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Let Me Make You a Martyr (2016)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cerebral revenge film about two adopted siblings who fall in love, and hatch a plan to kill their abusive father.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, intense, crime drama, independent film, neo noir ...
Plot:
revenge, brother sister incest, violence, dark humor, tyrant, orphan, abusive father, betrayal, parents and children, murder, manipulation, moral ambiguity, trauma, obsession, filicide, slow burn, conspiracy, small town, love story, cat and mouse, isolated community, rape, porn, female nudity, male nudity ...
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Most similar movies to Let Me Make You a Martyr
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspenseful and crime drama films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, betrayal, violence, murder, slow burn and cat and mouse mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Let Me Make You a Martyr: Acts of Revenge (2020), No Way Out (2022), La Flamme Rouge (2021), Sons (2024), Out in Fifty (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey, Italy, India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matters turn violent after an ex-police detective (Richard Tyson) and psychiatrist (Kurt Sinclair) manipulate a grieving father (Matt Cinquanta) in pursuit of justice.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, manipulation, secret, justice, vigilante, grief, violence, problem, police detective, manipulative person, detective inspector ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Nick, a talented photographer who is new to Los Angeles falls quickly in love with Tessa, a free-spirited young woman who is no longer charmed by the city. Their worlds are turned upside down when she asks him to do the unimaginable, which leads to ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
revenge, sex, sex scene, murder, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, drug, partner ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A violent night sends cycling champ Rick Van Pelt into a neon-drenched fever dream. Fuelled by scotch and paranoia, he confronts Isaac about an affair with his fiancé. A shocking turn of events unveils their scheme to rip off a reclusive art ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, crime drama, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, cycling, night, champion, help, nightmare, sleeping, murderer, bad dream, bicycle, paranoia, violence ...
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66%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
revenge, prison guard, moral dilemma, secrets, conflict of interest, female protagonist, claustrophobia, betrayal, manipulation, trauma, violence, justice ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
love triangle, scapegoat, revenge, ex convict, manipulation, murder, going straight, crime gone awry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, frame up, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, jealousy, ski resort, paranoia, danger, snow, betrayal, resort, moral ambiguity, mountain, isolation ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, relationship problems, female assassin, assassination plot, conspiracy, murder mystery, murderer, girlfriend, female villain ...
Place:
bruges
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, profanity, hitman, going straight, gangster, siblings relations, family relations, brotherhood, graphic violence, gang violence, loyalty, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
Style:
noir, tense, suspenseful, crime drama, road movie ...
Plot:
femme fatale, hitchhiking, murder mystery, fatalism, moral ambiguity, nightclub, suspicion, loneliness, betrayal, cat and mouse, fatal attraction, pianist ...
Time:
1940s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, arizona
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a young journalist suspects the disappearance of a beautiful artist is connected to murders that took place 20 years earlier, she uncovers a reality she never could have imagined. Inspired by true events.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, haunted house, surrealism, obsession, incest, betrayal, missing person, investigation, suspicion, family secret, female journalist, danger ...
Similarity:
47%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
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44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
native american, murder, revenge, guilt, trauma, confronting the past, hidden corpse, murderer, hidden truth, secret, dark past, indians ...
Time:
80s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
oklahoma city
Similarity:
43%
341
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sully is a psychotic criminal who has just been released from prison. Now he has only one goal: revenge against police detective Elaine Reynolds, who he blames for the death of his wife's unborn child.
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, intense, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, vengeance, police detective, trauma, cat and mouse, fear, paranoia, law enforcement, stalking, isolation, violence ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
Style:
tense, intense, crime thriller, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
organized crime, redemption, danger, moral ambiguity, illegal drugs, corruption, guilt, betrayal, revenge, violent, urban, survival ...
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38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, investigation, trauma, violence, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, police procedural, loss, crime spree, guilt, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, psychological, psychological horror ...
