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Beautiful Friend (2023)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable and socially isolated young man spirals out of control, determined to find a woman who will stay with him-by force if necessary.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspenseful, intense, bleak, psychological horror, grim, creepy
Plot:
mental illness, stalking, loneliness, obsessive love, control, unsettling, manipulation, desperation, threat, paranoia, possession, character study, violence, claustrophobia, woman, cat and mouse, voyeurism, moral ambiguity, kidnapping, sexual assault, urban, female nudity, male nudity, public nudity, bare chested male ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Beautiful Friend
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, dark and intense films with plots about obsession, character study, isolation, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, paranoia and urban mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Beautiful Friend: Four Hands (2017), Dusk (2015), Apotheosis (2018), Fierce Friend (2006), Bad Frank (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: "I will always protect you!" Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, sisters, trauma, murder, family bonds, revenge, paranoia, post traumatic stress, obsession, claustrophobia, confrontation, witness protection ...
Similarity:
100%
352
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing person, abduction, paranoia, claustrophobia, desperation, isolation, road trip, manipulation, hostage situation, betrayal, character study ...
Similarity:
31%
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:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story about two boyhood friends who come to a crossroads in their adult relationship when one of them finds true love. The story explores the blurry line between love and friendship & obsession and jealousy.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, intense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, jealousy, sociopath, friendship, male friendship, love triangle, betrayal, toxic relationship, possession, identity crisis, manipulation, obsessive love ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
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913
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Frank Pierce leads a seemingly normal life, but when a disturbing past reemerges & something precious is taken from him, his mask of sanity loosens & unearths the urge to be violent once again.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, psychological thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
violence, revenge, vigilante, confronting the past, problem, troubled past, vigilante justice, anti hero, moral ambiguity, rage, retribution, character study ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened. With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, female protagonist, memory loss, claustrophobia, car trunk, medical student, confined space, race against time, threat, abduction, amnesia ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, obsession, composer, danger, dangerous attraction, stalking, haunted by the past, character study, psychosis, paranoia, isolation, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Grayson Ellsworth is writing his next novel. While stuck on a train he realizes his worst fears. Once the pen hits the paper, the results are shocking!
Style:
metafiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, character study, unsettling, transformation, paranoia, mental illness, claustrophobia, identity crisis, split personality, isolation, moral ambiguity, urban ...
Place:
new york, austin texas
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Vedha has innate natural smelling capacity called Hyperosmia. When his quality turns into a psychological disorder, he ends up kidnapping the girl he is attracted to. Is there a cure for his disorder? Can she escape or will she fall in?
Style:
psychological thriller, intense, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, mental illness, manipulation, stalking, obsessive love, psychological disorder, suspicion, male protagonist, female victim, mature, romantic obsession ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?
Style:
intense, emotional, existential, grim, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, forgiveness, character study, guilt, mental illness, moral ambiguity, curse, desperation, self destructing, love story, obsession ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A command center operator becomes increasingly obsessed with a single mother when he begins monitoring her life through his company's residential interior cameras.
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
obsession, stalker, surveillance, voyeurism, privacy invasion, home invasion, paranoia, delusion, danger, obsessive love, psychological manipulation, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
24%
273
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
russian roulette, game of death, suicide, life is a bitch, mind game, destiny, down on your luck, danger, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, character study, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and unrepentant, he seems almost mild at first. But Dvorak's real intention is revealed when he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, controversial, tension, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Plot:
death row, death sentence, hostage situation, confrontation, showdown, media manipulation, moral dilemma, desperation, accomplice, character study, moral ambiguity, interrogation ...
Similarity:
24%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The hero, Indran (Mathivanan Sakthivel) is a writer who meets a blind girl, Pramila (Mahashri). Indran uses the issues that Pramila have as a plot for his novel. In this journey he explores some thrilling events.
Style:
suspense, dark, psychological thriller, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
writers, blind character, character study, moral ambiguity, intrigue, creative process, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia, mature, deception, manipulation, obsession ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
obsession, slow burn, revenge, paranoia, privacy invasion, retribution, mental breakdown, escalation, domestic drama, confrontation, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, alcoholic, obsession, alcoholism, death threat, plan, murderer, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, espionage, criminal, character study ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lucio is constantly obsessed of losing his ex girlfriend Nadia and the house he is still paying the loan for, and above all he doesn't want to lose his 8 year old daughter. For this reason he start to stalk Nadia to convince her to give their ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
stalker, obsession, custody battle, stalking, child custody, marital problem, ex husband ex wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, ex couple relations, relationship problems, family problems, hunted ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An obsessive fan kidnaps his favorite up-and-coming wrestling star.
Style:
independent film, tense, emotional, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
wrestling, kidnapping, fandom, fan culture, fanaticism, obsession, obsessive love, character study, family drama, danger, stalker, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
21%
592
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend.
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, absurd, dark comedy, twisted ...
Plot:
control, psychological torment, manipulation, imprisonment, claustrophobia, obsession, character study, intimate, hostage situation, loneliness, delusion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it.
Style:
psychological thriller, intense, dark, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
mental illness, character study, domestic drama, control, claustrophobia, obsession, neurosis, obsessive love, family tragedy, intimate, guilt, suffocation ...
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.
Style:
soap opera, psychological thriller, suspense, creepy, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, delusion, infatuation, female protagonist, character study, mental disorder, unrequited love, loneliness, makeover, jealousy, fan culture, social isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
322
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Albert Merrik is released from prison after 15 years, Osgood believes that writing down the history of ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, manipulation, ambition, psychopath, darkness, psychological manipulation, character study, bookstore, paranoia, moral ambiguity, crime investigation ...
Time:
year 1991
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
364
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Trevor McNills suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: he is an important businessman with the mania to control everything, even the lives of his employees. Fascinated by the beauty of his young employee Natalie, Trevor will begin ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, intense ...
Plot:
control freak, psychological abuse, control, obsession, toxic masculinity, dangerous attraction, stalker, manipulation, victimization, surveillance, corporation, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
20%
259
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, crime drama ...
Plot:
electroshock therapy, mental institution, confined, claustrophobia, manipulation, murder mystery, female protagonist, paranoia, deception, body swapping, impostor, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman tries to move on past her divorce, she goes to a singles retreat, but begins to see that things aren't what they seem.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
retreat, secrets, manipulation, danger, deception, domestic drama, single woman, obsession, betrayal, paranoia, isolation, relationships ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Theodora's boyfriend Luca is set to be released from the institution where they are both admitted, she escapes with him and tries to re-traumatize him so he remains under her control. They end up at his childhood home where a knock on the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, humorous, entertaining, psychological ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, control, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, young woman, fear, scared, young girl, lie, couple relations, love affair ...
Similarity:
20%
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