town, slow burn, whodunit, investigation, regret, memory, suspicion ...
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43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Chloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the investigation sends ...
Style:
emotional, crime thriller, tense, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, secrets, family drama, sisterhood, investigation, betrayal, trauma, addiction, estrangement, grief, marriage ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Since the tragic death of her young son, acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs has receded from public life, unable to write, a ghost of her former self. But she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Sheldon, a ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loss, murder mystery, grief, haunting, obsession, trauma, cat and mouse, paranoia, investigation, missing person, secrets ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, family secret, rural area, life is a bitch, getting home, secret, countryside, crime solving, private investigation, murder investigation, sleuth ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
M, a mystery writer, has a girlfriend of five years named F, who disappeared on Halloween night. When a woman comes and claims to be her sister, M begins the search for his girlfriend. Along the way, the people he meets describe a woman very unlike ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, mysterious character, mysterious disappearance, memory, missing person, searching for the truth, problem, private investigation, uncover truth, family problems, life is a bitch, vanished man ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
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After meeting randomly in a supermarket, Oliver and Ciara fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver's apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, quarantine, toxic relationship, relationships, secrets, isolation, cohabitation, obsession, female protagonist, hidden identity, betrayal ...
Place:
dublin ireland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
blackmail, group, vacation, summer vacation, group of friends, dark past, secrets, summer, secret, murder mystery, reunited friends, friends ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When a tormented pianist is struck by lightning, he begins having perilous visions of his future and a deadly threat seems to loom over his loved ones.
Style:
suspense, suspense thriller, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
house, secret, beach, storm, isolation, a vision, supernatural, pianist, claustrophobia, lightning strike, creative block, premonition ...
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37%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
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Story:
Decades ago, teenagers Olaf and Alice disappeared without a trace from the Dutch village Schouwendam. 25 years later a man turns up in town with no memory but a clear resemblance to Olaf. The residents are forced to confront the mysteries of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
dark past, disappearance, cold case, countryside, rural setting, missing boy, undercover, mysterious past, past, village, secret past, memory loss ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story:
Yu Gang Hyuk was only 7 years old when his father was murdered in a car "accident" and separated from his identical twin, Yu Shin Hyuk. He forgot his name and family and given the name Suh Ha Eun by his adopted father Suh Jae Soo. He falls ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, twin brother, family secret, revenge, murder, identity, secret, sleuth, brother, vengeance, crime solving, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
A rich heiress, Maria Sorokina, goes missing after a quarrel with her husband. Boris Novinsky, head of the police station, entrusts this case to a young detective, yesterday's intern, Alina Novinskaya, his daughter. It turns out that a maniac ...
Style:
tense, suspense, detective, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, murder, police, police investigation, brutality, police officer, death, husband wife relationship, unfaithful husband ...
Similarity:
33%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
family secret, investigation, secrets, family drama, murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, confronting the past, crime solving, family relations, uncover truth, private investigation ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house. Brady has no idea who the dead woman is or if she herself might be responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sleepwalking, dark secret, trauma, sleepwalker, problem, memory lapse, secret, investigation, identity crisis, isolation, haunting ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 1986, year 2015
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
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Story:
A young bride's life is in peril when she marries into a mysterious household. Despite her dark past, she is determined to uncover the secrets of her new family.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, sinister, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, marriage, trauma, isolation, investigation, domestic drama, claustrophobia, betrayal, paranormal, obsession, supernatural ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, suspense, tense, grim ...
Plot:
artist, obsession, mental illness, dark past, character study, guilt, trauma, murder mystery, secrets, investigation, alienation, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
One month into college, a freshman dies. Was it Murder? Or Suicide?
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, college, investigation, murder mystery, dormitory, campus, college student, undercover, secret, murder investigation, murderer, suspect ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
a vision, investigation, amnesia, supernatural power, memory lapse, uncover truth, repressed memory, confronting the past, tragic past, memory, supernatural, secret past ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year from her memory. As she struggles to piece events together, Jo discovers that her life was in fact far from perfect.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, memory, memory lapse, secret past, female protagonist, tragic past, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, amnesiac ...
Place:
britain
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 693 min.
TV show
Story:
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
outback, amnesia, australian outback, life, car, holiday, memory loss, british man, dark past, past, isolation, danger ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
31%
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