Movies like Frenzy 2015
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Frenzy (2015)
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Original name: Abluka
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Qatar
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs and shutting himself in his home.
Style:
tense, political thriller, atmospheric, bleak, suspense, crime drama, grim, noir, existential, art house ...
Plot:
violence, informant, police station, paranoia, surveillance, suspicion, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, character study, betrayal, corruption, claustrophobia, slum, isolation, brotherhood, urban decay, survival, minimalism, anti hero, slow burn, existentialism, culture shock, dystopia, dog, police ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Most similar movies to Frenzy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspense and noir films with plots about moral ambiguity, isolation, violence, betrayal, paranoia, character study and slow burn mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Frenzy: Cadaver (2022), The Night Guard (2016), The Insomniac (2013), Death Valley (2015), Punishment (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!
Style:
suspense, dramatic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, morgue, corpse, police, pathologist, woman, murder mystery, death, police investigation, police officer, autopsy, forensics ...
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Humberto works as a night watchman at a remote and desolate construction site. One night he becomes, unwittingly, the sole witness to a cover up. Afraid of being retaliated against lest he come forth, he decides to keep quiet. Gradually and without ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
security guard, witness, nightshift, witnessing a crime, moral ambiguity, workplace situations, testimony, problem, conflict, workplace, working class, loneliness ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
John Figg has a great career and a gorgeous fiancée. When he inherits a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, he finally starts to feel like his life is coming together. Trouble arises, however, when John's house is burglarized, and the thieves ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, home invasion, paranoia, betrayal, obsession, whodunit, suspicion, breaking and entering, heist, theft, robbery, invasion ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four strangers on a drunken wedding dash from LA to Vegas hit a mysterious woman in the desert and must overcome injuries, the elements, and ultimately each other to survive.
Style:
psychological, detective, disturbing, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
desert, road accident, road trip, woman, group of strangers, stranded in the desert, traffic accident, automobile, on the road, machine, stranger, car ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jonah is a hitman by trade and a man on a mission of revenge. But things go horribly wrong whilst trying to escape the police.
Style:
tense, suspense, crime drama, fast paced, grim ...
Plot:
escape, hitman, revenge, cat and mouse, manhunt, violence, chase, fugitive, police, anti hero, gunfight, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
71%
157
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An out of luck English man, Nigel, arrives in Copenhagen hoping to start a new life. When he falls for a gorgeous prostitute, his life takes a very dark turn and his life begins to spiral out of control.
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, independent film, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot:
underground, drug addiction, moral ambiguity, anti hero, driven mad, prostitution, paranoia, infidelity, crime boss, betrayal, organized crime, violent ...
Place:
copenhagen, england
Similarity:
69%
988
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, deathtrap, isolation, survival horror, locked in, eye, kidnapping, race against time, moral dilemma, countdown, trapped in a building, struggle for survival ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
68%
126
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Eduardo, a typical bourgeois man from Mexico City, goes on a business trip to a province, accompanied by his lover. While there, he picks up a large sum of money and, after a spat with his lover, sets off on his drive back to the city alone. On the ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
paranoia, fear, suspicion, poverty, mistrust, economic inequality, road trip, ethical dilemma, character study, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Kumaresan, a police constable, gets recruited for an operation implanted to capture Perumal Vaathiyar, who leads a separatist group dedicated to fighting against the authorities for committing atrocities against innocent village women in the name of ...
Style:
crime drama, political thriller, tension, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
police officer, fight, capture, battles, police, problem, police procedural, human rights, moral ambiguity, police brutality, violence, justice ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
68%
103
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in ...
Style:
suspense, tense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, claustrophobia, trap, victim, deathtrap, murder victim, secret, puzzle, uncover truth, mysterious villain, forest, paranoia ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, anxiety, police procedural, small town, mental health, secrets, paranoia, rain, isolation, moral ambiguity, suspicion ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When a criminal imprisoned by detectives Ron Fugate and Morris Brinson is released and puts a hit out on them, both their partnership and their very existence quickly begins to decay... Who will survive, and at what cost?
Style:
detective, dark, noir, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, law enforcement, revenge, murder, violence, corruption, investigation, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, partnership, hitman, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in ...
Style:
psychological, crime drama, captivating, thrilling, dark ...
