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Lies We Tell (2023)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, gothic, tense, atmospheric, family saga, suspenseful, sinister, dramatic ...
Plot:
heiress, female protagonist, orphan, inheritance, family secret, deception, mansion, secrets, legacy, estate, investigation, betrayal, wealth, identity, corruption, morality, power struggle, rape, revenge, obsession, conspiracy, claustrophobia, isolation, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, contemporary
Place:
ireland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about investigation, female protagonist, revenge, urban, betrayal, obsession and conspiracy mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Lies We Tell: Trick of the Eye (1994), Encounter with Danger (2009), 10 Days of a Bad Man (2023), The Secret (2010), Shadowtown (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the woman wants her to do more than paint the mural as hidden family secrets are revealed.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
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Plot:
inheritance, deception, evidence, death, secret, house, lie, estate, strong female character, uncover truth, grief, family secret ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Soo-hyun, who has recently moved into a new house, buys a used washing machine through a second-hand app but finds out it doesn't work. Annoyed by the seller's irresponsibility, she leaves a comment calling the seller a con man, and ...
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, psychological thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, serial killer, stalker, uncover truth, crime solving, private investigation, threat, forensics, criminal, privacy invasion, paranoia ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
Style:
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Plot:
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51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Athira, a 25-year-old cop gets to investigate her best friend's missing case. The case turns out to be very mysterious when she suspects that her accident has been staged and that she has been murdered. After digging deep into the case, she ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Beautiful wife and expectant mother Lola Winters (Sherilyn Allen) seems to have it all—the big house, a dashing husband Leo Winters (Jamall Johnson), and a thriving restaurant business. But Lola’s seemingly perfect life is interrupted when a ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, missing woman, secrets, domestic drama, problem, changing lives, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, couple relations, secret, undercover ...
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A widow finds out from her late husband's mistress that his death was not an accident. Both women work together to unmask the truth behind the man they both loved.
Style:
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Plot:
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 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: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of External Affairs, an arm of the Vatican intelligence, is dispatched to investigate. The message of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: South Korea
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A murder case reveals unknown secrets of the killer and the victim.
Style:
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Plot:
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40%
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Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A serial killer targets and murders successful women without leaving any trace. ACP Kiran, a bold and determined police officer, goes beyond the set of rules to follow her gut feeling to bring the killer to justice.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
“Laughing Lexi” has gone missing. As the tale unfolds, the story of what really happened becomes stranger than fiction.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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35%
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
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34%
Genre: Crime
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
murder, investigation, human nature, suspect, secrets, lawyer, mysterious death, deception, character study, female protagonist, morality, female friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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