Movies like Cape Fear
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Cape Fear (1991)
215K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, scary, intense, creepy ...
Plot:
rape, fear, lawyer, family in danger, psychology, violence, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, prison, rapist, psychopath, stalking, home invasion, torture, betrayal, brutality, manipulation, obsession, vengeance, justice, murder, blood, older man teenage girl relationship, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, 1990s
Place:
north carolina, florida, georgia, usa, united states of america
Keyword:
gangsters, oldies, dope, watching a movie, challenge, movie theatre
Most similar movies to Cape Fear
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller and psychological films with plots about murder, violence, blood, death, psychopath, revenge and deadly mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Cape Fear: Breakdown (1997), Fear (1996), Misery (1990), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Eye for an Eye (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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32K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, disturbing, black and white ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, obsession, serial killer, family in danger, villain, justice, vigilante, psychology ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
61K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, road movie, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
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Plot:
kidnapping, highway, chase, road trip, murder, conspiracy, desert, car breakdown, danger, couples, ransom, uncover truth ...
Time:
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Place:
california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
53K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
sexual, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
234K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
obsession, domestic violence, stalking, violent husband, woman in danger, starting over, psychopath, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, revenge, abusive relationship, obsessive love ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time:
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Place:
persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
161K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place:
florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
722K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place:
minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
218K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
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suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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292K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, cannibal, mind game, fbi, master criminal, psychiatrist, villain played by lead actor, torment, police, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
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100%
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:
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2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
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suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
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new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
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Audience:
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28%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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