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The Chameleon (2010)
 5.5
 2K
The Chameleon (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
Style: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, thought provoking, powerful
Plot: fbi, family relations, uncover truth, hidden identity, dishonesty, cons and scams, sibling relationship, parents and children, family life, missing person, family drama, law enforcement, disagreement, special agent, prison, police, fbi agent, beer, brother sister relationship, smoking, swamp, heroin addict, mardi gras, lie detector, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: louisiana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, murder, biopic, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children and deadly mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like The Chameleon: Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010), Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006), Americons (2015), Fatal Honeymoon (2012), Natalee Holloway (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, inspirational
Plot: family relations, criminal heroes, dishonesty, hidden identity, cons and scams, disorder, love and romance, parents and children, serial killer, impersonation, conspiracy, entrepreneur ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to, his capture
Style: serious, tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, family relations, psychopath, human nature, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, biopic, father son relationship, gay, cannibal ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.1
 503
Americons (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A broken down collegiate football hero gets a shot at stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: corporate crime, rise and fall, ambition, real estate agent, cons and scams, dishonesty, gambling, biopic, journey
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Fatal Honeymoon (2012)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, uncover truth, couple relations, couples, woman in danger, law enforcement, serial killer, mind game, danger, mental illness, sad ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Natalee Holloway (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful
Plot: investigation, missing person, family relations, parents and children, serial killer, teenage girl, disappearance, prison, biopic, life is a bitch, strong female presence
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.1
 1K
Wisegal (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, crime family, gangster, parents and children, unlikely criminals, love affair, mind game, organized crime, italian mafia, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.0
 118
Bloodlines (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: investigation, murder, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, family relations, ritual ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Life's gone pear-shaped for Jack Irish. He's back to takeaway Chinese for one after his girlfriend Linda abandoned him for a career in Sydney, a flashy Brisvegas type is muscling in on the racetrack action, and his cabinet-making still ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, missing person, intrigue, uncover truth, dishonesty, danger, nypd, hidden truth, horse race, violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 5.4
 3K
Bad Company (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent ...
Style: suspenseful, clever, psychological, neo noir, stylized ...
Plot: murder, cons and scams, black man white woman relationship, manipulation, blackmail, judge, uncover truth, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Executioner's Song (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, death sentence, death row, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, confined, legal, journalism, going straight, true crime, biopic ...
Time: year 1976
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.7
 330K
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style: neo noir, realistic, clever, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, fbi, undercover, mentor, mobster, investigation, working undercover, undercover agent, italian mafia, law enforcement, friends ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, miami, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Boss of Bosses (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, hitman, rise and fall, murder, undercover, going straight, master criminal, rivalry, downfall, police corruption, gangster, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Drama. TV Movie.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, fbi, rise and fall, undercover, secret agent, fbi agent, double agent, government agency, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Partners in Crime (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, investigation, private detective, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, ex husband ex wife relationship, fbi agent, frame up, nypd ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Galíndez File (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: uncover truth, amateur detective, missing person, life is a bitch, dishonesty, politics, political conspiracy, price of justice, political corruption, spy, conspiracy, state affairs ...
Time: year 1988
Place: new york, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.3
 725
Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.3
 1K
Common (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, parents and children, injustice, family relations, false accusation, law, murder mystery, lawyer, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 3K
VIPs (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A human look on the life of one of the biggest frauds in the world happened by important people in Brazil.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: ambition, dishonesty, escapades, cons and scams, society, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, mistaken identity, hidden identity, samba, drug lord, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 586
Amber's Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This is the tragic and true story of the abduction of Amber Hagerman. Her family and the community's efforts to find her and bring her kidnapper to justice prove to be a groundbreaking movement toward implementing a government-run tracking ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, danger, obsession, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, injustice, family problems, family relations, child abduction, confined ...
Time: year 2002, year 1996, year 1999, year 1997, 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen details emerge in this investigation into their lives.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: murder, brother brother relationship, true crime, murder trial, father son relationship, patricide, matricide, family secret, mother son relationship, family relations, uncover truth, murderer ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.0
 19
The Badge (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The only difference between a cop and a criminal is The Badge. Detective Vince McKinley and his partner Martin Goulet have to solve the biggest case of their careers: a series of evidence have been stolen from their own precinct. Through out the ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partner, tough law enforcer, police investigation, dishonesty, police corruption, law enforcement, violent content, corruption, police
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 312
Stolen Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, kidnapped child, uncover truth, investigation, suspicion, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.3
 792
Out of Season (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: murder, manipulation, hitman, femme fatale, crime gone awry, dangerous attraction, hidden identity, couples, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.9
 2K
The Boys (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day ...
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, tense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, murder, dysfunctional family, psychopath, redemption, drinking, violence, caper, exodus, australian aboriginal, prison sex, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 6K
Blue Caprice (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, educational ...
Plot: serial killer, on the run, violence spree, partner, on the road, killer, sniper, lawyer, murderer, small town, african american, black ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
She Made Them Do It (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: murder, mind game, manipulation, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, convict, investigation, love, fugitive, prison, true crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 506
Happy End (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, problem solving, group of strangers, social problems, connection, danger, male nudity, male objectification, truth, female pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 780
Identity Theft (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This movie is rated 14+ because it includes: -Sexual content and Nudity, by this it only shows kisses between the two main characters and ways of showing affection like hugging, ect. It also shows women in no such lingere, nor men. All characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot: identity theft, false accusation, woman in danger, cons and scams, dishonesty, impersonation, female stalker, love, criminal heroes, doppelganger, credit card fraud, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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