Movies like The Confidant 2010
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The Confidant (2010)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
Style:
neo noir, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
gambling, betrayal, murder, intrigue, best friend, vengeance, rivalry, obsession, ambition, dishonesty, interracial, friends, manipulation, sexual content, nudity, violent content, love, sex, prison, erotica, female nudity, african american, bare breasts, swimming pool, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, vengeance and violent content mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Confidant: Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008), The Devil's Dominoes (2008), From the Inside (2010), Playing House (2011), Net Games (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the ...
Style:
sexy, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, obsession, manipulation, couple relations, friends, rivalry, couples, dishonesty, uninvited guest, danger, power relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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479
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His ...
Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
femme fatale, computers and web, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, cyberspace, murder, technophobia, dishonesty, adultery, obsession, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
402
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, intrigue, love affair, rivalry, betrayal, mysterious character, infidelity, gambling, murder, twists and turns, stalking ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, realistic, sexy, serious ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, strong sexual content, porn actress, serial killer, murder, violent content, profanity, power relations, sexual relations, obsession, police detective, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, danger, vengeance, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, skinny dipping, mafia ...
Time:
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Place:
finland, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
570
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vengeance, doctors and patients, injustice, terminal illness, vigilante, fighting crime, murder, danger, strong female lead, female fight, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, sexual, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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93
Genre: Thriller
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
Style:
sexy, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
49%
510
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
danger, false accusation, murder, femme fatale, life turned upside down, dishonesty, on the run, protagonist as suspect, falsely accused, deception, fugitive, seduction ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. Desperate warring factions of subterranean organizations will stop at nothing to gain ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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909
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, police investigation, prostitute, gangster, reluctant partners, law enforcement, gambling, serial killer, danger, tough heroes, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, chicago
Similarity:
48%
130
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story centers around Robert, with the help of Lawrence and Natalie, as he struggles to find out who has murdered his wife and child. Along the way, he must try to navigate through a web of political intrigue that involves a cop and a district ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, intense ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, intrigue, politics, dishonesty, investigation, murder mystery, family tragedy, grief, justice, loss, secrets ...
Time:
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