Plot:
criminal, life, problem, fatalism, fate, moral ambiguity, realism, urban decay, slow burn, minimalism, social commentary, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, twist ending, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, heist, paranoid, betrayal, criminal psychology, suspicion, isolation, moral ambiguity, mind game, slow burn, claustrophobia, violence ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on ...
Style:
realistic, art house, tense, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, conspiracy, cover up, corruption, political corruption, intelligence agency, social commentary, hitman, betrayal, investigation, justice, character study ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who works for a seedy private detective decides to turn over a new leaf, but ends up antagonising the men behind his last assignment, and gets entangled in a web spun by greedy politicians, corrupt cops and ruthless gangsters.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, tense, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
gangster, corruption, organized crime, private detective, underworld, violence, danger, moral ambiguity, criminal conspiracy, criminal syndicate, political corruption, power struggle ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using ...
Style:
art house, bleak, grim, contemplative, slow cinema ...
Plot:
ex convict, character study, moral ambiguity, minimalism, alienation, revenge, isolation, downbeat ending, violence, drug deal, criminal underworld, gun
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
informant, investigation, fighting crime, police investigation, reconnaissance, police, criminal, forensics, police officer, organized crime, police detective, teamwork ...
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59%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Music journalist Andrew Deeley (DAVID GYASI) lives in a high-rise tower block, physically and mentally scarred from a vicious attack. Alone and cut off from the world, he obsesses over Kem (YENNIS CHEUNG), his beautiful Chinese neighbour. When Amy ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, trauma, loneliness, isolation, obsession, missing person, alienation, organized crime, investigation, moral ambiguity, obsessive love, claustrophobia ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste
Style:
bleak, psychedelic, dark, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
cult leader, betrayal, psychotic, symbolism, self mutilation, mental breakdown, trauma, hallucination, isolation, paranoia, captivity, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the dead of night, Rebecca wakes in a decrepit precinct, accused of a hit-and-run. But a deadly scuffle reveals a sinister plot. With nowhere to turn, she must uncover the truth before it consumes her. But Rebecca harbors secrets darker than they ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
amnesia, interrogation room, isolation, secret past, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, paranoia, false accusation, conspiracy, identity crisis, psychological manipulation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of friends rent an isolated lake house owned by a fitness obsessed man with mysterious intentions.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
isolation, group of friends, survival, macabre, desperation, violence, friendship, surveillance, obsession, manipulation, paranoia, deception ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Coyote Lake is a reservoir on the Rio Grande along a dangerous drug smuggling route that has become synonymous with cartel violence and mysterious disappearances. It is there, on the lake, that Teresa and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Ester, run ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
lake, female assassin, mother and daughter, secrets, mother daughter relationship, brutality, serial killer, murder mystery, moral dilemma, macabre, family secret, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Liza works at night, a taxi ride for her is a moment of much-desired peace. The driver Sasha inspires confidence, he knows the approach to the most demanding client. There are many unexpected turns in the lights of the big city, behind each of which ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
taxi driver, threat, danger, female protagonist, paranoia, mistrust, nightshift, urban, loneliness, isolation, betrayal, character study ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Two men living in a criminal-ran city have two choices: Either fight back or join the corruption. Chaos just always seems to find them.
Style:
crime drama, dark, crime thriller, tense, noir ...
Plot:
corruption, violence, danger, urban, street crime, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, gang, crime boss, betrayal, hopelessness, anti hero ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jordan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a claustrophobic neighborhood where gossip and violence police people's behavior, the lives of residents intertwine and collide as some try to maintain social norms while others try to break them.
Style:
tension, intense, suspense, atmospheric, noir ...
Plot:
neighborhood, blackmail, secrets, claustrophobia, voyeurism, moral ambiguity, privacy invasion, suspicion, gossip, urban, escalation, social realism ...
Similarity:
47%
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: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A getaway driver finds himself in harm's way when he gets caught up in a job involving casino heist money leading to a debt over his head.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, noir, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
underworld, bandit, heist, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, betrayal, isolation, escape, survival, violence, anti hero, chase ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
While growing up, Chi Zhen (Ronald Zhai) learns all the necessary skills and tricks to survive in a harsh world. He becomes an unscrupulous lawyer, but is caught by the police for a crime and sent to jail. Lu Li (Andrew Yin), on the other hand, is ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lawyer, police officer, investigation, moral ambiguity, police procedural, police, advocate, attorney, brutality, good versus evil, family problems, violent man ...
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