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, domestic violence, revenge, violence against women, female serial killer, double life, murderer, killing, troubled past, tragic past, violence ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, crime thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
hitman, revenge, contract killer, assassin, criminal gang, outlaw gang, gang, street gang, bandit, criminal, murderer, murder ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Iceland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After engaging in an illicit affair with one of his pupils, teacher Parker Sithole spirals into an abyss of obsession that eventually turns to murder. A cinephile's passionate homage to classic film noir, Of Good Report is a serial killer ...
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
teacher, school, forbidden love, sexual tension, obsession, teacher student relationship, murder, forbidden romance, problem, love story, love affair, couples ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows a young woman whose idyllic life with her hedge funder boyfriend turns it into a deadly triangle of lust, obsession and murder after meeting a local cowboy handyman.
Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, tense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, love triangle, fatal attraction, infidelity, female protagonist, sexual tension, betrayal, seduction, jealousy, manipulation, suspicion ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong ...
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, vigilante, murder, violence, husband wife relationship, psycho killer, blood, deception, moral dilemma, missing child, grief ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.
Style:
detective, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
crime investigation, investigation, violence, female detective, uncover truth, female police detective, police investigation, female protagonist, police detective, violent, crime solving, obsession ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot:
brothers, killing an animal, criminal gang, deceased father, death, sibling rivalry, family drama, family tragedy, death of father, two brothers, brother brother conflict, brother ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An annual hunting trip for four longtime friends turns into a backwoods nightmare when they run into a group of devout locals deep inside the Pacific Northwest. As tension mounts between the two groups, the men become caught in a vicious game of cat ...
Style:
intense, tense, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
hunting, survival, hunted, backwoods, wilderness, cat and mouse, gunfight, violence, chase, religious fanaticism, survival horror, betrayal ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, noir, dark ...
Plot:
blackmail, bounty hunter, secrets, murder, deception, family secret, danger, betrayal, death, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a young man, down on his luck, learns about his father's killer's parole, it sets off a cat and mouse chase through the hostile desert, searching for a hidden family inheritance.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, crime drama, neo noir ...
Plot:
down on your luck, cat and mouse, revenge, desperation, isolation, manhunt, violent, moral ambiguity, suspicion, parole, survival, law enforcement ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A child abandoned in a subway coin locker is sold to a ruthless and calculating loan shark and gangster boss dubbed “Mother” (Kim Hye-soo), who runs an organ-harvesting ring in Incheon’s Chinatown. Named Il-Young (Kim Go-Eun), the baby girl ...
Style:
bleak, tense, atmospheric, dark, crime drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
revenge, survival, dysfunctional family, murder, loan shark, organ trafficking, group of criminals, mother daughter relationship, underworld, violence, gangster, siblings relations ...
Place:
east asia
Similarity:
34%
805
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two Step is a fast-paced Texas thriller in which the lives of James, a directionless college dropout, and Webb, a career criminal with his back against the wall, violently collide.
Style:
tense, suspense, fast paced, intense, dark ...
Plot:
college dropout, violence, desperation, chase, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, anti hero, loneliness, manhunt, small town, career criminal, stalking ...
Place:
texas, austin texas
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In an effort to control the city the Mayor opens the doors to the Russian Mob. It is not long until he realizes they aren't going to follow his rules. To fix the problem he accepts an offer to set up the Russians and open the door for the ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, dark, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
betrayal, organized crime, abduction, corruption, violence, murder, kidnapping, russian mafia, criminal underworld, drug cartel, corrupt politician, hostage ...
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
34%
73
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Story:
Officer Tracy Smith deals with family, the reoccurring nightmare of the brutal murder of his parents and his Secret Internal Investigation of a Special Narcotics Unit. Tracy quickly learns that being a Detroit Narcotics Officer nothing is what it ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful, intense, noir ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, law enforcement, police procedural, narcotics, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, internal affairs, urban, undercover, betrayal, violence ...
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
33%
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